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Communication Power
Contributor(s): Castells, Manuel (Author)

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ISBN: 0199681937     ISBN-13: 9780199681938
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $25.64  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: October 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Telecommunications
- Business & Economics | Information Management
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (2.05 lbs) 624 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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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.

 
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