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Castells’ (1996) provides an analysis of the impact of new technologies on economy and society

Revolution a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation (English Oxford Dictionary). Castells’ (1996) provides an analysis of the impact of new technologies on economy and society .

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Castells’ (1996) provides an analysis of the impact of new technologies on economy and society

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  1. Revolution a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation (English Oxford Dictionary)

  2. Castells’ (1996) provides an analysis of the impact of new technologies on economy and society

  3. From ‘Material’ culture‘Information Society’“inducing a pattern of discontinuity in the material basis of economy, society and culture”

  4. Comparison between the information technology revolution and the industrial revolution

  5. Converging technologiesMicroelectronicsComputingTelecommunicationsOptoelectronicsGenetic engineering

  6. Characterized by their “pervasiveness”- information technology is as important to this revolution as new sources of energy were to the last onesThe internet of things / case study >>>

  7. Not information as central but rather what can be done with that information as tools and technological processes

  8. “users can take control of technology”“users become doers”

  9. “What we think, how we think become expressed in goods, services and intellectual output”

  10. This revolution has been much more globally pervasive and much quicker

  11. 1st – steam engine – towards the end of the 18th century2nd – development of electricitya period of accelerating unprecedented technological changethat brought about a sudden transformation in the production and distribution of goods

  12. Castells calls this a “new socio-technological paradigm”

  13. Microelectronics! From centralized data storage to networked interactive computer power sharing

  14. Social roots of technology – the information technology was American with a Californian inclination (Silicon Valley) key technologiesThis has ideologies, some proponents, some vehemently againstTo save everything click here >>>

  15. “Because information is an integral part of all human activity, all processes of our individual and collective existence are directly shaped…by the new technological medium”

  16. Andrew Keen on Web 2.0

  17. Krotosky argues that the web is a platform and isn’t inherently good or bad – neither is it neutral. Case studies >>>

  18. “techno-fundamentalists” Case studies >>>

  19. Krotoski says, rather than asking how technology has changed society we should be asking how do the ways in which we use technology reflect or change our behaviors…>>>

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