Looking on the technological progress we have made and how much our societies changed because of it there is a real question As a result of this changes and how technology became to us necessary every single day do we live in a Network Society The expression itself has been coined in 1991 and was related to the social political economic and cultural changes caused by the global spread of digital information s and communication devices This idea goes back to the work of early social theorists such as Georg Simmel who was analysing the modernisation and industrial capitalism on complicated trends of affiliation organization production and experience But one of the people which provided a framework to understand the Network Society is Manuel Castells which I will talk about later in this essay
