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"In the network society, the space of flows dissolves time by disordering the sequence of events and making them simultaneous in the communication networks, thus installing society in structural epheme…"

"By social movements we mean a certain type of organisation of social practices, the logic of whose development contradicts the institutionally dominant social logic"

"Each ‘urban struggle’ must have its structural content specified, and be considered in terms of the role it plays vis-à-vis the various social classes involved. Then and only then will we know what we…"

"Technological systems are socially produced. Social production is culturally informed. The Internet is no exception."

":1) It concerns an already structured social space, of which it changes the form, the social content and/or function."

"the Internet is the technological basis for the organizational form of the Information Age: the network."

"Politics becomes a horse race, and a tragicomedy motivated by greed, backstage manoeuvres, betrayals, and, often, sex and violence – a genre increasingly indistinguishable from TV scripts."

"Power is based on the control of communication and information, be it the macro-power of the state and media corporations or the micro-power of organizations of all sorts."

"The Internet culture is characterized by four layer-structure: •       The Techno-Meritocratic Culture •       The Hacker Culture •       The Virtual Communitarian Culture •       The Entrepreneurial …"

"2) It is based on public initiative, whatever the legal or financial form of the renewal agency, where private enterprise may take over the work, as in the case of Opératioll Italie."

"This book was born out of astonishment. At a time when the waves of the anti-imperialist struggle are sweeping across the world, when movements of revolt are bursting out at the very heart of advanced…"

"The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale."

"The anti-globalization movement is not simply a network, it is an electronic network, it is an Internet-based movement. And because the Internet is its home it cannot be disorganized or captured. It s…"

"Internet use enhanced sociability both at a distance and in the local community."

"The Internet is indeed a technology of freedom - but it can free the powerful to oppress the uninformed, it may lead to the exclusion of the devalued by the conquerors of value. In this general sense,…"

"As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of t…"

"The most blatant illustration of this statement is the fact that in 1972, Larry Roberts, the director of IPTO, sought to privatize ARPANET, once it was up and running. He offered to transfer operation…"

"Literally everything is based on the capacity to attract, retain, and efficiently use talented workers."

"This volume explores the construction of collective identities as they relate to social movements and power struggles in the network society. It also deals with the transformation of the state, politi…"

"John Chambers, Cisco's CEO and innovator, was, primarily, a salesman, and it shows."

"Urban problems" are increasingly becoming a political issue as the socialization of the means of production is accompanied by the increasing socialization of the means of consumption or, if one prefer…"

"The city" is not a framework but a social practice in constant flux the more it becomes an issue, the more it is a source of contradictions and the more its social manipulation is linked to the ensemb…"

"In advanced capitalism it expresses the fundamental contradiction between, on the one hand, the increasing socialisation of consumption, and on the other hand, the capitalist logic of the production a…"

"The Internet Culture is the culture of the creators of the Internet."

"Realpolitik does not disappear in the Information Age. But it remains state-centric, in an era organized around networks, including networks of states."

"The way people think determines the fate of norms and values on which societies are constructed. While coercion and fear are critical sources for imposing the will of the dominants over the dominated,…"

"Societies change through conflict and are managed by politics."

"The e-economy cannot function without workers able to navigate, both technically and in terms of content, this deep sea of information, organizing it, focusing it, and transforming it into specific kn…"

"Website devoted to his work, made by Open University of Catalonia"

"In the industrial mode of development, the main source of productivity lies in the introduction of new energy sources, and in the ability to decentralize the use of energy throughout the production of…"

"In sum, all the key technological developments that led to the internet were built around government institutions, major universities and research centers. The Internet did not orginate in the busines…"

"Our exploration of emergent social structures across domains of human activity and experience leads to an over-arching conclusion: as an historical trend, dominant functions and processes in the Infor…"

"Internationally, the Echelon program, created by the United States and the UK during the Cold War, seems to have been converted into industrial espionage, according to the French government agencies, …"

"Internet use is diffusing fast, but this diffusion follows a spatial pattern that fragments its geography according to wealth, technology, and power: it is the new geography of development."

"There is a multilayering of global networks in the key strategic activities that structure and destructure the planet. When these multilayered networks overlap in some node, when there is a node that …"

"The Internet is, above all else, a cultural creation."

"If valuation in the financial markets provides the bottom line for the performance of the company, it is labor that remains the source of productivity, innovation, and competitiveness."

"We must conceive of opposition to decisions relating to urban planning as something more than "consumer-reaction" and, consequently, we must link it to the whole range of social contradictions and loo…"

"The urban renewal programme is one of the most spectacular urban programmes to have been undertaken in Paris; it is certainly the one which has provoked the biggest public outcry. The renewal programm…"

"Indeed, in 1999, over half the people on the planet had never made or received a telephone call, although this is changing fast."

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"The origins of the Internet are to be found in ARPANET, a computer network set up by the Advanced Research Projects Agency in September 1969. ARPA was formed i 1958 by the Defense Department of the Un…"

"Beyond the realm of radical protests, there is also fear among many citizens about what this new society, of which the Internet is the symbol, will bring about in terms of employment, education, socia…"

"In the end if the system still ‘works’ it is because women guarantee unpaid transportation... because they repair their homes, because they make meals when there are no canteens, because they spend mo…"

"The fundamental digital divide is no measured by the number of connections to the Internet, but by the consequences of both connection and lack of connection."

"must be interpreted on the basis of the social effect produced by the political instance in the urban system and/or in the social structure."

"This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theory of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identified …"

"The ongoing transformation of communication technology in the digital age extends the reach of communication media to all domains of social life in a network that is at the same time global and local,…"

"My main statement in that it does not really matter if you believe that this world, or any of its features, is new or not. My analysis stands by itself. This is our world, the world of the Information…"

"At its core, the new economy is based on culture: on the culture of innovation, on the culture of risk, and the culture of expectations, and, ultimately on the culture of hope in the future."

"It is a question of going beyond the description of mechanisms of interaction between locations and activities, in order to discover the structural laws of the production and functioning of the spatia…"

"The collective fascination of the entire planet with action movies where the protagonists are the players in organized crime cannot be explained just by the repressed urge for violence in out psycholo…"

"The promise of the Information Age is the unleashing of unprecedented productive capacity by the power of the mind. I think, therefore I produce. In so doing, we will have the leisure to experiment wi…"

"traditional media companies are not generating any profits from their Internet ventures."

"Cultures are not made from free-floating values. They are rooted in institutions and organizations."

"Globalisation is highly selective. It proceeds by linking up all that, according to dominant interests, has value anywhere in the planet, and discarding anything which has no value or becomes devalued…"

"Let me start a different/ analysis by recalling an idea from Max Weber. He characterized cultural modernity as the separation of the substantive reason expressed in religion and metaphysics into three…"

"Our economy, society, and culture are built on interests, values, institutions, and systems of representation that, by and large, limit collective creativity, confiscate the harvest of information tec…"

"To consider the city as the projection of society on space is both an indispensible starting point and too elementary an approach. For, although one must go beyond the empiricism of geographical descr…"

"An analysis is possible only if one reduces social action to a language and social relations to systems of communication. The ideological displacement carried out in this perspective consists in passi…"