ISBN:
9781405196871
Language:
English
Pages:
XLIV, 538 S.
,
graph. Darst.
Edition:
2. ed., with a new pref., [Nachdr.]
Series Statement:
The information age : economy, society and culture / Manuel Castells Vol. 2
Series Statement:
Castells, Manuel 1942- The information age.
DDC:
303.48/409
Keywords:
Information society
;
Social movements
;
Information technology Social aspects
;
Information technology Political aspects
;
Identity (Philosophical concept)
;
Informationsgesellschaft
;
Identität
;
Globalisierung
;
Soziale Bewegung
Description / Table of Contents:
The information technology revolution -- The new economy : informationalism, globalization, networking -- The network enterprise : the culture, institutions, and organizations of the informational economy -- The transformation of work and employment : networkers, jobless, and flex-timers -- The culture of real virtuality : the integration of electronic communication, the end of the mass audience, and the rise of interactive networks -- The space of flows -- The edge of forever : timeless time -- The crisis of industrial statism and the collapse of the soviet union -- The rise of the fourth world : informational captalism, poverty, and social exclusion -- The perverse connection : the global criminal economy -- Development and crisis in the asian pacific : globalization and the state -- The unification of europe : globalization, identity, and the network state.
Note:
Originally published: 2004
,
Includes bibliographical references (p. [466]-511) and index
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