[NYTr] Book - Internet & Society: Social Theory in the Information Age

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

sent by Tim Murphy - Nov 9, 2007



New Book:


"Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age" 
By Christian Fuchs 
Pub. Routledge New York: 
ISBN 0415961327. 
408 pages. 
(2008) 

Routledge Research Series in Information Technology and Society.

More infos:
http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/i&s.html  

Discussion Board on Internet+Society issues:
http://www.nabble.com/Internet-and-Society-f28205.html 

In this book, the author develops a theory that shows how the Internet
has changed society and society shapes the Internet. It discusses the
ecology, the economy, the politics, and the culture of transnational
informational capitalism.

Topics addressed in the book include: self-organization in nature,
self-organization in society, foundations of social theory, theory of
capitalism, critical theory in the age of the Internet, transnational
informational capitalism, Web 2.0, social software, ecological
sustainability and ICTs, informational monopolies, strategies of
accumulation related to the Internet, MySpace, YouTube, Wikipedia,
Google, Open Source, Free Software, filesharing, knowledge labor, class
theory, multitude and Empire (Hardt and Negri), class theory in
informational capitalism, gift internet economy, commodity internet
economy, gift commodity internet economy, digital divide,
eParticipation, digital democracy, democratic theory, information
warfare, electronic surveillance, cyberprotest, the movement for
democratic globalization ("anti-globalization"), virtual communities,
social networking platforms, cyberstalking, social relations online,
individualization and isolation online, Internet addiction,
cyberculture, cyberethics, etc.

The book provides foundations for Critical Internet Research / Critical
Theory in the age of informational capitalism.