Discussing Media, Power and Capitalism in Lisbon

Last week Marisol was in Lisbon to participate in this year’s mid term conference of the European Sociological Association’s Communications and Media Research Network (RN 18).

Marisol was one of the co-organisers of the conference, which brought together over 80 international scholars to discuss the conference theme Rethinking Power in Communicative Capitalism. Critical Perspectives on Media, Culture, and Society.

Highlights of the conference included keynote talks by Jodi Dean and Christian Fuchs as well as a roundtable discussion on media activism in Portugal.

Marisol presented her research on worker co-operatives and social media in communicative capitalism

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