The Network Society is a clear, engaging guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication, and forms a comprehensive introduction to how new media functions in contemporary society. Integrating both face-to-face and online communication, the fourth edition explores crucial new issues and challenges in today s digital media ecology, in doing so exploring the centrality of power to understanding life in the network society. Featuring: The rise of the data economy The increasing importance of artificial intelligence. big data and robotics The growth of Internet platforms and…mehr
The Network Society is a clear, engaging guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication, and forms a comprehensive introduction to how new media functions in contemporary society.
Integrating both face-to-face and online communication, the fourth edition explores crucial new issues and challenges in today s digital media ecology, in doing so exploring the centrality of power to understanding life in the network society. Featuring: The rise of the data economy The increasing importance of artificial intelligence. big data and robotics The growth of Internet platforms and how to regulate big tech. New coverage of disinformation and fake news, including deep fake videos Updates to the story of digital youth culture, as a foreshadow of future new media use With examples, cases and real-world applications, this is the essential guide for digital and new media students seeking to understand a diverse, fast-movingfield.
Jan A.G.M. van Dijk (1952) is emeritus professor of communication science and sociology of the information society and still working at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. His main domains of research are the social aspects of the digital media, digital democracy and the digital divide. His best known English books are The Network Society (Four Editions, Sage Publications), Digital Democracy (2000, Sage Publications), The Deepening Divide (2005, Sage Publications), Digital Skills (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), Internet and Democracy (2018, Routledge) and The Digital Divide (2020, Polity Press). Since the year 2020 he is working on an overall work called Power & Technology, combining theories of social and natural power explaining the use of technology in human history. During his long career he was an advisory of many governments and departments as well as the European Commission.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1. Introduction A New Infrastructure of Society A Second Communication Revolution Characteristics of the Digital Media Communication Capacities of Digital Media The Nature and Design of this Book Chapter 2. Networks: the Nervous System of Society What is a Network Society? A Short History of the Human Web Networks at All Levels Causes of the Rise of Networks The Seven 'Laws' of the Web From Mass Society to Network Society Chapter 3. Technology The Relationship Between Technology and Society Technical Foundations of the Network Society Current Technical Trends Chapter 4. Economy The First, Second and Third Communications Revolution Markets, Hierarchies and Networks Main Characteristics of a Network and Data Economy The Network Producers: From Infrastructure to Service Providers The Rise of a Platform Economy Consumers: the Pushers and the Pulled Chapter 5. Social Structure Space and Time in the Network Society The Blurring Spheres of Living Social Networks and Social Media Unity and Fragmentation: A New Social Cohesion The Instability of the Network Society Networks and Social (In)equality The Digital Divide Chapter 6. Power and Politics What is Network Power? Technological Power Societal Power: Politics and Democracy Internet: Between Freedom and Control Power in the Organization Privacy and Personal Autonomy Chapter 7. Culture What is Digital Culture? Characteristics of Digital Culture The Quantity and Quality of Digital Media Content Digital Youth Culture Trends in Digital Media Use Chapter 8. Psychology Perception and the Digital Media Cognition and the Digital Media Learning with the Digital Media The Social Psychology of Digital Media Communication Changes in Human Personality? Chapter 9. Law The Law Undermined by Networks Who Rules the Internet? Information and Communication Freedom Intellectual Property Rights The Right to Privacy Platform Regulation Chapter 10. Conclusions and Policy Perspectives General Conclusions The Network Society in North America, Europe, East Asia and the Third World Policy Perspectives for the Network Society
Chapter 1. Introduction A New Infrastructure of Society A Second Communication Revolution Characteristics of the Digital Media Communication Capacities of Digital Media The Nature and Design of this Book Chapter 2. Networks: the Nervous System of Society What is a Network Society? A Short History of the Human Web Networks at All Levels Causes of the Rise of Networks The Seven 'Laws' of the Web From Mass Society to Network Society Chapter 3. Technology The Relationship Between Technology and Society Technical Foundations of the Network Society Current Technical Trends Chapter 4. Economy The First, Second and Third Communications Revolution Markets, Hierarchies and Networks Main Characteristics of a Network and Data Economy The Network Producers: From Infrastructure to Service Providers The Rise of a Platform Economy Consumers: the Pushers and the Pulled Chapter 5. Social Structure Space and Time in the Network Society The Blurring Spheres of Living Social Networks and Social Media Unity and Fragmentation: A New Social Cohesion The Instability of the Network Society Networks and Social (In)equality The Digital Divide Chapter 6. Power and Politics What is Network Power? Technological Power Societal Power: Politics and Democracy Internet: Between Freedom and Control Power in the Organization Privacy and Personal Autonomy Chapter 7. Culture What is Digital Culture? Characteristics of Digital Culture The Quantity and Quality of Digital Media Content Digital Youth Culture Trends in Digital Media Use Chapter 8. Psychology Perception and the Digital Media Cognition and the Digital Media Learning with the Digital Media The Social Psychology of Digital Media Communication Changes in Human Personality? Chapter 9. Law The Law Undermined by Networks Who Rules the Internet? Information and Communication Freedom Intellectual Property Rights The Right to Privacy Platform Regulation Chapter 10. Conclusions and Policy Perspectives General Conclusions The Network Society in North America, Europe, East Asia and the Third World Policy Perspectives for the Network Society
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This 4th edition provides interdisciplinary insight into the growing significance of digital media in society. It comprehensively explains why the process of becoming a network society varies worldwide as a result of differing values and responses to the emergence of varied structures, processes and control systems. Robin Mansell 20201102
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