Manuel Castells: The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, 2nd ed. (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · economy, globalisation, identity, information society, network culture, networks, politics, social movements, technology, terrorism, women
In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.
* Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our world
* Applies Castells’ hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world
* A brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the world
* Analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movement
* Throws new light on the dynamics of global and local change
Publisher John Wiley and Sons, 2009
Information Age Series, Manuel Castells
ISBN 1405196874, 9781405196871
Length 584 pages
Kevin Kelly: New Rules for the New Economy. 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Filed under book | Tags: · economy, networks, technology
Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the traditional wisdom of the industrial world.
Succinct and memorable, New Rules explains why these powerful laws are already hardwired into the new economy, and how they play out in all kinds of business — both low and high tech — all over the world. More than an overview of new economic principles, it prescribes clear and specific strategies for success in the network economy. For any worker, CEO, or middle manager, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy.
Publisher Penguin Books, 1999
ISBN 014028060X, 9780140280609
Length 179 pages
Sarai Media Lab (eds.): Sensor-Census-Sensor: An International Colloquium on Information, Society, History and Politics. A Report (2007)
Filed under report | Tags: · censorship, india, information society, neoliberalism, networks, politics, surveillance, technology
This book is a report on the International Colloquium that took place from November 30th, 2006 to December 2nd, 2006
Critical examination and investigation of the regimes and technologies of information harvesting, management, circulation and deployment as they have developed in India and Europe from early modernity till today.
The colloquium was organized by the Sarai Programme at CSDS, Delhi, in collaboration with the Waag Society, Amsterdam, and t0, Vienna, under the rubric of the network titled ‘Towards a Culture of Open Networks’
Sensor-Census-Sensor: Investigating Circuits of Information, Registering Changes of State
Produced and designed at the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi
Published by: The Sarai Programme, Delhi, India, November 2007
ISBN 9788190585378
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