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Knowledge, work and subject in informational capitalism
Wissen, Arbeit und Subjekt im informationellen Kapitalismus
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Abstract "With the development of informational capitalism and the network society, globalization and informatization play an increasingly crucial role for understanding technology and society. Informatization describes a qualitative leap in technology development which opens up new dimensions of productivit... view more
"With the development of informational capitalism and the network society, globalization and informatization play an increasingly crucial role for understanding technology and society. Informatization describes a qualitative leap in technology development which opens up new dimensions of productivity by information modelling on the one hand, but which demands new forms of knowledge of information workers on the other hand. Work is becoming more flexible, but also more precarious and more polarized socially. These tendencies create a contradictory situation for the subject: formalization and new scopes of autonomy exist side by side. This constellation allows for new approaches to the social shaping of technologies. But they presuppose a
fundamental change in attitude by both, system developers and social scientists." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
knowledge; capitalism; network society; information society; knowledge society; globalization; informatization; digital divide; labor; subject; technology; flexibility
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Sociology of Knowledge
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations
Method
descriptive study
Collection Title
Social informatics – an information society for all? In remembrance of Rob Kling. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference "Human Choice and Computers"
Editor
Berleur, Jacques; Nurminen, Markku I.; Impagliazzo, John
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Springer
City
New York
Page/Pages
p. 333-354
ISBN
978-0-387-37875-6
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works