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The Crisis of Global Capitalism
Manuel Castells
- pp 185-210
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The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Capitalism.read more
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Some Reflections on Manuel Castells’ Book "Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age".
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide critical reflections on Manuel Castells' (2012) book Networks of Outrage and Hope, which analyses the nature and perspectives of networked social movements and gives special focus to the role of social media in movements that emerged in 2011 in Tunisia, Iceland, Egypt, Spain and the United States.
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From ‘Post-Industrial’ to ‘Network Society’ and Beyond: The Political Conjunctures and Current Crisis of Information Society Theory
Marko Ampuja,Juha Koivisto +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the intellectual and conceptual shifts that have occurred in information society theories (and also policies) in the previous four decades and examine the topic by focusing on the work of Daniel Bell and Manuel Castells, arguably two of the most important information society theorists.
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Beyond flows, fluids and networks: Social theory and the fetishism of the global informational economy
TL;DR: The authors argue that social theorists often fetishise the very social changes in the global economy they are trying to describe, as a result, they articulate a 'flat ontology' of concrete and contingent relations that mistakenly claims to capture the most important dynamics of global capitalism.
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Global science, national research, and the question of university rankings
Ellen Hazelkorn,Andrew Gibson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the interrelationship and tensions between the national and the global in the context of the influences between higher education and global university rankings and discuss the broader implications for higher education.
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The American Welfare State and Social Contract in Hard Times
TL;DR: In this article, a broad, risk-centered view of welfare that embraces both public and private sectors is presented, and the interaction of this welfare state structure with periods of economic recession is discussed.