Manuel Castells

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1. Manuel Castells

   Author of The Rise of the Network Society, The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society, End of Millennium

2. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Outline of a Theory of Practice, Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, The Social Structures of the Economy

3. Lawrence Lessig

   Author of Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

4. David Harvey

   Author of The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, The Limits to Capital, New Edition, Social Justice and the City

5. Anthony Giddens

   Author of Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber, The Consequences of Modernity, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration

6. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contempo, The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society (The Theory of Communicative Act, The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason

7. Saskia Sassen

   Author of The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo., Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages

8. Bruno Latour

   Author of We Have Never Been Modern, Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

9. Daniel Bell

   Author of The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting (Harper Colophon Books), The End of Ideology

10. Howard Rheingold

    Author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier

11. Sherry Turkle

    Author of Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With

12. Richard Sennett

    Author of The Craftsman, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, The Culture of the New Capitalism

13. William J. Mitchell

    Author of City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City

14. Siva Vaidhyanathan

    Author of The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the Syste, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity

15. Pierre Levy

    Author of Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace, Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age

16. Zygmunt Bauman

    Author of Liquid Modernity, Globalization: The Human Consequences

17. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

18. John Seely Brown

    Author of The Social Life of Information

19. Yochai Benkler

    Author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

20. Francis Fukuyama

    Author of Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity, The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order