The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society is a book by Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California. It was published by Oxford University Press in 2001. The title is a reference to The Gutenberg Galaxy, a 1962 book. Dec 13, 2001. By reading we can add insight and get new information that was useful for us Now available book Free The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies) by Manuel Castells (2001-12-13) PDF Download on this website that get you guys get. This Book/Site Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Interface: The Journal of Education, Community and Values. Review of The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society / by Manuel Castells. University Press, 2001. Dynamics of National and Global Competition in Higher Education. The paper explores the dynamics of competition in higher education. National competition and global competition are distinct, but feed into each other. Higher education produces. Research universities aim to maximise their status as producers of.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Overview [ ] The book contains 9 chapters. Castells starts with the history of Internet, focuses on the process of Internet evolution influence our society. He emphasizes the development of Internet from 1962 to 1995, the extension from to. Castells believes that 'The openness of the Internet's architecture was the source of its main strength'. Then he states that the 'Internet Culture' is structured by four kinds of culture including: 'the techno-meritocratic culture', 'the culture', 'the virtual communication culture', and 'the entrepreneurial culture'.

Next, Castells analyses the vital status of Internet in the business and economy fields, and he refers to the impact of virtual communication which is based on the Internet communication to the reality in the following chapter. In terms of the Politics of the Internet, Castells points that 'social movement' and 'the political process' use Internet as a new communication medium to 'acting' and 'informing'. And there is an issue between 'Privacy and Liberty in Cyberspace' relates to 'the politics of the Internet' is mentioned in this book. Xcpuscalar 2 85 Serial Number. Ansi Asq Z1 9 2008 Pdf Writer on this page. In the last three chapters, Castells analyses the Internet from, geography and 'the digital divide in a global perspective'.