POPULAR MEDIA

Interview für den Artikel “Ein rechtes Märchen: Die angebliche Verharmlosung des Trump-Attentats in deutschen Medien”. CORRECTIV: Recherchen für die Gesellschaft, 10. September 2024. Link

An interview with Christian Fuchs on Communication and Media Studies. Moment 11 (1): 11-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17572/mj2024.1.11-23 (published in July 2024).

Video interview: YouTube channel İletişim Çalışmaları (Communication Studies) interviews Christian Fuchs: Digital Labour: What Do Cultural Studies and Political Economy Tell Us? YouTube, 2 May 2024. Link to video stream (duration: 3 hours, 9 minutes)

Video talk: Christian Fuchs: Vincent Mosco’s Critical-Humanist Political Economy of Communication. Talk at the online event “Vincent Mosco Memorial Lecture: Critical-Humanist Political Economy of Communication”. March 21, 2024. Organised by Brawijaya University’s Department of Communication Studies and the National Consortium on Communication History in Indonesia. There is a paper related to this video talk.

Humanity, Alienation, and (In)Justice in the Digital Age. Opening Plenary Talk at the 2023 Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research 2023 “Inhabiting the Planet: Challenges for Media, Communication and Beyond”. July 9, 2023. Lyon. Video link

Interview for the article “Should Academics Quit Twitter and Join Threads Instead?”. Times Higher Education, August 13, 2023. Link. PDF

Future Histories Podcast Folge S02E46: Christian Fuchs zu digitalem Kapitalismus, veröffentlicht am 14. Mai 2023, Link (podcast, in German)

Elon Musk’s Twitter Capitalism. RLS, November 29, 2022. Link PDF

Interview für den Artikel “Wer sonntags ausschläft, ist ein Loser” (von Emeli Glaser). Die Zeit, 11. November 2022. Link PDF

Christian Fuchs. 2022. Servizio Pubblico. Wired Italia 102: 31. PDF, html

Christian Fuchs: Elon Musks Twitter-Kapitalismus. RLS, 19. November 2022. Link PDF

Interview Christian Fuchs: Digitalisierung & KI: Laissez-faire in Großbritannien. Tagesspiegel, July 25, 2022. Online PDF

Interview for the article “Why Facebook’s Daily Users are Falling for the First Time as Gen Z and Millennials Jump Ship to TikTok”. i, 3 February, 2022. Link

Christian Fuchs. 2022. Europe Needs a Public Service Internet. Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft (IPG). Die Zeitschrift für internationale Beziehungen und globale Trends, January 25, 2022. Link

Christian Fuchs: Erzähl mir doch nichts. Um der Bedrohung unserer Demokratie durch Verschwörungstheorien und Digitalgiganten zu begegnen, braucht es ein öffentlich-rechtliches Internet. Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft (IPG). Die Zeitschrift für internationale Beziehungen und globale Trends, 24.1.2022 Link

Interview für den Artikel “Virtuelle Influencer: Zu schön, um wahr zu sein”. Der Standard, 28 November 2021. Link

Interview for the article “Social Media Says Happy Birthday to ‘Doctor Who’ – The Worldwide Cultural Phenomenon”. Forbes, 23 November 2021. Link

ORF DialogForum: Das Internet Manifesto (The Internet Manifesto). October 4, 2021 (broadcast on October 7 & 9, 2021, on ORF III). Video YouTube

ORF Digital.Leben: Manifest für ein öffentlich-rechtliches Internet (Manifesto for a Public Service Internet). ORF Radio Ö1, October 4, 2021. Audio

ORF Press Release: ORF-Public-Value-Tag: Weltweites Public-Service-Internet-Manifest vorgestellt (ORF Public Value Day: Presentation of a Global Public Service Internet Manifesto). ORF, October 4, 2021. Web PDF

Christian Fuchs. 2021. Channel 4: Rather Than Privatising Public Service Media We Should Be Expanding It Online. The Conversation, 23 June 2021. Link

Christian Fuchs’ Podcast: “The Communication of Death and Love: A Philosophical Approach”, Spotify version, Podbean version

Interview for the Newsweek story “Joe Biden the Boring Radical Quietly Outshines Donald Trump the Predictable Showman”. Newsweek, 30 April 2021. Link

Interview for the Newsweek story “Donald Trump’s Social Media Platform Can’t Replace What He Lost With Twitter, Facebook”. Newsweek, 22 March 2021. Link

Christian Fuchs’ answer to the question “Are We Ever Gonna Run Out of Digital Storage Space?” Gizmodo, 24 May 2021, Link

Interview for the article “Dünyanın önde gelen iletişim bilimcilerinden kamu medyası çağrısı: “İnternet bugün kamusal alan değil kocaman bir alışveriş merkezi” (Public media call from the world’s leading communication studies scholars: “The Internet is not a public sphere today, but a huge shopping mall”). The Independent Turkish, 25. June 2021. Link

Christian Fuchs’ Podcast: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Episode 4: Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism (2020) Pod

Christian Fuchs’ Podcast: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Episode 3: Ursula Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed” and Digital Socialist Utopias (2020) Pod

Christian Fuchs’ Podcast: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Episode 2: Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism (Part 2) (2020) Pod

Christian Fuchs’ Podcast: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Episode 1: Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism (Part 1) (2020) Pod

Discussion of Christian Fuchs’ work in the Bloomberg article “A Data-Driven End to Capitalism as We Know It”: Bloomberg, 28 December 2020. Link

Interview with Christian Fuchs about his book “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”. Sendika.org, 25 June 2020. TurkishEnglish

Christian Fuchs.2019. We Need a Full Public Service Internet – State-Owned Infrastructure is Just the Start. The Conversation, 2 December 2019. Link

Interview for the article “Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It’s Time for a Reboot”. Wall Street Journal, 26 October 2019. Link

Answer to the question “What Will the Internet Look Like in 2030?”. Gizmodo, 21 October 2019. Link

Christian Fuchs. 2019. Boris Johnson Takes His Brexit Demagoguery to the Social Media Sphere. Op-Ed. TruthOut, August 31, 2019. Link

Christian Fuchs: Towards a Public Service Internet. Talk at the event “Towards a Public Service Internet: The Future of the Public Sphere and Digital Democracy?”. University of Westminster, 11 June, 2019. Organised by the Communication and Media Research Institute’s Policy Observatory. Video

Christian Fuchs: Slow Media: How to Renew Debate in the Age of Digital Authoritarianism. The Conversation, April 23, 2019. Link

Contributing answer to the question “Have social media become a divisive force?”, State of Nature: Conversations on Social and Political Theory, April 11, 2019. Link

“Wir brauchen die Unterstützung der digitalen Klassenkämpfe”: Interview mit Christian Fuchs. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, April 9, 2018. Link PDF

Interview about ChristChurch. SkyNews, March 15, 2019. 17:40 GMT Report

Interview for ORF matrix – computer & neue medien. March 15, 2019. Arbeitsplatzüberwachung und digitale Fließbandarbeit (Workplace surveillance and digital assembly-line labour). Audio

Interview in Brazilian newspaper O Globo: ‘O Twitter combina com líderes autoritários’, diz pesquisad or (‘Twitter resonates with authoritarian leaders’,  says researcher). In O Globo, March 10, 2018. OnlinePDF (Portugese), original interview in English

Fuchs, Christian. 2019. Happy Birthday, Facebook! Why the Celebrations Have to be Postponed Until 2024… Medium.com, February 12, 2019. Link

Panel discussant: Das Netz in unsere Hand! ORF Dialogforum. ORF 3, broadcast on January 24, 2019. Video
Related news articles (January 27, 2019): 
ORF OnlineDer StandardKleine ZeitungKurierSalzburger NachrichtenVorarlberg OnlineHorizontTiroler Tageszeitung

Interviewed for: Der Auftrag für 2019. ORF 2, Mittag in Österreich, broadcast on January 17, 2019. Video

“Ich, ich, ich sowie Amerika und Hillary”: Trump und Twitter. Über Christian Fuchs’ Buch “Digitale Demagogie: Autoritärer Kapitalismus in Zeiten von Trump und Twitter” (VSA 2018). Ö1 Digital.Leben 22/1/2019. Audio

The Russian Social Media Campaign – How to See it in the Large Context of Digital Capitalism. Interview with Christian Fuchs. The Real News, December 19, 2018. Videos: Part 1Part 2

Christian Fuchs interviewed for the radio documentary “The Power of Twitter”. BBC Radio 4, December 18, 2018. 20:00-20:40. Audio

Fuchs, Christian. 2018. The Online Advertising Tax. In: three:d: The Newsletter of MeCCSA: the Media, Communication & Cultural Studies Association 31 (December 2018): 9-10. PDF

Fuchs, Christian. 2018. What Would Marx Have Said About Facebook and Cambridge Analytica? openDemocracy, November 20, 2018. https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/christian-fuchs/what-would-marx-have-said-about-facebook-cambridge-analytica
Republished in: Monthly Review Online, November 28, 2018: https://mronline.org/2018/11/28/99513/

Fuchs, Christian. 2018. How Can Creating A Public Service Internet Challenge the Power of Google and Facebook? The Drum, August 24, 2018. Link

Fuchs, Christian. 2018. How Corbyn’s Plan to Tax Google and Facebook Could Create A Public Service Internet. Huffington Post UK, August 23, 2018. Link

Interview for the article “Daisie – Connecting Creatives for Collaborative Working”. The Guardian, July 28, 2018. Link

Interview for the article “Facebook cancels Project Aquila, but what happened?”. Verdict, June 29, 2018. Link

Fuchs, Christian: Marx@200: Warum wir Karl Marx 200 Jahre nach seiner Geburt wiederholen müssen! Volksstimme 5/2018, S. 6-9. Link

Christian Fuchs: “Tenemos que cambiar las redes para salvar la democracia”, Interview in El Mundo, June 5, 2018. PDF Link to web version

Interview for “Was die Digitalisierung für den Kapitalismus bedeutet” [What Digitisation Means for Capitalism]. WDR 5, broadcast on May 1, 2018. Audio

Christian Fuchs and Frank Welz. 2018. Report on the 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (2017). European Sociologist 41, April 18, 2018. Link

Radio feature and interview about Trump, Twitter, authoritarianism & Cambridge Analytica: KPFA Letters and Politics, March 27, 2018 MP3

Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Social Media. Pluto Press-blog, March 13, 2018. Link

Will the Cambridge Analytica Scandal be the “Smoking Gun” of Donald Trump’s Watergate? Medium.com, March 20, 2018. Link

The Snapchat-Bubble: Why it is not Twitter and Kylie Jenner, but Capitalism that Creates Stock Market Volatilities. Medium.com, March 13, 2018. Link

“Wir müssen soziale Medien erst erkämpfen!” – Interview mit Christian Fuchs. In: Trotzdem – Die Zeitung der Sozialistischen Jugend Österreich, 3/2017 (13. Februar 2018), S. 22-23. Link

Fuchs, Christian. 2018. Fuchs, Christian. 2018. Industry 4.0: The Digital German Ideology. Academic versiontripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16 (1): 280-289, Popular science version published on Medium.com, February 27, 2018.

Contributing answer to the question “Is democracy working?”, State of Nature: Conversations on Social and Political Theory, February 19, 2018.  Link

Interview for the radio report “Öffentlich-Rechtliche im Netz”, in German, broadcast on January 24, 2018. Radio Ö1 (ORF, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation): Digital.Leben Audio

Interview for the radio documentary “Der rote Revenant: Zum 200. Geburtstag von Karl Marx” (The Red Revenant: On Karl Marx’s 200th Birthday), in German, broadcast in four parts, January 8/9/10/11, 2018, Radio Ö1 (ORF, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation): Radiokolleg Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4

Interview for the radio documentary “Sind wir Science Fiction? Teil 3″ (Are We Science Fiction?, Part 3), in German, broadcast on January 24, 2018, Radio Ö1 (ORF, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation): Radiokolleg Audio

Social Media, Authoritarian Capitalism, and Donald Trump. Economic Sociology and Political Economy-blog, February 15, 2018. Link

Why There Are Certain Parallels Between Joachim C. Fest’s Hitler-Biography and Michael Wolff’s Trump-Book. Academic version from tripleC 16 (1): 260-263, popular science version from Medium.com, February 14, 2018.

Interview for the article “Facebook Defends Two-Question Fake News Survey”. Daily Telegraph, January 24, 2017. Link

Fuchs, Christian. 2017. Fake News Is Not Just The Word Of The Year, But A Danger To Democracy That Can Only Be Overcome By Adequate Legal And Media Reforms. Huffington Post, November 29, 2017. Link

“THE COMMONS, DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS and SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS – An Interview with Christian Fuchs”, Open Access Week 2017: University of Westminster Press Interview with Christian Fuchs, Link

Auszug: Entfremdung im digitalen Kapitalismus: In Ossietzky, 17/2017. Link

Christian Fuchs: Video comment on Al Jazeera-The Listening Post’s report “The great firewall update: Clamping down on VPNs”. First broadcast on Al Jazeera, August 12, 2017. Link

Christian Fuchs: Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data Capitalism. Video of a talk at the 5th ICTs and Society Conference “Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Activism, Research & Critique in the Age of Big Data Capitalism”, University of Westminster, May 20, 2017.Talk
Discussion

Fuchs, Christian. 2017. When Ads Meet Fascism On YouTube: What The Recent Google-Scandal Tells Us About Big Data Capitalism.Long version: Medium.com, March 24, 2017. Article
Short version: Huffington Post, March 28, 2017. Article
Turkish translation: YouTube’da reklamlar faşizmle buluşunca: Yeni Google skandalı bize büyük veri kapitalizmi hakkında ne söylüyor? Sendika.org, March 26, 2017. Link

Interview for an article in the Norwegian newspaper DN: “Medieprofessor om Donald Trump: Minner oss om Orwells «Animal Farm» og «1984»” (Medie professor on Donald Trump: “Reminds us about Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and ’1984′”. DN (Dagens Næringsliv) , March 6, 2017. Article

Fuchs, Christian. 2017. How the Frankfurt School Helps Us to Understand Donald Trump’s Twitter Populism. The Huffington Post, January 18, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christian-fuchs1/how-the-frankfurt-school-_b_14156190.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-donald-trump

German version/Deutsche Version: Donald Trumps Schlachtfeld: Der neue US-Präsident nützt Twitter als populistische Waffe. Warum ist er damit so erfolgreich? Der Falter 5/2017, S. 21-23. PDF Link

Interview for the Sky News Report “JFK found a new way to communicate – now Donald Trump has too”. Sky News, January 21, 2017. Link (video report broadcast on January 22, 2017) See also this report and this blog post

Fuchs, Christian. 2016. What The US Presidential Election Result Tells Us About the Failures Of Big Data Analytics And Neoliberalism As Big Data Capitalism. The Huffington Post, November 16, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christian-fuchs1/what-the-us-presidential-_b_12948356.html

Fuchs, Christian. 2016. The Facebook/Admiral Scandal Shows The Limits And Dangers Of Big Data Capitalism. The Huffington Post, November 4, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christian-fuchs1/the-facebookadmiral-scand_b_12785994.html

Fuchs, Christian. 2016. Legal Struggles in the Age of Uber-Capitalism: Are Uber-Drivers Workers or Self-Employed? The Huffington Post, November 1, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christian-fuchs1/legal-struggles-in-the-ag_b_12720298.html

Fuchs, Christian. 2016. User-Generated Ideology on Social Media: A New Study Shows How Users Oppose and Support Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter. The Huffington Post, October 20, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christian-fuchs1/usergenerated-ideology-on_b_12571574.html

Video of the launch talk of Christian Fuchs’ book “Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet”. University of Westminster. October 12, 2016, The talk introduces the book – Watch it on Vimeo

Article on Medium.com that introduces Christian Fuchs’ study “Racism, Nationalism and Right-Wing Extremism Online: The Austrian Presidential Election 2016 on Facebook”. Published on Medium.com

Conversation with Simon Lindgren about digital sociology, social media and theorising the Internet. YouTube

Interview in French: Internet et lutte des classes. Période, July 25, 2016. http://revueperiode.net/internet-et-lutte-des-classes/,
English version: Internet and Class Struggle. Historical Materialism-bloghttp://www.historicalmaterialism.org/node/963

TV interview in German: Medienquartett: Medien und Marxismus: Digitale Ökonomie der Medien. Okto TV, June 21, 2016. http://okto.tv/dasmedienquartett/16465/20160621
(printed version: Der Falter, 27a/2016, S. 28-33. PDF)

Fuchs, Christian. 2016. Capitalism Today: The Austrian Presidential Election and the State of the Right and the Left in Europe. LSE Euro Crisis in the Press-blog, 16 June 2016. PDF (Original URL [down] http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispress/2016/06/16/capitalism-today-the-austrian-presidential-election-and-the-state-of-the-right-and-the-left-in-europe)

Interview with Christian Fuchs on the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) Ö1 radio show Digital Leben (Digital Life): “Öffentlich-rechtliches YouTube? Überlegungen zu alternativen sozialen Netzwerken” (Public service YouTube? Reflections on alternative social networks). Broadcast on June 8, 2016.  Link Audio

Interview: “Ein europäisches Facebook wird es nie geben”. Futurezone, June 17, 2016. http://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/ein-europaeisches-facebook-wird-es-nie-geben/204.853.228

Interview in the Portugese newspaper Publico: “A Europa tem que começar a fazer empresas como a Google e o Facebook pagar impostos” (“Europe has to start making companies like Google and Facebook pay taxes”). Publico, June 3, 2016. Link

Article in the Conversation: Fuchs, Christian. 2016. Bosses’ right to snoop on staff emails is an invastion of privacy and ignores the way we work. The Conversation, January 15, 2016. Link
Republished in: New Statesman Online. January 15, 2016. Link

Article in The Conversation: Fuchs, Christian. 2016. Expanding tweets from 140 characters to 10,000? Not nearly radical enough. The Conversation, January 7, 2016. Link

Interview for: From Obama to ‘troll farms’: how social media is changing politics. Financial Times, January 20, 2016. Link

Comment, in: Global brands join tributes to popstar Prince. CNBC Online, April 22, 2016. Link

Interview: “US Konzerne dominieren Europas Internet”. In: Der Falter 9/2016. PDF Link

Interview about digital labour published in the journal Alternate Routes Vol. 27 (2016) PDF

Talk on "New Cultural Materialism" at the symposium "New Materialism: Politics, Aesthetics, Science". March 10, 2016. Link (23min45sec -38min02sec)

Interview for an article in Tiroler Tageszeitung "Ein von Hass verzerrter Spiegel der Gesellschaft" [A mirror of society distorted by hatred], Tiroler Tageszeitung, June 22, 2016. Link

Report: Linker Professor fordert öffentlich-rechtliches YouTube [Left-wing professor demands a public service YouTube]. Macwelt, June 17, 2016. Link

Digital Commons and Digital Capitalism. Online talk at the 4th International e-Life Congress.  Athens, Greece. November 6-7, 2015. Video

Critically Theorising Communication Labour. Invited keynote talk at the Labour and Communication (LaborComm) 2015 Conference. May 10, 2015. Ankara, Turkey. Video

New Books in Critical Theory: Dave O'Brien's interview with Christian Fuchs about the book "Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media" Audio

Interview: Ö1 [Austrian Broadcasting Company] Matrix - Computer und neue Medien: Die Nachfahren der Maschinenstürmer: Was halt die Gesellschaft ihren Apparaten entgegen? Ö1, June 21, 2015 [in German] Audio

Interview for "Drugi Format" - broadcast on May 18, 2015, on Croation public service television HRT. Video

"Union campaigning in the social media and advertising age: Perspectives for a digital labour union": Contribution to the Immaterial Labor Union Zine #2 "Advertisement on social media". Link

Interview for: "Election 2015: The 'alternative' social networks being used to win over voters". BBC Online, April 12, 2015. Article

Elihu Katz Colloquium: Raymond Williams, Herbert Marcuse and Dallas Smythe in the Age of Social Media. Invited lecture. Annenberg School for Communication. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. January 23, 2015. Video
= Launch of Christian Fuchs' book "Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media" (see also another version of this talk at Multimedia Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, May 9, 2015:  Version 2

Krise, Kommunikation, Kapitalismus. Für eine kritische politische Ökonomie der Medien und des Internets im Zeitalter von Apple, Facebook, Google und Twitter. Luxemburg Lecture. Betahaus, Berlin. December 12, 2014. Invited talk. Organiser: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS). Video
Grafisches Protokoll (erstellt von 123comics). Publizierte Version

Internet, Kapitalismus und periphere Entwicklung im Waldviertel. Talk at the “Volksuniversität Andreas Schremser – Waldviertel: Woher? Wohin? Wirtschaft – Wohlstand – Wissen“. Waidhofen an der Thaya, Austria. August 2, 2014. Organised by Verkehrsforum WaldviertelVideo (German)Corresponding journal article:
English version: Fuchs, Christian. 2015. Internet, capitalism, and peripheral development in the Waldviertel. New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 7 (2): 74-100. PDF
German version: Fuchs, Christian. 2015. Internet, Kapitalismus und periphere Entwicklung im Waldviertel. Momentum Quarterly – Zeitschrift für sozialen Fortschritt (Journal for Societal Progress) 4 (1): 42-69. PDF


Interview in Portugese conducted by Roseli Figaro. 2015. Atualidade de Marx para entender o trabalho na comunicação e na cultura [The Topicality of Marx for Understanding Communication and Cultural Labour]. Revista Electrônica Internacional de Economia Política da Informação da Communição e da Cultura 17 (1): 67-75. PDF

Fuchs, Christian. 2015. OccupyMedia! Social Media in Times of Capitalist Crisis and Political Change. Talk at the "Researching (with) Social Media"-Reading Group. University of Cambridge – Department of Sociology. February 2, 2015. Video

Interview with CBC Spark about Digital Labour. Audio

Video interview with Christian Fuchs and Karl Marx, by Daniel Cardoso, at the ECREA 2014 conference Video

Audio of Christian Fuchs' introduction to the Book Colloquium that focused on "Social Media: A Critical Introduction" at the Univ. of Oxford on October 9, 2014.

Christian Fuchs: Theorising Digital Labour. A Cultural-Materialist Perspective. Talk at the COST Conference "The Dynamics of Virtual Work: The Transformation of Labour in a Digital Global Economy". University of Hertfordshire. September 4, 2014. Video The talk is related to this article and this book.

Interview about studying the political economy of the media, the Internet and digital labour HTML

Christian Fuchs: The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Weibo. Talk at the COST Action "Dynamic of Virtual Work"'s Workshop "The Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age". The Open University of Israel. June 16, 2014. Video

Video of Christian Fuchs' inaugural lecture "Social media and the public sphere" (Univ. of Westminster. February 19, 2014).
Fuchs, Christian. 2014. Social media and the public sphere [Inaugural Lecture]. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 12 (1): 57-101. PDF Video version
Portugese translation: Fuchs, Christian. 2015. Mídias Sociais e a Esfera Pública. Revista Contracampo 34 (3): 5-80. PDF
Short summary version in Spanish: Fuchs, Christian. 2014. Medios sociales y esfera pública. Telos – Revista de Pensamiento sobre Comunicación, Tecnología y Sociedad 98: 71-82. PDF

Christian Fuchs: Social Media, the Internet, (Un-)Freedom and the Public Sphere in Times of Crisis. Talk at the Conference "Freedom of Information under Pressure: Control - Crisis - Culture". Vienna University of Technology. March 1, 2014. Video

Panel discussion (Christian Fuchs, Jonathan Hardy, Anthony Barnett) about Glenn Greenwald's lecture at the University of East London's Centre for Cultural Studies Research. May 14, 2014. Audio

Jinshuang Zhao produced a video about Christian Fuchs’ book “Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age”

Ö1-Digital Leben (March 4, 2014): Report on the 2014 Vienna conference "Freedom of Information under Pressure: Contro - Crisis - Culture" Audio

Online lecture "The public sphere and its transformation" Video

Video lecture "Communication power and social media" Video

Video tutorial: How to edit a Wikipedia article? Video

Interview for ORF1 Ö1-Matrix "10 Jahre Facebook" (in German) Audio

Toby Miller's Cultural Studies Podcast: A Conversation between Christian Fuchs and Toby Miller about Marxism, Communications, and Digital Labour. Audio

Christian Fuchs on Chinese Radio International (CRI)'s programme "People in the Know". March 25, 2011. How does the Internet impact everyday life communication? Does Internet use result in more community-building, socialization and a richer social life or in less community involvement, in isolation, alienation and the collapse of social life? Audio

Christian Fuchs: Prolegomena to the study of media and communication in the information society. Inauguration lecture for the chair in media and communication studies. Uppsala University, Sweden, November 18, 2010. VideoPresentation (Powerpoint)

TV4 (Sweden): Första professorn i sociala medier [First professor in social media]. Video November 8, 2010. Video (in Swedish)

Salzburg TV: Christian Fuchs in TV Debate on "Opportunities and Risks of Social Networking Sites" Video, January 29, 2009, Video (in German)

Video: Christian Fuchs: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet. Talk at the 1st World Forum of the International Sociological Association, September 6, 2008, Barcelona. (Part 1 Video) (Part 2 Video)

Interview with Christian Fuchs on ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Company) Mittagsjournal, June 3rd, 2006; Topic: "The WWW becomes Political" (in German)
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Short Interview for a Feature on “Internet as Social Medium”, Uni Radio Salzburg (broadcast on ORF Salzburg, January 2007, in German) Audio File (MP3)

Contribution at a Debate on the Causes of Plagiarism at University, Public Discussion at the University of Salzburg, November 7th, 2006 Video File: (Low Quality) (Medium Quality) (High Quality)

Short Interview for a TV Feature on Social Software and Studivz (=Social Networking Platform for Students) (June 2007, in German) Video File: (Low Quality) (Medium Quality) (High Quality)