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In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.

The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into peoplea s everyday lives. * Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. * Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.

Presents the map of Internet domains in the world, by country, by region, by city, and for the United States, by neighborhood. This book demonstrates the spatial concentration of the Internet industry. It demonstrates how venture capitalists' abilities to create and use tacit knowledge contributes to the clustering of the internet industry.

This work investigates problems of unequal access to information technology in the United States. The author examines how the problem arose, how serious it is, and what the future implications might be if the gap in access continues to grow.

Features studies that investigate how being online fits into everyday lives. This book contains articles from scholars in North America, Asia, and Europe that moves discussion of the Internet closer to home, showing how the Internet does not exist 'out there' but is instead an integral part of daily work and home life.

A little over a decade since its first publication, the hypotheses set out in Manuel Castells' groundbreaking trilogy have largely been verified. In a substantial new preface to the first volume in the series, Castells demonstrates, in the light of major world trends, how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale.

This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the 20th century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society and the emerging global network society.