The study “Content creation and mobility in the network society. Convergence. Collision. Transformation” is the author’s doctoral thesis developed within the Doctoral School of Sociology, at the University of Bucharest. The doctoral research was carried out in a period characterized by ambivalent relationships between social paradigms; the very theory of networks has been confronted with successive re-thematizations, as a result of the technological leap from web 2.0 to web 3.0 – the semantic web -, on the background of concerns related to rethinking the sustainability in contexts marked by the interconnection of risk – the competition for Internet control, the non-transparent use of personal data by IT giants, the deepening crisis of democracy by increasing misinformation, manipulation of information and emotions, the structural effects of epistemic inequities, etc. – and the growing expectations from institutions and the quality of governance during crises that have tested global cooperation capabilities.
The approach of sustainability through interconnected multiple circularities – politics, economics, ecology, technology, culture, education – has imprinted a trend of progressive abstraction of epistemology, but also the emphasis on connecting epistemology to ethics, to differentiate between necessity and possibility (modal epistemology), or to identify and substantiate collective aspects of knowledge production – for example, collaborative science, spaces for innovation based on advanced knowledge sharing, the role of communities of practice – researchers, engineers, planners, developers, communicators, so on.
International Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies and Environmental Communication 