The White Paper, VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL EPIDEMICS: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO POWERS shows how virtual social networks operate and how desired goals may be converted into epidemics. Understanding these two phenomena and using them jointly may produce major changes and milestones in enterprises, communities and nations.
This document provides an overview of Jacque Fresco's vision for a resource-based economy and The Venus Project. It discusses how future advances in science and technology will allow more decision making to be done by machines. It argues that previous attempts at social change like Marxism and utopian socialism failed because they lacked comprehensive plans and methods for implementation. It proposes that a resource-based economic model could maximize technology to enhance all human life and protect the environment. For social change to occur, outdated political and economic systems must lose public support. True change requires addressing problems from a global, systematic perspective rather than through individual persuasion. An internationally accepted comprehensive blueprint and planning council could help transition the world to a more equitable resource-based
On Network Capitalism, Ernesto van Peborgh, ISSS Keynote, George Washington U...Ernesto Peborgh
Keynote "Learning Across Boundaries: Exploring the Diversity of Systemic Theory and Practice". Presented at the 58th Conference of the ISSS at GWU School of Business at George Washington University, Washington, DC., from the 27th of July to the 1st of August, 2014.
Text materials of the Internet as Factory and Playground - in Draft!! -- latest version will be posted with new subtitle: "Post-Cartesian Community, Post-Kantian Cosmopolitanism"
R. Villano - TLC philosophical, moral & existential aspectsRaimondo Villano
2. R.Villano “Riflections on global information society”; Presentation of Prof. Antonio Carosella (Past District Governor of Rotary International 2100-Italy), Published by Chiron, p.. 242, ISBN 978-88-97303-00-8, LCC HM 1176-1281, CDD 304 VIL ref 2011, Naples, January 2011); We are already in the information society and, whether we like it or not, the only freedom of choice that remains is between resigning ourselves to suffering it or preparing to guide it. And man, if he does not want to abdicate his dignity, can not fail to provide for his freedom in time by choosing the second hypothesis. It is really a two-faced Janus that challenges contemporary man to difficult and irrevocable choices: it promises and glimpses a great good, but also contains, hidden, the pitfalls of a great evil. Once again, as at the beginning of history, man must live and resolve within himself the eternal drama of choice. But in any case the way remains always one: that of knowledge. To accept or to reject. The author does not close his eyes to the problems posed by the transformation of society into today's man. On the contrary: he makes them his own, those problems, and, even with due caution and reservations, he takes a courageous position in favor of the prospect of change, obviously governed and directed by man.
This paper explores the underlying system of thought that has led to our current economic, ecological, social, and spiritual crisis. It proposes new ideas and leverage points for shifting to a green, inclusive, and intentional ecosystem economy. The framework discusses three stages of capitalism: 1) free market capitalism focused on growth; 2) a more regulated European-style stakeholder capitalism focused on redistribution; and 3) an envisioned ecosystem economy that upgrades collaboration and innovation across all sectors of society. The paper identifies seven key dimensions of economic thought that need reframing to advance from stage 2 to stage 3, including mechanisms of coordination, the role of nature, labor, capital, technology, leadership, and public awareness.
Digital Literacy for the Third Age: Sustaining Identity in an Uncertain WorldeLearning Papers
Author: Allan Martin.
The world in which we live – the world of late modernity – is characterised by a deep uncertainty; uncertainty not only about the foundations of social structure, but also about individual identity.
Raimondo Villano - book - Reflections on global society of information cap 3Raimondo Villano
abs: 2. R.Villano “Riflections on global information society”; Presentation of Prof. Antonio Carosella (Past District Governor of Rotary International 2100-Italy), Published by Chiron, p.. 242, ISBN 978-88-97303-00-8, LCC HM 1176-1281, CDD 304 VIL ref 2011, Naples, January 2011);
This document provides an overview of Jacque Fresco's vision for a resource-based economy and The Venus Project. It discusses how future advances in science and technology will allow more decision making to be done by machines. It argues that previous attempts at social change like Marxism and utopian socialism failed because they lacked comprehensive plans and methods for implementation. It proposes that a resource-based economic model could maximize technology to enhance all human life and protect the environment. For social change to occur, outdated political and economic systems must lose public support. True change requires addressing problems from a global, systematic perspective rather than through individual persuasion. An internationally accepted comprehensive blueprint and planning council could help transition the world to a more equitable resource-based
On Network Capitalism, Ernesto van Peborgh, ISSS Keynote, George Washington U...Ernesto Peborgh
Keynote "Learning Across Boundaries: Exploring the Diversity of Systemic Theory and Practice". Presented at the 58th Conference of the ISSS at GWU School of Business at George Washington University, Washington, DC., from the 27th of July to the 1st of August, 2014.
Text materials of the Internet as Factory and Playground - in Draft!! -- latest version will be posted with new subtitle: "Post-Cartesian Community, Post-Kantian Cosmopolitanism"
R. Villano - TLC philosophical, moral & existential aspectsRaimondo Villano
2. R.Villano “Riflections on global information society”; Presentation of Prof. Antonio Carosella (Past District Governor of Rotary International 2100-Italy), Published by Chiron, p.. 242, ISBN 978-88-97303-00-8, LCC HM 1176-1281, CDD 304 VIL ref 2011, Naples, January 2011); We are already in the information society and, whether we like it or not, the only freedom of choice that remains is between resigning ourselves to suffering it or preparing to guide it. And man, if he does not want to abdicate his dignity, can not fail to provide for his freedom in time by choosing the second hypothesis. It is really a two-faced Janus that challenges contemporary man to difficult and irrevocable choices: it promises and glimpses a great good, but also contains, hidden, the pitfalls of a great evil. Once again, as at the beginning of history, man must live and resolve within himself the eternal drama of choice. But in any case the way remains always one: that of knowledge. To accept or to reject. The author does not close his eyes to the problems posed by the transformation of society into today's man. On the contrary: he makes them his own, those problems, and, even with due caution and reservations, he takes a courageous position in favor of the prospect of change, obviously governed and directed by man.
This paper explores the underlying system of thought that has led to our current economic, ecological, social, and spiritual crisis. It proposes new ideas and leverage points for shifting to a green, inclusive, and intentional ecosystem economy. The framework discusses three stages of capitalism: 1) free market capitalism focused on growth; 2) a more regulated European-style stakeholder capitalism focused on redistribution; and 3) an envisioned ecosystem economy that upgrades collaboration and innovation across all sectors of society. The paper identifies seven key dimensions of economic thought that need reframing to advance from stage 2 to stage 3, including mechanisms of coordination, the role of nature, labor, capital, technology, leadership, and public awareness.
Digital Literacy for the Third Age: Sustaining Identity in an Uncertain WorldeLearning Papers
Author: Allan Martin.
The world in which we live – the world of late modernity – is characterised by a deep uncertainty; uncertainty not only about the foundations of social structure, but also about individual identity.
Raimondo Villano - book - Reflections on global society of information cap 3Raimondo Villano
abs: 2. R.Villano “Riflections on global information society”; Presentation of Prof. Antonio Carosella (Past District Governor of Rotary International 2100-Italy), Published by Chiron, p.. 242, ISBN 978-88-97303-00-8, LCC HM 1176-1281, CDD 304 VIL ref 2011, Naples, January 2011);
This document provides an overview of an essay discussing the human predisposition for collaboration and arguing for more horizontal collaborative structures over hierarchical ones. It begins by defining key terms like paradigm shift, new economy, and horizontal vs hierarchical structures. It then discusses concepts like community, capitalism, Fordism, and Andy Warhol's Factory to show how collaboration has been incorporated into existing systems. It argues that creativity and people themselves are becoming commodified and suggests collaboration could structure societies and industries going forward in a more equitable, horizontal way. Examples like the Pong Experiment are presented to show humans' innate tendency to collaborate.
Future Mauro Bonaiuti "Growth and Democracy" 30 8 11Decrescita FVG
This document discusses the relationship between economic growth and democracy. It argues that continual economic growth can undermine autonomy and democracy beyond a certain scale. While growth has historically led to loss of autonomy, this issue has been removed from political debate. The document then analyzes the self-reinforcing nature of the growth/accumulation/innovation process in industrial and financial capitalism, pointing to its emergent and path-dependent qualities. This long-term positive feedback loop has led to structural changes that increase social and ecological costs over time, challenging sustainability and fragmenting collective values, potentially opening scenarios that endanger democracy itself.
1. Established networks and international communities of 'interlockers' who bridge labour, radical knowledge, and social justice struggles have converged with free information/knowledge, culture, and economy communities.
2. This convergence has led to the political manifestation of movements like FLOSS, hackers' ethics, and telekommunism, as well as groups like Anonymous, LulzSec, Wikileaks, and Pirate Bay.
3. New forms of international labour communication and organizing have emerged, including projects like Unionbook and the New Unionism Network, as well as collaborative actions and global solidarity conferences.
The document discusses the appropriation and reuse of images on the internet and how this has changed notions of authorship. It explores how mass collaboration through sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and YouTube have blurred the lines between content creation and consumption, making users both players and spectators. The increasing speed and availability of information online has created new structures of production and consumption of media like cinema.
This document provides an in-depth summary and analysis of the 1987 science fiction novel "Antibodies" by David J. Skal. The novel explores themes of technology, disembodiment, and the relationship between humans and machines. It tells the story of a woman who joins a cult that believes the body is dispensable and seeks to fully integrate with technology. The document discusses how the novel examines issues of identity, humanity's relationship with emerging technologies, and different visions of a potential posthuman future. It also analyzes the novel's portrayal of these themes and how they relate to broader discussions in philosophy and science fiction around the topics of the body, technology, and what it means to be human.
This document provides a summary of 3 key points from the literature review section of a dissertation analyzing the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You":
1. Technological determinism argues that technology drives social change, while others believe society shapes technology. McLuhan viewed technology as extensions of humans, but critics say it ignores human agency.
2. Privacy has eroded with new technologies like social media that give access to people's personal lives. However, others argue technology itself is neutral and how it's used determines effects on privacy.
3. The dissertation will analyze how "The Entire History of You" represents issues of privacy, surveillance and how technology impacts relationships and identity in a dystopian future
This lecture looks at Determinism and Technological Determinism. This lecture is part of the Media and Cultural Theories module on the MSc and MA in Creative Technology and Creative Games at The University of Salford.
Alter-globalization arises as a response to how globalization personally affects everyday people. As global processes impact individuals' cultural identity, jobs, family lives, and communication, people realize globalization can displace them. The movement protests how globalization corners democracy, culture, and the productive power of ordinary citizens. While global vs local describes globalization in media, a more accurate dichotomy is global vs personal, as what is most important and mobile for individuals are their own preferences and ability to connect to organizations protecting their needs. The internet, as a vast network, allows individuals worldwide influence to spread anti-globalization ideas.
This document discusses how social media has become an important part of daily life and enabled new opportunities for communication and connection. It examines social media through the lens of social network theory, looking at how platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest allow for the formation of social networks and relationships. The document argues that social media played a key role in political uprisings like the Arab Spring by allowing people to organize protests and share information. It also suggests that women may have a slight advantage in social media environments because of their natural skills in relationship building and community formation. Overall, the document frames social media as a powerful tool that has changed how people interact and mobilize while also providing new economic opportunities for entrepreneurs.
This document discusses the production of revolutionary subjects and revolutionary production in the current age of complexity, crisis, and change. It argues that data has emerged as a dominant factor of production, asserting itself over land, labor, and capital. Various experiments in alternative and emancipatory production are noted, with a need to holistically coordinate efforts to de-commodify resources and establish refuge spaces as nodes for value liberation networks across borders. A collective, grassroots leadership is needed to build a moral vision of classless societies and integrate modules of value chains and refuge spaces that dismantle current systems of property, trade, production and capital based on data commodification.
This is an excerpt from a lecture that I give at the National University of Maynooth on the relationship of technology with society. It reviews concepts of technological determinism and outlines Raymond Williams' influential social shaping of technology perspective.
This document discusses eight stages of social development that cultures progress through in response to life conditions. It argues that external solutions to social problems like those related to globalization will not work unless they also address the interior social development levels of individuals and cultures. The stages are like evolving cultural waves or value systems that form the identity of groups. While all are legitimate human expressions, some stages have greater capacity to deal with complex modern issues. The document will describe the eight stages, appropriate economic and political models for each, and postulates for achieving global cohesion across developmental differences.
This document discusses the transformation of universities over the last 25 years from institutions focused on education and research to becoming integrated into the "cognitive capitalism" economy. It argues that universities are now explicitly conceived and funded to develop the new intellectual properties and skills needed for a post-industrial economy centered around technology and knowledge. While academic freedoms remain formally protected, opportunities for exercising those freedoms have contracted as funding and research are determined by their economic utility. The document examines this change through the theoretical lenses of concepts like "general intellect", "cognitive capitalism", and "immaterial labor" from autonomist Marxism.
The document summarizes the evolution of protest from earlier "dumb" protests with limited communication abilities to more modern "smart" protests that utilize network structures and communication technologies. It provides examples of the Nashville sit-ins in 1960, which involved protesters organizing in hierarchical groups with limited intra-group communication, and the 1999 Battle of Seattle, which demonstrated how network structures and mobile technologies allowed for more coordinated communication and adaptation during a protest. The document discusses how network features like decentralization, distribution, and hubs enable information sharing and coordination at a larger scale than previous protest methods.
This document summarizes Santiago Castro-Gómez's analysis of the "invention of the other" through modern power structures. It discusses how the modern state project aimed to rationally control and direct human life through mechanisms like the social sciences and the formation of nation-states. This entailed "inventing" citizens by constructing identities through disciplinary mechanisms like constitutions, etiquette manuals, and grammar books. These excluded those who did not fit the modern subject profile, effectively "inventing" the other. While illuminating power/knowledge dynamics, the analysis does not fully connect these local processes to the global capitalist system, leaving an opening for a broader geopolitical perspective.
Mikael Phoebus Apollo Mcnealy argues that pursuing technological advancement solely for purposes of war is dangerous and socially irresponsible. While technology can lift societies to positions of power, true advancement is measured by a civilization's moral and mental qualities, not just its technical capabilities. The last premise, that technology must be revised to foster policies of war, is an illogical conclusion not supported by rational thinking. Overall, Mcnealy asserts that civilization and technology are not synonymous, and that moral and social connections within and between societies are also important measures of advancement.
Rethinking Realpolitik: The Afterglobalization Movement and BeyondPhiloWeb
This document discusses alternative conceptions of politics, knowledge, and reality that challenge dominant Western assumptions. It presents perspectives from social movements and theorists that envision politics as occurring through diverse local practices and networks rather than universal logics. These alternatives emphasize multiplicity over unity, conceptualizing change as emerging from below rather than through vanguard parties or state-led development. The document also examines how ontologies and political cultures are enacted through everyday practices rather than preceding them. It critiques binary thinking and evaluates different understandings of knowledge, politics, and the subject.
This document discusses various topics related to grassroots activism, tactics, and survival tools. It explores how tools and tactics can be made public to trigger grassroots actions. It examines survival kits created by artists in response to globalization and unrest. It also discusses the observation of "non-capitalist practices" like bartering networks and cooperatives that allow people to live differently outside the system. Finally, it considers how tactics can take advantage of opportunities without a base, and how strategic infrastructure could trigger tactical action.
Lecture slides on McLuhan lecture for ARIN2600 Technocultures at the University of Sydney. This explores McLuhan's probing approach to media, which positions technology as an extension of human faculties. By implication, changes in media / technology change what it is to be human. McLuhan remains a controversial, but influential figure in media and new media studies.
The document discusses several topics related to globalization, technology, and democracy. It questions whether Lacan's discussions of topology can be applied to social and cultural considerations. It also discusses issues like surveillance, cyber activism, and whether electronic technologies can promote or hinder democracy. The document notes both utopian and dystopian views of how technologies like the internet could impact societies and questions whether an information superhighway will truly create a global village or lead to further fragmentation. It explores ideas around virtual communities, identity, and how the cultural context of globalization is changing our lives.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Dean Kruckeberg and Katerina Tsetsura at an international research conference on global public relations as a communication subfield. The presentation discusses the challenges of unprecedented changes in global society due to rapidly evolving communication technology. It argues that public relations must reconsider its existing theories and paradigms to address issues in the 21st century global environment, where power differentials are changing and boundaries are porous. The discipline needs a broader scope and multidisciplinary approach to reconcile cultural tensions and provide normative guidance for practicing public relations globally.
This document provides an overview of an essay discussing the human predisposition for collaboration and arguing for more horizontal collaborative structures over hierarchical ones. It begins by defining key terms like paradigm shift, new economy, and horizontal vs hierarchical structures. It then discusses concepts like community, capitalism, Fordism, and Andy Warhol's Factory to show how collaboration has been incorporated into existing systems. It argues that creativity and people themselves are becoming commodified and suggests collaboration could structure societies and industries going forward in a more equitable, horizontal way. Examples like the Pong Experiment are presented to show humans' innate tendency to collaborate.
Future Mauro Bonaiuti "Growth and Democracy" 30 8 11Decrescita FVG
This document discusses the relationship between economic growth and democracy. It argues that continual economic growth can undermine autonomy and democracy beyond a certain scale. While growth has historically led to loss of autonomy, this issue has been removed from political debate. The document then analyzes the self-reinforcing nature of the growth/accumulation/innovation process in industrial and financial capitalism, pointing to its emergent and path-dependent qualities. This long-term positive feedback loop has led to structural changes that increase social and ecological costs over time, challenging sustainability and fragmenting collective values, potentially opening scenarios that endanger democracy itself.
1. Established networks and international communities of 'interlockers' who bridge labour, radical knowledge, and social justice struggles have converged with free information/knowledge, culture, and economy communities.
2. This convergence has led to the political manifestation of movements like FLOSS, hackers' ethics, and telekommunism, as well as groups like Anonymous, LulzSec, Wikileaks, and Pirate Bay.
3. New forms of international labour communication and organizing have emerged, including projects like Unionbook and the New Unionism Network, as well as collaborative actions and global solidarity conferences.
The document discusses the appropriation and reuse of images on the internet and how this has changed notions of authorship. It explores how mass collaboration through sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and YouTube have blurred the lines between content creation and consumption, making users both players and spectators. The increasing speed and availability of information online has created new structures of production and consumption of media like cinema.
This document provides an in-depth summary and analysis of the 1987 science fiction novel "Antibodies" by David J. Skal. The novel explores themes of technology, disembodiment, and the relationship between humans and machines. It tells the story of a woman who joins a cult that believes the body is dispensable and seeks to fully integrate with technology. The document discusses how the novel examines issues of identity, humanity's relationship with emerging technologies, and different visions of a potential posthuman future. It also analyzes the novel's portrayal of these themes and how they relate to broader discussions in philosophy and science fiction around the topics of the body, technology, and what it means to be human.
This document provides a summary of 3 key points from the literature review section of a dissertation analyzing the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You":
1. Technological determinism argues that technology drives social change, while others believe society shapes technology. McLuhan viewed technology as extensions of humans, but critics say it ignores human agency.
2. Privacy has eroded with new technologies like social media that give access to people's personal lives. However, others argue technology itself is neutral and how it's used determines effects on privacy.
3. The dissertation will analyze how "The Entire History of You" represents issues of privacy, surveillance and how technology impacts relationships and identity in a dystopian future
This lecture looks at Determinism and Technological Determinism. This lecture is part of the Media and Cultural Theories module on the MSc and MA in Creative Technology and Creative Games at The University of Salford.
Alter-globalization arises as a response to how globalization personally affects everyday people. As global processes impact individuals' cultural identity, jobs, family lives, and communication, people realize globalization can displace them. The movement protests how globalization corners democracy, culture, and the productive power of ordinary citizens. While global vs local describes globalization in media, a more accurate dichotomy is global vs personal, as what is most important and mobile for individuals are their own preferences and ability to connect to organizations protecting their needs. The internet, as a vast network, allows individuals worldwide influence to spread anti-globalization ideas.
This document discusses how social media has become an important part of daily life and enabled new opportunities for communication and connection. It examines social media through the lens of social network theory, looking at how platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest allow for the formation of social networks and relationships. The document argues that social media played a key role in political uprisings like the Arab Spring by allowing people to organize protests and share information. It also suggests that women may have a slight advantage in social media environments because of their natural skills in relationship building and community formation. Overall, the document frames social media as a powerful tool that has changed how people interact and mobilize while also providing new economic opportunities for entrepreneurs.
This document discusses the production of revolutionary subjects and revolutionary production in the current age of complexity, crisis, and change. It argues that data has emerged as a dominant factor of production, asserting itself over land, labor, and capital. Various experiments in alternative and emancipatory production are noted, with a need to holistically coordinate efforts to de-commodify resources and establish refuge spaces as nodes for value liberation networks across borders. A collective, grassroots leadership is needed to build a moral vision of classless societies and integrate modules of value chains and refuge spaces that dismantle current systems of property, trade, production and capital based on data commodification.
This is an excerpt from a lecture that I give at the National University of Maynooth on the relationship of technology with society. It reviews concepts of technological determinism and outlines Raymond Williams' influential social shaping of technology perspective.
This document discusses eight stages of social development that cultures progress through in response to life conditions. It argues that external solutions to social problems like those related to globalization will not work unless they also address the interior social development levels of individuals and cultures. The stages are like evolving cultural waves or value systems that form the identity of groups. While all are legitimate human expressions, some stages have greater capacity to deal with complex modern issues. The document will describe the eight stages, appropriate economic and political models for each, and postulates for achieving global cohesion across developmental differences.
This document discusses the transformation of universities over the last 25 years from institutions focused on education and research to becoming integrated into the "cognitive capitalism" economy. It argues that universities are now explicitly conceived and funded to develop the new intellectual properties and skills needed for a post-industrial economy centered around technology and knowledge. While academic freedoms remain formally protected, opportunities for exercising those freedoms have contracted as funding and research are determined by their economic utility. The document examines this change through the theoretical lenses of concepts like "general intellect", "cognitive capitalism", and "immaterial labor" from autonomist Marxism.
The document summarizes the evolution of protest from earlier "dumb" protests with limited communication abilities to more modern "smart" protests that utilize network structures and communication technologies. It provides examples of the Nashville sit-ins in 1960, which involved protesters organizing in hierarchical groups with limited intra-group communication, and the 1999 Battle of Seattle, which demonstrated how network structures and mobile technologies allowed for more coordinated communication and adaptation during a protest. The document discusses how network features like decentralization, distribution, and hubs enable information sharing and coordination at a larger scale than previous protest methods.
This document summarizes Santiago Castro-Gómez's analysis of the "invention of the other" through modern power structures. It discusses how the modern state project aimed to rationally control and direct human life through mechanisms like the social sciences and the formation of nation-states. This entailed "inventing" citizens by constructing identities through disciplinary mechanisms like constitutions, etiquette manuals, and grammar books. These excluded those who did not fit the modern subject profile, effectively "inventing" the other. While illuminating power/knowledge dynamics, the analysis does not fully connect these local processes to the global capitalist system, leaving an opening for a broader geopolitical perspective.
Mikael Phoebus Apollo Mcnealy argues that pursuing technological advancement solely for purposes of war is dangerous and socially irresponsible. While technology can lift societies to positions of power, true advancement is measured by a civilization's moral and mental qualities, not just its technical capabilities. The last premise, that technology must be revised to foster policies of war, is an illogical conclusion not supported by rational thinking. Overall, Mcnealy asserts that civilization and technology are not synonymous, and that moral and social connections within and between societies are also important measures of advancement.
Rethinking Realpolitik: The Afterglobalization Movement and BeyondPhiloWeb
This document discusses alternative conceptions of politics, knowledge, and reality that challenge dominant Western assumptions. It presents perspectives from social movements and theorists that envision politics as occurring through diverse local practices and networks rather than universal logics. These alternatives emphasize multiplicity over unity, conceptualizing change as emerging from below rather than through vanguard parties or state-led development. The document also examines how ontologies and political cultures are enacted through everyday practices rather than preceding them. It critiques binary thinking and evaluates different understandings of knowledge, politics, and the subject.
This document discusses various topics related to grassroots activism, tactics, and survival tools. It explores how tools and tactics can be made public to trigger grassroots actions. It examines survival kits created by artists in response to globalization and unrest. It also discusses the observation of "non-capitalist practices" like bartering networks and cooperatives that allow people to live differently outside the system. Finally, it considers how tactics can take advantage of opportunities without a base, and how strategic infrastructure could trigger tactical action.
Lecture slides on McLuhan lecture for ARIN2600 Technocultures at the University of Sydney. This explores McLuhan's probing approach to media, which positions technology as an extension of human faculties. By implication, changes in media / technology change what it is to be human. McLuhan remains a controversial, but influential figure in media and new media studies.
The document discusses several topics related to globalization, technology, and democracy. It questions whether Lacan's discussions of topology can be applied to social and cultural considerations. It also discusses issues like surveillance, cyber activism, and whether electronic technologies can promote or hinder democracy. The document notes both utopian and dystopian views of how technologies like the internet could impact societies and questions whether an information superhighway will truly create a global village or lead to further fragmentation. It explores ideas around virtual communities, identity, and how the cultural context of globalization is changing our lives.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Dean Kruckeberg and Katerina Tsetsura at an international research conference on global public relations as a communication subfield. The presentation discusses the challenges of unprecedented changes in global society due to rapidly evolving communication technology. It argues that public relations must reconsider its existing theories and paradigms to address issues in the 21st century global environment, where power differentials are changing and boundaries are porous. The discipline needs a broader scope and multidisciplinary approach to reconcile cultural tensions and provide normative guidance for practicing public relations globally.
M a n u e l Castells Toward a Sociology of the Network Soc.docxsmile790243
M a n u e l Castells
Toward a Sociology of the Network Society
Manuel Castells
The Call to Sociology
The twenty-first century of the Common Era did not
necessarily have to usher in a new society. But it did.
People around the world feel the winds of multi-
dimensional social change without truly understanding
it, let alone feeling a grasp upon the process of change.
Thus the challenge to sociology, as the science of study
of society. More than ever society needs sociology, but
not just any kind of sociology. The sociology that people
need is not a normative meta-discipline instructing
them, from the authoritative towers of academia, about
what is to be done. It is even less a pseudo-sociology made
up of empty word games and intellectual narcissism,
expressed in terms deliberately incomprehensible for
anyone without access to a French-Greek dictionary.
Because we need to know, and because people need
to know, more than ever we need a sociology rooted
in its scientific endeavor. Of course, it must have the
specificity of its object of study, and thus of its theories
and methods, without mimicking the natural sciences
in a futile search for respectability. And it must have a
clear purpose of producing objective knowledge (yes!
there is such a thing, always in relative terms), brought
about by empirical observation, rigorous theorizing,
and unequivocal communication. Then we can argue
- and we will! - about the best way to proceed with
observation, theory building, and formal expression of
findings, depending on subject matter and methodo-
logical traditions. But without a consensus on sociology
as science - indeed, as a specific social science - we
sociologists will fail in our professional and intellectual
duty at a time when we are needed most. We are needed
because, individually and collectively, most people in
the world are lost about the meaning of the whirlwind
Source: Contemporary Sociology, 29, 5, September 2000:
693-9.
we are going through. So they need to know which
kind of society we are in, which kind of social processes
are emerging, what is structural, and what can be changed
through purposive social action. And we are needed
because without understanding, people, rightly, will
block change, and we may lose the extraordinary
potential of creativity embedded into the values and
technologies of the Information Age. We are needed
because as would-be scientists of society we are posi-
tioned better than anyone else to produce knowledge
about the new society, and to be credible - or at least
more credible than the futurologists and ideologues
that litter the interpretation of current historical
changes, let alone politicians always jumping on the
latest trendy word.
So, we are needed, but to do what? Well, to study the
processes of constitution, organization, and change of
a new society, probably starting with its social structure
- what I provisionally call the network societ ...
This document discusses various topics related to social changes including wave front analysis by Alvin Toffler, cultural dynamics, cultural lag, community development, and consumerism. Toffler analyzed social change in terms of three waves - the agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, and the emerging new synthesis. Each wave develops its own super-ideology impacting technology, social patterns, information, and power. Cultural lag refers to how culture takes time to adapt to technological innovations, potentially causing social problems. Community development aims to empower communities and build stronger, more resilient local communities. Consumerism both encourages acquiring more goods and services and refers to consumer protection movements seeking honest business practices.
This document discusses theories about how technology impacts social interaction. It examines the myths of technological determinism, which claims that technology directly causes social changes. Alternative perspectives of social constructivism and social realism argue that technology's effects depend on how it is used in specific social and historical contexts. Both technology and society shape each other in complex ways. Early technologies may be more influenced by their users, while mature technologies have stronger and more subtle impacts on social life.
The fourth-industrial-revolution-2016-21milindiitb
This document provides an introduction to the concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It discusses how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, biotechnology and nanotechnology are combining in novel ways and transforming all sectors of society and the economy. The changes are happening exponentially faster than previous industrial revolutions and will profoundly impact how we live, work, and relate to one another. The document argues that this revolution requires cooperation across all stakeholders to ensure it is empowering and shapes our future in a positive way.
"Society 2.0: designing an action research into the next civilization" is an updated version of the talk I gave at the "2gether08" unconference in London, July 3, 2008. A downloadable version (complete with clickable links), its context and related conversation can be found in the Jump Time Players blog, http://www.evolutionarynexus.org/jtp_blog .
The document discusses several topics related to democracy and the internet, including how electronic technologies can impact private spaces and democratic rights, how online communities like Second Life and social media can promote activism and discussion, and debates around public versus private spheres in digital spaces. It also examines issues of surveillance, control of online spaces, and the potential for the internet to reinvigorate public discourse.
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Virtual networks and social epidemics: the convergence of two powers
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2. W H I T E P A P E R
VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL
EPIDEMICS: THE CONVERGENCE
OF TWO POWERS
ABSTRACT – Virtual social networks materialize and
resoundly impact the attitude and behavior of global
society. What is known about this phenomenon? How
can its power be extended and leveraged?
“Matter is pure potential; it is nothing yet, but is
capable of becoming anything.”
Aristotle
CLAUDIA PATRICIA BERBEO CALDERÓN