"This sixth volume in Christian Fuchs Media, Communication and Society series draws on Marxist humanist theory to address questions around contemporary digital socialism and the challenges and opportunities for digital democracy today. Based on critical theory and Marxist humanism, this book engages with dimensions and principles of digital socialist politics, the political economy of capitalist and alternative social media, public service Internet platforms, platform co-operatives, digital democracy, the utopian Internet, digital technology in a socialist post-scarcity society, the question of how to overcome the digital divide and the uneven digital and social development that rural areas face, the diamond model of open access publishing, and strategic perspectives for digital socialist politics. Drawing on dialectical philosophy and Marxist humanism, this book presents foundations and analyses of digital democracy, written in a style suitable for both students and researchers in media, culture, and communication studies, as well as related disciplines"--