The Internet and Social ChangeMcFarland, 6 de jul. de 2017 - 239 páginas Starting with only four hosts in 1969, the Internet consisted of more than 56 million hosts by the end of 1999. In 1993, the World Wide Web was only 130 sites strong; six years later it boasted more than seven million sites. Despite this explosive growth of the Internet and computer technology, little is known about the social implications of computer mediated communications. In this work, the author uses social science theory to evaluate the social transformations taking place today. She asks whether human beings use the Internet to change basic social institutions, and if so, whether these changes are a matter of degree only or represent an overthrow of previous modes of organizing. The work examines the rise of the Internet as the logical extension of the Industrial Revolution and urbanization consistent with the basic tenets of modernity, and offers a new conceptual framework through which to understand the Internet. |
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... ects of particular changes might be.... The ongoing computing and communications revolution requires serious social science investigation [National Resource Council ¡998, 7]. In the span of approximately 30 years, the Internet has grown ...
... ects of particular changes might be.... The ongoing computing and communications revolution requires serious social science investigation [National Resource Council ¡998, 7]. In the span of approximately 30 years, the Internet has grown ...
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... ects” framework for analysis in which the technology itself is imbued with the power to e›ect change (Ogburn, ¡964). We do not have any overarching, macro-level theory simultaneously capable of unifying the knowledge gleaned from small ...
... ects” framework for analysis in which the technology itself is imbued with the power to e›ect change (Ogburn, ¡964). We do not have any overarching, macro-level theory simultaneously capable of unifying the knowledge gleaned from small ...
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... ects” framework. In this framework, a core set of narratives has been developed to tell the story of technology. Each narrative describes the technology in question as an autonomous agent of social change. Most often, a medium is ...
... ects” framework. In this framework, a core set of narratives has been developed to tell the story of technology. Each narrative describes the technology in question as an autonomous agent of social change. Most often, a medium is ...
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... ects” framework as the organizing principle for our knowledge about all communications technologies, a framework that is insu‡cient for a fuller understanding of what networked computing means for social organization. It suggests that a ...
... ects” framework as the organizing principle for our knowledge about all communications technologies, a framework that is insu‡cient for a fuller understanding of what networked computing means for social organization. It suggests that a ...
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... ects” framework for understanding technology. It highlights the true role of the Internet (and other media) in contemporary society, what that role means for the various social institutions that make up the modern social order, and ...
... ects” framework for understanding technology. It highlights the true role of the Internet (and other media) in contemporary society, what that role means for the various social institutions that make up the modern social order, and ...
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