CS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Independent Media Center, Power (Social And Political), User-Generated Content
13 Mar 2016
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Manuel castells the rise of the network society: most famous for this book: the information age, the rise of the network society volume published in 1996. Ahead of his time in thinking of this idea of merging network society: working definition: Network society thesis: the constitutive principles of networks have become the animating force of individual, social, economic, and political life, and this marks the distinction of out period in history darren. Flow information is what primarily flows through the network society. Networks suggest horizontal communication flows rather than hierarchical one the popularity of networks as the basic form of human organization. Information technology lies at the very core of social technology. New type of society arises from the new found of networks (cid:1: communicative capitalism. Communicatiev capitalism is associated with injunctions for us to communicate, participate, share jodi dean. If industrial capitalism exploited labour; communicative capitalism exploits communication.
