The Network Society

Edited by Manuel Castells

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
ISBN: 9781843765059
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Informationalism, networks, and the network society: a theoretical blueprint

Manuel Castells

Ch 2 Institutional models of the network society: Silicon Valley and Finland

Pekka Himanen and Manuel Castells

Ch 3 The Russian network society

Elena Vartanova

Ch 4 The Internet in China: technologies of freedom in a statist society

Jack Linchuan Qiu

Ch 5 Reflexive Internet? The British experience of new electronic technologies

Steve Woolgar

Ch 6 Why information should influence productivity

Marshall Van Alstyne and Nathaniel Bulkley

Ch 7 Labor in the network society: lessons from Silicon Valley

Chris Benner

Ch 8 Time, space, and technology in financial networks

Caitlin Zaloom

Ch 9 Networked sociability online, off-line

Keith N. Hampton

Ch 10 Social structure, cultural identity, and personal autonomy in the practice of the internet: the network society in Catalonia

Manuel Castells, Imma Tubella, Teresa Sancho, Maria Isabel Diaz de Isla and Barry Wellman

Ch 11 Racial segregation and the digital divide in the Detroit metropolitan region

Wayne E. Baker and Kenneth M. Coleman

Ch 12 The promise and the myths of e-learning in post-secondary education

Tony Bates

Ch 13 e-health networks and social transformations: expectations of centralization, experiences of decentralization

James E. Katz, Ronald E. Rice and Sophia K. Acord

Ch 14 Narrowing the digital divide: the potential and limits of the US community technology movement

Lisa J. Servon and Randal D. Pinkett

Ch 15 Networked social movements: global movements for global justice

Jeffrey S. Juris

Ch 16 From media politics to networked politics: the Internet and the political process

Araba Sey and Manuel Castells

Ch 17 Television, the internet, and the construction of identity

Imma Tubella

Ch 18 Globalization, identity, and television networks: community mediation and global responses in multicultural India

Anshu Chatterjee

Ch 19 The hacker ethic as the culture of the information age

Pekka Himanen

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