The book Comunicació i poder (editorial UOC), the Catalan version of the latest work by Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and Director of the IN3 research institute at the UOC, is to be presented on 3 November. Lluís Pastor, General Manager of the UOC’s publishing house EDIUOC, and Vicenç Badenes, Director of Citilab, are to take part in the presentation. The event is to take place at Cornellà’s Citilab, at 7 pm, and will be broadcast live.
Venue
Citilab
Pl. Can Surís s/n
Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona)
Espanya
When
03/11/2010 19.00h
Program
In Comunicació i poder, Castells rigorously examines the contemporary political processes and social changes seen in issues as significant as the Madrid bombings of 11 March 2004, the role of the internet in Obama’s presidential campaign and the global economy, the ecological movement, the US public’s poor levels of information on the Iraq war, or control of information by the Russian and Chinese governments. It is a work that helps us understand the circumstances of today’s world and the revolution in technologies we are witnessing.
About the author
Castells is Professor of Sociology and Director of the IN3 at the UOC, as well as University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is also Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught classes for twenty-four years, after having been twelve years at the University of Paris. He is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford. Castells has been conferred with honorary degrees by sixteen universities in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. The twenty-five books he has published include The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, which has been translated into twenty-two languages.