Unveiling Network Data Patterns in Social Media

Challenges And Opportunities Of Digital Society

The extensive process of digitalization that reshapes the activities we usually conduct, the environments in which we are embedded, and the objects we use are among the most significant characteristics of contemporary society. There are many examples of how digital technologies are integrated into multiple dimensions of everyday life, such as in credit card transactions, the geolocation of our movements, the images captured by video surveillance cameras, and the smartphones and tablets we carry around with us.

Specifically, the Internet and ICT have contributed to the creation of a “complex and multifaceted arena” (Roberts et al., 2016, p. 3) in which different environments, tools, and infrastructures dynamically converge and has deeply impacted the reconfiguration of daily habits regarding time, space, activities, social relations, and identity representations.