The Rise of the Network Society - The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture
By Taner Kızılhan, Sevil Bal Kızılhan. 2016
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Castell’s book is the first part of his milstone “The Information Age: Economy Society, and Culture” work. The author states that, the triology was prepared to be a single book, but then with the contributions of the editor, it was divided into three books by making each part of the study a separate book. In this particular book, Castells presents an easily understandable and comprehensive analysis by examining the economic, social, and cultural changes that caused by the Network Society. He does this by being as realistic as possible and reaching a clear conclusion by supporting all of his claims with various statistics and examples.
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Citations in the corpus
- Big Data for Development: A Review of Promises and Challenges (2016, unknown): “The process can be seen as the natural next step in the evolution from the “Information Age” and “Information Societies” (in the sense of Bell, 1973; Masuda, 1980; Beniger, 1986; Castells, 2009; Peres and Hilbert, 2010; ITU, 2014) to “Knowledge Societies”: building on the digital infrastructure that”
- The Corporate Elite Community Structure of Global Capitalism (2016, background): “The debate is about the structure of the global order, and we can picture the world as one large network that is organised according to historic power relations of trade, colonisation, war, culture, language and religion (Castells 2011).”