Social and Technological Determinism in Cyberspace
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Technology and civilization
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Author :
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Technology and civilization
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Author : Jan Servaes
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 073919125X
This book sheds light on the impact of new information and communication technologies on civil society by examining specific cases in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, China, Columbia, Kenya, the Netherlands, and the United States.
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Page : 41 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Simon Lindgren
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1529787076
What does it mean to live in a digital society? Does social media empower political activism? How do we form and express our identity in a digital age? Do algorithms and search engine results have a social role? How have software and hardware transformed how we interact with each other? In the early 21st century, digital media and the social have become irreversibly intertwined. In this cutting-edge introduction, Simon Lindgren explores what it means to live in a digital society. With succinct explanations of the key concepts, debates and theories you need to know, this is a must-have resource for students exploring digital media, social media, media and society, data and society, and the internet. “An engaging story of the meaning digital media have in societies. The writing is relatable, with diverse and comprehensive references to theories. Above all, this is a fun book on what a contemporary digital society looks like!” - Professor Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology at Umeå University in Sweden. He is also the director of DIGSUM, an interdisciplinary academic research centre studying the social dimensions of digital technology.
Author : Mary Chayko
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1071803514
What does it mean to live in a superconnected society? In this new revised, updated edition of Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life, Mary Chayko continues to explore how social life is impacted when communication and information technology enters the picture. She provides timely analysis of such critical issues as privacy and surveillance, online harassment and abuse, and dependency and addiction, while examining new trends in social media use, global inequalities and divides, online relating and dating, and the internet of things. The new edition highlights such issues as technology and mental health, digital public policy and law, and the author’s own research on bias and stereotyping in digital environments. Throughout, she considers how individuals, families, communities, organizations, and whole societies are affected. The author’s clear, nontechnical discussions and interdisciplinary synthesis make the third edition of Superconnected an essential text for any course that explores how contemporary life is impacted by the internet, social media, mobile devices, and smart technologies. The text is accompanied by the author′s Superconnected Blog (superconnectedblog.com) which includes lecture slides, discussion questions and assignments, and short podcasts for each chapter that summarize key ideas.
Author : Donald A. MacKenzie
Publisher : Milton Keynes ; Philadelphia : Open University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Technology
ISBN : 9780335150274
Author : Julie Anne Rice
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social networks
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Author : Robert Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1134556829
Robert Burnett and David Marshall explore the key debates surrounding Internet culture, from issues of globalization and regulation to ideas of communication, identity and aesthetics.
Author : Ralph Schroeder
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1787351246
The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.
Author : Tim Jordan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745658156
Hacking provides an introduction to the community of hackers and an analysis of the meaning of hacking in twenty-first century societies. On the one hand, hackers infect the computers of the world, entering where they are not invited, taking over not just individual workstations but whole networks. On the other, hackers write the software that fuels the Internet, from the most popular web programmes to software fundamental to the Internet's existence. Beginning from an analysis of these two main types of hackers, categorised as crackers and Free Software/Open Source respectively, Tim Jordan gives the reader insight into the varied identities of hackers, including: • Hacktivism; hackers and populist politics • Cyberwar; hackers and the nation-state • Digital Proletariat; hacking for the man • Viruses; virtual life on the Internet • Digital Commons; hacking without software • Cypherpunks; encryption and digital security • Nerds and Geeks; hacking cultures or hacking without the hack • Cybercrime; blackest of black hat hacking Hackers end debates over the meaning of technological determinism while recognising that at any one moment we are all always determined by technology. Hackers work constantly within determinations of their actions created by technologies as they also alter software to enable entirely new possibilities for and limits to action in the virtual world. Through this fascinating introduction to the people who create and recreate the digital media of the Internet, students, scholars and general readers will gain new insight into the meaning of technology and society when digital media are hacked.