Networks and the future: A new methodological approach to envision and create the network society of tomorrow

Díaz, José Antonio Rodríguez

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2009.01.004

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“…But most of them were very specific cases, and in consonance with Keck and Sikkink's work, emphasizing the roles of different actors and strong relations and good information flow so that some transnational advocacy networks could act on these environmental issues investigated. Actions take place over and in networks, analyzing these patterns allows a better possibility to intervene in the network to change it and reach future goals [4], delineating the tomorrow.…”

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“…TANs may be more effective when their objectives are directed to end or minimize hazardous situations that affect vulnerable individuals or situations, such as the destruction of nature, native peoples, and cultures [10]. Given their orientation to action, identifying TANs' characteristics helps understand and identify what actions will occur in the future [4]. Thus, TANs play an active role in global patterns, making it even more critical to unveil their network structures and ties among actors, their use of tools and techniques to create and follow different strategies, and the knowledge they form together [11].…”

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“…According to Diaz [4], "Networks are a quintessential example of shifting territories, embodying new organizational forms that can change and adapt continuously. As a consequence, they represent spaces and organizational forms that enable and create the future".…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring Transnational Advocacy Networks for Environmental Sustainability

Vizzoto¹,

Verschoore²,

Gavronski³

2021

IJSDP

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This study aims to explore papers and assess how they have been addressing TAN features to understand better and explore a structure for the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) for environmental sustainability. Based on data collected, papers on the thematic of transnational advocacy networks for the environment were selected and explored to understand better what features are shown and under what light. Transnational advocacy networks for environmental issues are common in the literature, as the topic draws the attention of nongovernmental organizations. Many of the papers explore at least one of three pillars among the results, and frequently more than one is brought up into theoretical and empirical discussion. These results highlight specific features among each of the characteristics, building a framework so that TANs may have a path to structure their activities to achieve their goals more effectively. Further studies may advance this knowledge in practice. This study seeks to contribute to the existing literature from a theoretical perspective, integrating and exploring the dimensions of transnational advocacy networks and considering a possible structure to improve their results.

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Exploring Transnational Advocacy Networks for Environmental Sustainability

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Verschoore²,

Gavronski³

2021

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“…Розова [9]), согласно которой сети выступают многочисленными средами, куда включаются акторы, а также полем, где происходят взаимодействия между ними. Дополнительным аспектом рассматриваемой нами темы, касающейся особенностей дискурса функционирующих в сетевом обществе политико-правовых идей, создавая объективные затруднения на предмет возможностей отслеживания распространения информации и определения реакций на них, становится наполненность сообщений множественными провокациями [15]. На практическом уровне это детерминирует массовое не-понимание изначальных задумок акторов и, как следствие, приводит к возникновению проблем в коммуникации, суть которых свидетельствует о неспособности властных субъектов достигнуть желаемого прагматического результата.…”

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Political and Legal Ideas Discourse in a Network Society: Social-Philosophical Analysis (Part 2)

Ravochkin¹

2020

Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy

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The article continues to define new essential features of the discourse of political and legal ideas realized by the authorities of modern states, which they acquire in the realities of a network society. It is shown that for the states to acquire an evolutionary vector and at the same time sustainability of social development, the authorities need to implement political and legal ideas depending on the context. As a research methodology, the author turns to his own synthetic epistemological methodological foundations, focusing on the provisions of social realism by R. Collins and N.S. Rozov, as well as theses of actor-network theory. In this part of the study, the author analyzes the leading trends in the development of network society, in accordance with which an updated manifestation of the discourse of political and legal ideas at the micro and macro levels is shown. The dependence of changes in the content of the discourse of ideas on increasing mobility, loss of identity, computerization, social memory and the social environment in which actors are presented is discussed in detail. In conclusion, the author notes that the ontology of the discourse of political and legal ideas in the context of a network society is only one of the private ontologies.

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“…A growing body of literature addresses complex destination governance issues that take into particular consideration the network structure of tourism destinations (e.g., Erkuş-Öztürk and Eraydın 2010; Franch, Martini, and Buffa 2010; Pforr 2006; Saraniemi and Kylänen 2011). Organizational issues, governance, and especially network governance are also primary concerns from a futures studies perspective (Feldman 2012; Rodríguez Díaz 2009; Tonn 2012; van der Steen et al 2011). In particular, analyses of transformational governance (Cole and Razak 2009) can contribute to our understanding of the future of tourism in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.…”

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Overcoming the Limits to Change and Adapting to Future Challenges

Pforr

Pechlaner

Volgger

et al. 2014

Journal of Travel Research

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This article presents a study that investigates the organizational transformation of regional tourism in Western Australia in order to make it fit for future. In principle, it explores how the past influences adaptation to upcoming challenges in the Asia-Pacific region (and beyond), such as for example reorganizing territorial dimensions in destination management. Specifically, the article considers how an imposed merger of two previously separate tourism regions affects the established communication and collaboration structures among stakeholders. To analyze the inhibiting force of historically grown destination network structures and the potential for changing these networks, the article combines the concepts of path dependence/path creation and stasis-based/change-based momentum with a quantitative social network analysis. The study provides evidence of remarkable persistence of destination networks. However, the study exhibits also path-creating processes: A transformation of destination networks to meet future challenges in tourism seems to depend largely on an effective governance of informal communication.

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Networks and the future: A new methodological approach to envision and create the network society of tomorrow

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Exploring Transnational Advocacy Networks for Environmental Sustainability

Exploring Transnational Advocacy Networks for Environmental Sustainability

Political and Legal Ideas Discourse in a Network Society: Social-Philosophical Analysis (Part 2)

Overcoming the Limits to Change and Adapting to Future Challenges

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