[ICTs-and-Society] Conference Presentations and Reviews

[Christian Fuchs]

Dear colleagues,

A first reflection on the Uppsala conference has just been published:
Fuchs, Christian. 2012. New Marxian Times! Reflections on the 4th ICTs 
and Society Conference “Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st 
Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media”. 
tripleC – Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10 (1): 
114-121.
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/411

If you are interested in writing a review of the conference in the 
comment section of tripleC, please contact marisol.sandoval at uti.at.

On multiple demand, we will provide the opportunity to share  conference 
presentation slides on the website. If you want to publish your slides, 
then please send a link or a file in the desired format (pdf or ppt etc) 
to marisol.sandoval at uti.at at latest until May 15th, 2012. Please make 
sure that the file has your family name(s) as title. In order to limit 
the amount of post-conference work, we do not accept submissions later 
than May 15th.

All participants, who have presented a paper at the conference, are 
invited to submit a full paper to http://www.triple-c.at. Submission is 
possible any time and submissions undergo peer-reviews, there are no 
specific deadlines. Published conference contributions will hold the 
acknowledgement that they were presented at this conference (please see 
the submission guidelines here:
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

I would like to also point you towards the fact that the special issue 
of tripleC "Marx is Back: The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research 
for Critical Communication Studies Today" (edited by Christian Fuchs and 
Vincent Mosco) will be published in the course of the next months. It 
will contain nearly 30 contributions, of which some have been presented 
at the conference. By subscribing to 
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/user/register as reader, one 
receives updates about new issues and journal news.

Finally, I want to point you towards a topically related conference that 
will take place later this year, that I am helping to organise, and that 
is accepting abstract submissions:
Communication, Crisis, and Critique in Contemporary Capitalism.
Conference of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 
18 - Sociology of Communications and Media Research
October 18-20, 2012. University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
More information is available here:
http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html 


Best wishes,
Christian Fuchs