The Network Society PDF

In The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political and economic implications of network technologies and their application across a wide range of practices and institutions. Are we in the midst of a digital revolution? Have new information and communication technologies given birth to a new form of society, or do they reinforce and extend existing patterns and relationships? This book provides a clear and engaging discussion of these and other questions. Using a sophisticated model of the relationship between technology and society, Barney investigates both what has changed, and what has remained the same, in the age of the Internet. Among the issues discussed are debates concerning the emergence of a knowledge economy

Toward a Sociology of the Network Society The Call to Sociology The twenty-first century of the Common Era did not necessarily have to usher in a new society. But it did. People around the world feel the winds of multidimensional social change with- out truly understanding it, let alone feeling a grasp upon the process of change. Thus the chal- Network society is the expression coined in 1991 related to the social, political, economic and cultural changes caused by the spread of networked, digital ...