Manuel Castells

In the age of mass self-communication, everyone is a potential broadcaster.

The crisis of legitimacy in politics stems from the disconnection between power and people in networked spaces.

Urban space is the material support for simultaneous social practices.

The informational city is a spatial organization of society based on information production and processing.

Resistance is never futile; it redefines the terrain of power.

The self is both the source of identity and the product of social interaction in networks.

Capitalism has become informational, global, and networked.

The culture of the internet is the culture of real virtuality.

Democracy in the network society requires the empowerment of civil society through digital means.

The black hole of meaninglessness threatens the human spirit in a hyper-connected world.

Networks constitute the new social morphology of our societies.

The project of the self is the only form of identity that can withstand the fluidity of modern life.

Global flows of capital, information, and people reshape local identities.

The media are not just channels of communication; they are the space of power.

In the network society, exclusion is the primary form of inequality.

The switchers are the programmers of the network society.

Communicative power is the capacity to shape public space through shared meaning.

The information technology revolution is the industrial revolution of our time.

Legitimizing identity is the identity imposed by the dominant institutions of society.

Resistance identity is generated by those who are in positions/conditions devalued by the logic of domination.