The network society /
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Author / Creator: | Dijk, Jan van, 1952- |
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Uniform title: | Netwerkmaatschappij. English |
Edition: | 3rd ed. |
Imprint: | London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2012. |
Description: | vi, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8850171 |
Table of Contents:
- About the author
- 1. Introduction
- A New Infrastructure for Society
- A Second Communications Revolution
- Characteristics of the New Media
- Communication Capacities of the New Media
- The Nature and Design of the Book
- 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 æLaws' of the Web
- From Mass Society to Network Society
- 3. Technology
- Technical Foundations of the Network Society
- Current Technical Trends
- 4. Economy
- Causes of the Current Communications Revolution
- A Flow Economy
- Enterprise 2.0
- Markets, Hierarchies and Networks
- Characteristics of a Network Economy
- The Producers: From Infrastructure to Service Providers
- Consumers: The Pushers and the Pulled
- 5. Politics and Power
- The Vulnerability of Networks
- Network Politics
- The Internet: A Tool for Democracy?
- E-participation
- Power in the Organization
- Privacy and Personal Autonomy
- 6. Law
- The Law Undermined by Networks
- Who Rules the Internet?
- Information and Communication Freedom
- Intellectual Property Rights
- The Right to Privacy
- 7. Social Structure
- Space and Time in the Network Society
- The Blurring Spheres of living
- The Rise of the Social Media
- Unity and Fragmentation: A New Social Cohesion
- Networks and Social (In)Equality
- The Digital Divide
- The Instability of the Network Society
- 8. Culture
- What is Digital Culture?
- Characteristics of Digital Culture
- The Quantity and Quality of New Media Content
- Digital Youth Culture: Foreshadow of the Future?
- Trends in New Media Use
- 9. Psychology
- Perception and the New Media
- Cognition and the New Media
- Learning with the New Media
- The Social Psychology of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
- Changes in Human Personality?
- 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
- References
- Index