| The Hypercomplex Society Contributor(s): Jones, Steve (Other), Qvortrup, Lars (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820457043 ISBN-13: 9780820457048 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $46.53 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Telecommunications - Drama - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 384 |
| LCCN: 2002151167 |
| Series: Digital Formations (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.74 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Should today's society be termed an information or a network society? This book provides an alternative choice--the hypercomplex society, which is a critical, complex-theoretical understanding of society whose growing level of social complexity represents the basic challenge of our current society. This original understanding of society is presented through a historical analysis of the emergence of the current state of hypercomplexity and polycentrism. The functioning of communication, mass media, and the public sphere in the hypercomplex society is also analyzed and the Internet is characterized as a communication infrastructure particularly shaped by the hypercomplex society. The book concludes with a cultural self-observation of the hypercomplex society. |