“The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.”

— Manuel Castells

Opening, The Network is the Message, p. 2
The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001)

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Spanish sociologist (b.1942) 1942

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