The Network Society: Social Aspects of the New Media

How are we to understand the causes of the telecommunications revolution? How can we begin to predict its consequences? The last three decades have witnessed a dramatic acceleration in the use, demand, and need for telecommunications, data communication, and mass communication transmitted and integrated into networks. Through a synthesis of contemporary theories about modernization, this book offers a broad-ranging introduction to the 'network' society in all its aspects.The Network Society:- Analyzes the new media in all their technical, economic, political, sociological, cultural and psychological aspects.- Examines the new media in term