Social movements and their technologies: Wiring social change

modernity and social movements

in this article, the writer discusses the concept of modernity and its relationship with social movements, as is reflected in classical works on modernity as well as in the contemporary modern political and sociological thoughts. the purpose is not to present a quantitative analysis of the development of the concept of modernity, but to explain the relationship between modernity and political a...

Physical and Social Technologies, and Their Evolution

Social Change, Social Theory, and the Convergence of Movements and Organizations

The essays in this volume have brought together two fields of inquiry, the study of social movements and the study of organizations, that have shown substantial convergence in core concepts and modes of analysis (McAdam and Scott, Chap. 1; Campbell, Chap. 2). Social movements are often represented by formal organizations, and organizations respond to social movements and have movement-like proc...

Social Semantic Web technologies and tools and their educational applications

Learning technologies have already started to make use of both Social Web (or Web 2.0) and Semantic Web principles, techniques, approaches and tools. Recently, researchers and developers have started to combine these two worlds, thus giving rise to the Social Semantic Web. Consequently, the world of learning technologies turns itself more and more to the Social Semantic Web as one of its key su...

Learning about Information Technologies and Social Change: The Contribution of Social Informatics

Social Informatics is the body of research that examines the design, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies in ways that take into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts. This article serves as a brief introduction to social informatics. Examples such as computer networks, scientific communication via electronic journals, and public acce...