Communication PowerWe 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 networks Justly 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. |
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Page xxiv
... diffusion of horizontal communication networks and the multiple entry points in the local/global communication system have profoundly modified the practice of power in a number of social and institutional dimensions, increasing the ...
... diffusion of horizontal communication networks and the multiple entry points in the local/global communication system have profoundly modified the practice of power in a number of social and institutional dimensions, increasing the ...
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... diffusion of writing and publishing thanks to the printing press— among others, the Catholic Church, the most potent political organization at the time in Europe, which was challenged and ultimately divided by the free reading of the ...
... diffusion of writing and publishing thanks to the printing press— among others, the Catholic Church, the most potent political organization at the time in Europe, which was challenged and ultimately divided by the free reading of the ...
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... diffusion of new generations of wireless communication. In 1996 there were fewer than 40 million Internet users in ... diffusion of any communication technology in history. Broadband diffusion is more limited, yet the trends point toward ...
... diffusion of new generations of wireless communication. In 1996 there were fewer than 40 million Internet users in ... diffusion of any communication technology in history. Broadband diffusion is more limited, yet the trends point toward ...
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Manuel Castells. Broadband diffusion is more limited, yet the trends point toward an acceleration of wireless Internet diffusion across social groups and territories (e.g. in South America, there is an 82 percent rate of penetration of ...
Manuel Castells. Broadband diffusion is more limited, yet the trends point toward an acceleration of wireless Internet diffusion across social groups and territories (e.g. in South America, there is an 82 percent rate of penetration of ...
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... the viral nature of message diffusion, but also because of the copycat effect, which has resulted in movements springing up everywhere. We have observed virality from one country to another, from xl Introduction to the 2013 Edition.
... the viral nature of message diffusion, but also because of the copycat effect, which has resulted in movements springing up everywhere. We have observed virality from one country to another, from xl Introduction to the 2013 Edition.
Contents
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2 Communication in the Digital Age | 54 |
3 Networks of Mind and Power | 137 |
Media Politics Scandal Politics and the Crisis of Democracy | 193 |
Social Movements Insurgent Politics and the New Public Space | 299 |
Toward a Communication Theory of Power | 416 |
Appendix | 433 |
Bibliography | 489 |
Index | 545 |
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