The modulating screech of the dial-up modem still had a rather futuristic sound when Manuel Castells began publishing The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture in 1996. By the time its third ...

Manuel Castells studies the links between the internet and protest movements Prof Manuel Castells is regarded as one of the most-cited sociologists in the world. When most of us were still struggling ...

Marketers are now at a critical junction in determining their course through the real-time marketing landscape. The approach includes search, social, and content, but to an even greater extent, it ...

Castells, best known for his three-volume study The Information Age (Blackwell), an analysis of societal changes wrought by communications advances, trims that work to appeal to readers who were ...

Farm workers union members dig abandoned land they have occupied during the crisis. Castells' survey shows large numbers of people in Spain have engaged in co-operative or non-profit work since the ...

The internet bubble produced an abundance of in-house literature attempting to explain the phenomenon. Books with titles like Blur and New Rules for the New Economy vied with techno magazines such as ...

Yet, in some ways, Castells is a "guru's guru". The breadth of his endeavour a 20-year attempt to synthesise a total theory of the information age covering global economic, technological, social and ...

Castells, who together with Pekka Himanen co-authored a report on sustainable growth in Finland, said that the country could encourage more creativity and entrepreneurship. He also said that a lack of ...

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