network society, which are often implicit in extant theories. The concept of a 'global civil society' cannot be separated from … the promotion of democracy. Global civil society itself is one of the most explicit instances of the emergence of network … society in the modern age and democracy lies at the very heart of what constitutes a network society. However, very little has …

biographies in English Wikipedia. This digital method allows technics from network analysis to be used to study the relationships … measurements of the centrality of the figures in the network of biographical references, allowing for an approximation to the …

form an interconnected global system ("globalization"). To do this, we decompose the world migration network (WMN) into …We examine world migration as a social-spatial network of countries connected via movements of people. We assess how … "bridging" -- with distinct migration patterns, spatial network structures, temporal dynamics, and underlying antecedents. Cave …

Over the past several decades scholars have intensively debated what factors drive globalization. Answers have ranged …. A different yet closely related question is who is driving globalization? That is, however, much less studied, even if …

Manuel Castells has drawn together a group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society …