Product Description: Obra que analiza el proceso de transición hacia la era de la información y que toma como referente a Chile, país en el que ese proceso tiene características singulares, pues coincide con la transición política de la dictadura a la democracia y con lo que el autor denomina transición de un modelo liberal autoritario excluyente a un modelo liberal democrático incluyente...read more

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. The book analyzes processes of technological transformation in interaction with social culture in different cultural and institutional contexts: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Finland, Russia, China, India, Canada, and Catalonia. The topics examined include business productivity, global financial markets, cultural identity, the uses of the Internet in education and health, the anti-globalization movement, political processes, media and identity, and public policies to guide technological development. Taken together these studies show that the network society adopts very different forms, depending on the cultural and institutional environments in which it evolves. The Network Society is an outstanding and original volume of direct interest in academia - particularly in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, and business schools - as well as for policymakers engaged in technological policy and economic development. Business and management experts will also discover much of value to them within this book.

Product Description: New product. Never used!

Product Description: Con Fin de milenio, Manuel Castells completa su trilogía La era de la información: economía, sociedad y cultura, analizando los grandes procesos sociales y políticos que han transformado nuestro mundo en la última década: el colapso de la Unión Soviética, el desarrollo de un nuevo capitalismo dinámico y excluyente, el aug...read more

Product Description: Basado en la observación directa de las principales tecnópolis del mundo, este libro analiza los centros tecnológicos más importantes surgidos en la era de la información. Presenta la creación, desarrollo y perspectivas de áreas de alta tecnología, ciudades científicas y parques tecnológicos...read more

Product Description: Im zweiten Band seiner Trilogie zeigt Castells die beiden großen einander entgegengesetzten Trends in unserer Welt: Globalisierung und Identität. Die Revolution der Informationstechnologie und die Erneuerung des Kapitalismus haben die Netzwerkgesellschaft begründet, gekennzeichnet durch die global agierende Wirtschaft, durch Flexibilisierung und Unsicherheit von Arbeit und durche eine Kultur der "realen Virtualität"...read more

Product Description: In a series of conversations Manuel Castells, one of the world's best known social scientists, explains and expands his work. He builds on his earlier thinking, opening it to new audiences and taking it into new areas in a highly accessible way...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(view table of contents)

Product Description: Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim citizens...read more

(view table of contents)

Product Description: LA GALAXIA INTERNET. Reflexiones sobre internet, empresa y sociedad. MANUEL CASTELLS

(view table of contents)

(view table of contents)

Product Description: This is an account of the two great and conflicting trends now shaping the world: globalization and identity. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book, based on field work in Russia during the years of perestroika, analyzes the collapse of the Soviet Union as a result of the inability of a system based on the control of information to manage the transition to the Information Society...read more

Technopoles - planned centres for the promotion of high-technology industry - have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide. Created out of a technological revolution, the formation of the global economy and the emergence of a new form of economic production and management, they constitute the mines and foundries of the information age, redefining the conditions and processes of local and regional development. This text is a systematic survey of technopoles in all manifestations: science parks, science cities, national technopoles and techno-belt programmes. Detailed case studies, ranging from the Silicon Valley to Siberia and from the M4 Corridor to Taiwan, relate how global technopoles have developed, what each is striving to achieve and how well it is succeeding. "Technopoles of the World" distils the lessons learned from the successes and failures, embracing a host of disparate concepts and a few myths, and offering guidelines for national, regional and local planners and developers worldwide.

Provides information on accommodations, restaurants, and sightseeing