Christian Fuchs, who is Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation at Paderborn University, has published a new book about the structural transformation of the public sphere and democracy in the light of digitalisation.

The book Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere draws on radical Humanist theory to address questions about the digital public sphere and the challenges and opportunities for digital democracy today.

The book discusses topics such as digital democracy, the digital public sphere, digital alienation, sustainability in digital democracy, journalism and democracy, public service media, the public service Internet, and democratic communications. Fuchs argues for the creation of a Public Service Internet run by Public Service Media that consists of platforms such as a public service YouTube and Club 2.0, a renewed digital democracy and digital public sphere version of the legendary debate programme formats Club 2 and After Dark.

Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere is the sixth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society book series published by Routledge.

More information and sample chapters are available here:
https://fuchsc.uti.at/books/digital-democracy-and-the-digital-public-sphere/

Christian Fuchs. 2023. Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere. Media, Communication and Society Volume Six. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032362724 (pbk), ISBN 9781032362731 (hbk), ISBN: 9781003331087 (ebk). 320 pages.