The scarcely relevant practice of chat rooms and social networking sites via ICTlogy
Manuel Castells is a scientific I admire. There are things I share — most of them — and things I don’t. Right now I’m working hard with two works of him:
Castells, M. (2000). “Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society”. In British Journal of Sociology, Jan-Mar 2000, 51(1), 5-24. London: Routledge.
Castells, M. (2004). “Informationalism, Networks, And The Network Society: A Theoretical Blueprint”. In Castells, M. (Ed.), The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
which I find really interesting and a recommended reading for everyone.
This is why I find so disappointing when an author of his stature can so absurdly sleep out of the road by writing:
the Internet is quickly becoming a medium of interactive...