Una completa ed interessante intervista con Castells. Di grande qualità e sicuramente utile per spunti per tesi ed approfondimenti esame new media programma attuale.

 http://webcast.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/UCSD_TV/7234.rm

Argomenti dell'intervista (in Inglese):

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

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

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

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

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

Conclusions ... individualism and communalism ... advice for students

 

fonte: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/