The World as Clock: The Network Society and Experimental Ecologies

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 117-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Murphie
Keyword(s):  
Network Society ◽  
The World

scholarly journals The Midlife Crisis of the Network Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikki Usher ◽  
Matt Carlson
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Midlife Crisis ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Brave New World

The network society is moving into some sort of middle age, or has at least normalized into the daily set of expectations people have for how they live their lives, not to mention consume news and information. In their adolescence, the technological and temporal affordances that have come with these new digital technologies were supposed to make the world better, or least they could have. There was much we did not foresee, such as the way that this brave new world would turn journalism into distributed content, not only taking away news organizations’ gatekeeping power but also their business model. This is indeed a midlife crisis. The present moment provides a vantage point for stocktaking and the mix of awe, nostalgia, and ruefulness that comes with maturity.

scholarly journals Pandemic in the Network Society: COVID-19 in EU and Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-140
Author(s):  
Vladimir Milovidov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Broadband Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Delivery Services ◽  
Development Levels ◽  
High Level

The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of the factors related to the spread of the new coronavirus infection in Europe and Latin America. The choice of regions for comparison is due to a certain similarity of their peoples' cultures and religions, their linguistic commonality, the scale of infection of the population with the new coronavirus, clearly expressed specificity and different economic development levels. The criteria for the network society are: indicators of broadband Internet subscribers and Internet shopping, the proportion of households with Internet access and the Network Readiness Index (NRI). The article proves that the development of a modern network society can affect the spread of diseases in global pandemics. The author uses the example of the popularity of food delivery services in various countries to show that the features of the influence of elements of a networked society on the risks of COVID-19 infection are regional. The author provides arguments that ceteris paribus a high level of development of the network society is the most effective in terms of ensuring biological safety in countries with a higher standard of living, which retain their regional and cultural specifics and are distinguished by the presence of sufficiently strong local communities. The evolution of a network society opens up significant opportunities for developing countries, an improvement in the quality of life, and the emergence of new traditions. All this together changes the established social structures, groups, and local networks. The world is becoming more interconnected and interdependent. That requires collective efforts from the entire world community to equalize the living standards of the population in different countries of the world, which is necessary for minimizing risks during periods of global pandemics and possibly other biological crises.

Digital Inclusion, Crowdfunding, and Crowdsourcing in Brazil

2016 ◽  
pp. 77-100
Author(s):  
Beatrice Bonami ◽  
Maria Lujan Tubio
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Network Society ◽  
International Level ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

In the present chapter, we map and characterize crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms that promote social entrepreneurship in the online universe. We first analyze relevant theoretical concepts and the existing literature on entrepreneurship, digital inclusion, information and open culture, digital culture, and social technologies to better understand the genesis and development of initiatives that promote social entrepreneurship in the online universe. Then, we map and describe the platforms that tried to encourage this type of entrepreneurship around the world, especially in Brazil. Finally, we examine some important aspects of the panorama of crowdfunding in Brazil. By exploring the current development of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platforms at international level, we expect to contribute to the creation of new projects and policies that respond to the current demands of the network society.

scholarly journals The Law of the Network Society and the Problem of Hybridity Management

Lex Russica ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 108-118
Author(s):  
M. V. Mazhorina
Keyword(s):  
Network Society ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
The World ◽  
Simultaneous Existence ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Methodology ◽  
Institutional Regimes ◽  
Institutional Fragmentation

The network society, which is relevant to the social landscape of the 21st century, determines the building of a new architecture of law. The current legal map of the world is extremely heterogeneous and often does not coincide with the political map of the world. It is full of a variety of normative arrays that collide with each other, layered on top of each other, while the traditional legal methodology is not always able to resolve conflicts that arise. The problem of controversy between law and not law is gaining considerable potential due to the rapid growth of non-legal matter and the emergence of legitimizing institutions. The situation is complicated by the simultaneous existence of several institutional dispute resolution systems (state, non-state, alternative, platform-based) that refer to completely different, relatively autonomous subsystems of norms as applicable law. Such material and institutional fragmentation, the emergence of hybrid regulatory and institutional regimes has provoked an active search for new principles of building a legal architecture that is adequate to such a rapidly changing society. Globalization is transforming into networking, which redefines the geography of the world, the well-known and traditional principles of affiliation of legal entities, and then exacerbates the debates about legal taxonomy. The marked evolution of the legal superstructure also generates new types of conflicts, prompting the search for a new or adaptation of the known methodology in order to overcome them.The paper attempts to explore the new normativity in the context of a new sociality, to identify key trends in the development of the law of a network society, to predict the development of individual legal and sub-legal institutions, and to model legal ways of managing hybridity.

scholarly journals MANUEL CASTELLS: THE IMPACT OF THE NETWORK SOCIETY ON THE NATURE OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS

2013 ◽  
pp. 213-220
Author(s):  
L. A. Bobova
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Network Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
The World ◽  
Manuel Castells ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with Manuel Castells’ theory of network society, corrected and updated according to the new events happened during the last 10 years. The author of the theory registers the major signals of the changing processes in the modern society, happening due to the expansion of networks in the age of technological innovations. Сhanges affected the global economy, finance, structure of labor, migration, the velocity , role and individual's perception of time. An unprecedented increase of urbanization in the world happened as well. The society became multiethnic. The network structure of the society leads to the uprise of a fundamentally new form of communication called mass selfcommunications. The launched process reduces the elitist role of the official issuer of information i.e. the information flows going vertically, and increases the importance of information published in open spaces on the Internet by individuals i.e. information flows going horizontally from individuals to individuals. New technologies let any individual create its own informational system using the Internet and mobile communication tools. Despite the appearance of mass self-communications in an atmosphere of high social instability, this form of communication turns up to be an effective tool in the matrix of social interaction in the Internet. An accelerated growth in number of mass self-communications’ users is being registered due to the revolutionary changes in the field of communication technologies which made wireless mobile communication devices able to stay connected to the Internet almost continuously. Wireless communication becomes the dominant form of communication in the world, being the fastest-spreading communication technology in history. In this regard the role and form of issue of information in mass-media changes. Synergy between mass-communication and all other forms of communication appeared. The result of this process is the emergence of a radically new culture of communication in modern society.

Digital Inclusion, Crowdfunding, and Crowdsourcing in Brazil

2019 ◽  
pp. 1132-1156
Author(s):  
Beatrice Bonami ◽  
Maria Lujan Tubio
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Network Society ◽  
International Level ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

In the present chapter, we map and characterize crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms that promote social entrepreneurship in the online universe. We first analyze relevant theoretical concepts and the existing literature on entrepreneurship, digital inclusion, information and open culture, digital culture, and social technologies to better understand the genesis and development of initiatives that promote social entrepreneurship in the online universe. Then, we map and describe the platforms that tried to encourage this type of entrepreneurship around the world, especially in Brazil. Finally, we examine some important aspects of the panorama of crowdfunding in Brazil. By exploring the current development of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platforms at international level, we expect to contribute to the creation of new projects and policies that respond to the current demands of the network society.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing a distributed, multi-scalar global public sphere through activist communication practices in the World Social Forum

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-360
Author(s):  
Hilde C Stephansen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Practices

This article contributes to debate about how to conceptualize the global public sphere. Drawing on media practice theory and ethnographic research on media activism in the World Social Forum, it shows how ‘global publics’ can be constituted through a diverse range of activist communication practices that complicate both conventional hierarchies of scale and contemporary theorizations of publics as personalized networks. It develops an understanding of the global public sphere as an emergent formation made up of multiple, interlinked publics at different scales and emphasizes the significance of collective communication spaces for actors at the margins of the global network society.

scholarly journals Theology: Still a queen of science in the post-modern era

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erna Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Academic World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Church

Theology is just as relevant today as it was in the time of Aquinas who called theology ‘the queen of science’ although the knowledge-driven network society does not seem to be in agreement. By using the tools provided by the fourth revolution in the development of society, theology can, as part of the academic world of higher education that is supposed to lead society, strengthen ties with the past, seek explanations and solutions to current problems and produce guidelines for future investigation through multi- and interdisciplinary discourse. Theology can and should influence people to become positive change agents, re-shape the way in which the message of salvation is brought to the world in order to stay relevant in changing circumstances and be on the forefront of progressive transformation in society. This should be achieved through constant dialogue with other academic disciplines, the Church as institution and with society in general.

Technology Discourses in Globalization Debates

2011 ◽  
pp. 3700-3706
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Change ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Global Information ◽  
The Core ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form ◽  
Mode Of Development

Globalization, a key concept in our modern and postmodern discourse, is a highly contentious term that continues to generate endless debates about its form and consequences on our societies. Anthony Giddens (1999) professes that while the term is “not particularly attractive or an elegant one, absolutely no one who wants to understand our prospects and possibilities can ignore it.” While many agree that it denotes the occurrence of social change, there is, however, less agreement what these changes may be and whether they, in effect, represent the transition of one form of society to another (i.e., the industrial to the postindustrial or information society). Nevertheless, the increase in the volume of discourses surrounding the term is significant in illuminating that the increased interdependence of the world can lead to new forms of challenges, concerns, empowerment, and resistance with the symbolic and material exchanges of ideas, products, and services, as well as the formation of social networks (Castells, 1998). Castells (1996, 2000, 2001), in his numerous reflections on the network society, asserts that since the 1980s, a new economy has emerged that is global, information-based, and interconnected. This new form of economy remains capitalist in form but is situated on an informational rather than an industrial form of development; at the core of the informational mode of development are networks contributing to a network society.

Digital Inclusion, Crowdfunding, and Crowdsourcing in Brazil

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 75-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Bonami ◽  
Maria Lujan Tubio
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Network Society ◽  
International Level ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

In the present chapter, we map and characterize crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms that promote social entrepreneurship in the online universe. We first analyze relevant theoretical concepts and the existing literature on entrepreneurship, digital inclusion, information and open culture, digital culture, and social technologies to better understand the genesis and development of initiatives that promote social entrepreneurship in the online universe. Then, we map and describe the platforms that tried to encourage this type of entrepreneurship around the world, especially in Brazil. Finally, we examine some important aspects of the panorama of crowdfunding in Brazil. By exploring the current development of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platforms at international level, we expect to contribute to the creation of new projects and policies that respond to the current demands of the network society.

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