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An information society is a society or subculture where the usage, creation, distribution, manipulation and integration of information is a significant activity.[1] Its main drivers are information and communication technologies, which have resulted in rapid growth of a variety of forms of information. Proponents of this theory posit that these technologies are impacting most important forms of social organization, including education, economy,[2] health, government,[3] warfare, and levels of democracy.[4] The people who are able to partake in this form of society are sometimes called either computer users or even digital citizens, defined by K. Mossberger as “Those who use the Internet regularly and effectively”. This is one of many dozen internet terms that have been identified to suggest that humans are entering a new and different phase of society.[5]
Some of the markers of this steady change may be technological, economic, occupational, spatial, cultural, or a combination of all of these.[6]
Information society is seen as a successor to industrial society. Closely related concepts are the post-industrial society (post-fordism), post-modern society, computer society and knowledge society, telematic society, society of the spectacle (postmodernism), Information Revolution and Information Age, network society (Manuel Castells) or even liquid modernity.
^Soll, Jacob, 1968- (2009). The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-02526-8. OCLC 643805520.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Hilbert, M. (2015). Digital Technology and Social Change [Open Online Course at the University of California] freely available at: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xR4sQ3f6tW8&list=PLtjBSCvWCU3rNm46D3R85efM0hrzjuAIg Archived 2020-08-01 at the Wayback Machine
^Hilbert, M. (2015). Digital Technology and Social Change [Open Online Course at the University of California] https://youtube.com/watch?v=KKGedDCKa68&list=PLtjBSCvWCU3rNm46D3R85efM0hrzjuAIg Archived 2020-08-01 at the Wayback Machine freely available at: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/949415 Archived 2018-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
^Hilbert, M. (2015). Digital Technology and Social Change [Open Online Course at the University of California] freely available at
:https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/949415 Archived 2018-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
^Beniger, James R. (1986). The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
^Webster, Frank (2002). Theories of the Information Society. Cambridge: Routledge.
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