[Air-L] digital society instead of info soc?

[rafael alarcon]

Just a reminder, 

Castells himself as said that "information society" is a misleading term, he has insisted on the term "network society", which I think is closer to a conceptualization of a "digital society", taking into consideration that without digital media, network society is practically not possible. And let me get this clear, I am not defending all that Castells says.

Rafael Alarcon
Autonomous University of Puebla-Mexico

--- El sáb 19-mar-11, Denise N. Rall <denrall at yahoo.com> escribió:

De: Denise N. Rall <denrall at yahoo.com>
Asunto: Re: [Air-L] digital society instead of info soc?
A: air-l at listserv.aoir.org, "Ren Reynolds" <ren at aldermangroup.com>
Fecha: sábado, 19 de marzo de 2011, 16:46

Yes -

(very good discussion)

The Information Society, despite Manuel Castells upgrade, still recalls Al Gore's Information Superhighway. It could be argued that the majority of internet traffic today has to do with social networking, entertainment, shopping, and game playing. Perhaps not as information-driven as the internet was designed to be :-)

Denise

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--- On Sun, 20/3/11, Ren Reynolds <ren at aldermangroup.com> wrote:



      
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