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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Network Society"”.
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The business of broadband and the public interest : media policy for the network society
… and general-purpose technologies should inform network-aware media policy.
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Netwars: Information Technologies, Global Politics and the Reappropriation of Space
… tracks political ruptures within the ""network society"" of the kind I loosely call ""netwars""---temporary radical democratic convergences in protest against Empire, the inequities of global capital and globalized governance regimes, or in resistance to being tracked and recorded on the …
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Communicative freedom in a digital democracy: political and economic resistance to freedom of speech and the rise of digital activism in South Africa
… a physical, industrialised world into a digital, networked society. South Africa is trying to keep pace with technological advances while still clinging to archaic forms of governance. This project considers whether these archaic forms of governance and older forms of communication legislation are …
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PASS: protocols for alternative sexuality and sensibility
It is often said that we live in a network society. Increased familiarity with technical networks has brought the concept to the forefront of public imagination making the network a dominant trope. Whether inherent or ascribed, topologies seem to appear in social theories, transportation systems, …
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O Laboratório de Tecnologias Intelectuais - LTi como fonte de informação na web
… of the wires assembled in the conceptual network of LTi Project, highlighting how social responsibility constructs, information system and collective intelligence intertwine in interdisciplinary tear of Information and Library Science in information actions course in the information system …
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Reframing museum epistemology for the information age: a discursive design approach to revealing complexity
… dawning of the information age and advances in networked communication technologies, on physical knowledge institutions - focusing on museums. The research charts adapting knowledge schemas used in museum knowledge organisation and discusses the potential for a new knowledge schema, the network, …
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Os media digitais nos processos de identidade, pertenças transnacionais e integração : estudo de caso de imigrantes brasileiros no concelho de Grândola
… regulatory institutions of world trade, network communication or international migration – we witnessed the outbreak of a world increasingly articulated worldwide. In this "network society", the digital media have transformed the social life, creating new forms of action and interaction …
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New York talk exchange : transnational telecommunications and migration in a global city
… origin. While theories of the global city, the network society and transnationalism claim a link between advances in telecommunications and the processes of globalization - both in corporate functions and migration - to date we have little empirical knowledge about how telecoms mediate between …
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Historic maritime cities as new places for entrepreneurs and innovators : lessons from Venice, Amsterdam and Boston
… can self-optimize. Both are newly relevant in a network society (Castells, 1996). To test this, I focus on understanding the location choices of entrepreneurs participating in information and communication technology (ICT) and the creative industries (Cl) in situ in three historic maritime …
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Creating order in the ceaseless flow: The discursive constitution of the radio spectrum
… a part of the ‘flows’ of the informational, ‘network society’ analysed by Manuel Castells. While these are the primary discourses that frame the radio spectrum, the power of the state to define and control radio spectrum in New Zealand and other countries is challenged by a range of resistant …
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"""Partially connected, partially protected"": New media and Japanese-Brazilian return migrants in Japan"
… the development of “flexible capitalism” in the “network society” in the contemporary world. It also examines the current state of Japanese-Brazilian and Brazilian ethnic media in Japan, and discusses the relationship between the Japanese government’s policies regarding immigration and …
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WWF's Earth Hour Campaign: ‘Global Village' or Eco-Imperialism?
The rapid spread of digital information and communication technologies since the turn of the century has led to renewed debates about globalisation and the power of new media to connect users across national, political and cultural borders. Environmental campaigns like WWF's Earth Hour, which touts …
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Autenticidade na rede : estudo da identidade digital
Vivemos um tempo de mudança de paradigmas na educação. O advento da sociedade em rede nesta Era Digital está a transformar profundamente a sociedade e a educação. De um ensino industrial e de cariz comportamentalista, assistimos hoje à emergência de um ensino pós-industrial e de índole …
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Community at a distance: Ray Johnson's correspondence art network, 1955-75
… process, Johnson and his collaborators built a network of correspondence artists that challenged conventional modes of artistic production, distribution, and reception. My dissertation analyzes this form of artistic production as well as the model of community Johnson engendered through its …