Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells (, ; lahir 1942) adalah sosiolog Spanyol yang meneliti masyarakat informasi, komunikasi, dan globalisasi.

Survei penelitian Social Sciences Citation Index tahun 2000–09 menempatkan Castells di peringkat kelima dalam daftar pakar ilmu sosial yang paling banyak dikutip di dunia, dan peringkat pertama dalam daftar pakar komunikasi yang paling banyak dikutip.

Ia dianugerahi Hadiah Holberg pada tahun 2012 karena "telah membuat kita memahami dinamika politik ekonomi kota dan global dalam masyarakat berjaringan." Pada tahun 2013, ia dianugerahi Hadiah Balzan.

Karya 
Manuel Castells adalah salah satu pakar ilmu sosial dan komunikasi yang paling banyak dikutip di dunia. Ia telah menulis lebih dari 20 buku, termasuk:

 The Urban Question. A Marxist Approach (Alan Sheridan, translator). London, Edward Arnold (1977) (Original publication in French, 1972)
 City, Class and Power. London; New York, MacMillan; St. Martins Press (1978)
 The Economic Crisis and American Society. Princeton, NJ, Princeton UP (1980)
 The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. Berkeley: University of California Press (1983)
 The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban Regional Process. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell (1989)
 The Information Age trilogy:

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 The Internet Galaxy, Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2001)
 The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model. Oxford UP, Oxford (2002) (co-author, Pekka Himanen )
 The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar (2004), (editor and co-author), ISBN 978-1-84542-435-0.
 The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy. Washington, DC, Center for Transatlantic Relations (2006) (co-editor)
 Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press (2006) (co-author)
 Communication power. Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press (2009) ISBN 978-0-19-956704-1
 Aftermath: the cultures of the economic crisis. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (2012) ISBN 978-0-19-965841-1
 Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age. Cambridge, MA, Polity Press (2012) ISBN 978-0-7456-6284-8

Artikel jurnal
 Arsenault, A & Castells, M. (2008) Switching power: Rupert Murdoch and the global business of media politics: A sociological analysis . International Sociology 23(4): 488.
 Arsenault, A, and Castells, M. 2008. The structure and dynamics of global multimedia business networks . International Journal of Communication 2707-48.
 Castells, M (2007) Communication, power and counter-power in the network society . International Journal of Communication 1(1): 238-66.

Makalah
 Social Uses of Wireless Communications: The Mobile Information Society, co-author of the paper for the International Workshop on Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, USC, 8–9 October 2004.

Buku tentang Manuel Castells
 Susser, Ida. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. Oxford, Blackwell (2002)
 Castells, Manuel; Ince, Martin. Conversations with Manuel Castells. Oxford, Polity Press (2003)
 Stalder, Felix. Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Oxford, Polity Press (2006)

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 Webpage of Castells at USC Annenberg
 Webpage of Castells at UC Berkeley (Professor Emeritus listing)
 Website devoted to his work, made by Open University of Catalonia
 Video stream of an hour long interview with Castells, conducted in 2001 
 Conference on his actual researches  on massive social movements involved in the Arab Springs and the Occupy Movements.
 International Journal of Communication Academic journal co-founded by Castells, established in 2007
 Manuel Castells' World of Communication , a Manuel Castells exclusive monthly article in Media Coolhunting.
 Audio: Manuel Castells in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum
 Video Stream: Manuel Castells October 2009 keynote at University of Oxford Internet Institute for the release of his new book, "Communication Power"
 

Kelahiran 1942
Anggota British Academy
Anggota Academia Europaea
Dosen College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
Dosen Universitas California Selatan
Sosiolog Amerika Serikat
Sosiolog Spanyol
Penulis dari California
Penulis tentang globalisasi
Sosiolog perkotaan
Teoriwan perkotaan
Pemenang Hadiah Holberg
Guggenheim Fellow