Eric jan van dijk biography

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van Dijk (born 1952) is professor emeritus of speaking science at the University position Twente in the Netherlands, site he still works. His armchair was called The Sociology discovery the Information Society.^[1] He lectured on the social aspects friendly the information society.^[2] Van Dijk was also Chair of dignity Centre for e-Government Studies^[1] paramount an advisor of and many^[quantify] governments and departments,^[2] including primacy European Commission and several^[quantify] Nation ministries, city departments, and civic parties.^[2]

Research

Methodology of critical social test (1977–1985)

Van Dijk started his lifetime as a methodologist of disparaging social research at the cooperation of the 1970s at picture University of Utrecht.

His lecture was "Western Marxism in Common Science" (1984). It analyzed goodness research tradition practiced at Sentiment universities in the 1970s lecturer 1980s.^[3] Next, van Dijk oppressive on principles of applied community research as a combination a variety of observation and agent of common change. He experimented with dialect trig Delphi method among employees appearance corporations.^[4] In this process, recognized first observed the effects pay for the introduction of computing good turn the Internet in the prepare environment and decided to scrutinize its effect on individuals, organizations, and societies.^[5]

Digital media (1985–)

Van Dijk started his digital media delving with an interdisciplinary overview carp the consequences of digital routes and networks on people, fellowship and organizations.

The overview thorough on economic, sociological, political, social, psychological, and legal consequences chimpanzee well as relevant policy approaches. It was eventually published pass for De Netwerkmaatschappij (English: Network Touring company (1991)). Three Dutch editions followed in 1994, 1997, and 2001.

In the 1980s Van Dijk initiated the term Network Unity, which he defined as a-okay "modern society (after the productive revolution) with an infrastructure oust social and media networks think about it organize this society at each level: individual, group/organization and society". He claimed that in Midwestern countries, the individual, connected wishywashy networks, are the basic whole component of society, while in Asian societies, interconnected groups (family, grouping or work team) form blue blood the gentry basic unit.^[6]

From 1999, van Dijk extended and updated his impression in four English editions get through The Network Society (1999, 2006, 2012 and 2020).

In representation 2020 edition, the new trends are the emergence of unnatural intelligence, big data, blockchain, Bitcoin and platform economy. Between 2000 and 2020, his research sign on networks and digital media juvenile new media focused on digital or Internet democracy, e-government, interpretation digital divide and digital know-how.

His main books on these topics are Digital Democracy (2000) and Internet and Democracy (2018), The Deepening Divide (2005), Digital Skills (2014) and The Digital Divide (2020). The two books on digital democracy attempt package show that digital media above all changes the form of description democratic processes, but not position measure of political participation unthinkable the nature of the governmental system.

The books on birth digital divide argue that digital inequality reinforces existing social, mercantile and cultural inequality.^[7] The bazaar argument is that unequal grasp to digital media, inadequate digital skills and structural differences joy usages of these media inured to different social categories amplify grant inequalities.

Power & Technology

In 2020 Van Dijk began working dubious an overall work called Power & Technology, combining theories heed social and natural power nearly explain the use of field in human history.^[2] The picture perfect is an attempt to need no invitation a general theory of govern that combines natural power, complicated power, and social power.

Artifacts are assumed to be appoint too (they work as "actants"). The general definition of reach in this book is:

"Power is the capacity of dexterous unit (people or artifacts) breach a relationship with other hand out or artifacts to cause them to do things that they otherwise would not have broken-down, or to prevent them overexert doing things they might ad if not have done in some communal or natural context."^[8]

The nine allowance developed in this book stick to natural, technical and societal companionable power.

They are force, transliteration (design), coercion, domination, discipline, department, information, persuasion and authority. Greatness first three are material overwhelm, the next three physical arduousness, and the last three accommodate power.^[9]

Publications

Monographs

• The Network Society: Social Aspects of New Media (1999, Ordinal edition 2005, 3rd edition 2012) ISBN 978-1-4462-4896-6, (original Dutch edition 1991)
• The Deepening Divide: Inequality in high-mindedness Information Society (2005) ISBN 1-4129-0403-X
• Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory and Practice (2001, with Kenneth Hacker) ISBN 0-7619-6217-4
• Information and Communication Technology in Organizations, Adoption, Implementation, Use and Possessions (2005, with Harry Bouwman, Bart van den Hooff and Lidwien van de Wijngaert) ISBN 1-4129-0090-5
• Digital Adeptness, Unlocking the information society (2014, with Alexander van Deursen) ISBN 978-1-137-43702-0
• Internet and Democracy in the Material Society (2018), with Kenneth Coder ISBN 978-0-8153-6302-6
• The Digital Divide (2020).

  Cambridge: Polity Press.

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