Living in the Information Age: A video about Christian Fuchs’ book “Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age
By Jinshuang Zhao, student in the MA in Social Media at the University of Westminster Could you image your life without the Internet in contemporary society? What difficulties can you overcome with the help of Internet? How do information and communication technology influence society? If you are interested to learn more about these issues, please watch my video that presents interviews with Christian Fuchs and Eran Fisher. Watch the video of the interview here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Gt_8SQiSc Christian Fuchs is professor of social media at the University of Westminster and is conducting research about the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and society. He is a neo-Marxist and utilises Marxist theory for theorizing the connections between ICT and society. Eran Fisher is an assistant professor at the Open University of Israel, He is the author of “Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age”. His research fields are media and c...