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"Of much value... Manuel Castells has shaped himself into the most prominent and influential theorist and analyst of the modern communications and network age."--Financial Times
"Provides a bevy of illustrious examples of how grassroots campaigns could use the internet to bring public attention to issues as diverse as climate change and the war in Iraq."--Forbes
"Castells is a synthesizer and meta-theoretician. He reaches far and wide to bring together disparate elements to his arguments. This is his amazing strength as a seminal figure in modern scholarship.... Reading Communication Power is rather like taking a great birding dog out for a walk: every nook and cranny must be sniffed and explored with endearing enthusiasm before moving on in a bound to the next point of discovery."--Political Communication
"Manuel Castells unites the mind of a social scientist with the soul of an artist. His trilogy took us to the edge of the millennium. This book takes us beyond to the critical crossroads of the 21st century, where technology, communication, and power converge."--Rosalind Williams, Dibner Professor and Director, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Castells has done it again, a masterpiece of global perspective and enviable erudition. Moving beyond his trilogy on the information age, Castells focuses on how cultural, economic and particularly political power relationships are constituted and sustained through systematic communication flows. ... Case studies include global media deregulation, the politics of scandal, framing the war in Iraq, ecological social movements, the Obama presidential candidacy and a fascinating comparison of media control dynamics in Russia and China."--W. Russell Neuman, Evans Professor of Media Technology, University of Michigan
"How could Manuel Castells have predicted that now is the time of the perfect storm? I do not know. But I do know that his new book c
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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, social networks 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 information age based on the management of communication networks Justly 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.
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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I would oppose to a previous reviewer here and encourage communication professionals or just interested people to read it. Instead of usual aimless wandering in the realm of social studies or fancy stories about how internet changes your life, this book aims at grabbing together concepts of network society, discoveries in neurophysiology and other fields and then tries to make meaningful conclusions. It is all based upon extensive base of references.
Castells is a thinker for new type of society, called network society and in this he is very current. Of course, at some point, the book may be difficult to follow, since he tries to walk the reader through long and winding path to many disciplines.
Castells is a thinker for new type of society, called network society and in this he is very current. Of course, at some point, the book may be difficult to follow, since he tries to walk the reader through long and winding path to many disciplines.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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What struck me most when I was reading this book, was this sentence: "In our society, the protocols of communication are not based on the sharing of culture, but on the culture of sharing." This insight has been with me for some weeks now, because it sheds light on many things that have changed in this world during the last few decades. For example, in the West we tend to speak about postmodernism and individualism. Both of these developments could not have happened, if there had not been any changes in the way we communicate and the meaning we give to communication. Communication has changed in such a way that it's no longer only the sender that gives meaning to a certain message, but we discovered that the receiver (or the addressee) also does. A message is thus send from a cultural context, and also received and understood from another cultural context. Highly interesting thought!
This book is full of these kind of insights. It's also a tough book: Castells tends to be a slow, thick and thorough writer, which makes his work most of the time quite heavy. But if you take the time to read carefully through this book, you learn so many new things, that it's definitely worth it. I am, however, looking forward to a popular version of this work, because of its breadth, diversity and thoroughness, it is also a difficult book, especially when you're not so well-informed about certain subjects related to communication or networks as Castells is. Nevertheless, good and interesting content!
This book is full of these kind of insights. It's also a tough book: Castells tends to be a slow, thick and thorough writer, which makes his work most of the time quite heavy. But if you take the time to read carefully through this book, you learn so many new things, that it's definitely worth it. I am, however, looking forward to a popular version of this work, because of its breadth, diversity and thoroughness, it is also a difficult book, especially when you're not so well-informed about certain subjects related to communication or networks as Castells is. Nevertheless, good and interesting content!
5 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Considering this is a book about communication it is the most badly written book I have ever read. There are some good (and interesting) points made but a very difficult book 'to get into'.
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