Transformation of the Internet Usage Practices

Explorer la société de l'information : expériences finlandaises.-Cet article examine les caractéristiques de l'informatisation en Finlande. Il s'agit de comprendre comment les citoyens ordinaires emploient les technologies de l'information et comment ils font l'expérience du développement de la société de l'information. Selon des données empiriques, les cultures locales aussi bien que la vie quotidienne demeurent en grande partie inchangées. C'est principalement dans l'entreprise que s'introduit la société de l'information par l'incorporation des technologies numériques dans les pratiques du travail (ordinateur, téléphone mobile). Les campagnes publicitaires massives de grandes sociétés du secteur des TIC contribuent à diffuser l'idée qu'existe déjà une société nouvelle fondée sur l'usage des nouvelles technologies. Cependant, cela n'est pas avéré pour l'expérience partagée par la majorité des citoyens telle qu'elle ressort de l'enquête de l'auteur.

Journal of Contemporary European Research, 2009

Church, Communication and Culture, 2017

Journal of Contemporary European Research, 2009

This article examines the case of Estonia as one of Europe's fastest growing informational economies, and asks whether its furious development of new media technologies, as industrial products, commercial resources and political instruments, has necessarily proven as beneficial to society at large as some domestic and international commentators have anticipated. After mapping Estonia's unique development in embracing new technologies since the mid-1990s, the article concludes with a study of Estonia's recent experiments in electronic voting: in 2007, Estonia was lauded as the first country in the world to afford voters at national parliamentary elections the opportunity to vote online from their homes. The article is based on a series of interviews conducted by the author with a number of prominent figures in Estonia's IT industry, private and voluntary sectors, government service and politics. It addresses issues arising out of academic literature relating to the ethical, social and political aspects of the proliferation of new media, within the context of related surveys and reports produced by governmental and transnational organisations.

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2009

Webology, 2014

Several surveys of Russian attitudes towards the Internet are examined. An official surveyor shows that the Internet audience is constantly growing in Russia. But surveys of 'ordinary people' demonstrate a symptom of Internet 'hate': many prefer to escape totally from social media and the Internet space. This audience needs to be investigated in order to answer the question: "are 'non-users' just ordinary 'socio-phobic individuals' or is their attitude a real trend in society and a new social behavior". This article is a preliminary investigation that does not provide answers to this question, but aims to open a discussion. The population of provincial Russia is a very special object of exploration with respect to their attitudes toward Internet because of three important factors: 1) recent penetration of the Internet in social practice; 2) strong tradition of collective life, making social media relatively unimportant; 3) special informational needs excluding the Internet as a satisfying means of information.

tripleC-Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, 2010

We propose to build up a philosophy of the Internet instead of building up its scientific theory. Our philosophy of the Internet includes several components of the philosophy of technology, information, communication, culture and organization because we use four different coexisting contexts for the better understanding of the nature of the Internet: the technological, the communication, the cultural and the organism ones. This philosophy of the Internet shows that the Internet is the sphere of a new mode of human existence, basically independent from, but built on and coexisting with the former (natural and societal) spheres of existence, and created by the late-modern humans. , human existence man aims: to build up a specific community. Every element of the human communities and the community itself are created by communication. Communication via Internet is a technology of building up virtual, open, extended communities. A deeper understanding of the communication via Internet is based on a communication situation analysis, including considerations on the active role of the media, the specificity of computers as communication machine, and the possibility of the highest level of individual control of the situation. From communication point of view the Internet is an intentionally created and maintained network of artificial, extended, virtual communities which are based on networked communication machines and individual human control over the communication situations.

Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento en los países nórdicos. : Semejanzas y divergencias con el caso español., 2009

The paper discusses the development and integration of the internet in different cultural settings. A special focus is given to the “Nordic” model of the Information Society. The model is compared both other models characterized by high internet-penetration rates and models characterized by lower penetration rates. It is argued that Nordic model is a result of both previous welfare policies, resulting in a homogenous population dominated by a modern well-educated middleclass with a high percentage of women on the labor market, and the extended use of welfare principles in the national IT development-strategies. In the case of Denmark the Public Service Broadcast media also plays a significant role. Citation for published version (APA): Finnemann, N. O. (2009). The Internet and the Nordic model of the Information Society. In M. C. Herreros (Ed.), Sociedad de la Información y del Conocimiento en los países nórdicos. : Semejanzas y divergencias con el caso español. (pp. 196-222). Barcelona: Barcelona: Gedisa.

2016

Th is chapter examines Estonian transition society from the perspective of media use and ‘media generations’. Th e focus lies on the younger cohorts born between 1978 and 1996, with their formative years falling in the period aft er Estonia regained its independence in 1991. By applying a cultural, multi-dimensional perspective to digital stratifi cation and media generations, the chapter aims to reveal how Estonian young people, according to their media use characteristics, are positioned in the socio-cultural fi eld vis-à-vis older generation groups. Bourdieu’s concepts of multiple forms of capital, ‘taste’, and ‘habitus’ are applied to contemplate the extent to which structural versus lifestyle-related aspects of media use justify the discursive construction of the young as the ‘digital generation’. Th e chapter also deals with the refl exive aspect of constructing generations by analysing how the perception of intergenerational diff erences is related to media use preferences an...

Proceedings of ISIS Summit Vienna 2015—The Information Society at the Crossroads, 2015