21 articles in this issue
Christian Fuchs
This paper analyses economic power, state power and ideological power in the age of Donald Trump with the help of critical theory. It applies the critical theory approaches of thinkers such as Franz Neumann, Theodor W. Adorno and Erich Fromm. It analyses ... see more
David A Gerstner
The 2016 presidential election triggers many unanticipated responses. Emotions run high. Political activists discover newfound energy. One’s place in the world has been unfixed, troubled, and unsettled. Philosophers and artists, stunned, rethink the terms... see more
Kerem Schamberger
Kerem Schamberger is a doctoral student at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich’s Department of Communication Studies and Media Research. He is also a left-wing activist and member of the German Communist Party (DKP). In the course of his appointmen... see more
Kerem Schamberger ist ein Doktorand am Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Er ist auch ein linker Aktivist und Mitglied der Deutschen Kommunistischen Partei (DKP). Im Zuge seiner Anstellu... see more
Antonios Broumas
Over the past twenty years theorizing about the intellectual commons has undeniably become a popular activity not only among scholars that deal with the dialectics between information/communication technologies and society but also among the wider scienti... see more
Yu Xiang
This article is a review of Anne Kaun's (2016) book Crisis and Critique: A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis.
Andreas Boes, Tobias Kämpf, Thomas Lühr, Barbara Langes, Alexander Ziegler
Cloudworking and crowdsourcing are currently often seen as the epitome of a “revolution in the world of work” (Dettmer and Dohmen 2012). The paper deals with these developments and their relevance for work and society. The emergence of a global “informati... see more
Holger Pötzsch
The present contribution maps materialist advances in media studies. Based on the assumption that matter and materiality constitute significant aspects of communication processes and practices, I introduce four fields of inquiry - technology, political ec... see more
Noam Yuran
The dominant approach to the political economy of television argues that television produces "audience commodity" which is sold to advertisers. It situates the economic effects of television in the sphere of subjects and subjectivity. This article present... see more
Sarah Waters
Workplace suicides are sharply on the rise and reflect a generalised deterioration in working conditions across the globalised economy. Despite their growing prevalence, workplace suicides are subject to specific modes of repression that tend to keep them... see more
Sašo Slacek Brlek, Jernej Amon Prodnik
The Point is to Change It! Critical Political Interventions in Media and Communication Studies Special section of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 15 (1): 214-336, 2017. Edited by Sašo Slacek Brlek, Jernej Amon Prodnik
The intention of this paper is to provide a historical overview and an introduction to the interviews with Bodgan Osolnik, Breda Pavlic, Cees Hamelink, Daya K. Thussu, Peter Golding and Dan Hind presented in this special section. Following Marx, we entitl... see more
Interview with Bogdan Osolnik, active member of the Yugoslav liberation front during World War II, member of the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems under the leadership of Sean MacBride (commonly known as the MacBride Commiss... see more
Interview with Breda Pavlic, critical researcher and former staff member of UNESCO’s Division of Free Flow of Information and Communication Policies in the 1980s (1984-1989). We discussed her path towards the critical-analysis approach to information and ... see more
Jernej Amon Prodnik
An interview with Cees J. Hamelink, one of the most important scholars in global communication and international political economy of communication, who was also an active participant in several political initiatives and movements in the field of media an... see more
Interview with Daya Kishan Thussu, Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster. We discuss his journalistic experience at the Press Trust of India and Gemini News Service, the New World Information and Communication Order and... see more
Jernej Amon Prodnik, Sašo Slacek Brlek
Interview with Peter Golding, Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, Visiting Professor in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University and one of the crucial figures in Critical Political Economy of Communication. In the interview we di... see more
Sašo Slacek Brlek
Interview with Dan Hind, advocate for media reform. We discuss the need to democratise journalism, his proposal to achieve this goal by giving the public direct control over the allocation of public subsidies in the form of public commissioning, possible ... see more
Olivier Jutel
The New Zealand Internet Party tested key notions of affective media politics. Embracing techno-solutionism and the hacker politics of disruption, Kim Dotcom’s party attempted to mobilize the digital natives through an irreverent politics of lulz. While a... see more
Adam Fish
This essay examines weeklong technology retreats in Silicon Valley. These retreats embody digital healthism, which I define as the discourse that promotes the self-regulation of digital consumption for personal health. I argue that the self-regulation adv... see more
Morten Hjelholt, Jannick Schou
Governments have increasingly turned to digital technologies as a means of rebuilding their public sectors, allowing them to heighten efficiency, cut expenditure, and deliver new services to citizens. However, rather than merely a technical upgrading of g... see more