El. knyga: Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere: Media, Communication and Society Volume Six [Taylor & Francis e-book]

"This sixth volume in Christian Fuchs Media, Communication and Society series draws on Marxist humanist theory to address questions around contemporary digital socialism and the challenges and opportunities for digital democracy today. Based on critical theory and Marxist humanism, this book engages with dimensions and principles of digital socialist politics, the political economy of capitalist and alternative social media, public service Internet platforms, platform co-operatives, digital democracy, the utopian Internet, digital technology in a socialist post-scarcity society, the question of how to overcome the digital divide and the uneven digital and social development that rural areas face, the diamond model of open access publishing, and strategicperspectives for digital socialist politics. Drawing on dialectical philosophy and Marxist humanism, this book presents foundations and analyses of digital democracy, written in a style suitable for both students and researchers in media, culture, and communication studies, as well as related disciplines"--

This sixth volume in Christian Fuchs Media, Communication and Society series draws on radical humanist theory to address questions around the digital public sphere and the challenges and opportunities for digital democracy today.

This sixth volume in Christian Fuchs' Media, Communication and Society series draws on radical Humanist theory to address questions around 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 serviceMedia 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.

Overall, the book presents foundations and analyses of digital democracy that are interesting for both students and researchers in media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, political science, sociology, Internet research, information science, as well as related disciplines.