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This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the Frankfurt School’s key thinkers can be deployed for critically understanding media in the age of the Internet. Five essays that form the heart of this book review aspects of the works of Georg Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Axel Honneth and Jürgen Habermas and apply them as elements of a critical theory of communication's foundations. The approach taken starts from Georg Lukács Ontology of Social Being, draws on the work of the Frankfurt School thinkers, and sets them into dialogue with the Cultural Materialism of Raymond Williams.Critical Theory of Communication offers a vital set of new insights on how communication operates in the age of information, digital media and social media, arguing that we need to transcend the communication theory of Habermas by establishing a dialectical and cultural-materialist critical theory of communication.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Mass communications --- Frankfurt school of sociology. --- Critical theory. --- Communication --- Sociology --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) --- Critical social theory --- Critical theory (Philosophy) --- Critical theory (Sociology) --- Negative philosophy --- Frankfurt school --- Frankfurt sociologists --- IFS --- Frankfurt Institute for Social Research --- Scuola di Francoforte sul Meno --- Istituto di ricerca sociale di Francoforte sul Meno --- Istituto per la ricerca sociale di Francoforte sul Meno --- Frankfurt School --- Institute of Social Research (New York, N.Y.) --- Columbia University. --- New York (N.Y.). --- International Institute of Social Research --- I.F.S. --- Frankfurt am Main. --- Frankfurter Schule --- Ecole de Francfort --- Universität Frankfurt am Main. --- Communication and culture --- Criticism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Frankfurt school of sociology --- Socialism --- Schools of sociology --- Critical theory --- Marxian school of sociology --- Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, --- Habermas, Jürgen, --- Lukács, György, --- Lukacs, Gyorgy --- Adorno, Theodor W., --- Marcuse, Herbert, --- Honneth, Axel, --- Habermas, Jürgen, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Lukács, György, --- Habermas, Jürgen, 1929- 600 PersonalName --- Lukács, György, - 1885-1971 --- Lukács, György, - 1885-1971 - Criticism and interpretation --- Adorno, Theodor W., - 1903-1969 --- Adorno, Theodor W., - 1903-1969 - Criticism and interpretation --- Marcuse, Herbert, - 1898-1979 --- Honneth, Axel, - 1949 --- -Habermas, Jürgen, - 1929 --- -Habermas, Jürgen, - 1929- - Criticism and interpretation --- Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, 1903-1969 --- Lukács, György, - 1885-1971 --- -Habermas, Jürgen, - 1929 --- -Political philosophy. Social philosophy