Week 8: No Blog This Week; Work on Mid-Term

I emailed the class the mid-term a few hours ago. If you didn't receive it, contact me via my preferred email at mwhitake @ ssc.wisc.edu.

As a treat, appropriately through the network society itself, see the person who has researched this topic more than anyone, Manuel Castells. Learn more about him at the following links:

Conversations with History: Manuel Castells (2001)
58:18 min

"(UCtelevision, February 15, 2008 [when it was uploaded, this was filmed in 2001) "On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler welcomes social theorist Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, to discuss identity and change in the network society. Series: "Conversations with History" [6/2003] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7234]"

Text of the interview here:
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con0.html