Nicholas Garnham is critical of Castells and argues that the latter’s account is technologically determinist because Castells points out that his approach is based on a dialectic of technology and society in which technology embodies society and society uses technology (Castells 2000: 5sqq).
Castells je teorijam informacijske družbe dodal idejo, da so v sodobni družbi prevladujoče funkcije in procesi povečano organizirani okrog omrežij, ki tvorijo novo družbeno morfologijo družbe (Castells 2000: 500).