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May 20, 2010. THE INTERNET GALAXY by Manuel Castells. Castells (Planning and Sociology/Univ. Of California, Berkeley) begins his study by looking at the creation of the Internet, developed not by business but in government. Absorbing history—but, with the jargon of academic sociology, an arduous read. CH@NGE bbvaopenmind.com. 19 Key Essays on. How Internet Is. Changing Our Lives. Manuel Castells. The Impact of the Internet on Society: A Global Perspective. And Culture (Blackwell, 1996–2003), The Internet Galaxy. Instead, I am referring the interested reader to the web sources of the research organizations.

The Web has been with us for less than a decade. The popular and commercial diffusion of the Internet has been extraordinary - instigating and enabling changes in virtually every area of human activity and society. We have new systems of communication, new businesses, new media and sources of information, new forms of political and cultural expression, new forms of teaching and learning, and new communities.

But how much do we know about the Internet - its history, its technology, its culture, and its uses? What are its implications for the business world and society at large? The diffusion has been so rapid that it has outpaced the capacity for well-grounded analysis. Soem say everything will change, others that little will change.

Manuel Castells is widely regarded as the leading analyst of the Information Age and the Network Society. In addition to his academic work, he acts as adviser at the highest international levels.

In this short, accessible, and informative book, he brings his experience and knowledge to bear on the Internet Galaxy. How did it all begin? What are the cultures that make up and contest the Internet?

How is it shaping the new business organization and re-shaping older business organizations? What are the realities of the digital divide?

How has the Internet affected social and cultural organization, political participation and communication, and urban living? These are just some of the questions addressed in this much needed book. Castells avoids any predictions or prescriptions - there have been enough of those - but instead draws on an extraordinary range of detailed evidence and research to describe what is happening, and to help us understand how the Internet has become the medium of the new network society.

Opening: The Network is the Message 1.: Lessons from the History of the Internet 2.: The Culture of the Internet 3.: e-Business and the New Economy 4.: Virtual Communities or Network Society? 5.: The Politics of the Internet I: Computer Networks, Civil Society, and the State 6.: The Politics of the Internet II: Privacy and Liberty in Cyberspace 7.: Multimedia and the Internet: The Hypertext beyond Convergence 8.: The Geography of the Internet: Networked Places 9.: The Digital Divide in a Global Perspective Conclusion: The Challenges of the Network Society. A very readable and stimulating book. - Professor Laurie Taylor, BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' [An] excellent, readable, nontechnical summary of the history, social implications and likely future of Internet business. - Publishers Weekly, 12 Nov. A superb guide to the workings of the internet and its wider implications.... [Castells] brings a sociologist's understanding of the importance of culture in business to his analysis of the internet....

Dub C. Stands supreme as a wise and insightful guide to the web. - Management Today, November 01 (UK) The Internet is shaping society and in turn being shaped by society.

It takes a scholar of Manuel Castells's range to do justice to this phenomenon. His book is learned without being pompous, and insightful without being impenetrable.

If we ever get a discipline of Internet studies, this will be one of its founding texts. - John Naughton, author of 'A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet' Manuel Castells has proved once again that he has an unmatched synoptic capacity to make sense of the complexities of a networked world, and here writes with clarity and insight about everything from the history of the technology to the subcultures that have done so much to shape it.

- Geoff Mulgan, author of 'Communication and Control' and 'Connexity'; Head of the Prime Minister's Forward Strategy Unit Castells is probably the world's most highly regarded commentator on the information age and new economic order. - Management Today: Guru Guide, October 2001... A readable, articulate and persuasive account of why the internet's most powerful impacts on the shape of business, politics and society may be yet to come. - Charles Leadbeater, Financial Times, 04/12/01 Thoroughly researched. [and] truly global in scope. Castells provides balanced coverage of e-business and the new economy; the politics of the Internet, including privacy and freedom; and the geography of the Internet.Highly recommended for academic libraries.

- Library Journal, Nov 01 Absorbing history.Castells observes that while the Internet has the potential to strengthen democracy through broadening the sources of information and enabling greater citizenship participation, it has at the same time contributed greatly to the politics of scandal. In his sobering final chapter, the author studies the divide between peoples and regions that operate in the digital world and those that cannot. - Kirkus Review The Internet Galaxy is the best attempt by a big thinker to grapple with the net's long-term implications for our society. - New Statesman, 14/01/02 This small but complete volume is a critical introduction to internet-related theories, while doubling as a simplified reader on [Castells'] own ideas. The book should help to spread his influence beyond the faithful. - Prospect, 02/2002.

,,,,,,,,, Herbert Marshall McLuhan, (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries. He studied at the and the; he began his teaching career as a Professor of English at several universities in the U.S.

And Canada before moving to the, where he remained for the rest of his life. McLuhan is known for coining the expression ' and the term, and for predicting the almost 30 years before it was invented. He was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, though his influence began to wane in the early 1970s. In the years after his death, he continued to be a controversial figure in academic circles. With the arrival of the and the, however, interest was renewed in his work and perspective.

Main article: In Laws of Media (1988), published posthumously by his son, McLuhan summarized his ideas about in a concise tetrad of media effects. The tetrad is a means of examining the effects on society of any technology (i.e., any medium) by dividing its effects into four categories and displaying them simultaneously.

McLuhan designed the tetrad as a pedagogical tool, phrasing his laws as questions with which to consider any medium: • What does the medium enhance? • What does the medium make obsolete? • What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier? • What does the medium flip into when pushed to extremes? The laws of the tetrad exist simultaneously, not successively or chronologically, and allow the questioner to explore the 'grammar and syntax' of the 'language' of media. McLuhan departs from his mentor in suggesting that a medium 'overheats', or reverses into an opposing form, when taken to its extreme. Visually, a tetrad can be depicted as four diamonds forming an X, with the name of a medium in the centre.

The two diamonds on the left of a tetrad are the Enhancement and Retrieval qualities of the medium, both Figure qualities. The two diamonds on the right of a tetrad are the Obsolescence and Reversal qualities, both Ground qualities.

A blank tetrad diagram Using the example of radio: • Enhancement (figure): What the medium amplifies or intensifies. Radio amplifies news and music via sound. • Obsolescence (ground): What the medium drives out of prominence.

Radio reduces the importance of print and the visual. • Retrieval (figure): What the medium recovers which was previously lost. Radio returns the spoken word to the forefront. • Reversal (ground): What the medium does when pushed to its limits. Acoustic radio flips into audio-visual TV. Figure and ground [ ].

Main article: McLuhan adapted the idea of a figure and a ground, which underpins the meaning of 'The medium is the message'. He used this concept to explain how a form of communications technology, the medium or figure, necessarily operates through its context, or ground. McLuhan believed that in order to grasp fully the effect of a new technology, one must examine figure (medium) and ground (context) together, since neither is completely intelligible without the other. McLuhan argued that we must study media in their historical context, particularly in relation to the technologies that preceded them.

The present environment, itself made up of the effects of previous technologies, gives rise to new technologies, which, in their turn, further affect society and individuals. All technologies have embedded within them their own assumptions about. The message which the medium conveys can only be understood if the medium and the environment in which the medium is used—and which, simultaneously, it effectively creates—are analysed together. He believed that an examination of the figure-ground relationship can offer a critical commentary on culture and society.

A portion of Toronto's St. Joseph Street is co-named Marshall McLuhan Way After the publication of Understanding Media, McLuhan received an astonishing amount of publicity, making him perhaps the most publicized English teacher in the twentieth century and arguably the most controversial. [ ] This publicity began with the work of two California advertising executives, and Gerald Feigen who used personal funds to fund their practice of 'genius scouting.' Much enamoured with McLuhan's work, Feigen and Gossage arranged for McLuhan to meet with editors of several major New York magazines in May 1965 at the Lombardy Hotel in New York.

Philip Marchand reports that, as a direct consequence of these meetings, McLuhan was offered the use of an office in the headquarters of both and, any time he needed it. In August 1965, Feigen and Gossage held what they called a 'McLuhan festival' in the offices of Gossage's advertising agency in San Francisco.

During this 'festival', McLuhan met with advertising executives, members of the mayor's office, and editors from the and magazine. More significant was 's presence at the festival, who would later wrote about McLuhan in his subsequent article, 'What If He Is Right?'

, published in and Wolfe's own. According to Feigen and Gossage, their work had only a moderate effect on McLuhan's eventual celebrity: they claimed that their work only 'probably speeded up the recognition of [McLuhan's] genius by about six months.' In any case, McLuhan soon became a fixture of media discourse. Newsweek magazine did a cover story on him; articles appeared in Life Magazine, Harper's, Fortune, Esquire, and others. Cartoons about him appeared in The New Yorker. In 1969, magazine published a lengthy interview with him. In a running gag on the popular sketch comedy, the 'poet' would randomly say, 'Marshall McLuhan, what are you doin'?'

McLuhan was credited with coining the phrase by its popularizer,, in the 1960s. In a 1988 interview with, Leary stated that slogan was 'given to him' by McLuhan during a lunch in New York City. Leary said McLuhan 'was very much interested in ideas and marketing, and he started singing something like, 'Psychedelics hit the spot / Five hundred micrograms, that’s a lot,' to the tune of a Pepsi commercial. Then he started going, 'Tune in, turn on, and drop out.' ' During his lifetime and afterward, McLuhan heavily influenced, thinkers, and media theorists such as,,,,,,,,, and, as well as political leaders such as and.

Was paraphrasing McLuhan with his now famous ' quote. When asked in the 1970s for a way to sedate violences in, he suggested a massive spread of TV devices. The character 'Brian O'Blivion' in 's 1983 film is a 'media oracle' based on McLuhan. In 1991, McLuhan was named as the 'patron saint' of and a quote of his appeared on the masthead [ ] for the first ten years of its publication. He is mentioned by name in a -penned lyric in the song 'Broadway Melody of 1974'. This song appears on the, from band. The lyric is: 'Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin' head buried in the sand.'

McLuhan is also jokingly referred to during an episode of entitled '. Despite his death in 1980, someone claiming to be McLuhan was posting on a Wired mailing list in 1996. The information this individual provided convinced one writer for Wired that 'if the poster was not McLuhan himself, it was a bot programmed with an eerie command of McLuhan's life and inimitable perspective.' A new centre known as the, formed soon after his death in 1980, was the successor to McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology at the. Since 1994, it has been part of the and in 2008 the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology incorporated in the Coach House Institute. The first director was literacy scholar and Professor David R.

From 1983 until 2008, the McLuhan Program was under the direction of Dr. Who was McLuhan's student and translator. From 2008 through 2015 Professor Dominique Scheffel-Dunand of served Director of the Program. In 2011 at the time of his centenary the Coach House Institute established a Marshall McLuhan Centenary Fellowship program in his honor, and each year appoints up to four fellows for a maximum of two years. In May 2016 the Coach House Institute was renamed the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology; its Interim Director was (2015–16). Sarah Sharma, an Associate Professor of Media Theory from the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) and the Faculty of Information (St. George), began a five-year term as director of the Coach House (2017- ).

Professor Sharma's research and teaching focuses on feminist approaches to technology, including issues related to temporality and media. Professor Sharma's thematic for the 2017-2018 Monday Night Seminars at the McLuhan Centre is MsUnderstanding Media which extends and introduces feminist approaches to technology to McLuhan's formulations of technology and culture. In Toronto, is named after him. Works cited [ ] This is a partial list of works cited in this article. See for a more comprehensive list of works by and about McLuhan.

By McLuhan [ ] • 1951; 1st ed.: The Vanguard Press, NY; reissued by Gingko Press, 2002.. • 1962; 1st ed.:; reissued by Routledge & Kegan Paul.. • 1964; 1st ed. McGraw Hill, NY; reissued by MIT Press, 1994, with introduction by Lewis H. Lapham; reissued by Gingko Press, 2003.. • 1967 with Quentin Fiore, produced by; 1st ed.: Random House; reissued by Gingko Press, 2001.. • 1968 design/layout by Quentin Fiore, produced by Jerome Agel; 1st ed.: Bantam, NY; reissued by Gingko Press, 2001..

• 1970 with Wilfred Watson; Viking, NY.. • 1988 McLuhan, Marshall and Eric. Laws of Media. University of Toronto Press.. • 2016 Marshall McLuhan and Robert K.

'The Future of the Library: From Electronic Media to Digital Media.' About McLuhan [ ] •.. Virtual Dj Pro Full Mac Download here. Penguin Canada, 2009; US edition: Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of my Work! Atlas & Company, 2011. Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding: A Biography.

Basic Books, 1997.. McLuhan Misunderstood: Setting the Record Straight. Toronto: Key Publishing House, 2013. • Marchand, Philip.. Random House, 1989; Vintage, 1990; The MIT Press; Revised edition, 1998.

• Molinaro, Matie; Corinne McLuhan; and William Toye, eds. Letters of Marshall McLuhan. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1987, References [ ].