The way society is a network in a radically new way, the communication revolution that has created this network society, have to be understood not only in technological terms. Therefore Castells foregrounds the fact that the network society is characterized by globalization of strategically decisive economic activities. Therefore the information technology revolution has led to a restructuring of capitalism. Though the information technology revolution is well within the capitalist framework and mode of production, there is a restructuring of the old capitalist order and this change that it is strategically related to economic activities.

Castells further notes:

“By the networking form of organization… a culture of real virtuality [is] constructed by a pervasive, interconnected, and diversified media system. And by the transformation of material foundations of life, space and time, as expressions of dominant activities and controlling elites ... It is indeed, brave or not, a new world.”

We need to look at new media and cybercultures as both continuations and newer forms of the capitalist order, though the changes in the foundation of culture have been quite radical.