ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors draw on both historical and contemporary accounts of digitalization to address grand narratives about digital technology and its role in society and, once again, show the relationship between how they interpret technology and how technology is used. The communication society does not primarily denote a society where they "communicate more". Rather, it represented a shift to a society increasingly organized around technologies that made communication and interactions across various groups and borders possible. When they nevertheless choose to highlight the communication society, it is both as a contrast to earlier technological discourses and because it still accurately describes the technology-society relationship they have today. They again emphasize that none of these terms are entirely comprehensive they necessarily focus on some elements of the digital present and omit others but they can be useful for capturing changes in society linked to digitalization and can thus help turn the attention toward some critical aspects of digitalization processes.
