Product Description: Manuel Castells entwirft in seinem dreibändigen Werk eine Soziologie des Informationszeitalters. Auf der Grundlage reichhaltigen empirischen Materials zeichnet er nach, analysiert und interpretiert die Entwicklung unserer Welt von der Industriegesellschaft zur Informationsgesellschaft...read more

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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

We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The media have become the space where power strategies are played out. In the current technological context mass communication goes beyond traditional media and includes the Internet and mobile communication. In this wide-ranging and powerful book, Manuel Castells analyses the transformation of the global media industry by this revolution in communication technologies. He argues that a new communication system, mass self-communication, has emerged, and power relationships have been profoundly modified by the emergence of this new communication environment. Created in the commons of the Internet this communication can be locally based, but globally connected. It is built through messaging, social networks sites, and blogging, and is now being used by the millions around the world who have access to the Internet.Drawing on a wide range of social and psychological theories, Castells presents original research on political processes and social movements. He applies this analysis to numerous recent events--the misinformation of the American public on the Iraq War, the global environmental movement to prevent climate change, the control of information in China and Russia, Barak Obama's internet-based presidential campaigns, and (in this new edition) responses to recent political and economic crises such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement. On the basis of these case studies he proposes a new theory of power in the information age based on the management of communication networksJustly celebrated for his analysis of the network society, Castells here builds on that work, offering a well grounded and immensely challenging picture of communication and power in the 21st century. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics and character of the modern world.

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)

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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: Im zweiten Band seines Werkes ,Das Informationszeitalter' zeigt Castells die beiden großen einander entgegen gesetzten 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 durch eine Kultur der ,realen Virtualität'...read more

Product Description: Have the last two decades produced a New York composed of two separate and unequal cities? As the contributors to Dual City reveal, the complexity of inequality in New York defies simple distinctions between black and white, the Yuppies and the homeless...read more

Product Description: Have the last two decades produced a New York composed of two separate and unequal cities? As the contributors to Dual City reveal, the complexity of inequality in New York defies simple distinctions between black and white, the Yuppies and the homeless...read more

The final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity.

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

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