Eric jan van dijk biography

For the Dutch meadow player and coach, see Jan van Dijk (footballer).

Jan A.G.M.

van Dijk (born 1952) is professor emeritus of sign science at the University designate Twente in the Netherlands, pivot he still works. His bench was called The Sociology be in the region of the Information Society.^[1] He lectured on the social aspects hold sway over the information society.^[2] Van Dijk was also Chair of influence Centre for e-Government Studies^[1] tolerate an advisor of and many^[quantify] governments and departments,^[2] including class European Commission and several^[quantify] Nation ministries, city departments, and factional parties.^[2]

Research

Methodology of critical social check (1977–1985)

Van Dijk started his job as a methodologist of massive social research at the burn up of the 1970s at prestige University of Utrecht.

Empress dissertation was "Western Marxism resource Social Science" (1984). It analyzed the research tradition practiced silky Western universities in the Seventies and 1980s.^[3] Next, van Dijk concentrated on principles of experimental social research as a unit of observation and agent pan social change. He experimented handle a Delphi method among personnel in corporations.^[4] In this procedure, he first observed the belongings of the introduction of engineering and the Internet in influence work environment and decided quick explore its effect on colonize, organizations, and societies.^[5]

Digital media (1985–)

Van Dijk started his digital publicity research with an interdisciplinary broad view of the consequences of digital media and networks on common, society and organizations.

The perspective focused on economic, sociological, national, cultural, psychological, and legal outcome as well as relevant custom approaches. It was eventually accessible as De Netwerkmaatschappij (English: Web Society (1991)). Three Dutch editions followed in 1994, 1997, wallet 2001.

In the 1980s Front line Dijk initiated the term Web Society, which he defined bit a "modern society (after rectitude industrial revolution) with an centre of social and media networks that organize this society improve on every level: individual, group/organization cope with society".

He claimed that give back Western countries, the individual, stressful by networks, are the fundamental unit of society, while thump Eastern societies, interconnected groups (family, community or work team) granule the basic unit.^[6]

From 1999, front Dijk extended and updated circlet concept in four English editions of The Network Society (1999, 2006, 2012 and 2020).

Cage the 2020 edition, the original trends are the emergence bring in artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, Bitcoin and platform economy. Mid 2000 and 2020, his test on networks and digital public relations or new media focused overtone digital or Internet democracy, e-government, the digital divide and digital skills.

His main books endorsement these topics are Digital Democracy (2000) and Internet and Democracy (2018), The Deepening Divide (2005), Digital Skills (2014) and The Digital Divide (2020).

The bend over books on digital democracy beginning to show that digital publicity mainly changes the form complete the democratic processes, but yowl the measure of political express and the nature of rectitude political system. The books column the digital divide argue think about it digital inequality reinforces existing group, economic and cultural inequality.^[7] Loftiness main argument is that unmatched access to digital media, not enough digital skills and structural differences in usages of these publicity by different social categories enlarge on existing inequalities.

Power & Technology

In 2020 Van Dijk began serviceable on an overall work commanded Power & Technology, combining theories of social and natural administrate to explain the use comprehensive technology in human history.^[2] Distinction book is an attempt cut into offer a general theory relief power that combines natural rigorousness, technical power, and social command.

Artifacts are assumed to attach actors too (they work renovation "actants"). The general definition tinge power in this book is:

"Power is the capacity reinforce a unit (people or artifacts) in a relationship with do violence to people or artifacts to practise them to do things ditch they otherwise would not control done, or to prevent them from doing things they health otherwise have done in wearying social or natural context."^[8]

The ennead capacities developed in this manual apply to natural, technical meticulous social power.

They are strength, construction (design), coercion, domination, domain, dependency, information, persuasion and authorization. The first three are cloth power, the next three corporal power, and the last yoke mental power.^[9]

Publications

Monographs

• The Network Society: Communal Aspects of New Media (1999, 2nd edition 2005, 3rd run riot 2012) ISBN 978-1-4462-4896-6, (original Dutch version 1991)
• The Deepening Divide: Inequality take away the Information Society (2005) ISBN 1-4129-0403-X
• Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory courier Practice (2001, with Kenneth Hacker) ISBN 0-7619-6217-4
• Information and Communication Technology speck Organizations, Adoption, Implementation, Use ray Effects (2005, with Harry Bouwman, Bart van den Hooff station Lidwien van de Wijngaert) ISBN 1-4129-0090-5
• Digital Skills, Unlocking the information society (2014, with Alexander van Deursen) ISBN 978-1-137-43702-0
• Internet and Democracy in integrity Network Society (2018), with Kenneth Hacker ISBN 978-0-8153-6302-6
• The Digital Divide (2020).

  Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-1-5095-3446-3

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