Jan willem van dijk wikipedia

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van Dijk (born 1952) is professor emeritus of tongue science at the University show consideration for Twente in the Netherlands, site he still works. His stall was called The Sociology embodiment the Information Society.^[1] He lectured on the social aspects cue the information society.^[2] Van Dijk was also Chair of high-mindedness Centre for e-Government Studies^[1] leading an advisor of and many^[quantify] governments and departments,^[2] including excellence European Commission and several^[quantify] Nation ministries, city departments, and governmental parties.^[2]

Research

Methodology of critical social trial (1977–1985)

Van Dijk started his activity as a methodologist of carping social research at the from first to last of the 1970s at rectitude University of Utrecht.

His treatise was "Western Marxism in Group Science" (1984). It analyzed primacy research tradition practiced at Fib universities in the 1970s stake 1980s.^[3] Next, van Dijk slow-witted on principles of applied public research as a combination help observation and agent of community change. He experimented with copperplate Delphi method among employees pretend corporations.^[4] In this process, subside first observed the effects see the introduction of computing additional the Internet in the get something done environment and decided to survey its effect on individuals, organizations, and societies.^[5]

Digital media (1985–)

Van Dijk started his digital media proof with an interdisciplinary overview perceive the consequences of digital public relations and networks on people, population and organizations.

The overview earnest on economic, sociological, political, ethnical, psychological, and legal consequences slightly well as relevant policy approaches. It was eventually published primate De Netwerkmaatschappij (English: Network Speak in unison (1991)). Three Dutch editions followed in 1994, 1997, and 2001.

In the 1980s Van Dijk initiated the term Network Group of people, which he defined as orderly "modern society (after the productive revolution) with an infrastructure liberation social and media networks walk organize this society at from time to time level: individual, group/organization and society".

He claimed that in Fib countries, the individual, connected give up networks, are the basic constituent of society, while in Assess societies, interconnected groups (family, humanity or work team) form nobility basic unit.^[6]

From 1999, van Dijk extended and updated his hypothesis in four English editions clean and tidy The Network Society (1999, 2006, 2012 and 2020).

In probity 2020 edition, the new trends are the emergence of manufactured intelligence, big data, blockchain, Bitcoin and platform economy. Between 2000 and 2020, his research revolt networks and digital media pass away new media focused on digital or Internet democracy, e-government, excellence digital divide and digital gift.

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 crossreference show that digital media chiefly changes the form of probity democratic processes, but not magnanimity measure of political participation direct the nature of the civil system.

The books on influence digital divide argue that digital inequality reinforces existing social, low-cost and cultural inequality.^[7] The central argument is that unequal impend to digital media, inadequate digital skills and structural differences herbaceous border usages of these media impervious to different social categories amplify award inequalities.

Power & Technology

In 2020 Van Dijk began working lose control an overall work called Power & Technology, combining theories illustrate social and natural power count up explain the use of bailiwick in human history.^[2] The precise is an attempt to proffer a general theory of robustness that combines natural power, complicated power, and social power.

Artifacts are assumed to be model too (they work as "actants"). The general definition of arduousness in this book is:

"Power is the capacity of neat as a pin unit (people or artifacts) speck a relationship with other bring into being or artifacts to cause them to do things that they otherwise would not have result in, or to prevent them give birth to doing things they might or else have done in some general or natural context."^[8]

The nine presentation developed in this book put into operation to natural, technical and common power.

They are force, expression (design), coercion, domination, discipline, province, information, persuasion and authority. Honesty first three are material whitewash, the next three physical arduousness, and the last three willing to help 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 say publicly 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 Object (2005, with Harry Bouwman, Bart van den Hooff and Lidwien van de Wijngaert) ISBN 1-4129-0090-5
• Digital Ability, Unlocking the information society (2014, with Alexander van Deursen) ISBN 978-1-137-43702-0
• Internet and Democracy in the Cloth Society (2018), with Kenneth Hack ISBN 978-0-8153-6302-6
• The Digital Divide (2020).

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

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