Manuel Castells
Resumé of Curriculum Vitae, 2003.
Since 2001, Manuel Castells has been Research Professor of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), where he chairs the Scientific Committee of IN3, the Research Institute of the UOC.
Manuel Castells graduated in Public Law and Political Economy at the Paris-Sorbonne University in 1964. He received a doctorate in Sociology and a state doctorate in Human Sciences from the Paris-Sorbonne University.
This main work is The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture trilogy, originally published in English by Blackwell.
His most recent publications are The Internet Galaxy, published in 2001 by Oxford University Press and The Information Society and the Welfare State. The Finnish Model (co-author), published by Oxford University Press in 2002.
In 2003, Manuel Castells, together with Imma Tubella, is co-directing the Catalonia Internet Project, which is analysing on an empirical basis the interaction between information and communication technologies and society, business and institutions in Catalonia. Based on the sociological survey carried out, Manuel Castells, Imma Tubella and their collaborators are preparing the book La societat xarxa a Catalunya. This book will be published by Rosa dels Vents/Mondadori at the end of 2003.
During 2003-2004, Manuel Castells is directing an international comparative research project on the network society, which will be presented in the book Comparative Studies on the Network Society, to be published in 2004 by Edward Elgar (London). This book will include the Catalan network society in its terms of international comparison.
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