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- Title
- The wealth and poverty of networks part one: networks in a space of flows
- Author(s)
- Friedman, Ken
- Abstract
- In many senses, networks have become typical even emblematic of many kinds of processes in the world. These processes are often hailed as a step toward democracy, equality of opportunity, access to resources, and appropriate governance of the world's resources. All of these statements are reasonable. Nevertheless, networks offer no simple solutions to the world's problems. In the course of solving some problems, networks introduce challenges and problems of their own. The network society is an overlay wrapped around different kinds of societies and cultures, linking them and connecting them. The network society reshapes older societies, sometimes destroying them. This process can be seen in many ways.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- New Media Poetics, No. 1 (Jul 2003)
- Publication year
- 2003
- Keyword(s)
- Knowledge economy; Networks
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science and Information Technology, University of Newcastle
- ISSN
- 1448-9457
- Publisher URL
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/poetics/issue-01/ken-1.htm
- Copyright
- Copyright 2003 © University of Newcastle. Author's final draft reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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