Books

Monographs and edited volumes

Bilić, Paško and Thomas Allmer, eds. 2024. Critical Sociology of Media and Communication: Theoretical Contributions to a Disconnected Field. Symposium of Critical Sociology 50 (4-5), 581-812. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/crsb/50/4-5

Allmer, Thomas, Sevda Can Arslan and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2024. Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Special Issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 22 (1), 140-433. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1501 (open access)

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Allmer, Thomas. 2023. Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation and Precarisation. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003129776

Allmer, Thomas and Ergin Bulut, eds. 2018. Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism. Special Issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16 (1), 44-240. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i1.977 (open access)

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Allmer, Thomas. 2015. Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315750491

This book is an essential must-read for anyone who cares about the Internet and wants to know why we should (dis)like Facebook.
Christian Fuchs, author of Social Media: A Critical Introduction
Anyone concerned with our possible futures needs to read it.
Graham Murdock, Professor of Culture and Economy, Loughborough University
Jandrić, Petar. 2016. Book Review of ‘Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification’ by Thomas Allmer. Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice Theory 7 (1): 1-3. click for PDF
Dong, Lin. 2016. Book Review of ‘Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification’ by Thomas Allmer. Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication 63 (3): 275-276. click for PDF

Allmer, Thomas. 2019. Kritická teorie a sociální média: Mezi emancipací a komodifikací. Translated by Miluš Kotišová. Prague: Filosofia. click for more (Czech translation)

Sandoval, Marisol, Christian Fuchs, Jernej Amon Prodnik, Sebastian Sevignani and Thomas Allmer, eds. 2014. Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorizing Digital Labour and Virtual Work: Definitions, Forms and Transformations. Special Issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 12 (2), 464-801. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v12i2.631 (open access)

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Allmer, Thomas. 2012. Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-01459-4

This is a book that maps out an important critical direction for the future of internet and surveillance studies: Allmer deserves our thanks for helping to show the way.
Mark Andrejevic, author of Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched
Trottier, Daniel. 2012. Review of Allmer’s Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism. Surveillance & Society 10 (2): 202-203. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v10i2.4438
Amon Prodnik, Jernej. 2012. The “Austrian School of Critical Political Economy”? A Review of Thomas Allmer’s Book “Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism”. tripleC: Cognition, Communication & Co-operation 10 (2): 771-774. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v10i2.452