A society is one that is organized in its dominant processes and functions around networks. According to Manuel Castells, ‘The Network Society’, the world has been undertaking a multidimensional physical transformation, due to the rise of new technological pattern centred around communication and information technologies. The society manages to structure technology according to its interests and needs, and each technology is delicate to the results of its social concerns. Oddly, in the network society, the technology users also become its creators, and this leaves a substantial effect on the way companies are organized regarding the network society.
There are conflicting views of the technological atmosphere that the network society is grounded
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Regardless of the decentralization, they are capable to manage the activity because of a shared determination to make decisions. Consequently, as as Manuel argues, these digital networks form the foundation of the new network enterprise and the new network economy, where performance is dispersed through flexible and adaptable workforce that is both independent and synchronized.
The new economy is an effective form of organization of making, supply and managing to expand the frequency of production development. When technical financial organization is adopted in different established settings, it can generate the welfare state (Cordoso, 2005). Developing markets that have associated themselves to the international economic network have constantly shown considerably higher rates of production development. The industrial areas of India and China are an example of this. The transformation of this creative configuration has taken place because of three procedures – ‘transformation of labour that is able to innovate and adapt to a dynamic global, generation and diffusion of new digital technologies based on scientific research and technical innovation and diffusion of new form of organization around networking.’ (Castells, 2005,
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For university students, this means that super-specialization may be counterproductive. Collis (2005) reveals that for being a part of the knowledge economy, education itself may have to endure a whole transformation.
My own aspirations and ambitions are to be a journalist, specifically a broadcasting journalist in a news room, which means being in a high powered, active network environment, it is essential to be able to develop multidimensional skill sets. Moreover, as a potential journalist, I will have to be ready for increased flexibility across the world, grow an ability to stem local value from knowledge in creative ways, work in multidisciplinary and allocated teams, and be able to use communication technology for controlling. It will be vital for me to be open to re-skilling and revise my knowledge throughout life to be more knowledgeable and up to date with new and upcoming skills. Finally, there is a necessity for developing skills that permit me to be able to act independently and work with increasingly assorted
Self-motivation and determination are two of the main ideals of being journalist. If a journalist does not have the desire to find and report a story, he has no career. A journalist depends on finding the facts, getting to the bottom of the story and reporting to the public, whether it’s positive or negative. Janet Malcom states in the book The Journalist and the Murderer, “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” (Malcolm, 3) Her starting words speak volumes about “the Journalist and the Murderer” and the lessons that can be learned.
The Social Construction of Technology, or Social Constructivism, is a theory introduced by Wiebe Bijker and Trevor Pinch. The theory proposes that the development of technology is an interactive sociotechnical process within relevant social groups (e.g users, producers). As a methodology, social constructivism analyses artefacts in the context of society and explores the dynamics of technological change. According to Pinch and Bijker (1987), social constructivism is “fundamentally a sociological approach towards technology”. This school of research attempts to understand the mechanisms behind different social groups’ interpretations of technological artefacts.
Greer tells such a compelling story of learning the field of journalism, I find myself learning alongside her account. By noticing intricate details and advice given by Dr. Greer during the telling of her story, I strengthen my own learning experience in the field of journalism. Clearly, Dr. Greer has told this story to other aspiring journalists before me. The ease with which Dr. Greer explains her learning experience suggests that she tells this story on many occasions. The fact that Dr. Greer tells her story so often serves as another indicator of her success.
... They also will be able to identify various types of jobs in the media and discuss or write about them to analyze their career objectives.
...been put on the technological platform itself and the infrastructure of it, and too little on the social and cultural context of the citizens and users. Communtes basically can not be created with technology if the social and cultural networks are not there, and if users do not see the benefit or are not motivated for using the technology” (Bondebjerg 9)
Terranova, T. (2004). Network Dynamics. In T. Terranova, Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age (pp. 29-72). London: Pluto.
In “The Social Networks”, Neal Gabler discusses on the many issues that the invention of television and social media has had on the society nowadays. In his writing, he explains in more detail how television series and social networks have change the way humans interact with other humans, friends, and family members. Gabler points out on how the typical setting for a group of friends is shown in a TV’s show, using examples such as “Friends”, “Seinfeld”, and “Glee”, of how connected all the characters are in a show. He begins by stressing how is very hard to find relationship in the real world like they have in television series. Also, discuss the negative part of how having a lot of friends on social media doesn’t mean anything, he just says
When it comes to the definition of technology in their articles, both Carr and Cascio have similarities and differences. Both authors are debating about the use of technology in today’s society. Both of their articles touch base on the ideals of “what technology is” in their perspectives. Carr believes that technology is making us want the quick path to information or common knowledge and says the Internet is “a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information”. Cascio also believes th...
Society has over time, developed many means of communication starting with the word of mouth to writing letters, the telephone, and now the internet. The internet has developed its own form of communication, which is a social network. Social networks have created a way for people across the world to communicate with each other at the same time, all in one place, thus making it the internet the reason behind the revolution known as Social Network.
This change brings about new product and services thereby creating new avenues of wealth creation in an economy. For example, with advent to online market places, goods and service from different regions can easily be advertised, paid for, sold and shipped easily providing different levels of employment and income models such as for shipping companies, mobile money processing service providers, internet connectivity companies among other opportunities. This diversified creation of opportunities increases production and boosts an economy’s real GDP. In this way, the opportunity cost of the above example is increased cost of training of workers for the new skills required to perform above tasks. This said, the advantages of technological change out-weigh the associated training costs. Consequently, governments and economists support technological change despite risks of structural
Because I am a journalism student, I have talked, researched and discussed with many of my fellow students and faculty members about the topics above. I am choosing to talk about this because I think it is important and they are pertinent issues in the journalism field. I am also very interested in this topic, so I thought it would be fun to take the opportunity you gave us to design our own multi-part question and write about something in journalism that is appealing to me.
...here are intense amounts of writing opportunities; conditions for work are laid back, and informative training is needed. Journalists are all over the world writing and sharing their information with us. Whether it is a sports caster or a reporter they are all informing us with stuff we should know. Having a job that is enjoyable and fun is what it is all about. Journalism is a fun and crazy profession filled with many ups and downs, but at the end of the day when a piece of their writing is published it is all worth it!
The first area where technology and society relates most is communication. People in a society must pass information from one person to another to maintain order. Traditionally, information dissemination was done using inefficient methods such as the messengers and would take long time before it reached to the intended recipient depending on the distance. Technological advancement that resulted in introduction of more efficient means of communication such as mobile phones and computers led to contextualization of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT). This had a direct impact on the society as now information could be disseminated amongst a larger group and in the contemporary wo...
From the evidence, it appears that there is a change in the way people earn a living these days in the West, and that the workforce is increasingly using ICT rather than engaging in manual work. Perhaps this is the start of a new information society.
Centre for Mass Communications Research, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. Schramm, W. (1947). The Species of the World. Education in journalism: vocation, general or professional?