Marketers are now at a critical junction in determining their course through the real-time marketing landscape. The approach includes search, social, and content, but to an even greater extent, it ...

For the past two years, the violent student protests associated with the ‘Fees Must Fall’ movement in South Africa have been a strong reminder of the unique paradox that has characterised the ...

Manuel Castells studies the links between the internet and protest movements Prof Manuel Castells is regarded as one of the most-cited sociologists in the world. When most of us were still struggling ...

Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells has won this year’s Holberg International Memorial Prize – the ‘Nobel prize’ for the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. A professor at the ...

Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells argues that the internet has altered protest movements forever. But while he says online activism can be effective, recent major political change has required boots ...

Farm workers union members dig abandoned land they have occupied during the crisis. Castells' survey shows large numbers of people in Spain have engaged in co-operative or non-profit work since the ...

Manuel Castells is currently Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include a trilogy on The Information Age: ...

The modulating screech of the dial-up modem still had a rather futuristic sound when Manuel Castells began publishing The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture in 1996. By the time its third ...

The internet bubble produced an abundance of in-house literature attempting to explain the phenomenon. Books with titles like Blur and New Rules for the New Economy vied with techno magazines such as ...