The development of the Internet coincides with 90s financial crises. The net seemed to realize what Karl Polanyi defined social self-defence from the capitalism against the transformation of labour, land and money in ...The development of the Internet coincides with 90s financial crises. The net seemed to realize what Karl Polanyi defined social self-defence from the capitalism against the transformation of labour, land and money in fictitious commodities. In this paper we try to consider how Internet, and in particular social network, has modified many deep aspects of our life. With two different approaches, sociological and philosophical, we try to understand how social networks support new shapes of happiness and trust in an economic crisis context.展开更多
文摘The development of the Internet coincides with 90s financial crises. The net seemed to realize what Karl Polanyi defined social self-defence from the capitalism against the transformation of labour, land and money in fictitious commodities. In this paper we try to consider how Internet, and in particular social network, has modified many deep aspects of our life. With two different approaches, sociological and philosophical, we try to understand how social networks support new shapes of happiness and trust in an economic crisis context.