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Manuel Castells
Manuel Castells Oliván is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society, communication and globalization.
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politics · Spanish sociologist and politician · teacher · minister · sociologist · philosopher · writer · university teacher · also Manuel Castells, Manuel Castells Oliván, Castells
Born 9 February 1942 · Q310161
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III (2021).
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2020· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister for Universities (2020–2021).
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge (2017).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2017).
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Balzan Prize (2013).
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The Guardian: Manuel Castells: how modern political movements straddle urban space and cyberspace - video
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Was awarded the Balzan Prize for Sociology for "his wide-ranging and imaginative thinking through of the implications of the great technological changes of our time
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2012· 3 entries
MediaPost: Dr. Manuel Castells And The Space Of Flows
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Awarded Holberg International Memorial Prize (2012).
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Castells was awarded the Holberg Prize, for having "shaped our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society
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2011· 1 entry
Won Erasmus Medal (2011).
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2008· 1 entry
Was appointed to the governing board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Saint George's Cross (2006).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral (2005).
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2003· 1 entry
Was appointed the inaugural Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication and Technology at the University of Southern California's (USC) Annenberg School for Communication
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2002· 3 entries
Won Narcís Monturiol Medal (2002).
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Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2002).
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Awarded Order of the Lion of Finland (2002).
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2001· 5 entries
openDemocracy: Manuel Castells
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Valencia (2001).
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“the Internet is the technological basis for the organizational form of the Information Age: the network.”
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Was a research professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona
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International Journal of Communication Academic journal co-founded by Castells, established in 2007
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1989· 1 entry
Introduced the concept of the "space of flows", the material and immaterial components of global information networks used for the real-time, long-distance co-ordination of the economy
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
Castells joined the University of California, Berkeley, as a professor of sociology and a professor of city and regional planning
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1972· 1 entry
And is a major development in the field of urban sociology
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1964· 1 entry
And earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Paris in 1967
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1960· 1 entry
And he read Marxist and anarchist theory alongside his activism
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1958· 1 entry
After which he studied law and economics at the University of Barcelona
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1942· 2 entries
In the city of Hellín, in the La Mancha region, under the Spanish State
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Born 1942-02-09.
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