tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. Vol. 8. No. 2: Special Issue on Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture Edited by Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken, Marcus Breen http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current Suggested citation: Fuchs, Christian, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken and Marcus Breen. Eds. 2010. Special issue on “Capitalist crisis, communication & culture“. tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 8 (2): 193-309. “Capitalism […] is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point” (Slavoj Žižek). What is the role of communication in the general situation of capitalist crisis? The global economic downturn is an indicator of a new worldwide capitalist crisis. The main focus of most public debates as well as of economic and policy analyses is the role of finance capital and the housing market in creating the crisis, less attention is given to the role of communication technologies, the media, and culture in the world economic crisis. The task of this special issue of tripleC is to present analyses of the role of ICTs, the media, and culture in the current crisis of capitalism. The seven papers focus on the causes, development, and effects of the crisis. Each paper relates one or more of these dimensions to ICTs, the media, or culture. Capitalist Crisis, Communication, & Culture – Introduction to the Special Issue of tripleC Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken and Marcus Breen (Special Issue Editors) pp 193-204 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/228/189 Computing and the Current Crisis: The Significant Role of New Information Technologies in Our Socio-Economic Meltdown David Hakken pp 205-220 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/161/193 The Virtual Debt Factory: Towards an Analysis of Debt and Abstraction in the American Credit Crisis Vincent R. Manzerolle pp 221-236 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/149/192 Calculating the Unknown. Rationalities of Operational Risk in Financial Institutions Matthias Werner and Hajo Greif pp 237-250 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/184/194 Crisis, What Crisis? The Media: Business and Journalism in Times of Crisis Rosario de Mateo, Laura Bergés, Anna Garnatxe* pp 251-274 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/212/195 Anglo-American Credit Scoring and Consumer Debt in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis of 2007 as Models for Other Countries? Thomas Ruddy pp 275-284 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/176/198 Crise, Genre et TIC : Recette pour une Dés-Union Pronon- cée. L’Exemple de l’Afrique du Sud (in French) Joelle Palmieri pp 285-309 http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/141/197 -- - - - Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Fuchs Unified Theory of Information Research Group christian.fuchs@uti.at Personal Website: http://fuchs.uti.at NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Research Group: http;//www.uti.at Editor of tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society http://www.triple-c.at Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. http://fuchs.uti.at/?page_id=40