ISBN:
9780745652597
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (174 p)
Series Statement:
TM - Theory and Media
Series Statement:
Theory and Media Ser. v.2
Parallel Title:
Print version Castells and the Media : Theory and Media
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Castells, Manuel, -- 1942 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Mass media -- Social aspects
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Communication -- Social aspects
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Globalization
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells has given us a new language for understanding the impact of information and communication technologies on social life.Politicians can no longer run for office without a digital media strategy, new communication technologies are a fundamental infrastructure for the economy, and the internet has become an invaluable tool for cultural production and consumption. Yet as more of our political, economic, and cultural interaction occurs over digital media, the ability to create and manipulate both content and networks
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Network Perspective on the Media; Outline of the Book; 1. Castells and the Theory of the Network Society; Intellectual Biography; Publications and Impact; Basic Statements on Network Theory; 2. Media Economics and Life Online; The Permanently Beta, Network Enterprise; From Bricks and Mortar to Bandwidth and Servers; The Changing Nature of Media Work; The Death of Distance and Long Tails; The Network Perspective on Economic Life; 3. Networks of Power and Politics; Network Campaigns
Description / Table of Contents:
Media NetworksThe Politics of Code and Cultural Production; Privacy and Data Mining; The Network Perspective on Political Life; 4. Cultural Industries in a Digital Century; Transforming Cultural Industries; Cultures of Digital Media; Social Networking and Cultural Production; Mediated and Multiple Identities; The Network Perspective on Cultural Life; 5. Mobile and Social Media; Networked and Mobile; The Space of Flows and Timeless Time; Cosmopolitan Culture and Cultural Identity; Mobile Politics; The Mobile is the Social; 6. Conclusion-Media Rules and the Rules of Media
Description / Table of Contents:
The Personal and Global Contexts of NetworksScientific Inquiry in the Network Society; Critical Responses and Alternative Approaches; Remaining Questions and Future Directions of Research; The New Power of Digital Media; Appendix; An Exercise in Visualizing Your Own Digital Networks; An Exercise in Tracking Your Media and Cultural Consumption; An Exercise in Surveillance and Sousveillance-Tracking the Trackers; Notes; References; Glossary/Index
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