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Christian Fuchs (sociologist)
Christian Fuchs is an Austrian social scientist. From 2013 until 2022 he was Professor of Social Media and Professor of Media, Communication & Society at the University of Westminster, where he also was the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). Since 2022, he has been Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation at Paderborn University. He is an editor for the open access journal tripleC: Communications, Capitalism & Critique. Fuchs is also the co-founder of the ICTs and Society-network, a researcher network that studies societal and digital media interactions. He is the editor of the book series 'Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies', which he helped establish in 2015.
Fuchs has been an influential voice within the area of social media and internet critique, his work is influenced by the critical theory school of thought. Fuchs' expertise includes social theory, critical theory, critical digital and social media research, Internet & society, the political economy of media and communications, and information society theory.
Fuchs was born in 1976 in the village of Waidhofen an der Thaya in Austria, where he lived until 18, whereby he then moved to Vienna. This rural region of Northern Austria was at the time deindustrialized and the area he lived in was socially disadvantaged.
In 1994 he studied informatics at the Vienna University of Technology until 2000, obtaining an MSc in informatics. He then became interested in the social and politico-economic impacts of communication technologies and chose to specialize in social informatics, then gaining his technical science PhD from the school's Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology. From 2000 to 2006 he lectured in sociology and philosophy of information technology at the department.
From 2015 until 2017, Fuchs was a member of the European Sociological Association's executive board, where he helped organize the 2017 ESA conference in Athens.
In his 2014 book Social Media: A Critical Introduction, Fuchs expressed criticism towards media scholar Henry Jenkins and his 2007 book Convergence Culture, in which Jenkins explores participation in culture, for having excluded factors such as power and equality in his analysis and stated that Jenkins is a "cultural reductionist".
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Christian Fuchs (sociologist)
Christian Fuchs is an Austrian social scientist. From 2013 until 2022 he was Professor of Social Media and Professor of Media, Communication & Society at the University of Westminster, where he also was the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). Since 2022, he has been Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation at Paderborn University. He is an editor for the open access journal tripleC: Communications, Capitalism & Critique. Fuchs is also the co-founder of the ICTs and Society-network, a researcher network that studies societal and digital media interactions. He is the editor of the book series 'Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies', which he helped establish in 2015.
Fuchs has been an influential voice within the area of social media and internet critique, his work is influenced by the critical theory school of thought. Fuchs' expertise includes social theory, critical theory, critical digital and social media research, Internet & society, the political economy of media and communications, and information society theory.
Fuchs was born in 1976 in the village of Waidhofen an der Thaya in Austria, where he lived until 18, whereby he then moved to Vienna. This rural region of Northern Austria was at the time deindustrialized and the area he lived in was socially disadvantaged.
In 1994 he studied informatics at the Vienna University of Technology until 2000, obtaining an MSc in informatics. He then became interested in the social and politico-economic impacts of communication technologies and chose to specialize in social informatics, then gaining his technical science PhD from the school's Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology. From 2000 to 2006 he lectured in sociology and philosophy of information technology at the department.
From 2015 until 2017, Fuchs was a member of the European Sociological Association's executive board, where he helped organize the 2017 ESA conference in Athens.
In his 2014 book Social Media: A Critical Introduction, Fuchs expressed criticism towards media scholar Henry Jenkins and his 2007 book Convergence Culture, in which Jenkins explores participation in culture, for having excluded factors such as power and equality in his analysis and stated that Jenkins is a "cultural reductionist".