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ISBN 10: 0199681937

ISBN 13: 9780199681938

Author: Manuel Castells

We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The media have become the space where power strategies are played out. In the current technological context mass communication goes beyond traditional media and includes the Internet and mobile communication. In this wide-ranging and powerful book, Manuel Castells analyses the transformation of the global media industry by this revolution in communication technologies. He argues that a new communication system, mass self-communication, has emerged, and power relationships have been profoundly modified by the emergence of this new communication environment. Created in the commons of the Internet this communication can be locally based, but globally connected. It is built through messaging, social networks sites, and blogging, and is now being used by the millions around the world who have access to the Internet. Drawing on a wide range of social and psychological theories, Castells presents original research on political processes and social movements. He applies this analysis to numerous recent events–the misinformation of the American public on the Iraq War, the global environmental movement to prevent climate change, the control of information in China and Russia, Barak Obama’s internet-based presidential campaigns, and (in this new edition) responses to recent political and economic crises such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement. On the basis of these case studies he proposes a new theory of power in the information age based on the management of communication networks Justly celebrated for his analysis of the network society, Castells here builds on that work, offering a well grounded and immensely challenging picture of communication and power in the 21st century. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics and character of the modern world.

Table of contents:

1 Power in the Network Society
What is Power?
State and Power in the Global Age
Networks
The Global Network Society
The Network State
Power in the Networks
Power and Counterpower in the Network Society
Conclusion: Understanding Power Relationships in the Global Network Society

2 Communication in the Digital Age
A Communication Revolution?
Technological Convergence and the New Multimedia System: From Mass Communication to Mass Self-communication
The Organization and Management of Communication: Global Multimedia Business Networks
The Politics of Regulatory Policies
Cultural Change in a Globalized World
The Creative Audience
Communication in the Global Digital Age

3 Networks of Mind and Power
The Windmills of the Mind
Emotion, Cognition, and Politics
Emotion and Cognition in Political Campaigns
The Politics of Beliefs
The Framing of the Mind
Conquering the Minds, Conquering Iraq, Conquering Washington: From Misinformation to Mystification
The Power of the Frame

4 Programming Communication Networks: Media Politics, Scandal Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy
Power-making by Image-making
The Killing (Semantic) Fields: Media Politics at Work
The Politics of Scandal
The State and Media Politics: Propaganda and Control
The Demise of Public Trust and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy
Crisis of Democracy?

5 Reprogramming Communication Networks: Social Movements, Insurgent Politics, and the New Public Space
Warming Up to Global Warming: The Environmental Movement and the New Culture of Nature
The Network is the Message: Global Movements against Corporate Globalization
Mobil-izing Resistance: Wireless Communication and Insurgent Communities of Practice
“Yes, We Can!” The 2008 Obama Presidential Primary Campaign
Reprogramming Networks, Rewiring Minds, Changing the World
Conclusion: Toward a Communication Theory of Power

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