Rethinking Media and Communication

Paško Bilić is Chair of the Centre for Sociology of Media and Digital Society at IRMO in Zagreb, Croatia, and coordinator of the European Sociological Association's Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research. Thomas Allmer is a research associate at the Department of Media Studies at Paderborn University in Germany and a co-editor of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.

• Contents List of Figures, Tables, and Diagrams 1 Introduction Paško Bilić and Thomas Allmer Part 1 Setting the Scene 2 Contested Legacies – Marxian Influences on the Sociology of Media and Communication Sašo Slaček-Brlek and Boris Mance Part 2 Abstraction and Fetish 3 Between Capital and the Lifeworld: Contradictions of Value-Regulated Social Interactions Paško Bilić 4 Theorising a Multidimensional Model for Analysing Data Fetishism: Reconciling Marxist and Freudian Approaches to the ‘Split’ Andrea Miconi and Nico Carpentier 5 Actio in distans: a Critical Node of Technological and Social Mediation Marco Briziarelli Part 3 Dominance and Counter-Dominance 6 From the Iron Cage to the Silicon Cage: New Forms of Domination within Hypermediated Societies Davide Lucantoni, Francesco Orazi and Federico Sofritti 7 Legal Determination of Forms in Software and Communication: between Public and Capital Toni Prug and Mislav Žitko Part 4 Public Opinion, Public Sphere and Communicative Activity 8 Fast and Shallow: towards a Critical Theory of Opinion Eric-John Russell 9 Activity Theory in the Digital Age: Can Communication and Data Be Expropriated, Exploited, or Alienated? Sebastian Sevignani Part 5 Non-Western Directions in the Critical Sociology of Media and Communication 10 Ibn Khaldûn and the Political Economy of Communication in the Age of Digital Capitalism Christian Fuchs 11 Ibn Khaldûn Revisited: Responding to Christian Fuchs Graham Murdock 12 Ibn Khaldûn and the Political Economy of Communication: a Reply to Graham Murdock Christian Fuchs 13 Re-reading Ibn Khaldûn in Critical Times Graham Murdock 14 Critical Sociological and Media Studies: How Latin America Learned to Contest Power from the Periphery Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Monica Marchesi Part 6 Re-focusing the Sociology of Media and Communication Debate 15 Dialectics of the Symbolic: Michel Freitag and the Critique of Communication Claude Leduc and Maxime Ouellet 16 Re-examining News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: a Political Economy of Communication Approach Jernej A. Prodnik and Igor Vobič 17 Narrating the Field of Communication: Charting an Unstable Territory Steven Maras Index