How Long to Read Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s)

How Long Does it Take to Read Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s)?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 40 minutes to read Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s) by Roberta Iannone

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Description

The present volume attempts to critically evaluate claims that modern society may be read and understood as a network. Accepting that this perspective holds some potential, the question becomes how to best capitalize on it. To analyze society as a network means to respond not only to the "actual needs," but also to highlight the "opportunities" and the "utilities," and to investigate whether society is increasingly relational or just perceived as such, as e.g. digital "social networks" and related concepts exemplify. From a strictly scientific perspective to answer the question "how to" read society as a network means to ask ourselves: a) if the conceptual categories (especially the concepts of structure and exchange) and the paradigms of traditional analysis (holism and individualism, both in the functionalist and the conflictive versions) are still sufficient; b) if new conceptual categories/theories/instruments are needed to represent more properly the reality we face: to investigate it, to explain it or, at least, to understand it. Starting from a reflection on already established social networks (Scott, 2003), the fundamental differences between groups and networks (Vergati, 2008), the logics of networks (Serra, 2003) as well as social capital formation and links (Di Nicola, 2006; Mutti, 1998), we seize the spatial dynamics, seemingly following opposite paths, but which revert to a common denominator: de-spatialization and re-spatialization, namely the processes of dematerialization of space(s) and its reconstruction by specific relational dynamics and forms. The study of networks is therefore not attributable to a single theory but to several theories converging towards a unique perspective (spaces) and logical reasoning (Serra, 2001) each one with its own uniqueness. The strength of this volume and the difference with respect to other attempts at explaining the Network Society lies in the multidimensional and interrelated perspectives it offers emerging from converging multidisciplinary perspectives (sociological, anthropological and linguistic), and from applications that the Network Society provides, namely, international (European Governance), institutional, public (linguistic landscape of the city of Rome) and mediated ones (communication technology).

How long is Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s)?

Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s) by Roberta Iannone is 220 pages long, and a total of 55,000 words.

This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours to read Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s) aloud.

What Reading Level is Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s)?

Network Society; How Social Relations Rebuild Space(s) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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