Communication Power

by Castells, Manuel

• ISBN13: 9780199595693
• ISBN10: 0199595690
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Hailed by The Financial Times as "the most prominent and influential theorist and analyst of the modern communications and network age," Manuel Castells here offers a ground-breaking account of the modern communication revolution, a dramatic transformation of technology--and of the signals we receive--that is changing the way we feel, think, and behave. And that, writes Castells, is creating a revolution in power. With his landmark trilogy, The Information Age , Castells offered one of the first comprehensive analyses of how the Internet was creating a networked society. Now he draws on neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and case histories from around the world to explore the psychology of decision making in the new communications environment, highlighting the rise of communication power. He ranges widely, exploring global media deregulation, the misinformation that surrounded the invasion of Iraq, environmental movements, the role of the Internet in the Obama presidential campaign, and media control in Russia and China. In a network society, he writes, politics is fundamentally media politics--and the politics of scandal is its epitome. That fact is behind a worldwide crisis of political legitimacy that challenges the meaning of democracy in much of the world. More fundamentally, Castells argues, the Internet's instant messaging, social networking, and blogging have given rise a new communication system, mass self-communication, that is profoundly altering power relationships. Deeply researched, far-reaching in scope, and incisively argued, Communication Power offers a profound new understanding of implications of the information revolution. "Castells has done it again, a masterpiece of global perspective and enviable erudition." --W. Russell Neuman, Evans Professor of Media Technology, University of Michigan "A powerful and much needed book for a world in crisis." --Antonio Damasio, Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California

Author Biography

Manuel Castells, University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California. He is also Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning, University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, of the Academia Europaea, of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and of the British Academy. His main books include the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell, 1996-2003), Communication Power (OUP, 2009), and Networks of Outrage and Hope (Polity, 2012). He was a founding member of the board of the European Research Council and is a member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xiii
List of Tables	p. xv
Opening	p. 1
Power in the Network Society	p. 10
What is Power?	p. 10
State and Power in the Global Age	p. 17
Networks	p. 19
The Global Network Society	p. 24
The Network State	p. 38
Power in the Networks	p. 42
Power and Counterpower in the Network Society	p. 47
Conclusion: Understanding Power Relationships in the Global Network Society	p. 50
Communication in the Digital Age	p. 54
A Communication Revolution?	p. 54
Technological Convergence and the New Multimedia System: From Mass Communication to Mass Self-communication	p. 58
The Organization and Management of Communication: Global Multimedia Business Networks	p. 71
The Politics of Regulatory Policies	p. 99
Cultural Change in a Globalized World	p. 116
The Creative Audience	p. 127
Communication in the Global Digital Age	p. 135
Networks of Mind and Power	p. 137
The Windmills of the Mind	p. 137
Emotion, Cognition, and Politics	p. 146
Emotion and Cognition in Political Campaigns	p. 150
The Politics of Beliefs	p. 153
The Framing of the Mind	p. 155
Conquering the Minds, Conquering Iraq, Conquering Washington: From Misinformation to Mystification	p. 165
The Power of the Frame	p. 189
Programming Communication Networks: Media Politics, Scandal Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy	p. 193
Power-making by Image-making	p. 193
The Killing (Semantic) Fields: Media Politics at Work	p. 196
The Politics of Scandal	p. 240
The State and Media Politics: Propaganda and Control	p. 264
The Demise of Public Trust and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy	p. 286
Crisis of Democracy?	p. 295
Reprogramming Communication Networks: Social Movements, Insurgent Politics, and the New Public Space	p. 299
Warming Up to Global Warming: The Environmental Movement and the New Culture of Nature	p. 303
The Network is the Message: Global Movements against Corporate Globalization	p. 339
Mobil-izing Resistance: Wireless Communication and Insurgent Communities of Practice	p. 346
ôYes, We Can!ö The 2008 Obama Presidential Primary Campaign	p. 364
Reprogramming Networks, Rewiring Minds, Changing the World	p. 412
Conclusion: Toward a Communication Theory of Power	p. 416
Appendix	p. 433
Bibliography	p. 489
Index	p. 543
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