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A postmodernist study of the internet

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Title A postmodernist study of the internet
 
Creator Heng, S. H.
 
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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.
 
Publisher UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA
 
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Date 2013-11-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/article/view/704
 
Source Akademika; Vol 53, No 1 (1998): AKADEMIKA 53
0126-8694
0126-5008
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/article/view/704/663