Author Archives for WIAS

Producing Value Out of the Invaluable: A Critical/Cultural Perspective on the Live Streaming Industry in China

August 24, 2018 2:17 pm Published by WIAS Comments Off on Producing Value Out of the Invaluable: A Critical/Cultural Perspective on the Live Streaming Industry in China

This paper extends the critique of informational capitalism to increasingly commercialised cyberspace in China by examining the case of live... View Article

Can We Programme Utopia? The Influence of the Digital Neoliberal Discourse on Utopian Videogames

August 13, 2018 7:38 pm Published by WIAS Comments Off on Can We Programme Utopia? The Influence of the Digital Neoliberal Discourse on Utopian Videogames

In this new article published by tripleC, Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Luis Navarrete-Cardero and Juan J. Vargas-Iglesias (University of Seville)... View Article

Organising an Alternative University: A Reflection on the Conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’

August 1, 2018 11:22 am Published by WIAS Comments Off on Organising an Alternative University: A Reflection on the Conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’

This article by Sarah Amsler, University of Nottingham, presents a report on the international conference ‘Beyond University: Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’, organised... View Article

Book Review: Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter by Christian Fuchs

July 25, 2018 3:23 pm Published by WIAS Comments Off on Book Review: Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter by Christian Fuchs

Ryan J. Phillips reviews Christian Fuchs’ Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter. “Fuchs’ latest work provides... View Article

Why Thinking Critically About Online Disconnection Matters

June 26, 2018 10:29 am Published by WIAS Comments Off on Why Thinking Critically About Online Disconnection Matters

Offline nostalgia My interest in the questions of technology non-use or rather, what is increasingly called, voluntary online disconnection, came... View Article

Why Online Disconnection Matters: A Critical Research Agenda on Voluntary ICT Non-Use

June 12, 2018 10:12 am Published by WIAS Comments Off on Why Online Disconnection Matters: A Critical Research Agenda on Voluntary ICT Non-Use

On 31 May 2018, Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) hosted a talk by Magdalena Kania-Lundholm (Uppsala University and WIAS... View Article

Maria Michalis Champions Community Network and Communication Policy at the European Parliament

June 7, 2018 3:08 pm Published by WIAS Comments Off on Maria Michalis Champions Community Network and Communication Policy at the European Parliament

Maria Michalis represented Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) and Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) when she spoke about... View Article

Christian Fuchs in El Mundo: To Save Democracy, We Must Change Social Media Networks

June 6, 2018 11:36 am Published by WIAS Comments Off on Christian Fuchs in El Mundo: To Save Democracy, We Must Change Social Media Networks

WIAS and CAMRI Director, Professor Christian Fuchs, was interviewed by Carlos Fresneda in the Spanish daily El Mundo. In the... View Article

Towards an Alternative Internet in the Age of Cambridge Analytica and Fake News

May 29, 2018 11:58 am Published by WIAS Comments Off on Towards an Alternative Internet in the Age of Cambridge Analytica and Fake News

On 15 May 2018, Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) and the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) hosted a... View Article

Karl Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory

May 10, 2018 12:07 pm Published by WIAS Comments Off on Karl Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory

The special issue “Karl Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory” was published on... View Article