Manuel Castells on Identity and Change in the Network Society

= 6-part "Conversation with History", conducted by Harry Kreisler

Videos via http://youtube.com/watch?v=0GBB7U5mv0w

ToC

"1. Background ... influence of parents ... growing up in fascist Spain ... questioning authority ... flight to Paris ... education ... attraction to sociology

2. Focus of Research ... first teaching position at Nanterre ... 1968 Movement in Paris ... the impact of the sixties ... cultural changes ... the importance of identity

3. Doing Social Theory ... theory ... empirical research ... social theory ... influences ... comparative and global perspective

4. The Network Society and Organizational Change ... definition and dialectic ... implications for global economy ... implications for the state ... case of European Union ... The Fed as an actor ... implications for warfare ... technology and bureaucracies

5. Identity in the Network Society ... the reassertion of identity ... power to exclude ... .digital divide ... case of the anti-globalization movement ... the power of mind ... the women's movement ... battle over images and ideas

6. Conclusions ... individualism and communalism ... advice for students" (http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con0.html)