The Network Society: Social Aspects of New Media

Cover
......Page 1
Title
......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
A New Infrastructure for Society
......Page 10
A Second Communications Revolution?......Page 12
Characteristics of the New Media......Page 15
Communication Capacities of the New Media......Page 22
The Nature and Design of this Book......Page 26
The Network Society and Other Classifications......Page 28
A Short History of the Human Web......Page 30
Networks at All Levels......Page 33
Causes of the Rise of Networks......Page 38
From Mass Society to Network Society......Page 41
Changing Relations in the Network Society......Page 46
Introduction......Page 51
Technical Foundations of the Network Society......Page 52
Telecommunication Networks......Page 55
Data Communication Networks......Page 57
Mass Communication Networks......Page 60
Integrated Networks
......Page 62
Multimedia and Broadband Networks......Page 64
Future Trends......Page 67
Introduction
......Page 70
Causes of the Current Communications Revolution......Page 71
A Flow Economy......Page 74
Markets, Hierarchies and Networks......Page 81
A New Economy?......Page 85
The Producers: From Infrastructure to Service Providers......Page 90
The Consumers: Pushers and Pulled......Page 98
Conclusions......Page 102
Introduction......Page 104
The Vulnerability of Networks......Page 105
The Spread and Concentration of Politics......Page 107
The Claims of E-Government and Digital Democracy......Page 112
Power in the Organization......Page 117
Privacy and Personal Autonomy......Page 121
Conclusions......Page 134
Introduction......Page 136
The Law Undermined by Networks......Page 137
Who Rules the Internet?......Page 139
Information and Communication Freedom......Page 146
Rights of Ownership......Page 152
The Right to Privacy......Page 158
Conclusions......Page 163
Introduction......Page 165
Space and Time in the Network Society......Page 166
The Blurring Spheres of Living......Page 170
Communities and Social Relations......Page 174
Unity and Fragmentation: A New Social Cohesion......Page 180
Networks and Social (In)equality......Page 183
The Digital Divide......Page 186
The Instability of the Network Society......Page 195
Conclusions......Page 197
Introduction......Page 199
Living in a Digital Culture......Page 200
The Quantity and Quality of New Media Content......Page 208
Changing Media Use......Page 213
Conclusions......Page 217
Introduction......Page 219
Perception and the New Media......Page 220
Cognition and the New Media......Page 226
Learning with the New Media......Page 233
The Social Psychology of CMC......Page 235
Changes in the Human Personality?......Page 242
Conclusions......Page 247
General Conclusions......Page 249
The Information and Network Society in North America, Europe, East Asia and the Third World......Page 253
Policy Perspectives for the Network Society......Page 262
Glossary
......Page 273
References
......Page 281
Index......Page 297