The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

by Castells, Manuel

• ISBN13: 9781843765059
• ISBN10: 1843765055
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-04
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xvi
Editor's preface	xvii
PART I THE THEORY OF THE NETWORK SOCIETY
Informationalism, Networks, and the Network Society: A Theoretical Blueprint	3	(46)
Manuel Castells
PART II THE CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY OF THE NETWORK SOCIETY
Institutional Models of the Network Society: Silicon Valley and Finland	49	(35)
Pekka Himanen
Manuel Castells
The Russian Network Society	84	(15)
Elena Vartanova
The Internet in China: Technologies of Freedom in a Statist Society	99	(26)
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Reflexive Internet? The British Experience of New Electronic Technologies	125	(20)
Steve Woolgar
PART III THE NETWORK ECONOMY
Why Information Should Influence Productivity	145	(29)
Marshall Van Alstyne
Nathaniel Bulkley
Labor in the Network Society: Lessons from Silicon Valley	174	(24)
Chris Benner
Time, Space, and Technology in Financial Networks	198	(19)
Caitlin Zaloom
PART IV SOCIABILITY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET
Networked Sociability Online, Off-line	217	(16)
Keith N. Hampton
Social Structure, Cultural Identity, and Personal Autonomy in the Practice of the Internet: The Network Society in Catalonia	233	(16)
Manuel Castells
Imma Tubella
Teresa Sancho
Maria Isabel Diaz de Isla
Barry Wellman
Racial Segregation and the Digital Divide in the Detroit Metropolitan Region	249	(22)
Wayne E. Baker
Kenneth M. Coleman
PART V THE INTERNET IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
The Promise and the Myths of e-Learning in Post-secondary Education	271	(22)
Tony Bates
e-Health Networks and Social Transformations: Expectations of Centralization, Experiences of Decentralization	293	(26)
James E. Katz
Ronald E. Rice
Sophia K. Acord
Narrowing the Digital Divide: The Potential and Limits of the US Community Technology Movement	319	(22)
Lisa J. Servon
Randal D. Pinkett
PART VI NETWORKED SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND INFORMATIONAL POLITICS
Networked Social Movements: Global Movements for Global Justice	341	(22)
Jeffrey S. Juris
From Media Politics to Networked Politics: The Internet and the Political Process	363	(22)
Araba Sey
Manuel Castells
PART VII THE CULTURE OF THE NETWORK SOCIETY
Television, the Internet, and the Construction of Identity	385	(17)
Imma Tubella
Globalization, Identity, and Television Networks: Community Mediation and Global Responses in Multicultural India	402	(18)
Anshu Chatterjee
The Hacker Ethic as the Culture of the Information Age	420	(12)
Pekka Himanen
Afterword: An Historian's View on the Network Society	432	(17)
Rosalind Williams
Index	449