Beschreibung:
The present volume attempts to critically evaluate claims that modern society may be read and understood as a network. Accepting that this perspective holds some potential, the question becomes how to best capitalize on it. To analyze society as a network means to respond not only to the "actual needs", but also to highlight the "opportunities" and the "utilities", and to investigate whether society is increasingly relational or just perceived as such, as e.g. digital "social networks" and related concepts exemplify.
PrefacePaolo de Nardis
Introduction
Network Society. What is it?
Roberta Iannone
Network Society: Hypothesis of Solidity
Emanuela Ferreri
Networks and Spaces. Governance and political space in the European Union
Maria Cristina Marchetti
Network Society and Public Space. Latin American Migrants and the Linguistic Landscape of Rome
Laura Mariottini
Web, Network Society, and Transmedia in election campaigns: a case study on David Cameron (2014-2015)
Manuela Cipri