Networks Of Outrage And Hope Summary

As previously explained, how the precariat lacks the key assets needed for a good life and the need to move beyond the primitive rebel stage and become enough of a class¬ for itself to be a power for change, Castells’ concept of “networked social movements” helps in addressing a remedy for the precariat weakness through social networks movements. Castells’ book “Networks of Outrage and Hope” analyzes the “nature and perspectives of networked social movements” (Castells 2015, p.4). Castells ideas identified the new paths of social change and the implications of these social change hypotheses. He talked about the meaning of notion network in protest mobilization. He argued that the historical shift of the movements’ trace back into the internet social networks, the spaces of autonomy largely beyond the control of governments and corporations.

In this context, he believed that people’s determination to bring down dictatorships, at whatever cost, renewed faith in people’s power (Castells 2015, p.158). And in the precariat case, it is getting what they want from long- term employment and labor security from their government. Thus, with this theory of communication power, Castells talked further about a control shift in favor of those who control technology communication network like the governments. The central form of power is in its ability to exercise the control of how people might think. Therefore, one fear is overcome; change in power relationships becomes possible as individuals transform themselves into active organizations, local, and global at the same