MANUEL CASTELLS

• MANUEL CASTELLS OLIVÁN: born in Hellín, Albacete, Spain, in 1942.

• Sociologist especially associated with:

- INFORMATION SOCIETY

- COMMUNICATION RESEARCH

Who?

Castells discusses:

NEW MEDIA and COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

which, he says, contribute to a fundamental change in culture.

"THE SPACE OF FLOWS and TIMELESS TIMES are the material foundations of a new culture" that of the

network society. (Manuel Castells)

"timeless time" refers to the collapsing of time in global informational networks, for example automated financial transactions.

What?

"There can never be enough information"

ISSUES HOW TO FIND ITRELEVANCE

HOW TO PROCESS IT HOW TO UNDERSTAND IT

+ Information Technology

EDUCATION(meaning)

TECHNOLOGY(instrumentality)

coming fast lagging behind

"The message is lagging behind the medium"

Castells identifies four crucial network types:

Power and the Network

relational capacity by which people or

institutions can impose their will on others.

relations

are based on

NETWORKS

POWER

Resides in

Network Power Types

inclusion in the global network society over those who are excluded

NETWORKING POWER

NETWORK POWER

standards that are created and enforced to define who may be included in the global

society

NETWORKED POWER

unique power that people exercise

over each other in the network.

NETWORK MAKING POWER

ability to program networks to facilitate the goals of the programmers, and to

create strategic network alliances that preserve the power of network elites.

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The best descriptor of the culture surrounding the tech-enabled

21st century system.

What is Network Society?

Social networks built around digitized information and ultra-fast

processing capacity.

"The technology will do what it will do if we just simply run on their momentum.."

Indistinct union: Christianity, integral philosophy and politics. (Blog. Posted on April 14, 2008) Retrieved on May 4, 2012 from http://indistinctunion.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/conversation-with-manuel-castells/

Manuel Castells, Peter Monge, Noshir Contracto. (February, 2011) Network Theory. Prologue to the Special Section. Network Multidimensionality in the Digital Age retrieved on May 4, 2012 from http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1103/554

Manuel Castells. Producción científica. Retrieved on May 4, 2012 from http://www.manuelcastells.info/en/medioscom_index.htm

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