Teaser When Manuel Castells theorized the Network Society in 1996, he identified how network logic would restructure social life—but he couldn’t foresee how artificial intelligence would weaponize those very networks. This essay traces a quarter-century arc from Castells’ prescient analysis of informationalism to today’s troubling reality: AI systems that operationalize sociological insights about network structures … Continue reading Network Society Under Algorithmic Siege: From Castells to Computational Social Engineering