A postmodernist study of the internet

This paper argues is that the activities associated with the Internet are organisational and societal activities taking place within a given historical context. As such explanations of these activities can profit from sociological theories such as postmodernism which can be seen as a reaction to som...

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Main Author:	S.H. Heng
Format:	Article
Published:	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1998
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4163/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4163/

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spelling	ukm-41632012-05-23T04:51:10Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4163/ A postmodernist study of the internet S.H. Heng, This paper argues is that the activities associated with the Internet are organisational and societal activities taking place within a given historical context. As such explanations of these activities can profit from sociological theories such as postmodernism which can be seen as a reaction to some signal failures of modernism and the modernity project. Postmodernist thinking reflects both a sense of imposing crisis and a feeling that the modernist system of ideas no longer suffices. The sacrosanct notion of the privileged role of the enlightenment, rationality and reason has lost credibility. It is very much a socio-cultural and philosophical system of thoughts which sprouts in a post-industrial society. The relevant elements of postmodernism used here are: (a) power is diffuse, (b) there is no grand theory to make sense of reality; (c) the world is fragmented and chaotic, (d) information technology has an ambivalent character. It is argued that postmodernism offers a fruitful way of understanding and explaining the range of possibilities and challenges that accompany the advent of the Internet. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1998-07 Article PeerReviewed S.H. Heng, (1998) A postmodernist study of the internet. AKADEMIKA, 53 . pp. 113-127. ISSN 0126-5008 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/penerbit/jdem53-7.htm
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description	This paper argues is that the activities associated with the Internet are organisational and societal activities taking place within a given historical context. As such explanations of these activities can profit from sociological theories such as postmodernism which can be seen as a reaction to some signal failures of modernism and the modernity project. Postmodernist thinking reflects both a sense of imposing crisis and a feeling that the modernist system of ideas no longer suffices. The sacrosanct notion of the privileged role of the enlightenment, rationality and reason has lost credibility. It is very much a socio-cultural and philosophical system of thoughts which sprouts in a post-industrial society. The relevant elements of postmodernism used here are: (a) power is diffuse, (b) there is no grand theory to make sense of reality; (c) the world is fragmented and chaotic, (d) information technology has an ambivalent character. It is argued that postmodernism offers a fruitful way of understanding and explaining the range of possibilities and challenges that accompany the advent of the Internet.
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title	A postmodernist study of the internet
title_short	A postmodernist study of the internet
title_full	A postmodernist study of the internet
title_fullStr	A postmodernist study of the internet
title_full_unstemmed	A postmodernist study of the internet
title_sort	postmodernist study of the internet
publisher	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	1998
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A postmodernist study of the internet

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