Bachelor-of-Digital-Society.md

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+During ‘What is (a) Digital Society?’, we discussed the platform society. This term was coined by José van Dijck and her colleagues to capture the ways in which the platforms provided by big tech companies organise interactions between people, and between people and public and private organisations, and how society is increasingly shaped by these mediated interactions. They define it as follows: ‘a platform is fuelled by data, automated and organized through algorithms and interfaces, formalized through ownership relations driven by business models, and governed through user agreements.’ (van Dijck, Poell, and de Waal, 2018, p.9, italics in original)
+Over the years, many terms have been introduced to capture the ways in which digital technologies shape society. These were briefly introduced in ‘What is (a) Digital Society?’. Two of the main ones are ‘information society’ (Daniel Bell, 1973) and ‘network society’ (Manuel Castells, 1996).
+- Reference (in UM Library): van Dijck, J., Poell, T., & de Waal, M. (2018). The platform society. Public values in a connective world. Oxford University Press.
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+Summary provided by Sally Wyatt, based on the sources cited.
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