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We’re inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly
revolutionized everything in just a few years, including our
relationships, our forms of work and leisure and even our
democracies. Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital
society which turns this assumption on its head. Rather than
treating digital technologies as an independent causal force that
is transforming social life, he asks: for which problem is
digitization a solution? When we pose the question in this
way, we can see, argues Nassehi, that digitization helps societies
deal with, and reduce, complexity by using coded numbers to process
information about society. We can also see that modern
societies already had a digital structure long before modern
computer technologies were developed – already in the nineteenth
century, for example, statistical pattern recognition technologies
were being used in functionally differentiated societies in order
to recognize, monitor and control forms of human behaviour. Digital
technologies were so successful in such a short period of time, and
were able to penetrate so many areas of society so quickly,
precisely because of a pre-existing sensitivity that prepared
modern societies for digital development. This highly original book
lays the foundations for a theory of digital society that will be
of value to everyone interested in the growing presence of digital
technologies in our lives.
We’re inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly
revolutionized everything in just a few years, including our
relationships, our forms of work and leisure and even our
democracies. Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital
society which turns this assumption on its head. Rather than
treating digital technologies as an independent causal force that
is transforming social life, he asks: for which problem is
digitization a solution? When we pose the question in this
way, we can see, argues Nassehi, that digitization helps societies
deal with, and reduce, complexity by using coded numbers to process
information about society. We can also see that modern
societies already had a digital structure long before modern
computer technologies were developed – already in the nineteenth
century, for example, statistical pattern recognition technologies
were being used in functionally differentiated societies in order
to recognize, monitor and control forms of human behaviour. Digital
technologies were so successful in such a short period of time, and
were able to penetrate so many areas of society so quickly,
precisely because of a pre-existing sensitivity that prepared
modern societies for digital development. This highly original book
lays the foundations for a theory of digital society that will be
of value to everyone interested in the growing presence of digital
technologies in our lives.
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