“The new society is made up of networks” (Castells‚ 695). Manuel Castells argues that we are living in a network society of the Information Age in his work‚ Toward a Sociology of the Network Society. This new society was not created accidentally by an accident. It was emerged at the end of twentieth century when five social changes (information technology revolution‚ globalization‚ cultural manifestation‚ the fall of nation state and the development of ecological consciousness) were interacted together
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Information Society I. What is the Information Society? II. Reasons of the coming of the age of the IS III. Development of the IS B. Theories of the Information Society I. The medium is the message and Global Village (Marshall – 1960s) II. Post- Industrial Society (Daniel Bell) and Third wave (Alvin Toffler) III. Network society C. Effects D. Conclusion THEORIES OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY A. The coming of the age of the Information Society I. What is the Information Society? Information
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Part 1 1.1 Introduction-Faber-Castell Company Faber-Castell was founded in 1761 as a pencil factory which is owned and managed by the eighth-generation family member Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell. It is the world’s oldest manufacturer of writing instruments‚ makes nearly 2 billion pencils a year. Faber-Castell Malaysia was established in 1978. It started to produce natural rubber and PVC-FREE erasers back in 1980. It has become one of the largest eraser manufacturers in the world producing
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Leslie Biggars Steve Sosnoski ENG 131-02 21 May 2013 Social Networks and Our Society The topic I am choosing for my research project is social networks and our society. In society today you can hardly find a person who hasn’t heard of a social network. There are different reasons why people are choosing to create their own social network pages‚ whether it be for school‚ work‚ or personal use‚ we can agree that most people do indeed have a page on one of the many social networking sites. No
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SOCIAL NETWORK - TRENDS AND CHALLENGES Social network is a social structure made up of individuals or organizations which are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency‚ such as friendship‚ common interest‚ dislike‚ sexual relationship‚ knowledge or prestige. Logging on to social networking sites had been become inseparable for subscriber of Facebook‚ MySpace‚ etc. People of all age group are becoming very obsessed with social networks in this new technology era. Social network
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3. Theoretical framework: Manuel Castells 3.1 Linking network society with network society The network society is a society which is dependent upon data and communication innovation‚ the network society or information age has substituted the industrial age (Castells‚ 1990:51). The system society does not supply material products rather it is focused on producing information and learning by so using online networking. Online networking incorporates network sites‚ the group of writers‚ wikis and photo
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Colorado‚ and New York. I have cut my teeth on the writing instrument business working for Montblanc‚ because of my vast knowledge of this brand I will be comparing Montblanc to another German writing instrument manufacturer with a rich history Faber-Castell. By 1906 the energy and promise of the first few years of the "modern" new century had already had a stimulating effect on inventors and craftsmen. Ingenuity‚ imagination‚ and a sense of exploration and discovery helped the fountain pen make its
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conceptual notion of “identity“ within this research it seems to be of main importance to consider Manuel Castells’ assumption of “identity“ below: “By identity‚ as it refers to social actors‚ I understand the process of construction of meaning on the basis of cultural attribute‚ or related set of of cultural attributes‚ that is/ are given priority over other sources of meaning.“ (Castells‚ 1997:6) According to the above quotation‚ “identity“ seems to be nothing pure‚ but artificial. Though
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Donna Vincent Dr. George English 101- B51 22 October 2013 Social Network: Making or Breaking Society? Fifteen or fifty five‚ the number of people that belong to a type of social network today compared to 30 years ago has sky rocketed. Whether it is a form of micro-blogging‚ photo sharing‚ or an online dating site‚ social networking is here to stay. It is a huge part of today’s communicating and socializing. The question that remains unsure however‚ is whether or not
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The contribution of Informatics to the development of social networks and their impact on society. With the progression of technologies that are able to overcome the obstacles of time and space (e.g.‚ airplanes‚ cars‚ the Internet)‚ one would think that these tools would be used to gain an understanding of other cultures‚ meet people all over the world‚ maintain and strengthen familial relationships‚ communicate effectively with others‚ and help people to become more socially strong. However‚
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