The Internet Galaxy
Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society
Series: Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 October 2002
- ISBN 9780199255771
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 215x140x16 mm
- Weight 378 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps 0
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Short description:
A stunning insight into the impact of the Internet and communication technologies on society in the beginning of the twenty-first century. Manuel Castells - one of the world's leading social scientists - puts forward the case that the Internet is not just a technology, but the very fabric and backbone of the New Economy, and of the Network Society. It is essential that we understand its language, its logic, its constraints, and its freedoms in order to manage and to change our reality.
MoreLong description:
The Web has been with us for less than a decade. The popular and commercial diffusion of the Internet has been extraordinary - instigating and enabling changes in virtually every area of human activity and society. We have new systems of communication, new businesses, new media and sources of information, new forms of political and cultural expression, new forms of teaching and learning, and new communities.
But how much do we know about the Internet - its history, its technology, its culture, and its uses? What are its implications for the business world and society at large? The diffusion has been so rapid that it has outpaced the capacity for well-grounded analysis. Soem say everything will change, others that little will change.
Manuel Castells is widely regarded as the leading analyst of the Information Age and the Network Society. In addition to his academic work, he acts as adviser at the highest international levels. In this short, accessible, and informative book, he brings his experience and knowledge to bear on the Internet Galaxy.
How did it all begin? What are the cultures that make up and contest the Internet? How is it shaping the new business organization and re-shaping older business organizations? What are the realities of the digital divide? How has the Internet affected social and cultural organization, political participation and communication, and urban living?
These are just some of the questions addressed in this much needed book. Castells avoids any predictions or prescriptions - there have been enough of those - but instead draws on an extraordinary range of detailed evidence and research to describe what is happening, and to help us understand how the Internet has become the medium of the new network society.
A very readable and stimulating book.
Table of Contents:
Opening: The Network is the Message
Lessons from the History of the Internet
The Culture of the Internet
e-Business and the New Economy
Virtual Communities or Network Society?
The Politics of the Internet I: Computer Networks, Civil Society, and the State
The Politics of the Internet II: Privacy and Liberty in Cyberspace
Multimedia and the Internet: The Hypertext beyond Convergence
The Geography of the Internet: Networked Places
The Digital Divide in a Global Perspective
Conclusion: The Challenges of the Network Society
