The Network Society Revisited. (June 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Castells, Manuel
• Other Names: Fernández-Ardèvol Mireia guest-editor.; Ribera-Fumaz Ramon guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: American behavioral scientist. Volume 67:Number 7(2023)
• Page Start: 940
• Page End: 946
• Publication Date: 2023-06
• Subjects: network society -- information age trilogy -- social change; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; 300
• DOI: 10.1177/00027642221092803
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0002-7642

Abstract

The theory of the network society, in my own version, was originally elaborated in the book that, under the title The Rise of the Network Society, I published in 1996. It was revised and updated in the 2000 and 2010 editions. However, the significant social change that has taken place on a global scale in the last decade provides an opportunity to reassess its heuristic value. Therefore, in this text, I will attempt to consider the currency of the theory of the network society when confronted with these changes.