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

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:608261 L3 - citeulike-article-id:608261 N2 - Manuel Castells is one of the world's leading thinkers on the new informationage, hailed by The Economist as ""the first significant philosopher ofcyberspace,"" and by Christian Science Monitor as ""a pioneer who has hackedout a logical, well-documented, and coherent picture of early 21st centurycivilization, even as it rockets forward largely in a blur."" Now, in TheInternet Galaxy, this brilliantly insightful writer speculates on how theInternet will change our lives. Castells believes that we are ""entering, fullspeed, the Internet Galaxy, in the midst of informed bewilderment."" His aimin this exciting and profound work is to help us to understand how theInternet came into being, and how it is affecting every area of human life--from work, politics, planning and development, media, and privacy, to oursocial interaction and life in the home. We are at ground zero of the newnetwork society. In this book, its major commentator reveals the Internet'shuge capacity to liberate, but also its ability to marginalize and excludethose who do not have access to it. Castells provides no glib solutions, butasks us all to take responsibility for the future of this new information age.The Internet is becoming the essential communication and information medium inour society, and stands alongside electricity and the printing press as one ofthe greatest innovations of all time. The Internet Galaxy offers anilluminating look at how this new technology will influence business, theeconomy, and our daily lives. SN - 0199255776 TI - The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society: Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society PB - Oxford University Press, USA KW - cyberactivism KW - democracy KW - digitaldivide KW - hackers KW - politics KW - publicsphere KW - security AU - Castells, Manuel PY - 2003/04/03/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0199255776 ER -