Knowra Network society Network society A social structure in which networks of information and communication organize major institutions and activities. Its reach grows with digital technologies that connect people, organizations, and places.
Information and communication technology : Technologies used to create, store, process, and communicate information. These technologies provide the infrastructure through which network society operates.
Manuel Castells : A sociologist whose work analyzes how information technology reshapes economies, power, and social organization. Castells developed the influential account of network society.
Networked individualism : A social pattern in which individuals build and manage personal networks across multiple settings. It describes how social ties can center on individuals rather than bounded groups.
Network power : The capacity to shape outcomes through control of access, standards, and positions within networks. Castells analyzes power as operating through inclusion, exclusion, and control of network connections.
Globalization : The intensification of cross-border connections among economies, societies, and cultures. Digital networks let activities coordinate across national borders in real time.
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture : A trilogy by Manuel Castells examining social change associated with information technology and global networks. This work sets out the concept across economic, political, and cultural domains.
Digital divide : Inequalities in access to, use of, and benefits from information and communication technologies. Unequal connectivity shapes who can participate in networked institutions and opportunities.
Surveillance capitalism : An economic system that turns personal data collected through digital surveillance into predictive products and profit. Networked services can make everyday activity a source of data extraction and control.
Network governance : Coordination among organizations through relationships and shared decision-making rather than a single hierarchy. It shows how networked institutions can coordinate without one central command.
Post-industrial society : A social formation in which services and information work become more prominent than industrial production. The shift from industrial production formed part of the historical setting for network society.
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