Contesting the Digital World Order

Capital, state and space: contesting the borderless world

The globalization of economic activities and transnational corporations (TNCs) has led us to think that we are entering a ‘borderless’ world. Some prophets of globalization argue that it has led to the end of geography. To them, the state has ceased to be an institution capable of exerting influences on the activities of transnational capital, which has also become increasingly ‘placeless’. Thi...

Contesting Stigma: On Goffman's Assumptions of Normative Order

Explanation of Theoretical Basics of Analysis of the World Order

Homophily in the Digital World

MARCH/APRIL 201

Trust in the Digital World

Drawing principally on examples and literature from the Anglosphere, the author argues that the high salience given to "trust" and "trustworthiness" in recent scholarly literature, and which (notably in Putnam's work) attributes declining trust to a widely mistrusted mass media does not acknowledge the trustbuilding potential (realised in some instances) of interactive "Web 2.0" applications. D...