Project History

USA/Catalonia

Manuel Castells

2013 Balzan Prize for Sociology

For his wide-ranging and imaginative thinking through of the implications of the great technological changes of our time: the digital revolution and the profound social and political challenges brought about by the emerging technologies of communication and information processing associated with computing, microelectronics, and the Internet. For having proposed a general theory of the new global information society that has arisen out of these technologies.

Excerpt from The Balzan Prizewinners’ Research Projects: An Overview 2018


Excerpt from The Balzan Prizewinners’ Research Projects: An Overview 2016


Excerpt from The Balzan Prizewinners’ Research Projects: An Overview 2014

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