This first book in Castells groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. * Groundbreaking volume on the
List of Figures xii List of Tables xiv Acknowledgments 2000 xvii Acknowledgments 1996 xlv Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Rise of the Network Society lv Prologue: the Net and the Self 1 Technology, Society, and Historical Change 5 Informationalism, I