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MANUEL CASTELLS

MANUEL CASTELLS. Who?. MANUEL CASTELLS OLIVÁN : born in Hellín, Albacete, Spain, in 1942. Sociologist especially associated with: - INFORMATION SOCIETY - COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. What?. Castells discusses: NEW MEDIA and COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

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MANUEL CASTELLS

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  1. MANUEL CASTELLS

  2. Who? • MANUEL CASTELLS OLIVÁN: born in Hellín, Albacete, Spain, in 1942. • Sociologist especially associated with: - INFORMATION SOCIETY - COMMUNICATION RESEARCH

  3. What? • Castells discusses: • NEW MEDIAand COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES • which, he says, contribute to a fundamental change in culture. • "THE SPACE OF FLOWSand TIMELESS TIMESare the material foundations of a new culture" that of the network society. (Manuel Castells) • "timeless time" refers to the collapsing of time in global informational networks, for example automated financial transactions.

  4. "There can never be enough information" ISSUES RELEVANCE HOW TO FIND IT HOW TO PROCESS IT HOW TO UNDERSTAND IT + Information Technology EDUCATION (meaning) TECHNOLOGY (instrumentality) lagging behind coming fast "The message is lagging behind the medium"

  5. Power and the Network • Castells identifiesfour crucial network types: relationalcapacity by which people or institutions can impose their will on others. POWER relations are based on NETWORKS Resides in

  6. Network Power Types inclusion in the global network society over those who are excluded NETWORKING POWER 1 NETWORK POWER standards that are created and enforced to define who may be included in the global society 2 unique power that people exercise over each other in the network. NETWORKED POWER 3 ability to program networks to facilitate the goals of the programmers, and to create strategic network alliances that preserve the power of network elites. NETWORK MAKING POWER 4

  7. What is Network Society? The best descriptor of the culture surrounding the tech-enabled 21st century system. Social networks built around digitized information and ultra-fast processing capacity.

  8. "The technology will do what it will do if we just simply run on their momentum.."

  9. SOURCES • Manuel Castells. Producción científica. Retrieved on May 4, 2012 from http://www.manuelcastells.info/en/medioscom_index.htm • Indistinct union: Christianity, integral philosophy and politics. (Blog. Posted on April 14, 2008) Retrieved on May 4, 2012 from http://indistinctunion.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/conversation-with-manuel-castells/ • Manuel Castells, Peter Monge, Noshir Contracto. (February, 2011) Network Theory. Prologue to the Special Section. Network Multidimensionality in the Digital Age retrieved on May 4, 2012 from http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1103/554

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