CS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Manuel Castells, Network Society
25 May 2016
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Take home exam due tuesday december 15, 2015: the network society, communicative capitalism, counter power, exam, recap. The constitutive principles of networks have become the animating force of individual, social, economic and political life, and this marks the distinction of our period in history (barney, 2001, p. 2) Networks suggest connection or ties between and among points or nodes. What flows among nodes is information or data. The ubiquity of technologies of networked communication and info management. Popularity of networks as basic form of human organization and the basic form of relationships. Both an economic system and an ideological complex. Injunctions for us to communicate, participate, share (jodi dean, 2012) Increasingly requires and thrives on social communication / Communication technologies made capitalism acceptable, exciting and cool, immunizing it from critique (jodi dean)
