Manuel Castells 
The Rise of the Network Society, With a New Preface, with a New Preface [PDF ebook] 

List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Acknowledgments 2000.
Acknowledgments 1996.
Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Rise of the Network
Society.
Prologue: the Net and the Self.
1 The Information Technology Revolution.
2 The New Economy: Informationalism, Globalization,
Networking.
3 The Network Enterprise: the Culture, Institutions, and
Organizations of the Informational Economy.
4 The Transformation of Work and Employment: Networkers,
Jobless, and Flex-timers.
5 The Culture of Real Virtuality: the Integration of Electronic
Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of
Interactive Networks.
6 The Space of Flows.
7 The Edge of Forever: Timeless Time.
Conclusion: the Network Society.
Summary of the Contents of Volumes II and III.
Bibliography.
Index.

Manuel Castells is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T., and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, C. Wright Mills Award, the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association, and the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, a Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has received 14 honorary doctorates from universities around the world. He has authored 22 books, among which is the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, first published by Blackwell in 1996-8, and translated into 20 languages.