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Mapping Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

In: Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

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  • Karim Gherab-Martín

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It is nearly impossible to find a common thread running through all the chapters in this book. For instance, although there are many authors who think that ICTs favor decentralization, democratization, development, and the flattening of hierarchy among human beings (see Chapters 2.1, 4.2 and 11.1), others believe there is no ground for these claims (see Chapters 1 and 13). However, there seems to be a “family resemblance,” as Wittgenstein would say, among the chapters, and it would be rather pretentious to try to predict how digital technology will shape social structures. There is no doubt that new material means of production and spreading information will radically transform social, economic, and labor relations—indeed, this is already happening (see Chapters 10, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3)—but the Marxist characterization of history does not necessarily lead to a strict tech-nological determinism. In other words, the fate of the Internet society is still unwritten—it is not predetermined.

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  • Karim Gherab-Martín, 2010. "Mapping Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Phillip Kalantzis-Cope & Karim Gherab-Martín (ed.), Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, pages 365-368, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29904-7_58
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_58
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