商品簡介
Stalder (media economy, U. of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland) summarizes and explains the core theoretical and empirical arguments of influential sociologist Manuel Castells, best known for his work on "network societies." Stalder first explores Castell's shift from emphasis on conflict to emphasis on forms and situates this theoretical development against the background of the success and failure of the early Marxist urban sociology. He then offers chapters on Castell's analyses of information capitalism, social movements as the subjects of contemporary social change, and the crisis of liberal democracy and the transformation of governance into the "network state." He builds upon these discussions in order to examine Castell's concepts of the "space of flows," "timeless time," and networks as the dominant form of social organization before concluding with an assessment of Castell's theory as a whole. Distributed in the US by Blackwell Publishing. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Felix Stalder, University of Applied Arts Social Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
