[Air-L] Informatization?

[Alex Gekker]

Hi Katja,

I would also compare with "mediatization" as it is understood in (cultural)
communication studies: a process of cohabitation and amalgamation of media
practices, leading to an emergence of new modes of communication. Not in
the deterministic view of media effects, but rather a more Latourian
approach to systems and institutions/individuals/technologies that inhabit
them.

http://www.mediatization.eu/ECREA_Temporary_Working_Group_Mediatization/Home_files/mediatizaton_objectives.pdf

Hepp, A. (2011). Mediatization, media technologies and the “moulding
forces” of the media.
http://www.mediatisiertewelten.de/fileadmin/mediapool/documents/Vortraege_ICA_Virtuelles_Panel/Hepp.pdf

regards,
Alex.

On 8 July 2012 16:26, Katja Mayer <katja.mayer at univie.ac.at> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize this
> term?
>
> I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what
> informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context,
> looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on labour,
> e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more about other
> approaches.
>
> Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since the
> term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc:
> L'informatisation de la societe.)
>
> Thanks for your assistence,
> Katja
>
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