Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. There are also demonstrations from Al Qaeda that these amorphous hydra like organisations can be very difficult to eliminate. Terranova, T. (2000). Please try again. Excellent book, it's being used for my Masters course in International Trade Union and Labour Sudies. Juris, Jeff  (2012) ‘Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social Media, Public Space, and Emerging Logics of Aggregation’, American Ethnologist 39(2): 259-79. Buy Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age by Castells, Manuel (ISBN: 9780745662855) from Amazon's Book Store. Book Review: Manuel Castells, Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age Christian Fuchs Media, Culture & Society 2014 36 : 1 , 122-124 The opening sentence of Manuel Castells’ latest book Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age. Wood) 2(4), 479-497. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. I was a bit disappointed by this book, as I was expecting from the title to find out more about the specific role of technology. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2017. This book is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US. Please try your request again later. There's a problem loading this menu right now. I have dozens of other books that I have to go through as well as countless articles. Castells, M. (1997) The Power of Identity, Cambridge Massachusetts: Blackwell. ix+306, ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6285-5. If one considers closely the movements discussed in the book, he/she would realise that the issues at stake are far more complex than Castells wants us to believe. If one thing I would desire, it would be that he is not making so much of "normative", assertive comment. ', Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2013. Something went wrong. Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2017, Great price for a book needed for my Masters degree, Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2016. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Castells attempts to find commonalities between these movements, answers what triggers them, and sheds light on the important role of digital technologies (namely, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter…etc.) While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, there is one thing they share in common: they are all interwoven inextricably with the creation of autonomous communication networks supported by the Internet and wireless communication. Brilliant, imaginative analysis from the greatest thinker on the subject of networks and their political, social, and economic implications and possibilities. $11.21. This techno-determinism, as mentioned above, is not only present at the theoretical level, but also at the empirical level. Barassi V. and Trere’, E. (2012) ‘Does Web 3.0 follow Web 2.0? In a world darkened by economic distress, political cynicism, cultural emptiness and personal hopelessness, it just happened. This is an outstanding work in the field of media, examining Internet empowerment of public protest. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. The paper back binding quality is not very durable. Please try again. (2012) Media Practices and Protest Politics: How Precarious Workers Mobilise, Ashgate. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Unfortunately, there is no index. But the reality of the networks of outrage is that they have been out-manoeuvered by the establishment. 328 pp. In the academic literature, Networks of Outrage and Hope has been much criticised for being more about hope than outrage: firstly, for the technological determinism on which the book grounds its premises, whereas a critical outlook that includes multinational corporations, such as Google, could clarify who actually runs the ‘Internet’. (2000) ‘Using Technologies and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organisation’ Organization Science 11 (4): 404-428. Unable to add item to Wish List. Retrieved from this link , on the 15th of December, 2012. Yet the reader is left to question whether the examples discussed really support his assumptions on the role of the Internet in the mobilisation of political action and on the creation of new forms of political participation. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2015. Provocative ideas, accessibly written. I want specific things out of it, not to read the entire thing. Theoretically, therefore, Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social movements in the Internet Age, seems to be grounded on a form of techno-determinism that overshadows rather than illuminates the social complexities involved in the use of internet technologies for collective action. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Cambridge: Polity, 2012. For Castells the Internet is an autonomous space of communication because it facilitates a new type of “mass communication of the self” which is directly related to the development of social and political autonomy (2009:53-71; 2012:7). Hopefully, I would like to hear how the world is changing in the future, how should people, and we, react to the coming age. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 December 2013. What is most surprising about Castells’ book is its inability to address this complexity. There's a problem loading this menu right now. At present, two chapters of her forthcoming book The Web and Everyday Critique: Activists Struggle against Digital Capitalism are under review by Routledge. Suddenly dictatorship could be overthrown with the bare hands of the people, even if their hands had been bloodied by the sacrifice of those fallen. Required fields are marked *, Discover compelling stories impacting education today, Asmaa Mansour, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Hopefully, I would like to hear how the world is changing in the future, how should people, and we, react to the coming age. Manuel Castells (2012) Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, pp. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Your email address will not be published. Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age, The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World, "A timely and important book [Castells′] claims are powerful, his prose captivating and the examples he uses are fascinating.". These transformations are having a strong impact on the lived experience of political activism with often negative consequences on processes of political transformation and social change. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. If the purpose of Manuel Castells’ book Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age is, as he says, “to suggest some hypotheses, grounded on observation, on the nature and perspectives of networked social … Something went wrong. Review of Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age by Asmaa Mansour, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, ... hundreds of social movements have just erupted and others have continued since the first publication of this book in 2012.