Hi Massimo The most well-known thinker of the information society is Manuel Castells but some people think he is not critical or theoretical enough. For an application of critical theory, marxism etc to information society and Internet issues you should check out the work of Nick Dyer-Witherford and Christian Fuchs. I can't think off the top of my head of anyone in that field specifically referring to Durkheim or Simmel. For Weber I wrote a book exploring online modes of authority and organisation and there is a lot of work done on post-bureaucracy, collaborative work in sociology and organisation studies but as for wider issues of modernity / rationalisation etc the dominant reference these appears to be Foucault rather than Weber or Lukacs. Hope this helps, cheers, Mathieu On 10/01/12, Massimo Ragnedda <ragnedda@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear AoIR colleagues

I am looking for inspiration for a course on Media, Culture and Modernism offered in the framework of a BA (Hons), Media, Culture and Society.

I'm thinking about creating a course that relates, in some way, modern culture, global capitalism, the technological change and the rising of the Network Society. The goal would be to relate the founding fathers – Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Simmel, etc… - of classical sociology, to the rise of Internet.

I appreciate any help regarding good websites, sources or textbooks containing case studies.

Is anyone teaching something similar who wants to get in touch to exchange ideas?

Kind regards

Massimo

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