35 Facts About Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture.

Manuel Castells is a scholar of the information society, communication and globalization.

Manuel Castells is the University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Manuel Castells is a fellow of St John's College at the University of Cambridge and holds the chair of Network Society at College d'Etudes Mondiales, Paris.

Manuel Castells was born on February 9,1942, in a small town in the La Mancha region of Spain.

Manuel Castells grew up in the cities of Madrid, Cartagena, and Valencia.

Manuel Castells' engagement is evident in his early opposition to Francisco Franco's semi-fascist regime.

Manuel Castells was a strong student, and in 1958, he completed his course of study two years early, at the age of sixteen.

Beyond these subjects, Manuel Castells was interested in literature and the theatre.

Manuel Castells was one of very few students to engage in this kind of activism, largely because it was highly illegal and dangerous.

Manuel Castells joined an opposition group of diverse ideologies called the Workers Front of Catalonia.

In May 1962, Manuel Castells' activism led him to participate in a strike.

Fortunately, Manuel Castells was able to escape to France, but without the social support he had access to in Spain.

Manuel Castells graduated from the Sorbonne in 1964 and received his PhD from the University of Paris in 1967.

Manuel Castells identifies as Catalan largely because of his connection to Barcelona, which is recognized as the center of the Catalan movement for independence.

Manuel Castells spent a large portion of his adolescence there, completing his secondary and beginning his college education at the University of Barcelona.

The Catalan language was not taught at school under Franco and Manuel Castells' family, being from a Spanish speaking region of Spain, did not speak it.

Manuel Castells has expressed support for the Catalan Socialist Party.

At the age of twenty-four, Manuel Castells became an instructor in several Parisian universities, and would teach from 1967 to 1979.

Manuel Castells was terminated from this position as a result of the 1968 student protests.

Manuel Castells then taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales from 1970 to 1979.

Manuel Castells is a founding member of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and a senior member of the diplomacy center's Faculty Advisory Council and is a member of the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication.

Manuel Castells has been the Minister of Universities in Spain since January 2020 until December 2021.

Manuel Castells' most well-known work is a trilogy of books, entitled, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture.

Manuel Castells maintains that the Information Age can "unleash the power of the mind", which would dramatically increase the productivity of individuals and lead to greater leisure, allowing individuals to achieve "greater spiritual depth and more environmental consciousness".

Manuel Castells became an established cybernetic culture theoretician with his Internet development analysis stressing the roles of the state, social movements, and business, in shaping the economic infrastructure according to their interests.

Manuel Castells emphasizes that problems within cities do not exist in a social vacuum, and that they must be contextualized to be appropriately analyzed.

Marxism uses class as its major lens for examining social life, and Manuel Castells had become interested in ideas that could not be understood by considering class alone.

Manuel Castells is still interested in ideas that are related to Marxism, such as social change, power relations, and technology, but has broadened his scope of how he approaches them as topics.

Manuel Castells has said that he prefers to think of theory as a tool, and Marxism is simply a tool that he uses less now.

Manuel Castells has not renounced Marx, but has chosen different tools to analyze the social world with.

Additionally, Manuel Castells' work includes observations about the intense global influence of informationalism.

Manuel Castells has been criticized for the conservatism that appears within his theories.

Manuel Castells is one of the world's most often-cited social science and communications scholars.

Manuel Castells is a sole author of 23 books and editor or co-editor of fifteen more, as well as over one hundred articles in academic journals.