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[ecrea] Special issue tripleC: Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture

Sat Aug 28 22:17:48 GMT 2010


>tripleC (cognition, communication, 
>co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global 
>Sustainable Information Society.
>
>Vol. 8. No. 2: Special Issue on Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture
>Edited by Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken, Marcus Breen
>http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current
>
>Suggested citation: Fuchs, Christian, Matthias 
>Schafranek, David Hakken and Marcus Breen. Eds. 
>2010. Special issue on â¬SCapitalist crisis, 
>communication & cultureâ¬S. tripleC (cognition, 
>communication, co-operation): Open Access 
>Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 8 (2): 193-309.
>
>â¬SCapitalism [&] is approaching an apocalyptic zero-pointâ⬝ (Slavoj }i~ek).
>What is the role of communication in the general 
>situation of capitalist crisis?
>The global economic downturn is an indicator of 
>a new worldwide capitalist crisis. The main 
>focus of most public debates as well as of 
>economic and policy analyses is the role of 
>finance capital and the housing market in 
>creating the crisis, less attention is given to 
>the role of communication technologies, the 
>media, and culture in the world economic crisis. 
>The task of this special issue of tripleC is to 
>present analyses of the role of ICTs, the media, 
>and culture in the current crisis of capitalism. 
>The seven papers focus on the causes, 
>development, and effects of the crisis. Each 
>paper relates one or more of these dimensions to ICTs, the media, or culture.
>
>Capitalist Crisis, Communication, & Culture ­ 
>Introduction to thee Special Issue of tripleC
>Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken and Marcus
>Breen (Special Issue Editors)
>pp 193-204
>http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/228/189
>
>Computing and the Current Crisis:
>The Significant Role of New Information 
>Technologies in Our Socio-Economic Meltdown
>David Hakken
>pp 205-220
>http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/161/193
>
>The Virtual Debt Factory: Towards an Analysis of 
>Debt and Abstraction in the American Credit Crisis
>Vincent R. Manzerolle
>pp 221-236
>http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/149/192
>
>Calculating the Unknown. Rationalities of 
>Operational Risk in Financial Institutions
>Matthias Werner and Hajo Greif
>pp 237-250
>http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/184/194
>
>Crisis, What Crisis? The Media: Business and Journalism in Times of Crisis
>Rosario de Mateo, Laura Bergés, Anna Garnatxe*
>pp 251-274
>http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/212/195
>
>Anglo-American Credit Scoring and Consumer Debt 
>in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis of 2007 as Models for Other Countries?
>Thomas Ruddy
>pp 275-284
>http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/176/198
>
>Crise, Genre et TIC : Recette pour une 
>Dés-Union Pronon- cée. Lâ¬"Exemple de lâ¬"Afrique du Sud
>(in French)
>Joelle Palmieri
>pp 285-309
>http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/141/197
>
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>- - -
>Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Fuchs
>Unified Theory of Information Research Group
>(christian.fuchs /at/ uti.at)
>Personal Website: http://fuchs.uti.at
>NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog
>Research Group: http;//www.uti.at
>Editor of
>tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation 
>| Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
>http://www.triple-c.at
>Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: 
>Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge.
>http://fuchs.uti.at/?page_id=40
>

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