The Network Society: An Introduction to the Social Aspects of New Media - Couverture rigide

Dijk, Jan Van

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761962816 ISBN 13 : 9780761962816

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1999

Synopsis

How are we to understand the causes of the telecommunications revolution? How can we begin to predict its consequences?

The last three decades have witnessed a dramatic acceleration in the use, demand, and need for telecommunications, data communication, and mass communication transmitted and integrated into networks. Through a synthesis of contemporary theories about modernization, this book offers a broad-ranging introduction to the 'network' society in all its aspects.

The Network Society:

· Analyzes the new media in all their technical, economic, political, sociological, cultural and psychological aspects.

· Examines the new media in term

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761962816
• ISBN 13: 9780761962816
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 267
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible