Castell focuses the individualization of the labour process
and ubiquitous social networks a lot of what he has to say might strike as
obvious but writing in the 1990s he was ahead of his time.In Network Society, Castells’
sees the networks as a kind of spirit of ethos of our contemporary society
thesis. There are two traits to the horizontal communication flows , not hierarchal,
base of communication. First, the technology of information management, power now
rests in networks. Secondly, networks as
a basic form of human organization across a wide range of social and political
contexts.

Castells’ argues that the whole new social order, new type of society
arises out of the new found technology. Castell contrast the way in which
factory labour was organized and fragment to something was so different under
decentralization and entrepreneurial behavior, distinguishes this era from
industrial to information. Communication
technologies provide an environment for decentralization of operation and focusing
of control. Ultimately, Castell argues that power is not static and relational.
There are networks at every level in society , professional , institutional and
personal. Castell highlights the elements of space and the flows in the concept
of the network societies which is the space where most of the important
activity operates in our society. The information sharing system has the
ability to enhance our common knowledge.
I would certainly agree that the information sharing system has the ability to enhance our common knowledge. What is shared can breach an extensively vast majority of people, and growing informational capitalism is not limiting for businesses to have success and proper. The age of informational capitalism has long succeeded the age of industrial capitalism as being their threshold of economics. Platforms such as politics, entertainment, global trade, labour, services etc, these are all effected positively and negatively by informational capitalism, and it is for the world to adopt and adapt to it dynamics.
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