Research Article | 13-August-2019
This article discusses the conceptualization of network in Manuel Castells’ theory of network society and its relation to network analysis. Networks assumed a significant role in Castells’ opus magnum, The Information Age trilogy, in the latter half of the 1990s. He became possibly the most prominent figure globally in adopting network terminology in social theory, but at the same time he made hardly any empirical or methodological contribution to network analysis. This article
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 16 , ISSUE 1, 1–18