Manuel Castells - the Network Society
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This Twine explores Manuel Castells' writing on the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural, economic, social, political and institutional diversity. By network society, he refers to the social structure that results from the interaction between social organization, social change, and a technological paradigm constituted around digital information and communication technologies.
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The Internet galaxy: reflections on the Internet, business, and societyManuel Castells is one of the world's leading thinkers on the new information age, hailed by The Economist as "the first significant philosopher of cyberspace," and by Christian Science Monitor as "a pioneer who has hacked out a logical, well-documented, and coherent picture of early 21st ...
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Mobile communication and societyWireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life—or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywhere ...
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Manuel Castells: the theory of the network society - Felix StalderFirst in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering work Traces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of global social transformations Distills the central ideas in Castells work into an accessible and concise introduction for undergraduate students ...
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The Rise of the Network Society: Volume I: The Information Age: Economy - Manuel CastellsThis first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all ...
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The power of identity - Manuel Castells"The Power of Identity" is the second volume of Manuel Castells' trilogy, "The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture." It deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy. ...
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