Manuel Castells

Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Media (2011-2012)

The Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Media is one of the highlights in its field at the University of Cambridge. Ambitious in its scope, the initiative holds Visiting Professorships that bring individuals of outstanding practical and academic expertise to give students, scholars, and members of the general public unique insight into the complex and fascinating role the media plays in global society

The Visiting Professorship in Media has been made possible by the generous support of the Blavatnik Family Foundation and is hosted by St John’s College, Cambridge.

Manuel Castells is University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Manuel Castells’ series focused on the theme of Communication Power in the Network Society. Castells outlined the main elements of his theory of the ‘network society’ and then used this theory to analyse the nature and significance of some of the new social movements that emerged in 2011; the Arab uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, the ‘indignados’ in Spain and the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement in the US.