The Network Society
3rd Edition
Published on 20. April 2012
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-4462-4895-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
If you want to understand or teach the complex, interdisciplinary, and intriguing foundations for and social implications about one of the most significant social and technical transformations in communication history, this is the book. It is wide-ranging, integrative, literate, comprehensive, theoretical and practical, sometimes contrarian, thoughtful, encyclopedic, and moralRonald E. Rice
Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication, University of California Santa Barbara
This new edition provides deep interdisciplinary insight into the significance of new media in our lives. It outlines why we need to understand the frictions between increasingly intelligent machines and the desires of human beings. It does so with great clarity, providing a very valuable measured and critical assessment of the process of becoming a network society
Professor Robin Mansell
London School of Economics and Political Science
Jan Van Dijk draws from multiple theoretical perspectives to characterize historical trends across many sectors of network societies. His conclusion - that the Internet and related new media amplify rather than transform an array of global trends - will inform and stimulate debate about the implications of the communication revolution. The Network Society would be an excellent text for courses on the social role of the Internet and related new media
William H. Dutton
Professor of Internet Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
The core concept in this book is network 2.0. In a network 2.0 age, the Internet becomes a key channel for social networking. This book truly recognizes societal changes made by technical improvement in digital media. Each chapter is written in a clear and succinct way. It is strongly recommended as a requirement text for both researchers and policy-makers
Han Woo Park
Department of Media & Communication, YeungNam University, South Korea
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
770 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4462-4895-9 (9781446248959)
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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.
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.
Content
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
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