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The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing brings together the latest research findings from Critical Marketing Studies. This second edition includes new research on digital technologies including AI, social media, consumer data protection, and power relation as well as on sustainability and degrowth from the perspective of critical Marketing studies. Christian Fuchs’s chapter analyzes the significance of social media and big data from a…

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Christian Fuchs has published an extended research article on the topic of “Digital Fascism and Digital Capitalism” in the critical theory and political philosophy journal Philosophy and Social Criticism.

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The recently published ORF report “Cut to the Bone? Cost-Cutting in the Media World – What’s at Stake” examines the extent to which the media landscape is currently changing. While large tech companies are becoming increasingly powerful, public media are coming under growing pressure. But what does this mean for all of us—for information, diversity of opinion, and our democracy? With contributions from 18 European media experts (including…

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The INNOVADE project has released a prototype of a new tool for measuring digital democracy: the Digital Democracy Score (DDS). The DDS is available online in English as a web-based tool at: https://www.digital-democracy.net. The tool uses survey questions to calculate a series of digital democracy scores, visualises the results, and provides tailored recommendations. The DDS is designed as a support tool for anyone who uses or operates digital…

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As part of the EU research project INNOVADE (http://innovade-democracy.eu) Christian Fuchs has published a new journal article titeled „What is and How Do We Achieve a Resilient Digital Democracy?“ The article asks how democracy can survive in a digital world full of crises, lies, hate, and growing authoritarianism. It says democratic resilience is not a magic system feature, but something people actively build by resisting attacks on democracy…

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The EU research project INNOVADE (http://innovade-democracy.eu) has published a new research report with the title “Interdisciplinary Knowledge Base on Digital Democracy“. This report presents an interdisciplinary knowledge base on digital democracy. It discusses the state-of-the-art of a variety of research aspects and dimensions of digital democracy. It asks what digital democracy is, what digital media’s potentials and challenges for…

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As part of the EU research project INNOVADE (http://innovade-democracy.eu), Christian Fuchs, Joel Museba and Kevin Friesch published a new research report titeled “The Futures of Digital Democracy”. The report outlines four potential futures or scenarios of digital democracy. These scenarios illustrate how digitalisation could impact society and democratic governance. The method is storytelling, namely the construction of four realist science…

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Christian Fuchs. 2025. The Question of Methodology in Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Media. Journal of Communication Inquiry, Online First, https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599251405272 Critical political economy of communication and the media (CPECM) is an approach and field of study that critically analyzes how the interaction of politics and the economy in society shapes and is shaped by (mediated) communication. This study…

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Leider entfällt der für den 11.11.2025 geplante Vortrag Sibylle Bergs mit dem Titel "PNR: La Bella Vita" im Rahmen der RIngvorlesung "Wis­sen, Wir­ken, Wer­den - Ra­di­ka­le Fra­gen an Wis­sen­schaft, Kunst und Tech­nik". Die Vorlesungsreihe geht am 02.12.2025 mit Isabell Hermanns Vortrag "Die Anti-Dystopie als Widerstand gegen negative Zukünfte" weiter.

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Im Schatten der politisch instrumentalisierten Klimakrise formiert sich ein neues Schweigen: Begriffe werden getilgt, Narrative umgeschrieben, Wissen wird zum Risiko. Der Vortrag untersucht die epistemischen Strukturen des Ausnahmezustands – und fragt nach den Möglichkeitsräumen jenseits des Erkenntnisverbots.

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Sebastian Althoff ist am 29.10., 19 Uhr, zu Gast bei Kneipengeflüster. Es geht um die Frage, was machen gegen Hass im Netz und digitale Gewalt? Politiker*innen und Journalist*innen verlangen oft mehr zu melden, zu verfolgen, zu löschen und zu sperren. Aber damit wird die Gewalt oft nur verschoben. Wie kann man digitale Gewalt dagegen nachhaltig reduzieren, was muss sich dafür alles ändern?

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Über Praktiken, Orte und Herausforderungen heutiger Wissensproduktion Wissensproduktion und Wissenschaft sind seit jeher durchzogen vom Kampf um Deutungshoheiten. Aktuell sind es Desinformation, Clickbait und KI-generierte Inhalte, die traditionelle Wissenschaftsmodelle herausfordern, während Citizen Science, Artistic Research und Open Science alternative Wege der Wissensgenerierung und -verbreitung öffnen. Die Vortragsreihe widmet sich Wegen…

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Zocken im Namen der Wissenschaft? Darauf antwortet die Universität Paderborn mit einem klaren „Ja“.

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18 November 2025 – The Political Economy Section will host a webinar to discuss World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism. The session will explore key ideas from the book and invite reflection on violence and peace in the context of global digital capitalism. Register by 16 November.

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Wie funktioniert die Bewerbung für einen Auslandsaufenthalt? Das International Office stellt Ihnen verschiedene Möglichkeiten vor, ins Ausland zu gehen, und wie diese vorbereitet und finanziert werden können.

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