Van Dijk Jan. The Network Society. Social Aspects of New Media

Second Edition. — SAGE Publications Ltd. London, 2006. — 304 p.The last three decades have witnessed a dramatic acceleration in the use, demand, and need for telecommunications, data communication, and mass communication transmitted and integrated into networks. Through a synthesis of contemporary theories about modernization, this book offers a broad-ranging introduction to the 'network' society in all its aspects.