Centre de Sciences Humaines

The power of identity /

Castells, Manuell, 1942-

The power of identity / Manuell Castells. - 2nd ed., with a new preface - Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010. - xliv, 538 p ; 24 cm. - The information age: economy, society, and culture .

Originally published: 2004. With a new pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [466]-511) and index.

The information technology revolution -- The new economy : informationalism, globalization, networking -- The network enterprise : the culture, institutions, and organizations of the informational economy -- The transformation of work and employment : networkers, jobless, and flex-timers -- The culture of real virtuality : the integration of electronic communication, the end of the mass audience, and the rise of interactive networks -- The space of flows -- The edge of forever : timeless time -- The crisis of industrial statism and the collapse of the soviet union -- The rise of the fourth world : informational captalism, poverty, and social exclusion -- The perverse connection : the global criminal economy -- Development and crisis in the asian pacific : globalization and the state -- The unification of europe : globalization, identity, and the network state.

9781405196871 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009030162


Information society.
Social movements.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Information technology--Political aspects.
Identity (Philosophical concept)

HM851 / .C37 2010

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