Sieć i społeczeństwo sieci – zarys rozwoju najważniejszych idei

• Authors: Rafał Maciąg
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the history of the development of the idea of a network as a tool for research, indicating its dispersion within science, involving the use of extremely different theoretical approaches. The text proposes to include them in the form of the parent confrontation between mainly quantitative research stream and humanistic stream, based on the idea of a network society. It indicates also that a similar breakdown occurs from the beginning of the research within the quantitative stream, taking the form of a confrontation of sociological research and physical or biological research. The article cites facts about the development of all the described tracts, leading to conclusion, that such a state of network research must recall the epistemological reflection on the one hand, and, on the other hand, it establishes the possibility of the emergence of the synthetic and interdisciplinary concepts, which potential examples it shows

Keywords

EN

network society; network theory; WWW; Humanities; epistemology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Zarządzanie Mediami
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 157–167

Dates

published

2014

online

2014-11-02

Contributors

author

Rafał Maciąg

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/23540214ZM.14.012.3574