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We are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything including our relationships, our forms of work and leisure, and even our democracies in just a few years. Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital society that turns this assumption on its head. Rather than treating digital technologies as an independent causal force that is transforming social life, he asks: what problem does digitalization solve? When we pose the question in this way, we can see, argues Nassehi, that digitalization helps societies to deal with and reduce complexity by using coded numbers to process information. We can also see that modern societies had a digital structure long before computer technologies were developed already in the nineteenth century, for example, statistical pattern recognition technologies were being used in functionally differentiated societies in order to recognize, monitor and control forms of human behaviour. Digital technologies were s

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/10/2024
    ISBN13: 9781509558216, 978-1509558216
    ISBN10: 1509558217

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    We are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything including our relationships, our forms of work and leisure, and even our democracies in just a few years. Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital society that turns this assumption on its head. Rather than treating digital technologies as an independent causal force that is transforming social life, he asks: what problem does digitalization solve? When we pose the question in this way, we can see, argues Nassehi, that digitalization helps societies to deal with and reduce complexity by using coded numbers to process information. We can also see that modern societies had a digital structure long before computer technologies were developed already in the nineteenth century, for example, statistical pattern recognition technologies were being used in functionally differentiated societies in order to recognize, monitor and control forms of human behaviour. Digital technologies were s

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