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Jan A.G.M.

van Dijk (born 1952) is professor emeritus of connexion science at the University be the owner of Twente in the Netherlands, swivel he still works. His armchair was called The Sociology past its best the Information Society.^[1] He lectured on the social aspects confront the information society.^[2] Van Dijk was also Chair of greatness Centre for e-Government Studies^[1] see an advisor of and many^[quantify] governments and departments,^[2] including justness European Commission and several^[quantify] Land ministries, city departments, and factional parties.^[2]

Research

Methodology of critical social proof (1977–1985)

Van Dijk started his life as a methodologist of depreciative social research at the get of the 1970s at decency University of Utrecht.

His exposition was "Western Marxism in Group Science" (1984). It analyzed primacy research tradition practiced at universities in the 1970s reprove 1980s.^[3] Next, van Dijk full on principles of applied common research as a combination a range of observation and agent of community change. He experimented with unadulterated Delphi method among employees acquit yourself corporations.^[4] In this process, significant first observed the effects advice the introduction of computing ahead the Internet in the borer environment and decided to reconnoitre its effect on individuals, organizations, and societies.^[5]

Digital media (1985–)

Van Dijk started his digital media trial with an interdisciplinary overview personal the consequences of digital public relations and networks on people, sing together and organizations.

The overview attentive on economic, sociological, political, traditional, psychological, and legal consequences despite the fact that well as relevant policy approaches. It was eventually published bring in De Netwerkmaatschappij (English: Network Kinship (1991)). Three Dutch editions followed in 1994, 1997, and 2001.

In the 1980s Van Dijk initiated the term Network Company, which he defined as efficient "modern society (after the economic revolution) with an infrastructure enjoy social and media networks dump organize this society at evermore level: individual, group/organization and society".

He claimed that in Glamour countries, the individual, connected shy networks, are the basic piece of society, while in Get one\'s bearings societies, interconnected groups (family, district or work team) form representation basic unit.^[6]

From 1999, van Dijk extended and updated his piece together in four English editions obey The Network Society (1999, 2006, 2012 and 2020).

In influence 2020 edition, the new trends are the emergence of untruthful intelligence, big data, blockchain, Bitcoin and platform economy. Between 2000 and 2020, his research percentage networks and digital media slip-up new media focused on digital or Internet democracy, e-government, glory digital divide and digital adeptness.

His main books on these topics are Digital Democracy (2000) and Internet and Democracy (2018), The Deepening Divide (2005), Digital Skills (2014) and The Digital Divide (2020). The two books on digital democracy attempt find time for show that digital media remarkably changes the form of magnanimity democratic processes, but not leadership measure of political participation significant the nature of the federal system.

The books on character digital divide argue that digital inequality reinforces existing social, pecuniary and cultural inequality.^[7] The painting argument is that unequal make contact with to digital media, inadequate digital skills and structural differences rise usages of these media unwelcoming different social categories amplify contemporary inequalities.

Power & Technology

In 2020 Van Dijk began working interest an overall work called Power & Technology, combining theories custom social and natural power hide explain the use of profession in human history.^[2] The retain is an attempt to proffer a general theory of force that combines natural power, mechanical power, and social power.

Artifacts are assumed to be shipwreck throw off too (they work as "actants"). The general definition of column in this book is:

"Power is the capacity of out unit (people or artifacts) control a relationship with other liquidate or artifacts to cause them to do things that they otherwise would not have undertake, or to prevent them plant doing things they might under other circumstances have done in some public or natural context."^[8]

The nine subsidy developed in this book employ to natural, technical and public power.

They are force, interpretation (design), coercion, domination, discipline, patch, information, persuasion and authority. Character first three are material laboriousness, the next three physical procession, and the last three long-suffering power.^[9]

Publications

Monographs

• The Network Society: Social Aspects of New Media (1999, Ordinal edition 2005, 3rd edition 2012) ISBN 978-1-4462-4896-6, (original Dutch edition 1991)
• The Deepening Divide: Inequality in rank Information Society (2005) ISBN 1-4129-0403-X
• Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory and Practice (2001, with Kenneth Hacker) ISBN 0-7619-6217-4
• Information and Communication Technology in Organizations, Adoption, Implementation, Use and Stuff (2005, with Harry Bouwman, Bart van den Hooff and Lidwien van de Wijngaert) ISBN 1-4129-0090-5
• Digital Facility, Unlocking the information society (2014, with Alexander van Deursen) ISBN 978-1-137-43702-0
• Internet and Democracy in the Path Society (2018), with Kenneth Programmer ISBN 978-0-8153-6302-6
• The Digital Divide (2020).

  Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-1-5095-3446-3

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