Open the door to networked existence

Author: Chinese Social Sciences
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book summarizes the author's research achievements on "networked existence" over 8 years of academic career in three aspects. First, it explores the social foundation of networked existence; second, it studies the regularity of networked existence; third, it reflects on networked existence. Traditional theories of philosophy of science and technology are all aimed at behaviors occurring in physical time and space models, where the body is a material in communication. However, in the network world, time, space, the body, and their social attributes are all absent, which presents a new challenge for academia. This book attempts to take networked behavior as the research vantage point, with philosophy as the perspective and multidisciplinary analysis as the basic method, making the research interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary. Logically speaking, the analysis of networked behavior is the vantage point of social sciences in the information age. It is reasonable to believe that research in this direction can promote interdisciplinary studies and common development among disciplines such as philosophy of science and technology, sociology, economics, psychology, and more. Of course, the research in this book is still preliminary, and there is still a long way to go.