Manuel Castells Short Quotes

21 Sourced Quotes

View all Manuel Castells Quotes
The Internet is, above all else, a cultural creation.

Manuel Castells
Societies change through conflict and are managed by politics.

Manuel Castells
Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge

Manuel Castells
Internet use enhanced sociability both at a distance and in the local community.

Manuel Castells
John Chambers, Cisco's CEO and innovator, was, primarily, a salesman, and it shows.

Manuel Castells
Traditional media companies are not generating any profits from their Internet ventures.

Manuel Castells
Cultures are not made from free-floating values. They are rooted in institutions and organizations.

Manuel Castells
Literally everything is based on the capacity to attract, retain, and efficiently use talented workers.

Manuel Castells
The Internet is the technological basis for the organizational form of the Information Age: the network.

Manuel Castells
Technological systems are socially produced. Social production is culturally informed. The Internet is no exception.

Manuel Castells
Indeed, in 1999, over half the people on the planet had never made or received a telephone call, although this is changing fast.

Manuel Castells
The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.

Manuel Castells
Realpolitik does not disappear in the Information Age. But it remains state-centric, in an era organized around networks, including networks of states.

Manuel Castells
[Urban planning] must be interpreted on the basis of the social effect produced by the political instance in the urban system and/or in the social structure.

Manuel Castells
The fundamental digital divide is no measured by the number of connections to the Internet, but by the consequences of both connection and lack of connection.

Manuel Castells
By social movements we mean a certain type of organisation of social practices, the logic of whose development contradicts the institutionally dominant social logic

Manuel Castells
Power is based on the control of communication and information, be it the macro-power of the state and media corporations or the micro-power of organizations of all sorts.

Manuel Castells
If valuation in the financial markets provides the bottom line for the performance of the company, it is labor that remains the source of productivity, innovation, and competitiveness.

Manuel Castells
Internet use is diffusing fast, but this diffusion follows a spatial pattern that fragments its geography according to wealth, technology, and power: it is the new geography of development.

Manuel Castells
Politics becomes a horse race, and a tragicomedy motivated by greed, backstage manoeuvres, betrayals, and, often, sex and violence – a genre increasingly indistinguishable from TV scripts.

Manuel Castells
At its core, the new economy is based on culture: on the culture of innovation, on the culture of risk, and the culture of expectations, and, ultimately on the culture of hope in the future.

Manuel Castells