Networks of Change: The Sociology of Network Media
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Networks of Change : The Sociology of Network Media. / Hjarvard, Stig.
Second International Handbook of Internet Research. ed. / J. Hunsinger; L. Klastrup; M. Allen. Dordrecht : Springer, 2018. p. 1-23.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Networks of Change
T2 - The Sociology of Network Media
AU - Hjarvard, Stig
N1 - The chapter is a revised edition of a Danish-language chapter in the book Medieteori [English: Media Theory], edited by Palle Schantz Lauridsen and Erik Svendsen and published by Samfundslitteratur in Denmark in 2017.
PY - 2018/7/8
Y1 - 2018/7/8
N2 - This chapter focuses on the social dimensions of the Internet and various forms of network media. It places particular emphasis on the network character of such media and how they may change existing forms of social structures in favor of networked forms of organization. The perspective is predominantly sociological, including perspectives from media sociology. The chapter examines existing theoretical arguments concerning the nature of the Internet and network media and their influence on society within the framework of mediatization theory (Hjarvard 2013). The dynamics of networks in social and cultural change are then demonstrated in an analysis of changing forms of individualism in contemporary culture. The chapter is organized as a response to five questions: What is a network? What is not a network? What are network media? What is a network society? What kind of individualism does a network foster?
AB - This chapter focuses on the social dimensions of the Internet and various forms of network media. It places particular emphasis on the network character of such media and how they may change existing forms of social structures in favor of networked forms of organization. The perspective is predominantly sociological, including perspectives from media sociology. The chapter examines existing theoretical arguments concerning the nature of the Internet and network media and their influence on society within the framework of mediatization theory (Hjarvard 2013). The dynamics of networks in social and cultural change are then demonstrated in an analysis of changing forms of individualism in contemporary culture. The chapter is organized as a response to five questions: What is a network? What is not a network? What are network media? What is a network society? What kind of individualism does a network foster?
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Bureaucracy
KW - Individualism
KW - Network
KW - Mediatization
KW - Social change
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-024-1202-4_44-1
DO - 10.1007/978-94-024-1202-4_44-1
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-9402415537
SP - 1
EP - 23
BT - Second International Handbook of Internet Research
A2 - Hunsinger, J.
A2 - Klastrup, L.
A2 - Allen, M.
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -
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