Book Launch: “Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of
<br>Trump and Twitter” by Christian Fuchs
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<br>Thursday 1 March 2018
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<br>19:00 – 21:00
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<br>117 Boardroom
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<br>309 Regent Street
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<br>University of Westminster
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<br>London W1B 2HW
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<br>Register:
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<br>WIAS, CAMRI and Pluto Press are pleased to invite you to the book launch of
<br>“Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and
<br>Twitter” by Professor Christian Fuchs.
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<br>Christian Fuchs will be giving an introduction to “Digital Demagogue”, a
<br>timely and topical study of the expressions of ideology, nationalism and
<br>authoritarianism in the age of big data and social media. He will further
<br>discuss the prospects for overcoming capitalism and renewing the Left.
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<br>We are all familiar with the ways that Donald Trump uses digital media to
<br>communicate, from the ridiculous to the terrifying. This book digs deeper
<br>into the use of those tools in politics to show how they have facilitated
<br>the rise of authoritarianism, nationalism, and right-wing ideologies around
<br>the world.
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<br>Christian Fuchs applies an updated Marxist frame, along with insights drawn
<br>from Frankfurt School thinkers counting Franz L. Neumann, Theodor W.
<br>Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Wilhelm Reich, Leo
<br>Löwenthal and Klaus Theweleit, to show the pernicious role of social media
<br>in the hands of nationalist politicians.
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<br>Media like Twitter have been used to spread right-wing ideology far and
<br>wide and make it seem like an ordinary part of contemporary political
<br>discourse. Fuchs diagnoses this problem in stark terms, but he does not
<br>stop there: he also lays out ways to fight it and analyses the prospects
<br>for pushing past capitalism and renewing the Left.
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<br>Christian Fuchs is Professor at the University of Westminster. He is
<br>Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) and the
<br>Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS). His fields of expertise
<br>are critical digital & social media studies, Internet & society, political
<br>economy of media and communication, information society theory, social
<br>theory and critical theory. He has published extensively and is co-editor
<br>of the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique.
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<br>Best wishes,
<br>WIAS
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