Communication Power

<br>"Of much value... Manuel Castells has shaped himself into the most prominent and influential theorist and analyst of the modern communications and network age."--Financial Times<p><br>"Provides a bevy of illustrious examples of how grassroots campaigns could use the internet to bring public attention to issues as diverse as climate change and the war in Iraq."--Forbes<p><br>"Castells is a synthesizer and meta-theoretician. He reaches far and wide to bring together disparate elements to his arguments. This is his amazing strength as a seminal figure in modern scholarship.... Reading Communication Power is rather like taking a great birding dog out for a walk: every nook and cranny must be sniffed and explored with endearing enthusiasm before moving on in a bound to the next point of discovery."--Political Communication<p><br>"Manuel Castells unites the mind of a social scientist with the soul of an artist. His trilogy took us to the edge of the millennium. This book takes us beyond

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Opening; 1. Power in the Network Society; 2. Communication in the Digital Age; 3. Networks of Mind and Power; 4. Programming Communication Networks: Media Politics, Scandal Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy; 5. Reprogramming Communication Networks: Social Movements, Insurgent Politics, and the New Public Space; 6. Toward a Communication Theory of Power

(Oxford)