<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);">From: </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christian Fuchs </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><christian.fuchs@fuchsc.net></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Fourth edition, just published)<br></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);">Date: </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2024. December 2. </span></span></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">Published in December 2024, the fourth edition of Christian Fuchs’ textbook “Social Media: A Critical Introduction” gives an introduction to the use of Critical Theory for the analysis of the Internet and social media in society.<br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">Christian Fuchs. <i><b>Social Media: A Critical Introduction.</b></i> London: Sage. Fourth edition.2024. 448 pages.</div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>More info on the English edition (how to order a review or inspection copy, etc.):<br>https://fuchsc.net/books/social-media-a-critical-introduction-4th-edition/<br>German edition:<br>https://fuchsc.net/books/soziale-medien-und-kritische-theorie-2/<br><br>Contents<br><br>I. FOUNDATIONS<br><br>1. Social Media: A Critical Introduction<br><br>2. What are Social Media?<br><br>3. Big Data in Digital Capitalism<br><br>4. The Power and Political Economy of Social Media<br><br>II. PLATFORMS<br><br>5. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?<br><br>6. Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News<br><br>7. Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat<br><br>8. Elon Musk’s Twitter and the Colonisation of Political Communication on Twitter: Political Economy, Digital Democracy, and the (Digital) Public Sphere<br><br>9. Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Digital Fascism on Social Media<br><br>10. TikTok and China’s Political Economy in Global Capitalism<br><br>III. FUTURES<br><br>11. Towards Truly Social Media<br></div></div></blockquote></div> </div></body></html>