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The Network Society
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Edited by Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells – one of the world’s pre-eminent social scientists – has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies around the world in terms of the critical role of electronic communication networks in business, everyday life, public services, social interaction and politics. The contributors demonstrate that the network society is the new form of social organization in the Information age, replacing the Industrial society.
Monograph Book
- Published in print:
- 28 Sep 2004
- ISBN:
- 9781843765059
- eISBN:
- 9781845421663
- Pages:
- 488
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- The Network Society A Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Editor's preface
- Chapter 1: Informationalism, networks, and the network society: a theoretical blueprint
- Chapter 2: Institutional models of the network society: Silicon Valley and Finland
- Chapter 3: The Russian network society
- Chapter 4: The Internet in China: technologies of freedom in a statist society
- Chapter 5: Reflexive Internet? The British experience of new electronic technologies
- Chapter 6: Why information should influence productivity
- Chapter 7: Labor in the network society: lessons from Silicon Valley
- Chapter 8: Time, space, and technology in financial networks
- Chapter 9: Networked sociability online, off-line
- Chapter 10: Social structure, cultural identity, and personal autonomy in the practice of the internet: the network society in Catalonia
- Chapter 11: Racial segregation and the digital divide in the Detroit metropolitan region
- Chapter 12: The promise and the myths of e-learning in post-secondary education
- Chapter 13: e-health networks and social transformations: expectations of centralization, experiences of decentralization
- Chapter 14: Narrowing the digital divide: the potential and limits of the US community technology movement
- Chapter 15: Networked social movements: global movements for global justice
- Chapter 16: From media politics to networked politics: the Internet and the political process
- Chapter 17: Television, the internet, and the construction of identity
- Chapter 18: Globalization, identity, and television networks: community mediation and global responses in multicultural India
- Chapter 19: The hacker ethic as the culture of the information age
- Afterword: an historian's view on the network society
- Index
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- The Network Society A Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Editor's preface
- Chapter 1: Informationalism, networks, and the network society: a theoretical blueprint
- Chapter 2: Institutional models of the network society: Silicon Valley and Finland
- Chapter 3: The Russian network society
- Chapter 4: The Internet in China: technologies of freedom in a statist society
- Chapter 5: Reflexive Internet? The British experience of new electronic technologies
- Chapter 6: Why information should influence productivity
- Chapter 7: Labor in the network society: lessons from Silicon Valley
- Chapter 8: Time, space, and technology in financial networks
- Chapter 9: Networked sociability online, off-line
- Chapter 10: Social structure, cultural identity, and personal autonomy in the practice of the internet: the network society in Catalonia
- Chapter 11: Racial segregation and the digital divide in the Detroit metropolitan region
- Chapter 12: The promise and the myths of e-learning in post-secondary education
- Chapter 13: e-health networks and social transformations: expectations of centralization, experiences of decentralization
- Chapter 14: Narrowing the digital divide: the potential and limits of the US community technology movement
- Chapter 15: Networked social movements: global movements for global justice
- Chapter 16: From media politics to networked politics: the Internet and the political process
- Chapter 17: Television, the internet, and the construction of identity
- Chapter 18: Globalization, identity, and television networks: community mediation and global responses in multicultural India
- Chapter 19: The hacker ethic as the culture of the information age
- Afterword: an historian's view on the network society
- Index