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.
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Jan A.G.M. van Dijk is an internationally recognized expert in the field of communication, his specific interest being new media studies. Van Dijk is the author of The Network Society: Social Aspects of the New Media (SAGE, 1999) and co-editor of Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory and Practice (SAGE, 2000). He is an advisor of the European Commission in the Information Society Forum. As a professor of Communication Science at Twente University, van Dijk teaches and develops the sociology of the information society, in particular the social-cultural, political, and organizational aspects.
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- Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory and Practice by Kenneth L. Hacker in Front Matter, page 183, and Back Matter
- The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society by Jan A G M van Dijk on page 145, page 146, and Back Matter
- The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society by Jan A G M van Dijk on page 145, page 146, and Back Matter
- Global Technology and Corporate Crisis: Strategies, Planning and Communication in the Information Age by Simon Moore in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Controversies in Management: Issues, Debates, Answers by Alan B Thomas on page 231, and Back Matter
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