Reconceptualizing Development in the Global Information Age

by Manuel Castells

The book explores the links between information, development, wellbeing and dignity, gathering together a distinguished group of scholars to assess these inter-related concepts in several different areas of the world-Silicon Valley, Costa Rica, Chile, South Africa, Finland, the European Union and China.

Hardcover

First published August 28, 2014

About the author

Manuel Castells is Professor of Communication and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, as well as Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, and Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at MIT. He is the author of, among other books, the three-volume work The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture.