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A correction to the article "The Mine Ban Treaty, New Diplomacy and Human Security Ten Years Later" that was published in a previous issue of the journal "European Political Science" is presented.

This article focuses on the book "Media, Politics and the Network Society," by Robert Hassan. Broadly speaking, the book is written around the concept of network society and its effect upon media, culture and politics and the actors that play the most relevant roles in this new context. It can be considered as a good outline of the topic and it is written with a lively and fresh perspective. Nevertheless, the ambitious objective of presenting many arguments and a wide range of bibliographic references from different literature, related to the network society, may have caused the effect that some of them are treated in an overly superficial way, without going in-depth enough in order to adequately understand all these phenomena. Based on the theoretical approaches of these scholars, the author builds up his own theses. He takes a critical perspective of the processes of neoliberal globalization and informationization and their dynamics. In this context, having reflected on the effects of the networks on the relationships and dialectics between media and culture, it is argued that there will always exist spaces of difference where domination and colonization will be resisted and from where other ways of being and seeing can emerge.