The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

By Manuel Castells. 2001

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From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use: A Literature Review and Agenda for Research on Digital Inequality (2004, background): “The Internet's architecture is currently changing to better serve the economic interests of commercial enterprises (Lessig 1999; Castells 2001).”
Media Literacy and the Challenge of New Information and Communication Technologies (2004, background): “…there is also evidence that—online, through attempts of content-providers to re-impose hierarchical, print-based models of authoritative information (Castells, 2002) and offline, through attempts to perpetuate traditional methods of teaching, learning, and assessment (Loveless & Ellis, 2001)—there…”
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “Over this period, a long life has become normalised to the extent that a person who dies prematurely is regarded as having been ‘robbed’ of life.”
Advertising Bans and the Substitutability of Online and Offline Advertising (2011, neutral): “Castells (2001) wrote, “the Internet decisively undermined national sovereignty and state control” of the flow of information to its inhabitants (p.”
Social media and migration: Virtual community 2.0 (2011, background): “These individuals participate in a number of different networks but the members of networks may not know each other, leading to the phrase ‘networking individualism’ (Castells, 2001; Castells, Fernandez-Ardevol, Qiu, & Sey, 2006; Wellman & Haythornthwaite, 2002; Wellman et al., 2003).”
Heuristically Optimized Trade-Offs: A New Paradigm for Power Laws in the Internet (2002, background): “The authors of [2] refer briefly to the Internet topology and usage, and opine that the power law phenomena there are also due to the survivability built in the Internet and its protocols (whereas it is well known that this aspect of the Internet has not had a significant influence on its developmen”
Social media and social movements: Facebook and an online Guatemalan justice movement that moved offline (2012, background): “…enhancing a movement’s existing repertoire by adding email campaigns, online petitions and even virtual sit-ins to activists’ existing toolbox (Castells, 2001; Juris, 2005), or it actually can create new forms of activism and resistance (Cardoso and Pereira Neto, 2004; Rolfe, 2005; Van…”
Computing in Everyday Life: A Call for Research on Experiential Computing (2010, background): “Reflecting this historical role of information technology, the emphasis in the literature has been the emergence of the sense of space out there that is boundless and global (Castells 2003; Giddens 1990; Schultz and Boland 2000).”
Prosumer-based smart grid architecture enables a flat, sustainable electricity industry (2011, background): “The internet is one of the most notable developments in the history of mankind, allowing unprecedented exchange of information, creating millions of IT jobs and enabling innovation at massive scale [8,9].”
Dynamics of National and Global Competition in Higher Education (2006, background): “Universities in the different world regions have partial linkages with other regions but are always linked to universities in the United States, which is the global communications and business hub (Castells 2001).”