Castells Flashcards
What’s Castells main viewpoint towards a network society?
A network society is a social structure made of networks powered by micro-electronic based information and communication technology
What’s Castells’ characteristics of a network?
Set of interconnected nodes, no center, but nodes are different in importance
Defined by code that assign rules and performance
Binary logic: inclusion X exclusion
Info
How does Castell see that Networks became the most efficient organisational form?
Vertical-hierarchical organisations used to be superior to networks because the latter faced material constraints.
With the advancement of technological development, networks became the most efficient form of organisation because of:
Flexibility, Scalability, and Survivability
How does Castells’ view on Information age link to McLuhan’s?
They both see technology as an extension or augmentation of the body and mind of humans
How does Castells define Informationalism?
Informationalism: augmentation of
Informationalism is the technological paradigm that constitutes the 21 century network society. It augments Industrialism, which was characterized by the systemic organisation of tech to generate energy without the need for nature. Industrialism does not disappear, but it is subsumed by informationalism.
What are the 3 distinctive feature of Informationalism
Self-expanding processing
Ability to recombine
Distributing flexibility
What 3 historical processes that let to the rise of the Network society? (Castells)
- Economical crisis and restructuring of industrialism
- Rise of social movements in 60s and 70s
- ICT Revolution
//Global Society
Global networks structure production, consumption, communication, and power.
Value in the network society
Role of the state
Nation-state can only control within their territory. They can choose between being imperial and networked
Self-Programmable vs Generic Labor
Generic labour is eventually replaced by machines or decentralised to low-cost production sites
Role of gender
men being downgraded to women jobs
Fordism & Networked Enterprise
Fordism: Hierarchical vertical control of production
Networked Enterprise: Businesses being split into networks, ensuring their flexibilities,
Power in The Network
Power: Ability to impose your will on others.
Programmers: Ability to program and reprogram networks
Switchers: Ability to connect different networks
Space of flows
Ways in which ICTs transformed the traditional notion space into network of space.
//Time
