tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society: Announcements
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing in the capitalist information society today. tripleC is an open access journal focused on the critical study of capitalism and communication. Editors: Christian Fuchs, Paderborn University Marisol Sandoval, Paderborn University Thomas Allmer, Paderborn University Subscribe to tripleC's newsletter/e-list to receive updates about new articles, calls, and journal-specific information. The purpose of this list is to provide news about the journal, its content, calls for papers, and other journal-related information. It is operated in the form of a newsletter, to which users can anytime opt-in and opt-out. It promotes contributions to critical media and communication studies following the highest standards of peer review. It is a journal that focuses on critical information society studies and critical studies of the roles of media, digital media, the Internet, information, communication and culture in society. The journal disseminates articles that focus on the role of information and communication in contemporary capitalist societies. For this task, articles should employ critical theories and/or empirical research inspired by critical theories and/or philosophy and ethics guided by critical thinking as well as relate the analysis to power structures and inequalities of capitalism, especially forms of stratification such as class, racism and other ideologies, and capitalist patriarchy. Papers should reflect on how the presented findings contribute to the illumination of conditions that foster or hinder the advancement of a global sustainable and participatory information society. It is the journal´s mission to encourage uncommon sense, fresh perspectives and unconventional ideas, and connect leading thinkers and young scholars in inspiring reflections. tripleC is a transdisciplinary journal that is open to contributions that critically and with a focus on power structures analyze the role of cognition, communication, information, media, digital media, the Internet, culture and communication in the information society. We are especially interested in how analyses relate to normative, political and critical dimensions of the information society and how they help illuminating conditions that foster or hinder the advancement of a global sustainable, inclusive and participatory information society. For more details please visit our Focus and Scope. Follow the journal and updates on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommCapCritique
tripleC applies a standard citation style
Even after the big relaunch small changes still have to be made. The editors of tripleC have decided to use the American Psychology Association citation style from the upcoming issue 6(2) 2008 in all contributions published by tripleC. The decision was taken to foster the connectivity of our author´s articles and their international recognition. For more details, please visit our Author Guidelines. For more information on the APA style, you can start with the Wikipedia article.
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
Special Issue on Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture
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 “Capitalist crisis, communication & culture“. tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 8 (2): 193-309. “Capitalism […] is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point” (Slavoj Žižek). 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 the 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 Prononcée. L’Exemple de l’Afrique du Sud (in French) Joelle Palmieri pp 285-309 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/141/197
Special Section on "Theorizing ICTs & Society"
Special Section on ";Theorizing ICTs & Society"; Edited by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Editor's Introduction: Theorizing ICTs and Society Wolfgang Hofkirchner http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/223/187 A Preliminary Inquiry into the Methodologies Employed in Research on ICTs and Society: Prologue (“An Alternate View of Knowledge Negotiation”) Alice Robbin http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/171/182 A Taxonomy of Theories about ICTs and Society Wolfgang Hofkirchner http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/156/188 A critical analysis of information society conceptualizations from an STS point of view Eduard Aibar http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/134/185 The Convergence Theory on ICT, Society and Human Beings – towards the Good ICT society Gunilla Bradley http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/170/186
tripleC articles are now indexed in Scopus, Sociological Abstracts, Communication and Mass Media Complete
Starting 2011, articles published in tripleC are indexed in the following databases: Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost) CSA Sociological Abstracts (sociological content of tripleC) SCOPUS
tripleC has after a consultation in its editorial team, board and publishing body in 2013 changed its subtitle so that its full name is now: tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. This name expresses especially two circumstances: * The aim of the journal to publish articles that critically (C3) analyse the role of communications (C1), ICTs, media and the Internet in the context of contemporary society's structures of the accumulation of money, power and reputation (Capitalism, C2), resulting inequalities and struggles for a participatory information society. * tripleC's status as non-profit and non-commercial open access journal that practically criticises (C3) the capitalist (C2) form, in which academic communication (C1) predominantly takes place today and in which it is controlled by large capitalist publishers that commodify academic knowledge. An editorial statement that explains these changes and the journal's focus in detail is available here: https://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/471 tripleC welcomes new submissions in its areas of research.
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Special issue "Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism" Published
Fuchs, Christian. 2020. Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 18 (1): 1-31 https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/41 The contributions in this special issue analyse and theorise the communicative and digital dimensions of socialism today.
New: The Communication, Capitalism & Critique Podcast
tripleC now hosts the Communication, Capitalism & Critique podcast that you can follow here, on Spotify, YouTube and Apple Podcasts.
The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto
Democracy requires Public Service Media and a Public Service Internet Please support, share and sign the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto: http://bit.ly/signPSManifesto (please sign the Manifesto) http://bit.ly/psmmanifesto (Manifesto)
tripleC special issue: Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Libre Franklin', 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Thomas Allmer, Sevda Can Arslan, and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2024. Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 22 (1): 140-433. Full issue: DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1501 Table of Contents: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/49 tripleC’s special issue on “Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis” presents 14 papers and an introduction that contribute to establishing foundations of critical theories and the philosophy of praxis in the light of digital capitalism. In Marxist theory, a theoretical and analytical strand has emerged that is focused on the roles that knowledge, communication, media, digital media, and digital communication play in and beyond capitalism. 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Introduction to the Special Issue Christian Fuchs, Sevda Can Arslan and Thomas Allmer 140-147 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1498 1. Theorising Digital Capitalism Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective Christian Fuchs 148-196 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454 The Neofeudalising Tendency of Communicative Capitalism Jodi Dean 197-207 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1460 Digitalisation Today as the Capitalist Appropriation of People’s Mental Labour Friedrich Krotz 208-231 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1477 Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of Digital Capitalism and Infrastructure Maïa Pal and Neal Harris 232-247 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1431 2. Digital Labour and Class Building the Future? Software Workers’ Imaginaries of Technology Helene Thaa, Mirela Ivanova, Felix Nickel, Friedericke Hardering and Oliver Nachtwey 248-264 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1462 Chained to the App: German Bike Couriers Riding into Digital Capitalism Jasmin Schreyer 265-291 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1463 Involution, No Revolution: Technocapitalism and Intern Labour Anthony Fung, Wei He and Feier Chen 292-306 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1455 Tracing Class and Capital in Critical AI Research Petter Ericson, Roel Dobbe and Simon Lindgren 307-328 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1464 Writing Back Against Amazon’s Empire: Science Fiction, Corporate Storytelling, and the Dignity of the Workers’ Word Max Haiven, Graeme Webb, Sarah Olutola and Xenia Benivolski 329-347 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1476 3. Domination in Digital Capitalism Digital Commons for the Ecological Transition: Ethics, Praxis and Policies Sébastien Shulz, Mathieu O’Neil, Sébastien Broca and Angela Daly 348-365 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1456 Understanding Racism in Digital Capitalism. Racialisation and De-Racialisation in Platform Economies, Infrastructural Racism and Algorithmic Opacity Stefania Animento 366-380 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1459 Labouring and Smiling: Re-Imagining Digital Colonialism in Africa, Silicon Valley Big Techs, and the Politics of Prosumer Capitalism in Nigeria Paul A. Obi 381-395 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1451 4. Democracy, Public Sphere and Digital Capitalism Railroad Luxemburg: Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Infrastructure and its Consequences for a Public Service Internet Charli Muller 396-412 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1461 On a Potential Paradox of a Public Service Internet Elisabeth Korn and Jens Schröter 413-433 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1452
After facing technical problems (following a virus attack), tripleC has on 13 February 2024 resumed its operations and can again accept submissions.