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Network Society, Social Aspects of the New Media

Author Jan A G M van Dijk
Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd
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ISBN / ASIN0761962824
ISBN-139780761962823
Sales Rank7,427,759
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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How are we to understand the causes of the telecommunications revolution? How can we begin to predict its consequences?

The last three decades have witnessed a dramatic acceleration in the use, demand, and need for telecommunications, data communication, and mass communication transmitted and integrated into networks. Through a synthesis of contemporary theories about modernization, this book offers a broad-ranging introduction to the 'network' society in all its aspects.

The Network Society:

· Analyzes the new media in all their technical, economic, political, sociological, cultural and psychological aspects.

· Examines the new media in term