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ACTORS OF TECHNOSOCIAL CHANGES IN AFTER NETWORK SOCIETY SELECTED PROBLEMS AND QUESTIONS
Alina BETLEJ1
New Technologies and Social Change
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (106-107) 2020, Publication date: 17 December 2020
Keywords: technosocial actors, change, new technologies, after network society
Abstract Interactions between humans and new technologies result in changes that can be called technosocial in modern civilisation. Rapid technological developments affects the social world. The implications of technosocial fusion are the first symptoms of after network society. The ongoing scientific development influences the knowledge (individual, social, civilizational) about the potentials of change inscribed in the essence of technologies undergoing improvement. The conjectures about the possibility of provoking certain visions of the techno-social future seem to be gaining increasing momentum in discussions about the role of the participants of connected realities. The processes of technosocial change are repeatedly determined. The driving forces of society diversify in a similar way and emerge with varying strength in various network contexts. This after- network revolution certainly has many heroes - traditional and new ones. New technosocial actors participate in the transformation processes in a different manner. The author identifies new subjects of these transformations and answers selected questions about the effects of the observed processes
Institute of Sociological Sciences of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0002-2729-6564
E-mail: alinabetlej@kul.pl