Format:
Online-Ressource (xliv, 538 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1444318233
,
1405196874
,
9781444318234
,
9781405196871
Series Statement:
Information Age
Content:
In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.: Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our world; Applies Castells' hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy througho
Content:
In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.: Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our world; Applies Castells' hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy througho
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The information technology revolutionThe 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1444318241
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781444318241
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405196871
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Power of identity
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1002/9781444318234
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