Capitalism, technology, and the digital discourse -- Contemporary technology discourse -- Network market -- Network work -- Network production -- Network human -- Network cosmology and the exhaustion of critique -- Networks as the techno-political culture of post-fordism

We start our description of network society by recalling the simple, yet powerful mechanism of producing and dealing with social uncertainty proposed and developed by Harrison C. White in his eponymous Identity and Control. Networks are considered to consist of, and reproduce, a number of...

Introduction: a moment of opportunity and challenge -- The networked information economy -- Some basic economics of information production and innovation -- Peer production and sharing -- The economics of social production -- The political economy of property and commons -- Individual freedom:...

Cultural knowledge economy: education, the new economy, and the communicative turn -- The politics of postmodernity and the promise of education -- Education policy in the age of knowledge capitalism -- National education policy constructions of the knowledge economy -- Universities,...

"The questions such as, 'why the focuses of national policies vary significantly across countries, although their sources of policies are to a great extent identical'; 'why national development experiences mostly cannot be transplanted successfully among countries'; 'why some ineffective...