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 xxi
... social and organizational landscape of horizontal communication networks around the world. With over 2.8 billion Internet users on the planet in 2013, and over 6.4 billion subscribers of wireless communication devices, horizontal ...
... social and organizational landscape of horizontal communication networks around the world. With over 2.8 billion Internet users on the planet in 2013, and over 6.4 billion subscribers of wireless communication devices, horizontal ...
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... social sphere where values and interests of conflicting actors are engaged in struggle and debate to reproduce the social order, to subvert it, or to accommodate new forms resulting from the interaction between the old and the new, the ...
... social sphere where values and interests of conflicting actors are engaged in struggle and debate to reproduce the social order, to subvert it, or to accommodate new forms resulting from the interaction between the old and the new, the ...
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... social and institutional dimensions, increasing the influence from civil society and non-institutional socio-political actors in the form and dynamics of power relationships. In the most direct expression of power relationships, the ...
... social and institutional dimensions, increasing the influence from civil society and non-institutional socio-political actors in the form and dynamics of power relationships. In the most direct expression of power relationships, the ...
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... social movements against unjust social orders and non-democratic polities in 2010–12 in over one hundred countries and thousands of cities around the world, which used the Internet and wireless devices to build an autonomous ...
... social movements against unjust social orders and non-democratic polities in 2010–12 in over one hundred countries and thousands of cities around the world, which used the Internet and wireless devices to build an autonomous ...
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... social environment (Damasio, 2009). From the history of technology we know that people adopt, use, and modify new technologies in ways appropriate to fit their needs and desires, depending on their culture, social organization ...
... social environment (Damasio, 2009). From the history of technology we know that people adopt, use, and modify new technologies in ways appropriate to fit their needs and desires, depending on their culture, social organization ...
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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