SOCY 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Continuous Partial Attention, Network Society, New Social Movements

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 227
• Professor: Ryan Martin

Document Summary

Many social theorists argue that the proliferation of digital technologies is fundamentally reshaping all aspects of contemporary social life . The internet is the fabric of our lives. Industrial revolution transformation of organizations, work, family, community, social solidarity, identity, and so on. The associated changes in health, literacy, education, consumption, etc. Core economic, social, political, and cultural activities throughout the planet are being structured by and around the internet, and other computer networks. In fact, exclusion from these networks is one of the most damaging forms of exclusion in our economy and in our culture" (castells, 2002: 3) The growth of the information industries"and their relative significance within societies: education, media and communication, information machines, information services, and research (malchup 1962) Where information becomes the primary commodity to be exchanged. Where the majority of work is conceptualized as information work". Where the manipulation of information (in design and manufacturing) becomes central to the creation of the product.