Internet culture between reality and virtuality: Neoliberal challenge to Manuel Castells’ theory

The Information Age According to Manuel Castells

The terms “information age” and “information society” are used by many writers as shorthand to refer to the confluence of an incalculable number of contemporary social and structural transformations. A sizeable chunk of these events have been described and analyzed by Manuel Castells in The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. Castells is professor of city and regional planning and p...

Model Engineering: Balancing between Virtuality and Reality

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Manuel Castells and the Decline of Twentieth-century Sociology

A quick consideration of the recent decade reveals the implosion of sociology. Several sociology departments have been merged with those from other disciplines, and as the number of undergraduate sociology majors has declined, some even have been eliminated. The discipline’s research openly assumes an ideological tone palatable to only the most liberal of scholars or ignorant of laymen. Clearly...

The MagicBook - Moving Seamlessly between Reality and Virtuality

The Virtuality and Reality of Augmented Reality

This thesis explores the creative possibilities and implications of Augmented Reality, not just as a specific technology of computer science, but as one of high technologies that influence people’s perception and even the concepts of the real and the virtual. For a broader definition of Augmented Reality which has a unique status between virtual environment and real environment, the virtuality ...