Internet and Society: Technology, Ankapalli, Visakhapatnam, Andhrapradesh

INTERNET AND SOCIETY
BY K.SANTOSH BABU, RAVITEJA, PRATAP MANIKANTA, FROM DADI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, ANKAPALLI, VISAKHAPATNAM, ANDHRAPRADESH.
ABSTRACT:
capitalism, Web 2.0, social software, ecological sustainability and ICTs, informational monopolies, strategies of accumulation related to the Internet, MySpace, YouTube, Wikipedia, Google, Open Source, Free Software, file sharing, knowledge labor, class theory, multitude and Empire (Hardt and Negri), class theory in informational capitalism, gift internet economy, commodity internet economy, gift commodity internet economy, digital divide, eParticipation, digital democracy, democratic theory, information warfare, electronic surveillance, cyber protest, the movement for democratic globalization ("anti-globalization"), virtual communities, social networking platforms, cyber stalking, social relations online, individualization and isolation online, Internet addiction, cyber culture, cyber ethics, etc. INTRODUCTION: The Internet is ubiquitous in everyday life. On the Internet, we search for information, plan trips, read newspapers, articles, communicate with others by making use of e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, Internet phone, discussion boards, mailing lists, video conferencing; we listen to music and radio, watch videos, order or purchase by auction different goods, write our own blogs, and contribute to the blogs of others; we meet others, discuss with others, learn to know other people, fall in love, become friends, or develop intimate relations; we maintain contact with others; we protest, access government sites, learn, play games, create knowledge together with others in wikis, share ideas, images, videos; we download software and other digital data, and so forth. On the Internet, we also can feel being lost, disoriented, dissatisfied, scared, bored, stressed, alienated, lonesome, and so forth. The Internet obviously is here to stay. How has this system transformed our lives and our society? What are the positive effects? What are the negative ones? Which opportunities and risks for the development of society (Fuchs/Hofkirchner 2006). ICT&S is also short for the Center for Advanced Studies and
The Internet has changed the everyday life of many of us. How has this system transformed our lives and our society? What are the positive effects? What the negative ones? Which opportunities and risks for the development of society and social systems do we find in global informational capitalism/the "Internet society"? This paper helps people to find answers to such questions. Its main goal is to work out a theoretical understanding of the relationship of Internet and society. It is an introduction to the social theory of the Internet that addresses how internet and society are related, i.e. how the internet transforms society and social systems and is shaped by social processes. The paper is an update of critical social theory to the current societal situation, a neo-Marxist theory of new media that is grounded in a general critical theory of society and capitalism. The main intellectual influences for this book are dialectical thinking (Hegel, Marx, Marcuse) and self-organization The potentials of the Internet for advancing new forms of co-operation and competition in the various subsystems of society such as the ecological, the economic, the political, and the cultural system. The problem that the book addresses is the question how society and Internet need to be shaped by humans in order to avoid risks and maximize human happiness. The book discusses how internet and society can be shaped in ways that advance co-operation, participation, and inclusion and avoid competition, domination, and exclusion. The notion of transnational informational capitalism is introduced and elaborated throughout the book. Topics addressed in the book include: self-organization in nature, selforganization in society, foundations of social theory,

theory of capitalism, transnational informational
Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society (ICT&S Center, http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.at) at the contribute in helping people to find their own answers to University of Salzburg. Its opening took place in March 2004; such questions. Its main goal is to work out a theoretical the idea for such a research center was created by Ursula understanding of the relationship of Internet and society. Maier-Rabler, who is now the ICT&S Centers academic The problem that it addresses is the question of how director. One of the centers units of competence is the society and the Internet need to be shaped by humans in order to avoid risks and maximize human happiness. eTheory unit, headed by Wolfgang Hofkirchner, who became professor at the center in October 2005. I joined the Center The study on Internet and society undertaken here takes and the eTheory unit in October 2004 as assistant professor for place within a larger framework that has during the last Internet and society. It is the vivid atmosphere at the ICT&S years been labeled with categories like Internet research, ICTs and society, social informatics, informatics and Centerwith all ups and downs attached to itand at the society, new media research, information society theory, University of Salzburg that has provided me with the information society research/studies, Internet studies, Web intellectual climate for writing this book. Hence, I want to research, etc. thank all the people at the ICT&S Center, my students, and my colleagues at the Department of Communication Science for Social informatics is a widely used term for this field of research. It was defined as the interdisciplinary study of giving me the opportunity for my own continuous learning and the design, uses, and consequences of ICTs that takes into intellectual growth. account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts (Kling, Rosenbaum, and Sawyer 2005, 6). This ICTs is a term that is used for technologies of cognition, definition implies that both the social design processes of communication, and cooperation that are computerized (i.e., ICTs and social ICT usage are important. work with digital logic) and networked. The term Internet frequently is used for a specific type of ICTs, the The terms Internet and new media are understood as global network of computer networks that is based on the technological concepts by many (although they are TCP/IP protocol and has developed from the ARPANET. Much frequently described as techno-social systems by social of the analysis in this book is devoted to the Internet in this scientists); hence my contention is that Internet understanding; however, the category Internet is not only seen research or new media research are not wisely chosen as one specific network but as the general phenomenon of the terms because they can convey the impression of a interconnection of networked knowledge-based technologies technological determinist understanding. I therefore and networked social systems. consider the term information and communication technologies & society research (ICT&S) more suitable The research field of ICT&S deals with the interplay of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and society. Two interconnected aspects of ICT&S research are: The social shaping/social design of ICTs. The impacts of ICT usage on society.

The task is the analysis of these relationships and the contribution to the design of society and ICTs so that a participatory knowledge society can emerge. ICT&S research deals with opportunities and risks of the knowledge society and the shaping of technology and social systems. ICT&S research is a double process, consisting of (1) a process in which human actors design ICTs and in which it is analyzed how society shapes ICTs, and (2) of a process in which it is assessed how the usage of ICTs transforms society (fig. 1.1). That ICTs are shown at another level than society here doesnt mean that they exist outside of it. Rather, ICTs are an imminent part of society.
It is up to developing countries to create their own versions of the environment of Silicon Valley (cooperation between Industry, government and academia). The world will again be different in another decade! There has been more scientific development in the last 50 years than all of human history prior. We point out that the paces of scientific discovery is in parallel with Moores law. This is greatly assisted by ICT development we use as an example how long did it take it took Henry Biggs to calculate the log tables.
There is bound to be new centers of excellence in other countries in the future. CONCLUSIONS: REFERENCES: Ideas can have influence many years after their conception. Many new ideas need technological underpinnings that may not be available at the time of their conception. There is a debate about the future world order and the distribution of wealth is the world staying spiky or is it truly become flat. My view: The world is an evolving place. Look at Japan in 1945, South Korea in mid-1950s and now! I feel that Florida only gave us a snapshot of today. Friedman could be right in that we are evolving towards a flat world. Things that are impeding this flatting process are the friction between nations and war! Internet,E-books,Internet and Society by Christian Fuchs.

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