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AI Society Theory: Re-imagining Castells’ Network Society in the Algorithmic World

2025-09-15

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The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) challenges existing frameworks in media and communication studies, revealing the limits of classical theories and Castells’ network society in explaining contemporary social transformations. While Castells (2010) conceptualized society as structured through networks, flows, and informationalism, the proliferation of AI systems introduces a new layer of mediation, where algo...

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Literature Corpus work: 8cec036f-8083-5975-964e-1a21e11c85a1
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202509.1157.v1

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