
The Hypercomplex Society
Lars Qvortrup(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 28. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-0-8204-5704-8 (ISBN)
Description
Should today's society be termed an «information» or a «network» society? This book provides an alternative choice-the hypercomplex society, which is a critical, complex-theoretical understanding of society whose growing level of social complexity represents the basic challenge of our current society. This original understanding of society is presented through a historical analysis of the emergence of the current state of hypercomplexity and polycentrism. The functioning of communication, mass media, and the public sphere in the hypercomplex society is also analyzed and the Internet is characterized as a communication infrastructure particularly shaped by the hypercomplex society. The book concludes with a cultural self-observation of the hypercomplex society.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
6 tables, 10 fig.
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
351 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-5704-8 (9780820457048)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Lars Qvortrup is Professor of Interactive Media at the University of Southern Denmark, where he is Director of Knowledge Lab Denmark. In addition to numerous articles in international professional journals and fifteen monographs in Danish, he edited a four-volume series entitled Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds. His current research project studies the logical structure, the sociology, and the aesthetics of knowledge.