Manuel Castells--one of the world's pre-eminent social scientists--has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- I Networks Materialized -- 2 Internet Cafés -- 3 Going Wireless -- II The People of Have-Less -- 4 Migrants -- 5 Young and Old -- III A New Working Class in the Making -- 6 Places and Community -- 7 Life and...

How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world--in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing world.