num_pages: 594
description: This book, the first in Castells' ground-breaking trilogy, is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
language: English
title: The Rise of the Network Society
titlecomplete: The Rise of the Network Society (The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume 1)
genres: Social Science, Technology, Sociology, History, Politics, Science, Philosophy, Academic, Nonfiction, Economics
ratings_count: 898
series: The Rise of Network Society
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell