ISBN:
9780191570636
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (820 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media -- Social aspects
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Communication -- Social aspects
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Globalization
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Electronic books ; local
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Communication ; Social aspects
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Globalization
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Mass media ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
We 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, socialnetworks 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, including 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, and Internet-based political campaigns, such as the Obama campaign in the United States. On the basis of these case studies he proposes a new theory of power in the informationage based on the management of communication networksJustly 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.
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Opening -- 1 Power in the Network Society -- What is Power? -- State and Power in the Global Age -- Networks -- The Global Network Society -- The Network State -- Power in the Networks -- Power and Counterpower in the Network Society -- Conclusion: Understanding Power Relationships in the Global Network Society -- 2 Communication in the Digital Age -- A Communication Revolution? -- Technological Convergence and the New Multimedia System: From Mass Communication to Mass Self-communication -- The Organization and Management of Communication: Global Multimedia Business Networks -- The Politics of Regulatory Policies -- Cultural Change in a Globalized World -- The Creative Audience -- Communication in the Global Digital Age -- 3 Networks of Mind and Power -- The Windmills of the Mind -- Emotion, Cognition, and Politics -- Emotion and Cognition in Political Campaigns -- The Politics of Beliefs -- The Framing of the Mind -- Conquering the Minds, Conquering Iraq, Conquering Washington: From Misinformation to Mystification -- The Power of the Frame -- 4 Programming Communication Networks: Media Politics, Scandal Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy -- Power-making by Image-making -- The Killing (Semantic) Fields: Media Politics at Work -- The Politics of Scandal -- The State and Media Politics: Propaganda and Control -- The Demise of Public Trust and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy -- Crisis of Democracy? -- 5 Reprogramming Communication Networks: Social Movements, Insurgent Politics, and the New Public Space -- Warming Up to Global Warming: The Environmental Movement and the New Culture of Nature -- The Network is the Message: Global Movements against Corporate Globalization.
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