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Title The network society : a cross-cultural perspective / edited by Manuel Castells
Published Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004

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Description xx, 464 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Informationalism, networks, and the network society : a theoretical blueprint / Manuel Castells -- 2. Institutional models of the network society : Silicon Valley and Finland / Pekka Himanen and Manuel Castells -- 3. The Russian network society / Elena Vartanova -- 4. The Internet in China : technologies of freedom in a statist society / Jack Linchuan Qiu -- 5. Reflexive Internet? : the British experience of new electronic technologies / Steve Woolgar -- 6. Why information should influence productivity / Marshall Van Alstyne and Nathaniel Bulkley -- 7. Labor in the network society : lessons from Silicon Valley / Chris Benner -- 8. Time, space, and technology in financial networks / Caitlin Zaloom -- 9. Networked sociability online, off-line / Keith N. Hampton -- 10. Social structure, cultural identity, and personal autonomy in the practice of the Internet : the network society in Catalonia / Manuel Castells, Imma Tubella, Teresa Sancho, Maria Isabel Diaz de Isla and Barry Wellman -- 11. Racial segregation and the digital divide in the Detroit metropolitan region / Wayne E. Baker and Kenneth M. Coleman -- 12. The promise and the myths of e-learning in post-secondary education / Tony Bates -- 13. e-Health networks and social transformations : expectations of centralization, experiences of decentralization / James E. Katz, Ronald E. Rice and Sophia K. Acord -- 14. Narrowing the digital divide : the potential and limits of the US community technology movement / Lisa J. Servon and Randal D. Pinkett -- 15. Networked social movements : global movements for global justice / Jeffrey S. Juris -- 16. From media politics to networked politics : the Internet and the political process / Araba Sey and Manuel Castells -- 17. Television, the Internet, and the construction of identity / Imma Tubella -- 18. Globalization, identity, and television networks : community mediation and global responses in multicultural India / Anshu Chatterjee -- 19. The hacker ethic as the culture of the information age / Pekka Himanen -- Afterword : an historian's view on the network society / Rosalind Williams
Summary Contributors to The network society explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies around the world in terms of the critical role of electronic communication networks in business, everyday life, public services, social interaction and politics. The contributors demonstrate that the network society is the new form of social organization in the Information age, replacing the Industrial society. The book analyzes processes of technological transformation in interaction with social culture in different cultural and institutional contexts: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Finland, Russia, China, India, Canada, and Catalonia. The topics examined include business productivity, global financial markets, cultural identity, the uses of the Internet in education and health, the anti-globalization movement, political processes, media and identity, and public policies to guide technological development. Taken together these studies show that the network society adopts very different forms, depending on the cultural and institutional environments in which it evolves
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library)
Subject Information technology.
Internet.
Computer networks -- Social aspects.
Computer networks -- Sociological aspects -- Cross-cultural aspects
Internet -- Sociological aspects -- Cross-cultural aspects
Internet -- Economic aspects -- Cross-cultural aspects
Information society -- Cross-cultural studies.
Author Castells, Manuel, 1942-
Ebooks Corporation.
LC no. 2004043491
ISBN 1843765055 hardback