The Network Society

Third Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4462-4895-9
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

The Network Society is now more than ever the essential guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication.

Fully revised, this Third Edition covers crucial new issues and updates, including:

• the long history of social media and Web 2.0: why it's not as new as we think

• digital youth culture as a foreshadow of future new media use

• the struggle for control of the internet among Microsoft, Google, Apple and Facebook

• the contribution of media networks to the current financial crisis

• complete update of the literature on the facts, theories, trends and technologies of the internet

• new features for students with boxes of chapter questions, conclusions and boxed explanations of key concepts

This book remains an accessible, comprehensive, must-read introduction to how new media function in contemporary society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dijk, Jan A. G. M. van

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 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

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
Technical Foundations of the Network Society
Current Technical Trends

Chapter 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
The Consumers: The Pushers and Pulled

Chapter 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
Chapter 6. Law
The Law Undermined by Networks
Who Rules the Internet?

Information and Communication Freedom
Intellectual Property Rights
The Right to Privacy
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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?
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

Über Autor(innen)

Dijk, Jan A. G. M. van
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.

Jan A.G.M. van Dijk is an internationally recognized expert in the field of communication, his specific interest being new media studies. Van Dijk is the author of The Network Society: Social Aspects of the New Media (SAGE, 1999) and co-editor of Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory and Practice (SAGE, 2000). He is an advisor of the European Commission in the Information Society Forum. As a professor of Communication Science at Twente University, van Dijk teaches and develops the sociology of the information society, in particular the social-cultural, political, and organizational aspects.