The “Network Economy” by Darin Barney holds several key ideas in relation to Karl Marx’s ideas of the capitalist economy. Karl Marx believed, “constant revolutionizing of the means of production- was, in fact definitive of advanced industrial economies”. As the industrial revolution advanced, technologies advanced, and communication technologies were a key innovation to the advancement of business. Labor also went from manual to knowledge based labor. Today, instead of just going to school to learn the basic mathematics, reading, science, and geography people go onto further their education with courses focused around the new communication technologies. This course being a perfect example.
Employment has definitely changed since the industrial revolution also, instead of going off to work in a factory producing products; there are hundreds of thousands of companies that solely exist because of communication technology. I feel like I am a perfect example of the network economy. I am a Communication Studies major, therefore most of my classes involve some aspect of online media or social networking. I also take entrepreneurial classes that involve talking about online marketing strategies. The jobs that I am applying for are at global advertising companies that would not exist today without communication technologies, advancement in education developed for educating society on these technologies, and the ever growing capitalist economy.
As the network economy sometimes can be blamed for a rise in unemployment, you have to remember all of the jobs it has provided also. The field of Communication Studies would not exist today without the network revolution and the information society.
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