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The Hypercomplex Society

The Hypercomplex Society

Qvortrup, Lars
Jones, Steve

Paperback

Series: Digital Formations, Book 5

General ReferenceTechnology & EngineeringPlays

ISBN10: 0820457043
ISBN13: 9780820457048
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: May 28 2003
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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