Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. The 4th ICTs and Society Conference. Uppsala University. May 2-4, 2012 The programme of this conference is now available online: http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/timeplan.pdf 172 people registered for the conference, we will have 92 presentations in parallel sessions and 13 keynote talks. The presentations cover a broad range of topics from the perspective of Critical, Marxist and Normative Media and Communication Studies and promise an exciting conference. A collection of abstracts will be available for download on the website one week before start of the conference. Best, Christian Fuchs -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs@im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se Chair of ESA RN18-Sociology of Communications and Media Research ICTs and Society Network: http://www.icts-and-society.net