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The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (3 volumes)

Door Manuel Castells

Categorie
Economie & Management
Boeknummer
#348240-VC36
Titel
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (3 volumes)
Auteur
Castells, Manuel
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Oxford : Blackwell Publishing
Jaar van uitgave
1999
ISBN10
1557866171
ISBN13
9781557866172
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
3 uniform paperbacks, complete trilogy, 556+461+441 pages, 8vo. Volume 1) The Rise of the Network Society (ISBN 9781557866172); Volume 2) The Power of Identity (ISBN 97815578687490; Volume 3) End of the Millennium (ISBN 9781557868725).
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Volume 1:
This book is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.

The global economy is now characterized by the almost instantaneous flow and exchange of information, capital and cultural communication. These flows order and condition both consumption and production. The networks themselves reflect and create distinctive cultures. Both they and the traffic they carry are largely outside national regulation. Our dependence on the new modes of informational flow gives enormous power to those in a position to control them to contr... (Lees verder)ol us. The main political arena is now the media, and the media are not politically answerable.

Manuel Castells describes the accelerating pace of innovation and application. He examines the processes of globalization that have marginalized and now threaten to make redundant whole countries and peoples excluded from informational networks. He investigates the culture, institutions and organizations of the network enterprise and the concomitant transformation of work and employment. He shows that in the advanced economies production is now concentrated on an educated section of the population aged between 25 and 40: many economies can do without a third or more of their people. He suggests that the effect of this accelerating trend may not be mass unemployment but the extreme flexibilization of work and individualization of labor, and, in consequence, a highly segmented social structure.

Volume 2:
This is an account of the two great and conflicting trends now shaping the world: globalization and identity.

Volume 3:
The final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity.
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-
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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