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The Network Society
Fourth Edition
- Jan van Dijk - University of Twente, Netherlands
December 2020 | 384 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The Network Society is a clear, engaging guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication, and forms a comprehensive introduction to how new media functions in contemporary society.
Integrating both face-to-face and online communication, the fourth edition explores crucial new issues and challenges in today’s digital media ecology, in doing so exploring the centrality of power to understanding life in the network society. Featuring:
- The rise of the ‘data economy’
- The increasing importance of artificial intelligence. big data and robotics
- The growth of Internet platforms and how to regulate big tech.
- New coverage of disinformation and fake news, including deep fake videos
- Updates to the story of digital youth culture, as a foreshadow of future new media use
With examples, cases and real-world applications, this is the essential guide for digital and new media students seeking to understand a diverse, fast-moving field.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Networks: the Nervous System of Society
Chapter 3. Technology
Chapter 4. Economy
Chapter 5. Social Structure
Chapter 6. Power and Politics
Chapter 7. Culture
Chapter 8. Psychology
Chapter 9. Law
Chapter 10. Conclusions and Policy Perspectives
This is an excellent book, as a supplement to orthodox texts on network theory.
Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta
January 24, 2023
