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una intervista a Manuel Castell, l'autore di uno dei primi e più citati libri su Internet: "The rise of the Network Society" del 1996.

L'intervista su BBS NEws è fatta in occasione della presentazione dell'ultimo libro di Castells: "Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis."

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"The rise of new economic cultures"

People don't trust where they put their money and they don't trust those who they delegate in terms of their vote.  "It's a dramatic crisis of trust and if there is no trust, there is no society."

... the observation of one of my latest studies on people who have decided not to wait for the revolution - to start living differently - meaning the expansion of what I call in a technical term 'non-capitalist practices'. "They are economic practices but they don't have a for-profit motivation - such as barter networks; such as social currencies; co-operatives; self-management; agricultural networks;...."

"What is the Network Society?"

It's a society where the main activities in which people are engaged are organised fundamentally in networks, rather than in vertical organisations.

"The difference is very simple - network technologies. It's not the same thing to be constantly interactive at the speed of light than just simply have a network of friends and people.

"So all networks exist, but the connection between everything and everything - be it financial markets, politics, culture, media, communications, etc - that's new because of the new digital technologies."

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"However, the interesting thing is for the people to organise and debate and mobilise for de-growth and communalism, they have to use the internet.

"We live in a culture of not virtual reality, but real virtuality because our virtuality - meaning the internet networks - are a fundamental part of our reality.

"All the studies on the internet show that people who are more social on the internet are also more social face-to-face."

sull'impatto sulla politica sostiene che :

"The impact on the political institutions is almost negligible because the political institutions are impervious to change."

"It will change politics, but not through organised forms of politics in the same way. Why? Because networks are different and networks don't need hierarchical organisations."

"Where will it end?"

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