scholarly journals The Information Society and its Consequences: Lessons from the Past

2006 ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Holvast ◽  
Penny Duquenoy ◽  
Diane Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
The Past

Technical Communication in an Information Society

2011 ◽  
pp. 3668-3673
Author(s):  
John DiMarco
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Social System ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Information Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Product Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Product

Gutenberg developed movable type and revolutionized communication. O’Hara (2001) makes identification that “from the fourteenth century on, the social system of science has depended on technical communication to describe, disseminate, criticize, use, and improve innovations and advances in science, medicine, and technology” (p.1). O’Hara’s reference provides a clear pathway to further discussion and interpretation on the rapidly changing tools, techniques, and roles that have caused the permutation of technical communication from an original tool of science and medicine in the 1400s to an academic discipline and a universally desired societal skill set for all who engage the information society. The purpose of this research is to identify the stature of technical communication in societies which engage heavily in information design, social technological product consumption, and publishing. This chapter addresses the past, present, and future issues, controversies, and roles that technical communication has had and will have on the information society.

scholarly journals E-közigazgatás és agrár-szakigazgatás Magyarországon

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Elemérné Nagy ◽  
György Hampel ◽  
Zoltán Fabulya
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Information Society ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Electronic Administration ◽  
The Eu

The aim of our paper is to give an overview of the electronic public administration and the agrarian administration in Hungary. The size of the administration affects economic growth: it consumes 35 to 49 percent of the GDP in the European countries. By introducing electronic services, more than 5 percent of the administration costs can be saved. The efforts to digitize are based on the e-Europe programme with the objective to create an information society for everyone. After creating the legislative background in the past years, administration offices could digitize their registry and could start to offer more and more electronic services to the citizens and organizations. Although the level of digital literacy should be raised among the citizens and the civil servants as well, Hungary can be proud of the quality of the electronic administration services which is above the EU-28 average. The agrarian administration needs a lot of data which is collected and processed by information systems obligatory in the European Union. The collected data is required to effectively operate the agriculture and to access European agricultural subsidies. In the past few years efforts were made to catch up with the European agrarian information systems and today these systems are able to provide the necessary information for the administration and the farmers as well.

scholarly journals Ewolucja przemysłu zaawansowanej technologii i sektora teleinformatycznego (ICT) w Finlandii

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 122-132
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Stachowiak
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy

The paper presents in a broad outline the main characteristics of the evolution of the Finnish high-tech industry and ICT sector within the context of general changes in industry and the national economy. In the last decades of the 20th century Finland dynamically developed a knowledge-based economy and became one of the leaders of the information society. A spectacular manifestation of this is the position of the country in global competitiveness rankings, where Finland has occupied a top position for several years, sometimes even being ahead of the United States. The so-called ‘Finnish model of information society’ is characterised, among others, by a significant growth in knowledge-intensive industries and a complex system of research and development support. However, all those changes were dependent on the previous development path of the country. The structure of Finnish industry was rather one-sided until the 1980s, when knowledge- and expertise-intensive production started to catch up with the level of manufacturing dominated by raw materials, capital and energy. For a long time, Finland specialised in the forest industry and in the processing of metals. A new sector that has developed during the past decades is electronics and, especially, the manufacturing of communication devices. Furthermore, the economy has changed more dramatically in Finland than in any other developed country over the same period of time. Industries have become technology-intensive and production is strongly characterised by specialisation. Finland has become the most specialised country in information and communication technology in the world, and this specialisation trend is continuing. The forest industry and other traditional industries rely more and more on the new technologies and state-of-the-art knowledge. In Finland, industrialisation started later than in other countries, but it was very rapid. Industrial production and exports grew faster than the rest of the economy in the 1990s, and the structure of exports diversified. Unlike other developed countries, Finland “re-industrialised” in the 1990s. The contribution of industry to the total volume of production and employment has been higher in Finland than in other advanced economies in the past couple of years.

scholarly journals Anti-crisis resource of memory policy in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-134
Author(s):  
Yury Shapoval ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Informational Influence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
Communicative Discourse ◽  
War Commemoration ◽  
Ukrainian Society

The proposed article considers the politics of memory as a tool for overcoming crises in contemporary Ukrainian society. In an open information society, memory is a resource of social dialogue, which provides the construction of a conventional grand narrative, multilateral communication of different groups and segments of the population, the search for opportunities for understanding and reconciliation. There is still no general public consensus in Ukraine on the „alien”, anti-Ukrainian nature of imperial and communist power imposed from outside. Political discussions continue on the interpretation of the Russian imperial and totalitarian Soviet past between the bearers of different conflicting models of memory – neo-Soviet, national-state and liberal. In the post-Maidan period, Ukrainian society is testing a wide range of mnemonic tools of historical policy related to the realities of hybrid warfare and the need to change the emphasis in the language of memory. Decommunization has become an essential step towards the dialogic practices of commemoration and departure from the speculative verbal-symbolic arsenal of post-truth. The implementation of new accents of memory policy is organically connected with digital mobility, which provides alternative platforms of mnemonic practices and expands the possibilities of recalling, remembering, reassessing the events of the past in virtual communicative discourse. The author substantiates the thesis about the ambivalence of memory policy in Ukraine, argues that the Russian cultural and informational influence negatively affects the processes of implementation of constructive directions of memory policy in Ukraine, the establishment of national dialogue. Key words: memory policy, social dialogue, hybrid war, commemoration, postmemory, post-truth, digital mobility.

scholarly journals EU regulations on telecommunications: The role of subsidiarity and mediation

First Monday ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panayiota Tsatsou
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Eu Regulation ◽  
Telecommunications Regulation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Eu

This article provides a critical examination of telecommunications regulation in the EU and argues for the need for change along the lines of subsidiarity and mediation. This discussion is particularly timely, as the European Commission is working on a new telecommunications regulatory framework, with the lessons and failures of the past appearing more critical than ever. In this context, the article points to the debate between national heterogeneity and shared vision in the European Information Society and it proposes a shift of the culture and procedures dominating the formal EU regulation. It brings to the fore the potential for the tension between national particularities and EU regulation to be resolved by applying subsidiarity along with existing regulatory tools and mediation via the enforcement of mediating networks and the establishment of institutions that increase the accountability of EU regulation on telecommunications.

scholarly journals Development and Dissemination of Animation Production Under the Era of New Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 137-140
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Yuan ◽  
Xiaojian Chen
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Past

The growth of the information society is in line with the continuous development and progress of technology in China. New media has gradually become the mainstream of this era and has affected the production of animation. In the past, Chinese animation only relied on traditional media, but now it mainly relies on the dissemination of new media. This does not only bring challenges to the field of animation production, but also opportunities for it. This research analyzes the development and dissemination of animation production under the new media.

scholarly journals The Information Society

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiranya Nath
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Post Industrial

This article briefly discusses various definitions and concepts of the so-called information society. The term information society has been proposed to refer to the post-industrial society in which information plays a pivotal role. The definitions that have been proposed over the years highlight five underlying characterisations of an information society: technological, economic, sociological, spatial, and cultural. This article discusses those characteristics. While the emergence of an information society may be just a figment of one’s imagination, the concept could be a good organising principle to describe and analyse the changes of the past 50 years and of the future in the 21st century. 

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-179
Author(s):  
Jason Lustig
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This chapter considers the overall impact of the twentieth-century proliferation of archive activities in Jewish life and the rising paradigm of total archives in particular. By looking at the development of Jewish archiving in Germany, the United States, and Israel/Palestine, we see the concrete manifestation of the impulses of a “time to gather” in Jewish cultures around the world. These efforts represent a kind of community-based archives, but also the internal tensions: What happens when there is a widespread understanding of the value of archives, and they represent resources of cultural capital worth fighting for? This conclusion also places the history of Jewish archives and the struggles to “own” the past in the broader context of the emerging information society. Altogether, this history indicates contentious struggles over what it means to have control over history in its most practical terms.

scholarly journals As contradições da sociedade da informação e a formação do bibliotecário

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
César Augusto Castro ◽  
Maria Solange Pereira Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
The Way

Duas questões norteiam este trabalho: as contradições da sociedade da informação e a formação do chamado profissional da informação. Essa denominação adotada pelos bibliotecários, nas últimas décadas do século passado, e seus fazeres têm sido marcados pela dualidade, ora com uma visão progressista, ora conservadora. Conduzimos a nossa reflexão em dois momentos que se completam. Procuramos pontuar o papel que o bibliotecário assumiu na sociedade brasileira, em seguida, reportamo-nos à maneira como pensamos o seu papel social e político nessa sociedade. Abstract Two questions guide this work: the contradictions of information society and the formation of so called information professional. This denomination adopted by librarians throghout last decades of the past century and their works have been marked by the duality, sometimes with a progressive vision, sometimes with a conservative vision. We lead our reflection in two moments that complete themselves. First, we focus the role that librarian has assumed in the Brazilian society, then we refer to on the way as we think its social and politic role in that society.

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