[artinfo] Critical Media Studies - Call for Proposals

[Christian Fuchs]

REMINDER -
2018  CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:
CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES

Submission Deadline: Monday 12 February 2017 
23:00 BST by e-mail to Andrew Lockett (University 
of Westminster Press Manager) at 
A.Lockett at westminster.ac.uk
For fullest series details and proposal guidelines see
https://uwestminsterpress.blog

Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is an 
established book series edited by Christian Fuchs 
on behalf of the Westminster Institute for 
Advanced Studies and published by the University 
of Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions 
of book proposals that fall into the scope of the 
series.

CALL DETAILS
After the publication of five titles in the 
series we invite submission of book proposals 
(adhering to the guidelines set out below) as one 
document with one full chapter for books in the 
range of 35,000-80,000 words. The books in the 
series are published online in an open access 
format available online without payment using a 
Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) and 
simultaneously as affordable paperbacks. We are 
able to publish a number of books in the call 
without any book processing charges thanks to 
generous support by the University of Westminster 
that covers these fees. Potential authors are 
welcome to contact the series editor outside of 
the initial time frame of this call for book 
proposals but should note that priority for 
funding support for suitable projects will be 
given to those proposals meeting the deadline. 
There is a preference for the submission of 
proposals for books whose writing can be finished 
and that can be submitted to UWP within the next 
6-15 months. In the event of a surplus of strong 
proposals preference will be given to 
single-authored book proposals over edited 
volumes.

We welcome submissions of a book outline proposal 
with (exactly one) sample chapter submitted as 
one single Word or PDF document. We can only 
accept suggestions for books written in English.

TOPICS
Example topics that the book series is interested 
in include: the political economy of digital and 
social media; digital and informational 
capitalism; digital labour; ideology critique in 
the age of social media; new developments of 
critical theory in the age of digital and social 
media; critical studies of advertising and 
consumer culture online; critical social media 
research methods; critical digital and social 
media ethics; working class struggles in the age 
of social media; the relationship of class, 
gender and race in the context of digital and 
social media; the critical analysis of the 
implications of big data, cloud computing, 
digital positivism, the Internet of things, 
predictive online analytics, the sharing economy, 
location- based data and mobile media, etc.; the 
role of classical critical theories for studying 
digital and social media; alternative social 
media and Internet platforms; the public sphere 
in the age of digital media; the critical study 
of the Internet economy; critical perspectives on 
digital democracy; critical case studies of 
online prosumption; public service digital and 
social media; commons-based digital and social 
media; subjectivity, consciousness, affects, 
worldviews and moral values in the age of digital 
and social media; digital art and culture in the 
context of critical theory; environmental and 
ecological aspects of digital capitalism and 
digital consumer culture.

PUBLISHED TITLES

CRITICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATION: LUKÁCS, ADORNO, 
MARCUSE, HONNETH AND HABERMAS IN THE AGE OF THE 
INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Christian Fuchs, Westminster Institute for 
Advanced Studies, University of Westminster
https://doi.org/10.16997/book1

KNOWLEDGE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM: AN 
INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE MATERIALISM
Mariano Zukerfeld (CONICET), Argentina.
https://doi.org/10.16997/book3

POLITICIZING DIGITAL SPACE: THEORY, THE INTERNET, AND RENEWING DEMOCRACY
Trevor Smith Carleton University Ottowa.
https://doi.org/10.16997/book5

CAPITAL, STATE, EMPIRE: THE NEW AMERICAN WAY OF DIGITAL WARFARE
Scott Timcke, University of the West Indies, at 
St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago.
https://doi.org/10.16997/book6

THE SPECTACLE 2.0: READING DEBORD IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM
Edited by Marco Briziarelli, University of New 
Mexico and Emiliana Armano, the State University 
of Milan.
https://doi.org/10.16997/book11