@inbook{63031, abstract = {{Despite decades of awareness, asymmetries in conceptual resources, data, and governance between users and developers persist. Meanwhile, socially situated ‘end-users’ experience harms, such as hidden labor, reinforced stereotypes, and increased unpredictability, as machine learning advances. However, accurately modeling social context does not constitute design justice. This paper reinterprets Giuseppe Mantovani’s model of social context in human-computer interaction (HCI) to address the relational emergence and political situatedness of social context in human-AI interaction (HAI). Drawing on the concept of a multi-perspectival algorithmic imaginary, we (1) conceptualize context as nested and entangled relations, (2) identify actors, including users, developers, models, and interfaces, and (3) foreground the organization of relations of power. Recognizing that models are performative rather than predictive, we argue that the sociopolitical situatedness of context must be acknowledged alongside its limits. To challenge design authority, we propose that HCI and HAI strategically foster intra-actional negotiability, enabling users to challenge, reinterpret, or modify their relationship with technology through critical (design) practices.}}, author = {{Menne, Anna Lena and Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{HCI International 2026 Posters: 28th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 26–31, 2026, Proceedings, Part I}}, editor = {{Stephanidis, Constantine and Margetis, George and Ntoa, Stavroula and Antona, Margherita and Salvendy, Gavriel}}, keywords = {{Social Context, Situatedness, Imaginaries}}, location = {{Montreal}}, pages = {{93--106}}, publisher = {{Springer International Publishing}}, title = {{{Social Context in Human-AI Interaction (HAI): Towards a Theoretical Framework Based on Multi-Perspectival Imaginaries}}}, doi = {{10.1007/978-3-032-30552-7_10}}, volume = {{3047}}, year = {{2026}}, } @article{66611, abstract = {{This paper explores one of the defining political questions of the twenty‐first century: will digital technologies strengthen democracy or accelerate new forms of authoritarianism and fascism? Against the backdrop of platform capitalism, AI‐driven communication, surveillance infrastructures, disinformation and democratic crisis, the study asks how experts in digital democracy assess the present condition and possible futures of digital society. To address this question, the paper draws on the Futures of Digital Democracy Survey (FDDS), a two‐round international expert survey involving researchers, practitioners and civil society actors working in the fields of digital democracy, media, Internet governance and digital society. Combining futures research, scenario analysis, and qualitative and quantitative content analysis, the study investigates competing trajectories of digital development ranging from participatory digital democracy to corporate and state‐controlled digital fascism. The findings reveal a profound tension at the heart of contemporary digital society: while respondents overwhelmingly imagine an ideal future democracy in participatory and deliberative terms—centred on citizens’ assemblies, digital participation, public‐service Internet platforms and democratic AI—they simultaneously express deep pessimism about the actual direction of digital capitalism and platform power. Experts consider authoritarian and fascistic digital futures significantly more likely than democratic ones. The paper analyses these contradictions by examining the relationship between deliberative democracy, constitutional rights, platform governance, digital commons, public service media, AI, surveillance and the political economy of Big Tech. It argues that democracy in the digital age can only survive if participatory and deliberative digital structures are institutionally combined with constitutional safeguards, public ownership, democratic regulation and the defence of human rights. By bringing together debates on digital democracy, authoritarianism, political economy and digital futures, the paper offers both a critical diagnosis of the contemporary digital condition and a normative vision of democratic alternatives in the age of AI and platform capitalism.}}, author = {{Fuchs, Christian and Friesch, Kevin and Museba, Joel}}, issn = {{1944-2866}}, journal = {{Policy & Internet}}, number = {{3}}, publisher = {{Wiley}}, title = {{{Digital Futures Between Participatory Digital Democracy and Participatory Digital Fascism}}}, doi = {{10.1002/poi3.70054}}, volume = {{18}}, year = {{2026}}, } @article{65263, author = {{Fuchs, Christian}}, journal = {{tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique}}, number = {{1}}, pages = {{141--199}}, title = {{{Digitaler Faschismus und digitaler Kapitalismus}}}, volume = {{24}}, year = {{2026}}, } @misc{66142, author = {{Fuchs, Christian and Museba, Joel and Friesch, Kevin}}, publisher = {{LibreCat University}}, title = {{{The Futures of Digital Democracy Survey (FDDS): Report and Analysis}}}, doi = {{10.5281/ZENODO.20753801}}, year = {{2026}}, } @inbook{59610, author = {{Fuchs, Christian}}, booktitle = {{The Handbook of Digital Labor}}, editor = {{Qiu, Jack Linchuan and Yeo, ShinJoung and Maxwell, Richard}}, isbn = {{9781119981831}}, pages = {{349--371}}, publisher = {{Wiley Blackwell}}, title = {{{Digital Labor and Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective}}}, doi = {{10.1002/9781119981831.ch19}}, year = {{2025}}, } @inbook{53445, author = {{Hälterlein, Jens}}, booktitle = {{The Realities of Autonomous Weapons}}, editor = {{Bächle, Thomas Christian and Bareis, Jascha}}, pages = {{187--204}}, publisher = {{Bristol University Press}}, title = {{{Governing Autonomies: Imagining Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the “Future Combat Air System” European Armament Project}}}, year = {{2025}}, } @inbook{51747, author = {{de Gruisbourne, Birte and Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Audiovisual Healing and Reparation: Recuperative Affect of Mediation}}, editor = {{Çiçek, Özgür and Savaş, Özlem}}, pages = {{111--124}}, publisher = {{Routledge}}, title = {{{A Healing Media System of Care - Cancer Diaries and Social Media}}}, doi = {{https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032647425}}, year = {{2025}}, } @inbook{60010, author = {{Fuchs, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Manfred Knoche: Critique of the Political Economy of the Media: Foundations and Applications}}, isbn = {{9781915445506}}, publisher = {{University of Westminster Press}}, title = {{{Postface; On the Critique of the Political Economy of Digital Capitalism: The Importance of Manfred Knoche’s Contributions to the Critique of the Political Economy of the Media Today}}}, doi = {{10.16997/book79}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{63076, abstract = {{This paper develops a new concept and framework for understanding resilient digital democracy in an age defined by polarisation, cascading crises, and the global rise of digital authoritarianism. It begins by tracing the concept of resilience from systems theory to social and political life, showing that resilience in democracy is not a mechanical property of systems but a dynamic, human-driven practice grounded in agency, resistance, and collective self-determination. The paper argues that with emerging challenges in the digital sphere, such as misinformation, surveillance capitalism, platform monopolies, deepfakes, and hybrid warfare, democracy can only endure if its digital dimensions are protected and transformed. Building on this foundation, the paper introduces a holistic approach to resilient digital democracy that spans environmental, technological, economic, political, and cultural domains, and advances strategies such as public-commons digital infrastructures, platform co-operatives, public service Internet platforms, free/libre open source software (FLOSS), participatory innovations, and hybrid offline/online democratic practices. The result is a fresh, interdisciplinary vision of how democracy can be reinvented in the digital age.}}, author = {{Fuchs, Christian}}, issn = {{2732-5121}}, journal = {{Open Research Europe}}, publisher = {{F1000 Research Ltd}}, title = {{{What is and how do we Achieve a Resilient Digital Democracy?}}}, doi = {{10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2}}, volume = {{5}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{61785, author = {{Hälterlein, Jens}}, journal = {{Marxistische Blätter}}, number = {{4}}, pages = {{87--91}}, title = {{{Künstliche Intelligenz in der Kriegsführung. Überblick, Hoffnungen und Risiken}}}, volume = {{63}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{61786, author = {{Hälterlein, Jens}}, journal = {{Marxistische Blätter}}, number = {{4}}, pages = {{92--96}}, title = {{{Autonome Waffensysteme und Meaningful Human Control}}}, volume = {{63}}, year = {{2025}}, } @misc{61787, author = {{Hälterlein, Jens}}, booktitle = {{NETZPOLITIK.ORG}}, title = {{{KI im Krieg. „Wir brauchen mehr kritische Debatten und zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement“}}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{62016, author = {{Hälterlein, Jens}}, journal = {{European Journal of International Security}}, title = {{{The more-than-human biopolitics of swarming – complexity, emergence, and control in military robotics}}}, doi = {{10.1017/eis.2025.10023}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{58114, author = {{Fuchs, Christian}}, journal = {{Philosophy and Social Criticism}}, number = {{10}}, pages = {{1703--1729}}, title = {{{Antonio Negri, Spinoza, Marx, and Digital Capitalism. }}}, doi = {{10.1177/01914537241308108 }}, volume = {{51}}, year = {{2025}}, } @techreport{62689, author = {{Fuchs, Christian and Museba, Joel and Friesch, Kevin}}, publisher = {{Horizon Europe Research Project INNOVADE Research Report }}, title = {{{D3.1 – White Paper: The Futures of Digital Democracy}}}, doi = {{10.5281/ZENODO.17747936}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{63000, abstract = {{Critical political economy of communication and the media (CPECM) is an approach and field of study that critically analyzes how the interaction of politics and the economy in society shapes and is shaped by (mediated) communication. This study asks: What is the role of methodology in the approach of CPECM? How are methods and media ethics related in the critical study of media, economy, and society? The article argues that CPECM is distinct in that it asks special types of questions that are different from the questions asked by administrative research. This study points out 10 methodological dimensions of CPECM. It argues that empirical ideology critique should not be situated outside but inside of CPECM. It becomes evident that, other than conventional methods in media and communication studies, CPECM methodology is guided by ethics, moral philosophy, and critical theories.}}, author = {{Fuchs, Christian}}, issn = {{0196-8599}}, journal = {{Journal of Communication Inquiry}}, publisher = {{SAGE Publications}}, title = {{{The Question of Methodology in Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Media}}}, doi = {{10.1177/01968599251405272}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{58938, author = {{Hälterlein, Jens}}, journal = {{AUSDRUCK - Das IMI-Magazin}}, number = {{120}}, pages = {{25--27}}, title = {{{KI außer Kontrolle}}}, volume = {{23}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{54673, abstract = {{The article resulted in Christian Fuchs being awarded Communication and the Public’s Award for Excellence. }}, author = {{Fuchs, Christian}}, journal = {{Communication and the Public}}, number = {{2}}, pages = {{125--142}}, title = {{{A New Framework for the Analysis of Media Systems and Media Organisations}}}, doi = {{10.1177/20570473241259195 }}, volume = {{10}}, year = {{2025}}, } @book{60640, author = {{Fuchs, Christian}}, isbn = {{9781915445797}}, publisher = {{University of Westminster Press}}, title = {{{World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism}}}, doi = {{10.16997/mpub.13082283}}, year = {{2025}}, } @inbook{60740, author = {{Fuchs, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Franz Neumann y la teoría política en la teoría crítica}}, editor = {{Sánchez Marín , Leandro and Giraldo, J. Sebastian David}}, pages = {{115--142}}, publisher = {{Ennegativo Édiciones}}, title = {{{La relevancia de la teoría crítica de Franz L. Neumann: angustia y política en la nueva era del capitalismo autoritario}}}, year = {{2025}}, }