The Network Society

By Jan A.G.M. van Dijk

The Network Society is now more than ever the essential guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication.

Fully revised, this Third Edition covers crucial new issues and updates:

The long history of social media and Web 2.0: why it′s not as new as we thinkDigital youth culture as a foreshadow of future new media useThe struggle for control of the internet among Microsoft, Google, Apple and FacebookThe contribution of media networks to the current financial crisisComplete update of the literature on the facts, theories, trends and technologies of the internetNew features for students with boxes of chapter questions, conclusions and boxed explanations of key concepts

This book remains an accessible, comprehensive, must-read introduction to how new media function in contemporary society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1446248968
• ISBN13: 9781446248966
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"