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Key facts
- Monarch
- Felipe VI
- Prime minister
- Pedro Sánchez
- Preceded by
- Pedro Duque (Universities)
- Succeeded by
- Joan Subirats
- Born
- ( 1942-02-09 ) 9 February 1942 (age 84) , Hellín , Albacete , Spanish State
- Spouse
- Emma Kiselyova
- Parents
- Fernando Castells Adriaensens (father) Josefina Olivan Escartin (mother)
- Alma mater
- University of Paris
- Known for
- Research on the information society , communication and globalization , Organization theory , Network society
- Website
- www .manuelcastells .info /en
- Fields
- Sociology , urban planning , communication studies
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge ; University of Southern California ; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ( Open University of Catalonia ); EHESS ; University of Paris X: Nanterre
- Doctoral advisor
- Alain Touraine
- Doctoral students
- Ananya Roy , Sasha Costanza-Chock
- Other notable students
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Manuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Hellín
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Barcelona
- Employer
- Ministry of Universities
- Political party
- independent politician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Alain Touraine
- Field of work
- urban sociology
- Official website
- www.manuelcastells.info
- Image
- Manuel Castells 2020 (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Spain
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- British Academy
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- Manuel Castells
- date of birth
- 1942-02-09
- student
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- name in native language
- Manuel Castells Oliván
- influenced by
- Alain Touraine
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Encyclopedic overview
Manuel Castells Oliván ( Catalan: [kəsˈteʎs]; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society, communication and globalization.
Castells is a full professor of sociology at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona. He is also a university professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism in Los Angeles. Additionally, he is a professor emeritus of sociology and professor emeritus of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is also a fellow of St John's College at the University of Cambridge.
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