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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 ------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA Policy mailing list W: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa-policy.html Please visit this page to browse list's archives, or to join or leave the list.