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Showing papers by "Manuel Castells published in 2014"


01 Jan 2014

59 citations


BookDOI
28 Aug 2014
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a model of development in the Global Information Age (GIA) based on the Silicon Valley model, where economic dynamism, social exclusion, and social exclusion are considered.
Abstract: Introduction PART I: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK 1. Models of Development in the Global Information Age: Constructing an Analytical Framework PART II: CASE STUDIES 2. The Silicon Valley Model: Economic Dynamism, Social Exclusion 3. Reconstructing the Finnish Model 2.0: Building a Sustainable Development Model? 4. Toward a Welfare State 2.0: Crisis and Renewal of the European Welfare State? 5. Development as Culture: Human Development and Information Development in China 6. South Africa Informational Development and Human Development: Rights vs. Capabilities 7. Development, Democracy, and Social Change in Chile 8. Pacifism, Human Development, and Informational Development: The Costa Rican Model PART III: RECONCEPTUALIZING DEVELOPMENT 9. Rethinking Human Development 10. Dignity as Development: The Cultural Link Between Informational and Human Development

55 citations


Posted Content
TL;DR: In this article, a collection of essays presented the results of a shared project of reflection by a group of international sociologists and social scientists, led by Manuel Castells, concluding that to address life beyond the crisis, we need nothing less than a complete transformation of the mind-set that led to bankruptcy and despair, and to economies and societies based on an unsustainable model of speculative finance and political irresponsibility.
Abstract: The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show that we are entering a world that is very different from the social and economic conditions that characterized the rise of global, informational capitalism in the preceding three decades. The policies and strategies that were intended to manage the crisis--with mixed results depending on the country--may usher in a distinctly different economic and institutional system, as the New Deal, the construction of the European Welfare State, and the Bretton Woods global financial architecture all gave rise to a new form of capitalism in the aftermath of the 1930s Depression, and World War II. This volume examines the cultures and institutions at the root of the crisis, as well as the conflicts and debates that may lead to a new social landscape, including the rise of alternative economic cultures in the social movements that have sprung up around the world. This collection of essays presents the results of a shared project of reflection by a group of international sociologists and social scientists, led by Manuel Castells. They conclude that to address life beyond the crisis, we need nothing less than a complete transformation of the mind-set that led to bankruptcy and despair, and to economies and societies based on an unsustainable model of speculative finance and political irresponsibility. Contributors to this volume - Manuel Castells, University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society, the University of Southern California. Joao Caraca, Director of the Science Department, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Gustavo Cardoso, Professor of Media and Society, IUL - Lisbon University Institute. Rosalind Williams, the Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, M.I.T. John B. Thompson, Professor of Sociology, the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Michel Wieviorka, Professor, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and President of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (Paris) Sarah Banet-Weiser, Professor in the School of Communication, USC Annenberg and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Terhi Rantanen, Professor in Global Media and Communications, the London School of Economics and Political Science. Pekka Himanen, Professor of Philosophy, the Aalto University, Helsinki. Pedro Jacobetty, PhD student and Researcher, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigacao e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal. Amalia Cardenas, Researcher, the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona. Joana Conill, Researcher, the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona. Lisa Servon, Professor of Urban Studies, the Milano School of Management, New School University, New York. Ernesto Ottone, Chair Professor of Political Science, the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, and Associate Professor at the Universidad de Chile You-tien Hsing, Professor of Geography, and a Senior Fellow, the China Center and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

24 citations


Book
30 Apr 2014
TL;DR: The Internet has so entirely transformed virtually all aspects of everyday life that it seems almost impossible to assess its impact as discussed by the authors, and 19 esteemed scholars from around the world tackle the topic from different angles.
Abstract: The Internet has so entirely transformed virtually all aspects of everyday life that it seems almost impossible to assess its impact. Here, 19 esteemed scholars from around the world tackle the topic from different angles. Manuel Castells, David Gelernter, Juan Ignacio Vzquez, Evgeni Morozov, Mikko Hyppnen, Yochai Benkler, Federico Casalegno, David Crystal, Lucien Engelen, Patrik Wikstrm, Peter Hirshberg, Paul DiMaggio and Edward Castronova address such matters as the "Internet of things"; the sociology of the Internet; cybercrime and Internet security; the future of work; the Internet and urban-rural sustainability; the "Worldstream and the Cybersphere"; gaming and society; the Internet's influence on languages and new economic systems; the massive changes wrought by the net in the music industry; and other aspects of its many cultural, social and political ramifications.

15 citations


01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The main articulation formulas Manuel Castells proposes between the notions of communication and culture, during a period of his theoretical work spannning 1996-2009, are analyzed in this paper.
Abstract: In this article we will get involved in the analysis of the main articulation formulas Manuel Castells proposes between the notions of communication and culture, during a period of his theoretical work spannning 1996-2009. The central purpose of this piece of work is the decoding of the main theoretical operations the Spanish sociologist carries out within this framework, as well as the general views insinuated through them. For this we will pay special attention to the tactics of appropriation that displays the Catalan sociologist in relation to the theoretical sources present in this space of intersection: Jean Baudrillard, Roland Barthes y Neil Postman. The present research, that only partially addresses the different aspects that constitute the cultural theory of the author, allow us to discover the adoption by Castells of a techno mediatic conception of communication and culture, that tend to subsume his general concept of culture, and largely is recreated in the shadow of an explicit and generalist discourse of the sociocultural communication

2 citations


01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The authors describe a set of movimientos sociales en red, i.e., "visions" sociales in red, that combine the ocupación del ciberespacio and la ocupacion del espacio publico urbano".
Abstract: De forma inesperada han surgido potentes movimientos sociales en todos los confines del planeta, manifestandose –aunque con distinta intensidad– en miles de ciudades, en un centenar de paises. Son mo vimientos sociales en red que combinan en su practica la ocupacion del ciberespacio y la ocupacion del espacio publico urbano. ?Cuales son los principales rasgos? ?Existe un patron comun? ?Como son las interacciones de los procesos espaciales introducidas por los nuevos movimientos sociales en red?

2 citations