Book launch: Critical Theory of Communication
Wed 12 October 2016, 18:30
Fyvie Hall
309 Regent St
London W1B 2HW
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/book-launch-critical-theory-of-communication
Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-critical-theory-of-communication-tickets-27680660601
University of Westminster Press and Westminster Institute for Advanced
Studies are pleased to mark the first publication of UWP, Critical
Theory of Communication, by Christian Fuchs. It is the first book in a
new book series entitled Critical Digital and Social Media Studies.
Christian Fuchs will be giving an introduction to his new book that
revisits writings of Frankfurt School authors in the age of the
Internet. He argues that today we need to transcend Habermas'
communication theory by establishing a dialectical and
cultural-materialist critical theory of communication. The approach he
takes starts from Georg Lukács' "Ontology of Social Being" and draws on
works by Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Axel Honneth. It sets
these approaches into a dialogue with Raymond Williams’ cultural
materialism, outlining why such analysis is so vital for understanding a
world dominated by the likes of Facebook,Google, Amazon and other
corporate technology multinationals.
Programme
Introduction
by University of Westminster Provost Professor Graham Megson
Setting up a university press in the digital age
by Andrew Lockett, Press Manager, University of Westminster Press
Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno,
Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet
talk by Prof Christian Fuchs, Director of Westminster Institute for
Advanced Studies and the Communication and Media Research Institute
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