MAPPING A NEW MILLENNIUM AND MULTIMEDIA ORDER By. Alifah & Bunga
THEORY Schumpeter Freeman n Soete The essential poin to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we’re dealing an evolutionary process…. a fact which was long ago emphasised by Karl Marx the full economic n’ social benefits (including employment generation) of information technology depends on a...
Spectrum of Approaches Communication n’ media studies disciplines Science, technology n’ society studies (STS) literature based on the fields of sociology n’ institutional political economy Technology determinist views Social Shaping Approaches
ICT: New Technology System Incremental Innovation New “techno Economic paradigm” Major new technology systems (MNTS) Radical Innovation New ‘Socio Technical Paradigm’
Socio Technical paradigm (STP) 4 long waves of capitalist development
Long wave 3: Capitalist development Schumpeter : stresses the role of “heroic enterpreneurs” or the ‘swarming’ of imitation innovations, he neglects these equally heroic social n’ political movements. The long wave model n’ dialectical approach here are far from technologically determinist. (by writer)
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