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Jan van Dijk was born on 1952, is an An academic staff of the University of Twente. Discover Jan van Dijk's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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1952

Jan A.G.M. van Dijk (born 1952) is professor emeritus of communication science at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, where he still works.

His chair was called The Sociology of the Information Society.

He lectured on the social aspects of the information society.

Van Dijk was also Chair of the Centre for e-Government Studies and an advisor of and many governments and departments, including the European Commission and several Dutch ministries, city departments, and political parties.

1970

Van Dijk started his career as a methodologist of critical social research at the end of the 1970s at the University of Utrecht.

It analyzed the research tradition practiced at Western universities in the 1970s and 1980s.

Next, van Dijk concentrated on principles of applied social research as a combination of observation and agent of social change.

He experimented with a Delphi method among employees in corporations.

In this process, he first observed the effects of the introduction of computing and the Internet in the work environment and decided to explore its effect on individuals, organizations, and societies.

Van Dijk started his digital media research with an interdisciplinary overview of the consequences of digital media and networks on people, society and organizations.

The overview focused on economic, sociological, political, cultural, psychological, and legal consequences as well as relevant policy approaches.

1980

In the 1980s Van Dijk initiated the term Network Society, which he defined as a "modern society (after the industrial revolution) with an infrastructure of social and media networks that organize this society at every level: individual, group/organization and society".

He claimed that in Western countries, the individual, connected by networks, are the basic unit of society, while in Eastern societies, interconnected groups (family, community or work team) form the basic unit.

1984

His dissertation was "Western Marxism in Social Science" (1984).

1991

It was eventually published as De Netwerkmaatschappij (English: Network Society (1991)).

1994

Three Dutch editions followed in 1994, 1997, and 2001.

1999

From 1999, van Dijk extended and updated his concept in four English editions of The Network Society (1999, 2006, 2012 and 2020).

2000

Between 2000 and 2020, his research on networks and digital media or new media focused on digital or Internet democracy, e-government, the digital divide and digital skills.

His main books on these topics are Digital Democracy (2000) and Internet and Democracy (2018), The Deepening Divide (2005), Digital Skills (2014) and The Digital Divide (2020).

The two books on digital democracy attempt to show that digital media mainly changes the form of the democratic processes, but not the measure of political participation and the nature of the political system.

The books on the digital divide argue that digital inequality reinforces existing social, economic and cultural inequality.

The main argument is that unequal access to digital media, inadequate digital skills and structural differences in usages of these media by different social categories amplify existing inequalities.

2020

In the 2020 edition, the new trends are the emergence of artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, Bitcoin and platform economy.

In 2020 Van Dijk began working on an overall work called Power & Technology, combining theories of social and natural power to explain the use of technology in human history.

The book is an attempt to offer a general theory of power that combines natural power, technical power, and social power.

Artifacts are assumed to be actors too (they work as "actants").

The general definition of power in this book is:

"Power is the capacity of a unit (people or artifacts) in a relationship with other people or artifacts to cause them to do things that they otherwise would not have done, or to prevent them from doing things they might otherwise have done in some social or natural context."

The nine capacities developed in this book apply to natural, technical and social power.

They are force, construction (design), coercion, domination, discipline, dependency, information, persuasion and authority.

The first three are material power, the next three physical power, and the last three mental power.