Communication Power

590 Pages·2009·3.41 MB·English

by  Manuel Castells

COMMUNICATION POWER
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COMMUNICATION
POWER
MANUEL CASTELLS
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
ListofFigures xiii
ListofTables xv
Opening 1
1 PowerintheNetworkSociety 10
WhatisPower? 10
StateandPowerintheGlobalAge 17
Networks 19
TheGlobalNetworkSociety 24
TheNetworkState 38
PowerintheNetworks 42
PowerandCounterpowerintheNetworkSociety 47
Conclusion:UnderstandingPowerRelationships
intheGlobalNetworkSociety 50
2 CommunicationintheDigitalAge 54
ACommunicationRevolution? 54
TechnologicalConvergenceandtheNewMultimediaSystem:
FromMassCommunicationtoMassSelf-communication 58
TheOrganizationandManagementofCommunication:Global
MultimediaBusinessNetworks 71
ThePoliticsofRegulatoryPolicies 99
CulturalChangeinaGlobalizedWorld 116
TheCreativeAudience 127
CommunicationintheGlobalDigitalAge 135
3 NetworksofMindandPower 137
TheWindmillsoftheMind 137
Contents
Emotion,Cognition,andPolitics 146
EmotionandCognitioninPoliticalCampaigns 150
ThePoliticsofBeliefs 153
TheFramingoftheMind 155
ConqueringtheMinds,ConqueringIraq,Conquering
Washington:FromMisinformationtoMystification 165
ThePoweroftheFrame 189
4 ProgrammingCommunicationNetworks:MediaPolitics,Scandal
Politics,andtheCrisisofDemocracy 193
Power-makingbyImage-making 193
TheKilling(Semantic)Fields:MediaPoliticsatWork 196
ThePoliticsofScandal 240
TheStateandMediaPolitics:PropagandaandControl 264
TheDemiseofPublicTrustandtheCrisisofPolitical
Legitimacy 286
CrisisofDemocracy? 295
5 ReprogrammingCommunicationNetworks:SocialMovements,
InsurgentPolitics,andtheNewPublicSpace 299
WarmingUptoGlobalWarming:TheEnvironmental
MovementandtheNewCultureofNature 303
TheNetworkistheMessage:GlobalMovementsagainst
CorporateGlobalization 339
Mobil-izingResistance:WirelessCommunicationand
InsurgentCommunitiesofPractice 346
“Yes,WeCan!”The2008ObamaPresidentialPrimary
Campaign 364
ReprogrammingNetworks,RewiringMinds,Changing
theWorld 412
Conclusion:TowardaCommunicationTheoryofPower 416
Appendix 433
Bibliography 489
Index 543
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Acknowledgments
Books are usually a collective endeavor under the author’s sole responsi-
bility. This one is no exception. It was born in my mind a long time ago,
butithasevolvedininteractionwithcolleaguesandstudentsfromaround
the world, and has been shaped by the academic and social environments
in which I have lived and worked since the beginning of this millennium.
And so, to name the people and institutions who are the co-producers of
thisworkisnotamatterofcourtesy,butofaccuracyinsigningthebook.
MyfirstacknowledgmentgoestoAmeliaArsenault,mydoctoralstudent,
an outstanding research assistant, and the Wallis Annenberg Graduate
Research Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University
of Southern California. Simply put, without the intellectual quality and
personal dedication of her work over the years, this book would not exist
initscurrentform.Shewillgooninheracademiccareertobecomeagreat
scholar with wonderful values as she engages in understanding the world
tomakeitabetterplace.
Additional support for the research on which this book is based
came from the excellent research assistance of Lauren Movius, Sasha
Costanza-Chock, and Sharon Fain, graduate students at the Annenberg
School for Communication, and from Dr. Meritxell Roca, my collabora-
tor at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya in Barcelona. Earlier versions of the analyses presented in this
volume have been discussed and modified through interaction with my
students at the Annenberg School for Communication. I wish to con-
vey special thanks to the students of my research seminar Comm620:
“Communication, Technology, and Power” in the spring of 2008. Specific
acknowledgmentoftheworkofseveralstudentsinthisandotherseminars
canbefoundinthebook’snotesandreferences.
My current research, in this book and in other works, has benefited
considerablyfromtheintellectualstimulationofmytwoacademichomes:
the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern