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Internet Galaxy Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

Castells, Manuel
Innbundet / 2001 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199241538
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
551 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
304

Forfatter
Castells, Manuel

Biografisk notat

Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of Planning and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley where he was appointed in 1979. Previously he taught for twelve years at the University of Paris. He has also been a visiting professor in fifteen universities in Europe, North America, Asia, and Latin America. He has published twenty-one books, including the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (1996-2000), translated into fourteen languages. He has been a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on the Information Society, of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Secretary General on Information and Communication Technology, and of the Advisory Committee to the President of South Africa on Information Technology and Development. He is a member of the European Academy.

Internet Galaxy Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

Castells, Manuel
Innbundet / 2001 / Engelsk
Castells, Manuel
Innbundet / 2001 / Engelsk
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Attempting an academic survey of the internet is an heroic task ... Manuel Castells is better placed than most to attempt such an undertaking, and pulls it off with verve and clarity.

RSA Journal

Authoritative guide to the origins of the internet, how it is affecting every area of human life, and its business applications.

Sunday Times Books of the Year 2001

This small but complete volume is a critical introduction to internet-related theories, while doubling as a simplified reader on his own ideas. The book should help to spread his influence beyond the faithful.

Prospect

Se alle

The Internet Galaxy is the best attempt by a big thinker to grapple with the net's long-term implications for our society.

Mark Leonard, New Statesman

The Internet is shaping society and in turn being shaped by society. It takes a scholar of Manuel Castells's range to do justice to this phenomenon. His book is learned without being pompous, and insightful without being impenetrable. If we ever get a discipline of Internet studies, this will be one of its founding texts.

John Naughton, author of A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet

Manuel Castells has proved once again that he has an unmatched synoptic capacity to make sense of the complexities of a networked world, and here writes with clarity and insight about everything from the history of the technology to the subcultures that have done so much to shape it.

Geoff Mulgan, author of Communications and Control and Connexity Director of the Performance and Innovation Unit, The Cabinet Office and head of the Prime Minister's Forward Strategy Unit

Thoroughly researched and truly global in scope. Castells provides balanced covergae of e-business and the new economy: the politics of the Internet, including privacy and freedom: and the geography of the Internet. Highly recommended for academic libraries.

Library Journal

[An] excellent, readable, nontechnical summary of the history, social implications and likely future of Internet business.

Publishers Weekly

Castells is probably the world's most highly regarded commentator on the information age and new economic order.

Management Today: Guru Guide

Adam Smith explained how capitalism worked, and Karl Marx explained why it didn't. Now the social and economic relations of the Information Age have been captured by Manuel Castells.

The Wall Street Journal

A readable, articulate and persuasive account of why the internet's most powerful impacts on the shape of business, politics and society may be yet to come. Castells is the nearest thing the internet has to a founding philosopher.

Charles Leadbetter - Financial Times

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. Some 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 inter-national 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.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
Introduction ; 1. Lessons from the History of the Internet ; 2. The Internet Culture ; 3. E-business and the New Economy ; 4. Virtual Communities or Network Society? ; 5. The Politics of the Internet (I): Computer Networks, Civil Society, and the State ; 6. The Politics of the Internet (II): Privacy and Liberty in Cyberspace ; 7. Multimedia and the Internet: The Hypertext beyond Convergence ; 8. The Geography of the Internet: Networked Places ; 9. The Digital Divide in Global Perspective ; 10. Conclusion: The Challenges of the Network Society
Les mer
`... a wealth of new material on the new economy, e-commerce, digital politics, virtual communities and the digital divide ... sheds some much-needed empirical light on the geography of Web-based communications ... The Internet Galaxy is a tour d'horizon of some recent developments in the Internet and related technologies ... The author is a noted social theorist and one of the world's best-known computer intellectuals ... The Internet Galaxy offers a highly distinctive antidote to the teleology and hype which has surrounded discussion of the Internet and other ICTs.' Prometheus `A readable, articulate and persuasive account of why the internet's most powerful impacts on the shape of business, politics and society may be yet to come. Castells is the nearest thing the internet has to a founding philosopher.' Charles Leadbetter - Financial Times `One of Castells' great strengths is his ability to combine academic rigour with an appetite to engage with current social and economic trends. He brings to this task an impressive array of knowledge about cities, labour markets, business history and technology. As a result his writing combines a sense of excitement and energy, with the sage judgement needed to resist glib simplifications and address the complex factors driving the internet.' Charles Leadbetter - Financial Times `One of Castells' great strengths is his ability to combine academic rigour with an appetite to engage with current social and economic trends... His writing combines a sense of excitement and energy, with the sage judgement needed to resist glib simplifications and address the complex factors driving the internet.' Charles Leadbetter - Financial Times `A very readable and stimulating book.' Professor Laurie Taylor, BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' `Manuel Castells is today the most insightful theoretician of the information society, perhaps the Marx or the Marcuse of the New Economy.' Federico Rampini, La Revista dei Libri, May 2000 `A magnus opus if ever there was one, these three books together constitute, in my view, the finest piece of contemporary social analysis for at least a generation.' Frank Webster, British Journal of Sociology 49, 1998 `Among technology's intelligentsia Castells has quickly earned a reputation as a pioneer, someone who has hacked out a logical, well-documented, and coherent picture of early 21st century civilization, even as it rockets forward largely in a blur.' Paul Van Slambrouck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27th November 1998 `The most compelling attempt yet made to map the contours of the global information age.' Anthony Giddens, New Statesman, 23rd January 1998
Les mer
The 'Seer of Cyberspace' reflects on the internet
Interprets the implications of the Internet for business and society Author has a huge international reputation and track record Includes electronic links to relevant and interesting web sites
Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of Planning and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley where he was appointed in 1979. Previously he taught for twelve years at the University of Paris. He has also been a visiting professor in fifteen universities in Europe, North America, Asia, and Latin America. He has published twenty-one books, including the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (1996-2000), translated into fourteen languages. He has been a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on the Information Society, of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Secretary General on Information and Communication Technology, and of the Advisory Committee to the President of South Africa on Information Technology and Development. He is a member of the European Academy.
Les mer
Interprets the implications of the Internet for business and society Author has a huge international reputation and track record Includes electronic links to relevant and interesting web sites

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Attempting an academic survey of the internet is an heroic task ... Manuel Castells is better placed than most to attempt such an undertaking, and pulls it off with verve and clarity.

RSA Journal

Authoritative guide to the origins of the internet, how it is affecting every area of human life, and its business applications.

Sunday Times Books of the Year 2001

This small but complete volume is a critical introduction to internet-related theories, while doubling as a simplified reader on his own ideas. The book should help to spread his influence beyond the faithful.

Prospect

Se alle

The Internet Galaxy is the best attempt by a big thinker to grapple with the net's long-term implications for our society.

Mark Leonard, New Statesman

The Internet is shaping society and in turn being shaped by society. It takes a scholar of Manuel Castells's range to do justice to this phenomenon. His book is learned without being pompous, and insightful without being impenetrable. If we ever get a discipline of Internet studies, this will be one of its founding texts.

John Naughton, author of A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet

Manuel Castells has proved once again that he has an unmatched synoptic capacity to make sense of the complexities of a networked world, and here writes with clarity and insight about everything from the history of the technology to the subcultures that have done so much to shape it.

Geoff Mulgan, author of Communications and Control and Connexity Director of the Performance and Innovation Unit, The Cabinet Office and head of the Prime Minister's Forward Strategy Unit

Thoroughly researched and truly global in scope. Castells provides balanced covergae of e-business and the new economy: the politics of the Internet, including privacy and freedom: and the geography of the Internet. Highly recommended for academic libraries.

Library Journal

[An] excellent, readable, nontechnical summary of the history, social implications and likely future of Internet business.

Publishers Weekly

Castells is probably the world's most highly regarded commentator on the information age and new economic order.

Management Today: Guru Guide

Adam Smith explained how capitalism worked, and Karl Marx explained why it didn't. Now the social and economic relations of the Information Age have been captured by Manuel Castells.

The Wall Street Journal

A readable, articulate and persuasive account of why the internet's most powerful impacts on the shape of business, politics and society may be yet to come. Castells is the nearest thing the internet has to a founding philosopher.

Charles Leadbetter - Financial Times

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. Some 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 inter-national 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.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
Introduction ; 1. Lessons from the History of the Internet ; 2. The Internet Culture ; 3. E-business and the New Economy ; 4. Virtual Communities or Network Society? ; 5. The Politics of the Internet (I): Computer Networks, Civil Society, and the State ; 6. The Politics of the Internet (II): Privacy and Liberty in Cyberspace ; 7. Multimedia and the Internet: The Hypertext beyond Convergence ; 8. The Geography of the Internet: Networked Places ; 9. The Digital Divide in Global Perspective ; 10. Conclusion: The Challenges of the Network Society
Les mer
`... a wealth of new material on the new economy, e-commerce, digital politics, virtual communities and the digital divide ... sheds some much-needed empirical light on the geography of Web-based communications ... The Internet Galaxy is a tour d'horizon of some recent developments in the Internet and related technologies ... The author is a noted social theorist and one of the world's best-known computer intellectuals ... The Internet Galaxy offers a highly distinctive antidote to the teleology and hype which has surrounded discussion of the Internet and other ICTs.' Prometheus `A readable, articulate and persuasive account of why the internet's most powerful impacts on the shape of business, politics and society may be yet to come. Castells is the nearest thing the internet has to a founding philosopher.' Charles Leadbetter - Financial Times `One of Castells' great strengths is his ability to combine academic rigour with an appetite to engage with current social and economic trends. He brings to this task an impressive array of knowledge about cities, labour markets, business history and technology. As a result his writing combines a sense of excitement and energy, with the sage judgement needed to resist glib simplifications and address the complex factors driving the internet.' Charles Leadbetter - Financial Times `One of Castells' great strengths is his ability to combine academic rigour with an appetite to engage with current social and economic trends... His writing combines a sense of excitement and energy, with the sage judgement needed to resist glib simplifications and address the complex factors driving the internet.' Charles Leadbetter - Financial Times `A very readable and stimulating book.' Professor Laurie Taylor, BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' `Manuel Castells is today the most insightful theoretician of the information society, perhaps the Marx or the Marcuse of the New Economy.' Federico Rampini, La Revista dei Libri, May 2000 `A magnus opus if ever there was one, these three books together constitute, in my view, the finest piece of contemporary social analysis for at least a generation.' Frank Webster, British Journal of Sociology 49, 1998 `Among technology's intelligentsia Castells has quickly earned a reputation as a pioneer, someone who has hacked out a logical, well-documented, and coherent picture of early 21st century civilization, even as it rockets forward largely in a blur.' Paul Van Slambrouck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27th November 1998 `The most compelling attempt yet made to map the contours of the global information age.' Anthony Giddens, New Statesman, 23rd January 1998
Les mer
The 'Seer of Cyberspace' reflects on the internet
Interprets the implications of the Internet for business and society Author has a huge international reputation and track record Includes electronic links to relevant and interesting web sites
Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of Planning and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley where he was appointed in 1979. Previously he taught for twelve years at the University of Paris. He has also been a visiting professor in fifteen universities in Europe, North America, Asia, and Latin America. He has published twenty-one books, including the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (1996-2000), translated into fourteen languages. He has been a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on the Information Society, of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Secretary General on Information and Communication Technology, and of the Advisory Committee to the President of South Africa on Information Technology and Development. He is a member of the European Academy.
Les mer
Interprets the implications of the Internet for business and society Author has a huge international reputation and track record Includes electronic links to relevant and interesting web sites

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199241538
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
551 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
304

Forfatter
Castells, Manuel

Biografisk notat

Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of Planning and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley where he was appointed in 1979. Previously he taught for twelve years at the University of Paris. He has also been a visiting professor in fifteen universities in Europe, North America, Asia, and Latin America. He has published twenty-one books, including the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (1996-2000), translated into fourteen languages. He has been a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on the Information Society, of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Secretary General on Information and Communication Technology, and of the Advisory Committee to the President of South Africa on Information Technology and Development. He is a member of the European Academy.

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