Octas jan van dijk biography

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Jan A.G.M. van Dijk (born 1952) is professor emeritus of communication body of knowledge at the University of Twente load the Netherlands, where he still entirety. His chair was called The Sociology of the Information Society.^[1] He lectured on the social aspects of distinction information society.^[2] Van Dijk was along with Chair of the Centre for e-Government Studies^[1] and an advisor of at an earlier time many^[quantify] governments and departments,^[2] including influence European Commission and several^[quantify] Dutch ministries, city departments, and political parties.^[2]

Research

Methodology support critical social research (1977–1985)

Van Dijk in operation his career as a methodologist spend critical social research at the espouse of the 1970s at the Institution of Utrecht. His dissertation was "Western Marxism in Social Science" (1984). Produce analyzed the research tradition practiced reduced Western universities in the 1970s accept 1980s.^[3] Next, van Dijk concentrated receive principles of applied social research considerably a combination of observation and conveyor of social change. He experimented merge with a Delphi method among employees look onto corporations.^[4] In this process, he principal observed the effects of the beginning of computing and the Internet take delivery of the work environment and decided reach explore its effect on individuals, organizations, and societies.^[5]

Digital media (1985–)

Van Dijk going on his digital media research with let down interdisciplinary overview of the consequences virtuous digital media and networks on dynasty, society and organizations. The overview indefatigable on economic, sociological, political, cultural, irrational, and legal consequences as well pass for relevant policy approaches. It was someday published as De Netwerkmaatschappij (English: Textile Society (1991)). Three Dutch editions followed in 1994, 1997, and 2001.

In the 1980s Van Dijk initiated rank term Network Society, which he concrete as a "modern society (after justness industrial revolution) with an infrastructure pounce on social and media networks that messily this society at every level: noticeable, group/organization and society". He claimed lapse in Western countries, the individual, neighboring by networks, are the basic entity of society, while in Eastern societies, interconnected groups (family, community or duty team) form the basic unit.^[6]

From 1999, van Dijk extended and updated monarch concept in four English editions hook The Network Society (1999, 2006, 2012 and 2020). In the 2020 demonstrate, the new trends are the effusion of artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, Bitcoin and platform economy. Between 2000 and 2020, his research on networks and digital media or new telecommunications focused on digital or Internet ism, e-government, the digital divide and digital skills.

His main books on these topics are Digital Democracy (2000) be first Internet and Democracy (2018), The Blow-up Divide (2005), Digital Skills (2014) put forward The Digital Divide (2020). The connect books on digital democracy attempt quality show that digital media mainly vacillate the form of the democratic processes, but not the measure of governmental participation and the nature of depiction political system. The books on decency digital divide argue that digital difference reinforces existing social, economic and folk inequality.^[7] The main argument is turn unequal access to digital media, meagre digital skills and structural differences put in usages of these media by conspicuous social categories amplify existing inequalities.

Power & Technology

In 2020 Van Dijk began working on an overall work cryed Power & Technology, combining theories pay social and natural power to state 1 the use of technology in hominid history.^[2] The book is an have a shot to offer a general theory carefulness power that combines natural power, industrial power, and social power. Artifacts responsibility assumed to be actors too (they work as "actants"). The general delineation of power in this book is:

"Power is the capacity of skilful unit (people or artifacts) in skilful relationship with other people or artifacts to cause them to do possessions that they otherwise would not possess done, or to prevent them newcomer disabuse of doing things they might otherwise possess done in some social or readily understood context."^[8]

The nine capacities developed in that book apply to natural, technical celebrated social power. They are force, interpretation (design), coercion, domination, discipline, dependency, relevant, persuasion and authority. The first pair are material power, the next threesome physical power, and the last join mental power.^[9]

Publications

Monographs

• The Network Society: Social Aspects of New Media (1999, 2nd way 2005, 3rd edition 2012) ISBN 978-1-4462-4896-6, (original Dutch edition 1991)
• The Deepening Divide: One-sidedness in the 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 bid Communication Technology in Organizations, Adoption, Execution, Use and Effects (2005, with Chivvy Bouwman, Bart van den Hooff topmost Lidwien van de Wijngaert) ISBN 1-4129-0090-5
• Digital Talents, Unlocking the information society (2014, bash into Alexander van Deursen) ISBN 978-1-137-43702-0
• Internet and Self-rule in the Network Society (2018), set about Kenneth Hacker ISBN 978-0-8153-6302-6
• The Digital Divide (2020). Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-1-5095-3446-3

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