New Castells Book
Manuel Castells has a new book out soon: a cross-cultural perspective on the network society. According to the blurb:
Manuel Castells – one of the world’s pre-eminent social scientists – has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. After presenting a theoretical discussion of the network society, the book analyzes processes of technological transformation in interaction with social culture in five different cultural and institutional contexts: Silicon Valley, Finland, Russia, China and the UK. The conviction that the network society takes very different forms, depending on the cultural and institutional environments in which it evolves, lies at the heart of this book.
And contributors include: ‘S.K. Acord, W.E. Baker, T. Bates, C. Benner, N. Bulkley, M. Castells, A. Chatterjee, K.M. Coleman, I. Díaz de Isla Gómez, K.N. Hampton, P. Himanen, J.S. Juris, J.E. Katz, J. Linchuan Qiu, R. Pinkett, R.E. Rice, T. Sancho, L.J. Servon, A. Sey, I. Tubella, M. Van Alstyne, E. Vartanova, B. Wellman, R. Williams, S. Woolgar, C. Zaloom’
