Giving a brilliant insight of the logic of networks, Castells has contributed a lot in providing interesting literature on the pervasive nature of information technology in his highly reviewed and popular Trilogy. Manuel Castells has attempted to see through the complexity of the inter-connectivity marking our times and has come up with a sensible explanation of the networking society in which we live. The networking logic is generating a new culture and perception of our surroundings and beliefs enabling in the flow a gradual erosion of old values and customs which held importance before the pervasion of the information age. As Castells speculates on the ‘Self’ and the ‘Net’, “New social formations emerge around primary identities, which may be sexual, religious, ethnic, territorial or national in focus.” (Stalder, 1998) In this interplay of the Net and the Self (symbolising the activities through which people try to reaffirm their identities), ‘Terror Online’ and the resurgent motivation of waging online war against terrorists online seems to mark the New Information Age where we have to interact as one of the nodes of the networks!
News such as-“The online posting on Aug. 30 sounded like the rantings of a crank: The subject was "911," and it warned "Something is going to happen tomorrow . . . REPENT!" Schwartz, J, (2001)-can be recurrent features haunting us online. The internet user seems to have acquired a modern tool or weapon in the form of the networking logic, to manipulate and control dimensions which were formerly the reserve or right of certain individuals or authorities. There seems to be no formal or legal licence needed to come in control of information, or to add additional information to the network system.
The logic of Networks and the Network paradigm have already set the ball rolling for an entirely new perspective and dimension of social interactions and human transactions where the flow of information defines economic productivity even more excessively than what it is today!