We are living in times of global capitalist crisis. As a consequence, revolutions in the Arab world, the Occupy movement and other forms of rebellion have emerged. This volume addresses the question of how to critically make sense of a world in crisis, and how we can create Internet- and social media-commons and a commons-based participatory information society.

1. Introduction: Critique, Social Media and the Information Society in the Age of Capitalist Crisis Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval Part I: Critical Studies of the Information Society 2. Critique of the Political Economy of Informational Capitalism and Social Media Christian Fuchs 3. Potentials and Risks for Creating a Global Sustainable Information Society Wolfgang Hofkirchner 4. Critical Studies of Contemporary Informational Capitalism: The Perspective of Emerging Scholars Sebastian Sevignani, Robert Prey, Marisol Sandoval, Thomas Allmer, Jernej Amon Prodnik and Verena Kreilinger 5. Social Informatics and Ethics: Towards the Good Information and Communication Society Gunilla Bradley Part II: Critical Internet- and Social Media-Studies 6. Great Refusal or Long March: How to Think About the Internet Andrew Feenberg 7. Producing Consumerism: Commodities, Ideologies, Practices Graham Murdock 8. Social Media?: The Unsocial Character of Capitalist Media Marisol Sandoval 9. The Global Worker and the Digital Front Nick Dyer-Witheford 10. Alienation's Returns Mark Andrejevic 11. Social Media and Political Participation: Discourse and Deflection Peter Dahlgren 12. "The Architecture of Participation": For Citizens or Consumers? Tobias Olsson Part III: Critical Studies of Communication Labour 13. Precarious Times, Precarious Work: A Feminist Political Economy of Freelance Journalists in Canada and the United States Catherine McKercher 14. Flight as Fight: Re-Negotiating the Work of Journalism Margareta Melin 15. Marx is Back, But Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?: On the Critical Study of Labour, Media and Communication Today Vincent Mosco