Thursday, October 1, 2009

What is Information Society?

Information Society is a situation where knowledge-based services are transformed into the central structure of the new economy and of an information-led society
Author :Daniel Bell (A United States Sociologist)
Name of Book:The Coming of Post-Industrial Society

Information Society is a specific form of social organization in which information generation, processing, and transmission are transformed into the fundamental sources of productivity and power.
Credit :Manuel Castells one of the researchers to have most developed this theme

An information society is a society where the majority of employees work in information jobs, i.e. they have to deal more with information, signals, symbols, and images than with energy and matter.
Credit :Bell Peter Otto and Philipp Sonntag (1985)

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