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Sociology Research

 

Manuel Castells has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cambridge and is Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge; University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley. He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at MIT and at Oxford University.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, of the Academia Aeuropea, of the Mexican Academy, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.  He has published 26 books, including the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell, 1996-2004), translated in 21 languages, and Communication Power (Oxford University Press, 2009).  Among his distinctions, he received the 2010 Erasmus Medal of Science from Academia Europaea, the 2012 Holberg Memorial Prize from the Parliament of Norway and the 2013 Balzan Prize in the Social Sciences from the International Balzan Prize Foundation. He was a founding board member of the European Research Council (ERC) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) of the European Commission.

Research Interests

Urban sociology; organisation studies; networked society; internet technologies; social movements; sociology of culture; political economy

Key Publications - Books

The Information Age trilogy:

  1. Castells, Manuel (1996). The Rise of the Network Society, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. I. Cambridge, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-22140-1.
  2. Castells, Manuel (1997). The Power of Identity, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. II. Cambridge, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-0713-6.
  3. Castells, Manuel (1998). End of Millennium, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. III. Cambridge, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-22139-5.

The Internet Galaxy, Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society. Oxford, Oxford University Press (2001)

Castells, M., Fernandez-Ardevol, M., Linchuan Qiu, J., Sey, A. (2006) Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts

M. Castells (2009) Communication Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press

M. Castells (2015) Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age. Cambridge: Polity

Awards

2010 Erasmus Medal of Science from Academia Europaea

2012 Holberg Memorial Prize from the Parliament of Norway

2013 Balzan Prize in the Social Sciences from the International Balzan Prize Foundation.

Job Title:
Honorary Doctorate , Honorary Fellow of St John’s College
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