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The Network Society - Jan van Dijk - Coggle Diagram
The Network Society - Jan van Dijk
Four concepts/ definitions to describe the modern society:
The network society (Dijk)
The information society
The informational society (Castells)
The knowledge society
5 stages in the development of social networks/ human webs
Hunting and gathering tribes
Metropolitan / city webs (civilization of Egypt, Yello River, the Andes etc)
The Old World Web (the partial fusion of civilization in Eurasia and North Africa)
The cosmopolitan web (Eurasian+American civilization) 1450-1800
5.The global web (the last 160 years)
I. The mass society
II. The network society
Network= a collection of links between elements of a unit = system
The smallest nr. of links: 2
A single link of 2 elements: a relationship
The smallest nr. of elements: 2
Characteristics of mass society
Communication - especially local + high connectivity inside, relatively low connectivity outside
In the units - internal relations - centralized
Physical co-presence of their members
Acces to only one or perhaps a few of each type of mass media
Social formation with an infrastructure of groups, organizations and communities, shaping its prime mode of organization at al levels
Face to face communication more important than the mediated type
Its structures - gradually replaced by the structures of network society
Charicteristics of network societies
High level of information exchange
Use of ICT
Specific: the changing organizational form and (infra)structures
Based on science, rationality and reflexivity
Economy - increasingly characterized by information production
The labor market - largely/ completly based on tasks of information processing requiring knowledge and higher education
Information = an independent source of productivity and power (Castells)
A culture dominated by signs, symbols and meanings
A social formation with an infrastructure od social and media networks that link all units
Miths about network societies
Open and accessible to anyone
They are breaking the social cohesion of modern societies
Flat mode of organization
Humans have freedom - computer networks no longer being tide to place, time and physical conditions
Theories of van Dijk:
Also - substantial relations
Its relations are ever more realized by o combination of social and media networks
Network society - articulated relations
Predictions of van Dijk:
The combination of social and media networks will create a new infrastructure of our modern society
Social + media networks - become social envirements themselves, become self-referential
The future is to social and media networks - linked and continually switching face-to-face and media communication
An opinion about the text
Objective perspective over networks
Interesting theories - old and new
Mithbuster
Visionary perspective
Types of networks
Social (based on abstract relations
Technical (roads)
Physical (ecosystems)
Organic (the human brain)
Media (systems connecting receivers and senders - symbols + information)
Neuronal (mental maps)