The information age: economy, society, and culture. 1, The rise of the network society

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe List of Figures xii List of Tables xiv Acknowledgments 2000 xvii Acknowledgments 1996 xlv Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Rise of the Network Society lv Prologue: the Net and the Self 1 Technology, Society, and Historical Change 5 Informationalism, Industrialism, Capitalism, Statism: Modes of Development and Modes of Production 13 Informationalism and capitalist perestroika 18 The Self in the Informational Society 21 A Word on Method 25 1 The Information Technology Revolution 28 Which Revolution? 28 Lessons from the Industrial Revolution 33 The Historical Sequence of the Information Technology Revolution 38 Micro-engineering macro-changes: electronics and information 39 The creation of the Internet 45 The 1970s' technological divide 53 Technologies of life 54 Social context and the dynamics of technological change 59 Models, Actors, and Sites of the Information Technology Revolution 61 The Information Technology Paradigm 69 2 The New Economy: Informationalism, Globalization, Networking 77 Productivity, Competitiveness, and the Informational Economy 78 The productivity enigma 78 Is knowledge-based productivity specific to the informational economy? 80 Informationalism and capitalism, productivity and profitability 94 The historical specificity of informationalism 99 The Global Economy: Structure, Dynamics, and Genesis 101 Global financial markets 102 Globalization of markets for goods and services: growth and transformation of international trade 106 Globalization versus regionalization 110 The internationalization of production: multinational corporations and international production networks 116 Informational production and selective globalization of science and technology 124 Global labor? 130 The geometry of the global economy: segments and networks 132 The political economy of globalization: capitalist restructuring, information technology, and state policies 135 The New Economy 147 3 The Network Enterprise: the Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of the Informational Economy 163 Organizational Trajectories in the Restructuring of Capitalism and in the Transition from Industrialism to Informationalism 164 Network technologies and pervasive computing 51 Small business and the crisis of the large corporation: myth and reality 167 "Toyotism": management-worker cooperation, multifunctional labor, total quality control, and reduction of uncertainty 169 Inter-firm networking 172 Corporate strategic alliances 174 The horizontal corporation and global business networks 176 The crisis of the vertical corporation model and the rise of business networks 178 Networking the networks: the Cisco model 180 Information Technology and the Network Enterprise 184 Culture, Institutions, and Economic Organization: East Asian Business Networks 188 A typology of East Asian business networks 189 Japan 190 Korea 191 China 193 Culture, organizations, and institutions: Asian business networks and the developmental state 195 Multinational Enterprises, Transnational Corporations, and International Networks 206 The Spirit of Informationalism 210 4 The Transformation of Work and Employment: Networkers, Jobless, and Flex-timers 216 The Historical Evolution of Employment and Occupational Structure in Advanced Capitalist Countries: the G-7, 1920-2005 217 Post-industrialism, the service economy, and the informational society 218 The transformation of employment structure, 1920-1970 and 1970-1990 224 The new occupational structure 232 The maturing of the informational society: employment projections into the twenty-first century 237 Summing up: the evolution of employment structure and its implications for a comparative analysis of the informational society 243 From mass production to flexible production 166 The Work Process in the Informational Paradigm 255 The Effects of Information Technology on Employment: Toward a Jobless Society? 267 Work and the Informational Divide: Flex-timers 281 Information Technology and the Restructuring of Capital-Labor Relations: Social Dualism or Fragmented Societies? 296 Appendix A: Statistical Tables for Chapter 4 303 Appendix B: Methodological Note and Statistical References 338 5 The Culture of Real Virtuality: the Integration of Electronic Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of Interactive Networks 355 From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the McLuhan Galaxy: the Rise of Mass Media Culture 358 The New Media and the Diversification of Mass Audience 365 Computer-mediated Communication, Institutional Control, Social Networks, and Virtual Communities 371 The Minitel story: l'etat et l'amour 372 The Internet constellation 375 The interactive society 385 The Grand Fusion: Multimedia as Symbolic Environment 394 The Culture of Real Virtuality 403 6 The Space of Flows 407 Advanced Services, Information Flows, and the Global City 409 The New Industrial Space 417 Everyday Life in the Electronic Cottage: the End of Cities? 424 The Transformation of Urban Form: the Informational City 429 America's last suburban frontier 429 The fading charm of European cities 431 Third millennium urbanization: mega-cities 434 The Social Theory of Space and the Theory of the Space of Flows 440 The Architecture of the End of History 448 Space of Flows and Space of Places 453 Is There a Global Labor Force? 247 7 The Edge of Forever: Timeless Time 460 Time, History, and Society 461 Time as the Source of Value: the Global Casino 465 Flex-time and the Network Enterprise 467 The Shrinking and Twisting of Life Working Time 468 The Blurring of the Life-cycle: Toward Social Arrhythmia? 475 Death Denied 481 Instant Wars 484 Virtual Time 491 Time, Space, and Society: the Edge of Forever 494 Conclusion: the Network Society 500 Summary of the Contents of Volumes II and III 510 Bibliography 512 Index 566 The Information Age 6 Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society 6 Volume II: The Power of Identity 6 Volume III: End of Millennium 7 Title Page 8 Copyright 9 Dedication 11 List of Figures 12 List of Tables 13 Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Rise of the Network Society 14 I 16 II 17 III 19 IV 24 V 31 VI 34 Acknowledgments 2000 36 Acknowledgments 1996 43 Prologue: the Net and the Self 45 Technology, Society, and Historical Change 47 Informationalism, Industrialism, Capitalism, Statism: Modes of Development and Modes of Production 53 The Self in the Informational Society 59 A Word on Method 61 1: The Information Technology Revolution 68 Which Revolution? 68 Lessons from the Industrial Revolution 71 The Historical Sequence of the Information Technology Revolution 74 Models, Actors, and Sites of the Information Technology Revolution 91 The Information Technology Paradigm 98 2: The New Economy: Informationalism, Globalization, Networking 110 Productivity, Competitiveness, and the Informational Economy 111 The Global Economy: Structure, Dynamics, and Genesis 126 The New Economy 161 3: The Network Enterprise: the Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of the Informational Economy 181 Organizational Trajectories in the Restructuring of Capitalism and in the Transition from Industrialism to Informationalism 182 Information Technology and the Network Enterprise 196 Culture, Institutions, and Economic Organization: East Asian Business Networks 199 Multinational Enterprises, Transnational Corporations, and International Networks 212 The Spirit of Informationalism 215 4: The Transformation of Work and Employment: Networkers, Jobless, and Flex-timers1 226 The Historical Evolution of Employment and Occupational Structure in Advanced Capitalist Countries: the G-7, 1920–2005 226 Is There a Global Labor Force? 250 The Work Process in the Informational Paradigm 256 The Effects of Information Technology on Employment: Toward a Jobless Society? 264 Work and the Informational Divide: Flex-timers 274 Information Technology and the Restructuring of Capital–Labor Relations: Social Dualism or Fragmented Societies? 286 Appendix A: Statistical Tables for Chapter 4 291 Appendix B: Methodological Note and Statistical References for the Analysis of Employment and Occupational Structure of G-7 Countries, 1920–2005 310 5: The Culture of Real Virtuality: the Integration of Electronic Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of Interactive Networks 331 From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the McLuhan Galaxy: the Rise of Mass Media Culture 333 The New Media and the Diversification of Mass Audience 338 Computer-mediated Communication, Institutional Control, Social Networks, and Virtual Communities 342 The Grand Fusion: Multimedia as Symbolic Environment 359 The Culture of Real Virtuality 365 6: The Space of Flows 375 Advanced Services, Information Flows, and the Global City 376 The New Industrial Space 381 Everyday Life in the Electronic Cottage: the End of Cities? 387 The Transformation of Urban Form: the Informational City 390 The Social Theory of Space and the Theory of the Space of Flows 399 The Architecture of the End of History 404 Space of Flows and Space of Places 409 7: The Edge of Forever: Timeless Time 419 Time, History, and Society 419 Time as the Source of Value: the Global Casino 422 Flex-time and the Network Enterprise 424 The Shrinking and Twisting of Life Working Time 425 The Blurring of the Life-cycle: Toward Social Arrhythmia? 429 Death Denied 433 Instant Wars 435 Virtual Time 440 Time, Space, and Society: the Edge of Forever 442 Conclusion: the Network Society 452 Summary of the Contents of Volumes II and III 460 Volume II: The Power of Identity 460 Volume III: End of Millennium 460 Bibliography 461 Index 520 "A little over a decade since its first publication, the hypotheses set out in Manuel Castells' groundbreaking trilogy have largely been verified. In a substantial new preface to the first volume in the series, Castells demonstrates, in the light of major world trends, how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. The book discusses how the global economy is now characterized by the almost instantaneous flow and exchange of information, capital, and cultural communication. These flows order and condition both consumption and production. The networks themselves reflect and create distinctive cultures. Both they and the traffic they carry are largely outside national regulation. Our dependence on the new modes of informational flow gives enormous power to those in a position to control them to control us. The main political arena is now the media, and the media are not politically answerable. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, Castells, formulates a systematic theory of the information society and details the new social and economic developments brought by the Internet and the 'new economy'."--Http://search.barnesandnoble.com (April 12, 2011)