Christian Fuchs is a cooperation partner with For Digital Dignity, Project ONLINERPOL and Professor at the University of Westminster, where he is the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) and the Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies. He is also Editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society that specializes in publishing articles about critical studies of media and society, the political economy of communication, the political economy of the icInternet and social media, critical information society studies, and critical studies of digital media/the Internet and society. He occassionally writes in the Huffington Post, Medium.com and has a video channel on Vimeo.
From 2015-2017, he is a member of the European Sociological Association‘s Executive Board. From 2011-2015, he was chair of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18 (RN18) – Sociology of Media and Communications Research that organizes an annual conference. He is co-founder of the ICTs and Society-network, an international interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in digital media & society that has various activities.
From 2012-2016, I was Vice-Chair of the EU COST Action “Dynamics of Virtual Work” (2012-2016) that studied unpaid and paid forms of digital labour.