CMNS 210 Chapter Notes -Stra, Phenylalanine, Medieval Commune

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 210
• Professor: Stuart Poyntz

Document Summary

Efforts to conceptualize the spirit of the contemporary era is gathered under the phrase the network society". Spirit of our age is the spirit of the network: the constitutive principles of net- works have become the animating force of individual, social, economic and political life, and this marks the distinction of our period in history. Manuel castells (1996): as a historical trend, dominant functions and processes are increasingly organized around networks. Networks constitute the new social mor- phology of our societies, and the diffusion of networking logic substantially modi- fies the operation and outcomes in processes of production, experience, power and culture. The power attached to naming something is considerable: to name something is to express dominion over it, to constitute it as true. There is considerable variation amongst these efforts (approaches can be ideologi- Discourses of nomination: post-industrialism, information society, post-fordism, postmodernism, and globalization.