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Na medida em que o século XXI avança, a sociedade contemporânea passa por transformações socioculturais importantes que gradativamente a distanciam do contexto que caracterizou a modernidade-industrial. Entre outros desdobramentos da... more
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      Corporate Social ResponsibilityCorporate CommunicationCorporate GovernanceNetwork Society
The aim of the article is to evaluate the role of social media in Arab revolts. The study argues that social media played a pivotal role in recruiting and mobilizing hesitant participants to get involved in mass action and abandon fear of... more
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      Network SocietySocial MediaTunisian RevolutionArab revolts
A Brazilian Portuguese translation of my book Digital Media and Society
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      Digital DivideDigital MediaSurveillance StudiesNetwork Society
Networks have structured our social – and media – development long before the emergence of the “network society.” From the letter-writing networks of the proto-Italian aristocracy to the electrical networks that facilitated... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyMedia ArchaeologyHistory of TechnologyNetwork Society
In the past few years the risks associated with use of the Internet and social networking sites by children and young people have become a recurrent focus of attention for the media, the public, and policymakers. Parents, caregivers, and... more
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      TechnologySocial WorkInformaticsSocial Networking
Após quatro décadas de existência, a caminho do seu meio século, a Internet é hoje já não uma ferramenta mas sim uma tecnologia domesticada no nosso dia-a-dia. A Internet deixou de ser uma tecnologia nova para se transformar num meio para... more
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      SociologyMedia StudiesInternet StudiesNetwork Society
Comunicación presentada en el II Congreso Internacional de Género y Comunicación, Universidad de Sevilla, de 1 a 3 de abril de 2014. Publicada en el libro de actas del congreso.
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      DiscourseNetwork SocietyMicropoliticsFeminism
O nosso mundo e as nossas vidas estão a experimentar uma mudança profunda no âmbito da tecnologia, economia, cultura, comunicação, política e da relação entre as pessoas. A sociedade em rede, resultado dessa mudança, deixou de ser um... more
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      SociologyMedia StudiesNew MediaInternet Studies
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      Information SystemsElectronic EngineeringCommunication EngineeringSociology
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected societies not just through the threat it poses to human existence but also the sudden and seemingly lasting changes it has brought to people’s lives. With restrictions... more
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      Mental HealthParticipatory CultureFan StudiesNetwork Society
Research concerning computer hackers generally focuses on how to stop them; far less attention is given to the texts they create. Phrack, an online hacker journal that has run almost continuously since 1985, is an important touchstone in... more
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      Creative WritingRhetoric (Languages and Linguistics)HistoryHistory of Science and Technology
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      Information TechnologySocial NetworksNetwork SocietySocjologia
In his latest book, Technocapitalism: A Critical Perspective on Technological Innovation and Corporatism, Luis Suarez-Villa deals with a new phase of capitalism and provides some tentative answers about where the system is heading.
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      TechnologyMarxismNetwork SocietyCapitalism
This thesis studies the enabling properties of ICT and their effects and potential for social change. It primarily builds on interdisciplinary scholarship about the multifaceted co-evolution between the global deployment of ICTs and the... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyArtificial IntelligencePolitical EconomyPhilosophy of Science
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      Future StudiesEmpowermentNetwork SocietyScenario planning
Durante os últimos 15 anos testemunhámos uma forte mudança na paisagem dos media. Mudança que se deve, não só, à inovação tecnológica nos próprios instrumentos de mediação, mas também na forma como os utilizadores escolheram apropriar-se... more
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      SociologyMedia StudiesNew MediaNetwork Society
This paper discusses the conceptualization of network in Manuel Castells’ theory of network society. Castells’ early academic works were built on the structural analysis of capitalism and social movements in response to the contradictions... more
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      Economic SociologyPolitical EconomySocial NetworksGlobalization
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This paper argues for the utility of examining the various objects and events that were produced by Fluxus artists in the sixties and seventies as nodes in a network, rather than as autonomous objects of aesthetic contemplation. It... more
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      Network SocietyFluxusInstitutional CritiqueJohn Cage
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      Computer And SocietyEducationScience EducationEngineering Education
The following paper interprets the result of the Canadian Internet Use Survey of 2007 (n=26,588) to assess the extent to which unequal levels of internet use relate to unequal levels of social class. Social class is defined in terms of... more
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      Digital DivideNetwork SocietyCultural CapitalSocial Class
Network Analysis is at best an add-on to most leadership approaches, yet in todays ‘networked society’ it should be at the heart of all leadership development and practice. This short paper utilising 'Leadership a critical text'... more
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      BusinessSociologyPsychologyPsychoanalysis
La oración base del texto es "Las Instituciones Ciberculturales afectan la Forma Tecnológica de Vida del Ser-Usuario". En esta tesis se defiende la existencia de Instituciones (dicotómicas con Imaginarios Sociales) que operan en la... more
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      SemioticsTechnologySocial NetworkingMedia Ecology
Today, we are slowly coming to terms with the fact that online platforms are practically becoming more effective then public institutions in organizing and structuring our public and private lives. Even though public institutions and... more
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      Network SocietyPlatform CapitalismPlatform Society
The aim of this text is not to prove a linear academic thesis, yet to record a spectrum of homologies and resonances across the history of the tree as a symbolic and logic form. The inspiration for this sort of Warburgian excursus comes... more
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      Machine LearningActor Network TheoryNetwork SocietyJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
The book you are now reading is the product of a research project launched almost 10 years ago. The World Internet Project is made up of many national reports written by different research teams in recent years. We have also been able to... more
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      SociologyMedia StudiesInternet StudiesNetwork Society
Studiul îşi propune să prezinte, succint, câteva teze despre mass-media din scrierile lui Manuel Castells. Ne concentrăm pe examinarea lucrărilor sale despre comunicare, fiindcă, după cum vom vedea, el este unul dintre specialiştii... more
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      Political communicationNetwork SocietyMass mediaInternet
Duayen teorisyen Manuel Castells'in Enformasyon Çağı: Ağ Toplumunun Yükselişi kitabının 1/5/6/7 bölümlerinin Doktora Dersi Sunumu.
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      Information SystemsInformation TechnologyCommunicationSocial Networks
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      Information SystemsInformation ScienceInformation Systems (Business Informatics)Information Technology
Esta obra analisa os padrões e as dinâmicas da Sociedade em Rede na sua dimensão de definição de políticas, numa abordagem que nos leva a interrogar a formação de conhecimento económico, a partir do conhecimento baseado na tecnologia e na... more
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      SociologyMedia StudiesInternet StudiesNetwork Society
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesInformation TechnologyPhilosophy
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      Business EthicsComputer And SocietyEducationScience Education
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      Information SocietyGenderGender EqualityICT4D
"This is the Executive Summary published by Innobasque, Innovation Basque Agency, of the full dissertation of thesis by Dr. Igor Calzada, Ph.D., published by Basque Regional Government: In which the author design a territorial and... more
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      Urban GeographyComparative PoliticsSpatial AnalysisBasque Studies
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      Computer And SocietyEducationEducational TechnologyE-learning
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      Computer And SocietyEducationWeb 2.0E-learning
This book consists of the intellectual work of the 2017 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School organized in cooperation with the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) at Università Cattolica... more
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      CommunicationMedia StudiesSocial NetworksCommunity Engagement & Participation
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      Business EthicsComputer And SocietyE-learningInformation Society
The question of how and why people adopt technologies is an area that has received great scrutiny, but less attention is given to those who willingly choose to avoid particular technologies. This article considers current models of... more
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      Information SystemsManagementHistory of Science and TechnologySociology
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      MetadataNetwork SocietyMichel FoucaultBiopolitics
"Alter-Globalization / The Global Justice Movement From Bangalore to Seattle, Porto Alegre, Copenhagen and Dakar, citizens, indigenous, farmers, intellectuals and dalits have contested globalization in its neoliberal form, proposed... more
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      SociologySocial ChangeSocial MovementsLatin American Studies
Meine Dissertation zum Dr. rer.pol. an der Uni Kassel. -- In der Dissertation wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche globalen bildungspolitischen Maßnahmen erforderlich sind, um auch bislang exkludierten Menschen den Kompetenzerwerb zu... more
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      Future StudiesEducationUser Experience (UX)Politics
Literatürde İnternet ve Toplumsal Hareketler arasındaki ilişkiyi ortaya koyan birçok çalışma bulunmaktadır. Manuel Castells’in “İsyan ve umut ağları internet çağında toplumsal hareketler” adlı eseri geçtiğimiz yıllarda ortaya... more
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      Social MovementsNetwork SocietyThe Internet
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      Network SocietyMedia DevelopmentRussiaFifth Estate
Özet Amacı: Bu çalışmada, gönüllü turizm kavramı, bireyselleşme ve aynılaşma süreçlerinin önem kazandığı postmodern yapının turizm coğrafyasına yansımasına bir örnek olarak ele alınmıştır. Postmodern turizmin yeni bir formu olarak... more
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      Human GeographyTourism StudiesWeb 2.0Social Networking
Journalism and democracy are closely linked. Some academics fear that the breakage of the analogue business model for journalism means the death of Fourth Estate reporting. This paper uses original interview data to argue that reporters... more
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      Digital MediaNetwork SocietyInvestigative JournalismFourth Estate
Post-Modern durumda İnsan, ontolojik olarak yoksun bir organizmaya doğru evrilmektedir. Bunun sebebi olarak "yeni toplumsal düzen" ve "değişen iletişimsel toplum" görülmektedir. Özellikle internet ve dijital ortamda giderek sanallaşan... more
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      Network SocietySocial MediaTwitterManuel Castells
The thesis “Islam Tweets: Challenging Ideas & Notions due to Social Media” asks how traditionally shaped ideas are re-framed due to social media channels. This process happens through the network-character of society, offline as well as... more
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      ReligionIslamic LawTerrorismNetwork Society
"From Once Upon a Time in the West to Moulin Rouge, from Ghanaian video-movies to Japanese Manga, from Christian symbolism in advertising to the mythic significance of female messiah figures, from the relationship of the arts and theology... more
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      ReligionCultural StudiesAfrican StudiesTheology