The present article deals with one of the most elaborated theories of information society, proposed by Manuel Castells. Castells defines the present social landscape as the Information Age, in which human societies perform their activities in a new technological paradigm and argues that this landscape was brought about by the revolution of information and communication technologies (ICT) at the second half of the 20th century. I argue that Castells first and foremost theorizes these new ICT (in the vein of media theorist Marshall Mc-Luhan) and discerns their three main features – network logic, timeless time and space of flows which are visible only in the interaction of media and society. Therefore, Castells’ ICT / media theory serves as a kind of methodological framework for his theory of the information society.
Social network sites (SNS) have recently become an active ground for interactions on contested and dissonant heritage, on the heritage of excluded and subaltern groups, and on the heritage of collective traumatic past events. Situated at the intersection between heritage studies, memory studies, Holocaust studies, social media studies and digital heritage studies, a growing body of scholarly literature has been emerging in the past 10 years, addressing online communication practices on SNS. This study, an integrative review of a comprehensive corpus of 80 scholarly works about difficult heritage on SNS, identifies the profile of authors contributing to this emerging area of research, the increasing frequency of publication after 2017, the prevalence of qualitative research methods, the global geographic dispersion of heritage addressed, and the emergence of common themes and concepts derived mostly from the authors ‘home’ fields of memory studies, heritage studies and (digital) media studies.
Šiandien informacijos visuomenės tyrimai toli gražu nebėra tokia svarbi socialinių mokslų ir socialinės politikos tema kaip amžių sandūroje. Informacijos visuomenės tyrimų iškilimas ir nuosmukis, jų tapimas kasdien vartojamu terminu (kas šiandienos populiariajame diskurse abejoja, kad gyvename informacijos visuomenėje?), jų "pralaimėjimas" naujesnėms, patrauklesnėms temoms, tokioms kaip kūrybos ar išmani visuomenė, kelia įdomių klausimų ne tik apie pastarųjų laikų socialinę raidą, bet ir apie mokslo savivokos tendencijas. Vienas jų -ar informacijos visuomenės terminą vartojantiems mokslo tekstams jis yra pamatinė sąvoka, ar tėra mados ar matomumo sąlygotas raktažodis.Kaip atrodo informacijos visuomenės teorijos ir tyrimų laukas? Būta bent keleto bandymų pateikti jo analizę.
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