Technology and Social Choices in the Era of Social Transformations

ISBN-13: 9783631808214 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 236 str.

Borut Roncevic;Matej Makarovic

Opis

From the dawn of humanity, the dialectic relationship between technology and society has been one of the driving forces behind changes in both realms. Trends in technological developments and their applications are, ultimately, the result of individual and collective choices. At the same time, technology influences the social choices of individuals, small groups and entire societies. This book focuses on two closely related ideas: technological development and social choices. While relating them, the book shows the relationship between human individuals and their agency; social structures, both as the initial context and as resulting from human agency; and technology that has been developed and applied by human agents' choices within social contexts.

Spis treści

Inseparability of Technology and Society: An Introduction

Part 1: Challenging Individuals

Mateja Rek

Digital Gap: Media Habits of Youth and Senior Citizens in Slovenia

Tea Golob and Matej Makarovic

Does Digitalization Make Slovenian Youth More Reflexive?

Jana Krivec, Primoz Rakovec and Tjasa Stepisnik Perdih

The Role of ICT in Adolescents Dealing with Psychosocial Problems

Part 2: Challenges of Learning and Entrepreneurship

Petra Kleindienst in Andrej Raspor

The Effectiveness of E-learning for Students' Acquiring Online

Presentation Competence

Frane Adam, Marus Gorisk, Matej MakarovicAcademic Entrepreneurship in the Framework of Cognitive

Mobilisation

Part 3: Challenges of Governance

Janja Mikulan Kildi

Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Dominant

Paradigms and New Perspectives

Frane Adam, MatevzTomscRoots and Manifestations of Populism in Contemporary Democracies

Dadiana Chiran

Three Decades of Electoral Participation Between Fragmentation

and Contingency: A Survey of the Literature on Economic Voting in

Eastern Europe

O autorze

Matej Makarovic, PhD, is a professor of sociology at the School of Advanced Social Studies (Nova Gorica, Slovenia) and Jean Monnet Chair in the field of governance for sustainable development. He is the co-chair of the Research Network for Sociology of Social Transformations of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and the president of the National Committee of the Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST) at the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO. He was a visiting scholar at several universitiesand research centres in the United States of America, Lebanon, Ireland, Czech Republic and Romania.

Borut Roncevic, PhD, is a professor of sociology at the School of Advanced Social Studies (Nova Gorica, Slovenia) and Faculty of Information Studies (Novo mesto, Slovenia). He is the fellow of Regional Studies Association. He is Jean Monnet Chair of Cultural Political Economy of Europe 2030 and the head of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "Technologies and Innovations in Regional Development" (2017-2020) and Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "Strategic Observatory for Europe 2030." He was a visiting scholar at academic institutions in United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Russia, Denmark, Lebanon and Croatia.