‘The Internet Age has brought with it a deep discontinuity of modern control balances in many fields of human expression – not only society generally but also sectors such as the economy, politics, art and the sciences. The web-conversational environment has disoriented many institutions and organizations in the perception of change as either a threat or an opportunity.
Social science studies on globalization and the classics of sociology may provide a relevant background to the understanding of the many-sided opportunities of the Internet Age.’