New Combinations of Social Practices in the Knowledge Society

2012 ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Hochgerner
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
New Combinations

Communicating in the Information Society

2008 ◽  
pp. 26-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Cantoni ◽  
Stefano Tardini
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication

The present chapter provides a conceptual framework for the newest digital communication tools and for the practices they encourage, stressing the communication opportunities they offer and the limitations they impose. In this chapter, Internetbased communication technologies are regarded as the most recent step in the development of communication technologies. This approach helps have a broad perspective on the changes information and communication technologies (ICT) are bringing along in the social practices of so called knowledge society. As a matter of fact, these changes need to be considered within an “ecological” approach, that is, an approach that provides a very wide overview on the whole context (both in synchronic terms and in diachronic ones) where ICT are spreading. In the second part of the chapter, the authors present two examples of relevant social practices that are challenged by the most recent ICT, namely journalism (news market) and Internet search engines.

scholarly journals Technogization of Society as a Factor of Socio-Cultural Modernization

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Sergei Pelevin
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Technological Modernization ◽  
Political Modernization ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
New Institutions

According to the author, the development processes of modern society are relevantly described using the theories of the information society and the knowledge society. In this regard, the modern directions of research carried out within the framework of the socio-information paradigm are indicated (in particular, the consideration of the influence of digital technologies on social changes and the dynamics of digital inequality in society). Attention is drawn to the fact that in the theories of the information society and the knowledge society, the central issue is the strategies for technologizing social practices and their consequences for society and individuals. It is noted that the technologization of social practices changes the structure and forms of communication processes between social actors and the dynamics of the development and functioning of various elements of the social system. The article shows the mechanism of sociocultural regulation of modernization processes, which in modern society is the technicalization of social practices. Technologization of society can be understood as a process of a gradual structural and functional transition of all social systems from a traditional society to an industrial one, and then to a postindustrial one, as well as the formation and approval of new institutions and modern systemic features in society. The dynamics of socio-cultural modernization is greatly influenced by the global technogenic context, which acts as an exogenous factor in the modernization process. It is argued that technologization, in addition to its own, purely material, technical and economic meanings, also has instrumental significance as an integrated regulator of social processes, and consists of false methods of structural and functional impact on the political, social and spiritual-value spheres of modern society. It is noted that socio-political modernization is in close interdependence with technological modernization. Moreover, a rather complicated interaction takes place between the development tracks of ethnic and national cultures and the process of political modernization.

scholarly journals What's in a copy?

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Many

I will answer the question "What's in a copy?" by considering three sets of related issues: the importance of copies in academia; in cultural life; and in the economic world. In academia the current capability of making copies is challenging pedagogical practices and the trust of its members, plagiarism being the most immediate problem. The notion of authorship is also undergoing changes provoked by a proliferation of authors and new possibilities opened up by cyberspace. In cultural life, imitation and mimesis have long been fundamental engines of socialization. Our enhanced capacity of copying problematizes, with new intensity, the relationships between homogeneity and heterogeneity, between the genuine and the spurious. In the economic world, the digital era is threatening some of the fundamental tenets of capitalism, especially of its variant called the "knowledge society", regarding the control of intellectual property rights. The gap between normativity and social practices is widening. The many dilemmas and tensions identified in the text are understood as symptoms of two major characteristics of the current times: hyperfetishism and hyperanimism.

Communicating in the Information Society

2009 ◽  
pp. 176-190
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Cantoni ◽  
Stefano Tardini
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication

The present chapter provides a conceptual framework for the newest digital communication tools and for the practices they encourage, stressing the communication opportunities they offer and the limitations they impose. In this chapter, Internetbased communication technologies are regarded as the most recent step in the development of communication technologies. This approach helps have a broad perspective on the changes information and communication technologies (ICT) are bringing along in the social practices of so called knowledge society. As a matter of fact, these changes need to be considered within an “ecological” approach, that is, an approach that provides a very wide overview on the whole context (both in synchronic terms and in diachronic ones) where ICT are spreading. In the second part of the chapter, the authors present two examples of relevant social practices that are challenged by the most recent ICT, namely journalism (news market) and Internet search engines.

Section of Religious Studies in the "Knowledge" Society of Ukraine

1996 ◽  
pp. 54-55
Author(s):  
Petro Yarotskiy
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Religious Studies

The Society "Knowledge" of Ukraine began the activity of the Department of Religious Studies. The Council of Lecturers is formed consisting of 24 people, among them are well-known philosophers, historians, sociologists - religious scholars: Doctors of Philosophy B.Lobovik, M.Zakovich, A. Kolodnyy, Yu.Kalinin, P.Kosuha, M.Rybachuk, P.Yarotsky, candidate of philosophical sciences M. Babiy, S. Golovashchenko, V. Yelensky, M.Kyryushko, O.Sagan, V.Suyarko, L.Filipovich and others.

Gary Genosko (2018) The Reinvention of Social Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-326
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bandosz
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices

La pseudo-traduction sous la plume de Mme Riccoboni, stratégie de légitimation d'un discours critique des pratiques de la sociabilité française

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Isabelle Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
French Enlightenment ◽  
Critical Account

(English): The Anglophilia which marks much of French Enlightenment prose fiction also points to a transformation of the representation of sociability. Through pseudo-translation and the use of the ‘English story’, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni gives a critical account of the rules and the codes that regulate French social order in the second half of the eighteenth century. The depiction of a free and tolerant society in the novels Lettres de Fanni Butlerd (1757) and Lettres de mylord Rivers (1777) attests to a questioning of French sociability and of women's place and roles. How are social practices redefined and what ideological meanings are associated to them in Mme Riccoboni's writings and use of pseudo-translation?

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