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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... other times disagree over the construction of the meaning, but who are nonetheless largely independent of the agendasetting strategy of the deciders in the mass communication paradigm. The xxii Introduction to the 2013 Edition.
... other times disagree over the construction of the meaning, but who are nonetheless largely independent of the agendasetting strategy of the deciders in the mass communication paradigm. The xxii Introduction to the 2013 Edition.
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... strategy of choice in political warfare. Governments have persevered in the use of media as their propaganda machine, in exchange of favors for media business, by using their regulatory power. Manipulation of information continues to ...
... strategy of choice in political warfare. Governments have persevered in the use of media as their propaganda machine, in exchange of favors for media business, by using their regulatory power. Manipulation of information continues to ...
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... strategy was, it was no child's game, as being caught meant being beaten up by the police and most likely going to jail, which is what happened to several of my friends. But, of course, we were getting a kick out of our prowess, while ...
... strategy was, it was no child's game, as being caught meant being beaten up by the police and most likely going to jail, which is what happened to several of my friends. But, of course, we were getting a kick out of our prowess, while ...
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... strategy toward some goal, being empowered to act on social processes necessarily means intervening in the set of power relationships that frame any given social process and condition the attainment of a specific goal. The empowerment ...
... strategy toward some goal, being empowered to act on social processes necessarily means intervening in the set of power relationships that frame any given social process and condition the attainment of a specific goal. The empowerment ...
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... strategic instance of the exercise of power through different means. But the state itself is dependent on a diversity of power sources. Geoff Mulgan has theorized the capacity of the state to assume and exercise power through the ...
... strategic instance of the exercise of power through different means. But the state itself is dependent on a diversity of power sources. Geoff Mulgan has theorized the capacity of the state to assume and exercise power through the ...
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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