The Network Society by Darin Barney - 9780745626680

The Network SocietyAuthor(s): Darin Barney\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745626680, 978-0745626680\nSynopsis\nIn The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political and economic implications of network technologies and their application across a wide range of practices and institutions. Are we in the midst of a digital revolution? Have new information and communication technologies given birth to a new form of society, or do they reinforce and extend existing patterns and relationships? This book provides a clear and engaging discussion of these and other questions. Using a sophisticated model of the relationship between technology and society, Barney investigates both what has changed, and what has remained the same, in the age of the Internet.\n\n Among the issues discussed are debates concerning the emergence of a 'knowledge economy'; digital restructuring of emplo.