This is just a segue from the research proposal work of the weekend……. Manuel Castells talks about the fact that institutions will evolve to accomodate new power structures. I think he’s right – very few institutions are foolish enough not to change and one thing that a universal media age has done is to form …
Jurgen Habermas a pre-eminent social and political theorist whose ideas around the “Public Sphere” have influenced much of the contemporary thinking around the information or network society. Habermas describes the public sphere as a shared public conversation which encapsulates political, social and cultural debate. He argues that this public sphere is essential to the functioning …
Busy weekend with lots of literature review as well as proposal writing for EU funded projects. I have also been reading around ideas of co-creation as well the Network Society this weekend. Both of these are going to be fairly central within my literature review. The network or information society is a way of describing …