The Information Society

2011 ◽  
pp. 18-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Barinaga
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Economic Rationality ◽  
Business Logic ◽  
Democratic Ideal

The discourse on the information society is characterised by a democratic ideal of “general access.” In this chapter, we follow the transformation of such an ideal as the discourse of the information society is translated by the Swedish parliament and implemented in a high-tech region north of Stockholm. We will see that as the discourse is being implemented, it incorporates ethnic categorical boundaries that structure the region and segregates the community where it is being implemented. The main argument of the chapter is that categorical inequalities are embedded in the economic rationality/business logic that structures the discourse on the information society, resulting in socioeconomic, geographic, and technological segregation.

From Creative Destruction to Intelligent Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Jonatan Jelen
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Environmental Turbulence ◽  
Economic Rationality ◽  
Business Logic ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Steve Jobs ◽  
Inside Out

When the late Steve Jobs prominently adopted Wayne Gretzky’s slogan wanting to “skate where the puck will go, not to where it has been”, it sounded simply as a pragmatic response to the limitations of chasing the elusive ‘environmental fit’ (for the notion of strategy as a fit with the environment, see Porter, 1996, 1998). Yet, it prefigured a truly paradigmatic leap. With information technology becoming the dominant technology of the day, firms are no longer confined to either being simply part of the problem, part of the solution or part of the landscape. They now can quickly capture and move the entire landscape; but even more importantly, they can become an entire landscape in their own right. Firms need no longer be mired in perpetual reform efforts, endlessly defining, designing, and developing themselves form the inside out as transactional systems, configuring dimensions of strategy, structure, scale, and scope hopelessly imperfectly given environmental turbulence, technological transience, and socio-politico-economic complexity, and perpetually, almost wastefully tuning their internal synergies to merely becoming incrementally agile and increasingly nimble. The commonality among the recently quickly emerging complex information technology-intensive firms that are breaking the mold, especially represented by the social-media movement, is their deliberate and explicit social positioning. These firms are demonstrating a level of creative intelligence that allows them to aspire to, design, and construct, in their entirety, the very environments into which they want to project themselves. To enable and to leverage this new transformational nature they cultivate and nurture two additional dimensions that define such social positioning: scheme and soul. Scheme represents their agenda for social stance, positioning, action, and change. And soul is their intentionality to go beyond economic rationality and business logic in order to create logos from chaos. But while people may have overcome the controversy of creating social outcomes with economic means, one now has the mandate to design and govern how one creates economic outcomes with social means.

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 THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-TECH BUSINESS IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Marharyta Chepeliuk ◽  
Kateryna Kutsenko
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Great Precision ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis

Both technology and business are changing in the world. The new paradigm of the world is emerging in the form of systems, affecting all aspects of the activities of society and market players. The scale and complexity of transformation will be different from what humanity has experienced before. It is not yet possible to predict with great precision how it will unfold, but one thing is clear: the answer must be integrated and comprehensive, from the public and private sectors in scientific community, business and society. In the new economic environment, economic agents have to go through the processes of digital transformation that are necessary to improve. The purpose of the article is to define the main directions of the development of digitalization and to analyse Ukraine’s place in the world by the level of development of digitalization. Methodical tools of the study were methods of analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, search for causal relationships. The article presents the results of empirical analysis of the main trends in the Ukrainian market during the pandemic and their relationship with the processes of digitalization. The article analyzes the development trends and the size of the digital economy in Ukraine and in other countries of the world. Key numerical trends have been identified that will determine the direction of this type of economy. It has been proved that digitalization must be carried out in accordance with the principles of equal access, benefit creation, economic growth, the promotion of the information society and the orientation towards cooperation. The advantages of the digitalization of Ukrainian economy are presented, as well as the threats and risks that will arise from this process are indicated.

scholarly journals Panacea, placebo or prudence: Perspectives and constraints for corporate dialogue

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Øyvind Ihlen ◽  
Abbey Levenshus
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Economic Rationality ◽  
A Value ◽  
Systemic Level

Public relations has long been preoccupied with the notion of dialogue, and the advent of social media ushered in new enthusiasm. Still, despite the technology on offer and the fact that dialogue has become a value that ‘everyone’ embraces, most research concludes that little actual dialogue takes place between corporations and their stakeholders. Scholars have pointed to a host of different factors to explain this, ranging from practitioners’ lack of time to their lack of understanding of what dialogue is. This article discusses perspectives on corporate dialogue with a focus on the constraints identified in the literature, before presenting the main argument that not enough attention has been paid to the macro limits at the systemic level. The article issues a call to locate dialogue attempts within a system where a limited economic rationality reigns, which, in turn, constrains what individual practitioners can achieve.

Japan's ‘Resort Archipelago’: Creating Regions of Fun, Pleasure, Relaxation, and Recreation

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1599-1625 ◽  
Author(s):  
P J Rimmer
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Golf Course ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Theme Parks ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Resort Development

Changes have occurred in Japanese regional development policy to accommodate the decline in production and commercial activities. Initially, the thrust was on using high-tech activities to promote regional development within an emerging information society. Subsequently, this strategy has been complemented by a policy of regional development based on the leisure and construction industries. Before this policy is outlined attention is focused on examining a conceptual framework for tourism urbanisation and past resort development in Japan. Then the key features of the Comprehensive Regional Resort Preparation Plan, 1987 and its implementation are detailed with reference to case studies in Tohoku, Kanto, and Kyushu and Okinawa. An analysis is also undertaken of key resort facilities with particular reference to golf course development and theme parks. The relevance of concepts fashioned for tourism urbanisation in explaining tourism-led regional development is also considered. Apart from underlining the way in which resorts are blurring the distinction between urban and regional activities the task of monitoring Japanese resort development is highlighted.

scholarly journals BUILDING AN INFORMATION SOCIETY THROUGH THE PRISM OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Х. Н. Адаева ◽  
Х. С. Халиева
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Economic Development Strategy ◽  
The Social

Большинство современных исследователей сходятся во мнении о том, что в настоящее время произошло значительное увеличение роли региона в качестве субнациональной пространственной инновационной единицы, а формирование региональных инновационных систем в контексте современной цифровизации уже приняло характер закономерной тенденции в инновационном доминировании развитых стран и их национальных инновационных систем. Стратегия развития экономики в России неразрывно связана с ее информатизацией и цифровизацией. Это наиболее продвинутый срез модернизации общественного устройства. Он, прежде всего, применим в отраслях высоких технологий, где существенно отставание российского производства. Собственно говоря, здесь речь идет об технологических инновациях, об инновационном производстве в законченном виде. Какая-то часть модернизации должна проходить именно в таком ключе, в таком плане. Это чрезвычайно важно для нас, ибо нет ряда новых производств, и прежде всего в отраслях высоких технологий. В рамках настоящей статьи предпринята попытка рассмотрения неких инструментов построения информационного общества посредством развития технологических инноваций. Most modern researchers agree that there has now been a significant increase in the region’s role as a sub-national spatial innovation unit, and the formation of regional innovative systems in the context of modern digitalization have already taken on the nature of the innovative dominance of developed countries and their national innovation systems. Russia’s economic development strategy is inextricably linked to its information and digitalization. This is the most advanced slice of the modernization of the social order. It is primarily applicable in high-tech industries, where our production is significantly lagged behind. As a matter of fact, we are talking about technological innovations, about innovative production in its final form. Some part of the modernization should take place in this way, in such a way. This is extremely important for us, because there are no new industries, especially in the high-tech industries. As part of this article, attempted to build some tools to build an information society through the development of technological innovations.

scholarly journals Genre Sphere of Modern Ukrainian Research Communication

2017 ◽  
pp. 92-97
Author(s):  
Nataliia Mekh
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Global Network ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Different Types

The article deals with the problem of studying and understanding the Ukrainian scientific communication, its genre sphere in modern globalized high-tech society. Various social and cultural challenges caused the appearance of computer communication or net-communication, quantative growth of which attracts scientists of different fields. The modern form of social life are called global, network, information society. Information society – this is a knowledge society where mass produced, distributed and used various means of information. Exchange of scientific information, ideas and knowledge between scientists, researchers and specialists in various areas of science plays a leading role in the development of modern society. The concept of genre as a central category of discourse and text is separately highlighted. Different types of speech genres are shown. Genre sphere of scientific communication is outlined. The concepts of genres correlation with different types of discourse are of special attention. Scientific discourse as a complex communicative unit, which is thematically correlated set of scientific texts of different genre of implementation, due to socio-cultural influences and target setting communicants. The current stage of scientific communication is characterized by versatility of scientific style. Analytical and critical review of the social and thematic direction of Genre Study– Lingvogenology of scientific communication is done in the article.

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