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<p>Manuel Castells is one of the world's leading thinkers on the new information age, hailed by <i>The Economist</i> as "the first significant philosopher of cyberspace," and by <i>Christian Science Monitor</i> as "a pioneer who has hacked out a logical, well-documented, and coherent picture of early 21st century civilization, even as it rockets forward largely in a blur." Now, in <i>The Internet Galaxy</i>, this brilliantly insightful writer speculates on how the Internet will change our lives. <P>Castells believes that we are "entering, full speed, the Internet Galaxy, in the midst of informed bewilderment." His aim in this exciting and profound work is to help us to understand how the Internet came into being, and how it is affecting every area of human life--from work, politics, planning and development, media, and privacy, to our social interaction and life in the home. We are at ground zero of the new network society. In this book, its major commentator reveals the Internet's huge capacity to liberate, but also its ability to marginalize and exclude those who do not have access to it. Castells provides no glib solutions, but asks us all to take responsibility for the future o
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- Author
- MANUEL CASTELLS, Castells, Manuel, Manuel Castells
- Publisher
- WXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199255771
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Management, Economics
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (188 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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