Hi Katja, I would also compare with "mediatization" as it is understood in (cultural) communication studies: a process of cohabitation and amalgamation of media practices, leading to an emergence of new modes of communication. Not in the deterministic view of media effects, but rather a more Latourian approach to systems and institutions/individuals/technologies that inhabit them. http://www.mediatization.eu/ECREA_Temporary_Working_Group_Mediatization/Home... Hepp, A. (2011). Mediatization, media technologies and the “moulding forces” of the media. http://www.mediatisiertewelten.de/fileadmin/mediapool/documents/Vortraege_IC... regards, Alex. On 8 July 2012 16:26, Katja Mayer <katja.mayer@univie.ac.at> wrote:
Dear list members,
if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize this term?
I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context, looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on labour, e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more about other approaches.
Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since the term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc: L'informatisation de la societe.)
Thanks for your assistence, Katja
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