Introduction

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Mutula
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Information Economics ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Post Industrial

The ‘Digital economy’ is sometimes used synonymously with ‘information society’, which emerged back in the 1960s to describe a futuristic society that is highly dependent on information (Bridges.org, 2001; Computer Systems Policy Projects, 2000). Martin (1997:87) further associates the concept with ‘information economics’ by defining it as a society in which there is a growing rate in the production, distribution and use of information. The ‘Digital economy’, as term and concept, has been used in this book in keeping with ‘information society’ as espoused by Schienstock et al. (1999), who view it from an interdisciplinary perspective to describe: An information economy;A post-industrial society; The end of the industrial labour society; A knowledge society; An ‘informatized’ industrial society; and A learning society.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-218
Author(s):  
Stefan J. Link
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Henry Ford ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Post Industrial

This concluding chapter explains that American-style postwar “Fordism” was only one pattern in the mottled global legacy left behind by Henry Ford. It was not the least ideological effect of American hegemony that in the 1960s modernization theory could universalize this unique historical arrangement — what can be called “high mass-consumption” — as the target of successful development itself. Responding to the crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, social scientists added a next phase: “Post-Fordism” or “post-industrial society” signaled deindustrialization to some and the promise of a “service and information economy” to others. What united these constructs was a thinking in sequential stages, a preoccupation with national patterns of development, and a theory of causation centered on self-generating forces. It has become clear that cycles of industrialization and deindustrialization are inseparable from concerted efforts to restructure the global division of labor, that productive dual-use technologies are fiercely contested by states and corporations alike, that investment and disinvestment cannot be dislodged from contests over the terms of globalization, and that capital has no autonomous power outside of the designs and struggles of political actors.

scholarly journals SHAPING THE CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETIES AS A BASIC CONCEPT OF UNESCO

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-91
Author(s):  
Ольга Юрьевна Морозова
Keyword(s):  
Basic Concept ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Concepts Of Knowledge ◽  
Education Culture ◽  
Post Industrial

Настоящая статья посвящена исследованию генезиса и содержания социофилософского термина «общество знания» с опорой на ключевые программные документы ЮНЕСКО (доклады 2005 и 2009 гг.). Анализируется, в первую очередь, соотношение понятий «общество знания», «информационное общество» и «посткапитализм» («постиндустриальное общество») на основе работ классических (1960-1990 гг.) и современных исследователей данного вопроса. Кроме того, в статье проанализированы основные сферы «общества знания» (экономика, образование, культура и право), что позволяет путем синтеза доклада ЮНЕСКО и основных научных трудов в данной области выстроить целостную концепцию «общества знания». This article is devoted to the study of the genesis and content of the socio-philosophical term «knowledge society» based on the key UNESCO policy documents (Reports of 2005 and 2009). The author analyzes, first of all, the correlation of the concepts of «knowledge society», «information society» and «post-capitalism» (post-industrial society) on the basis of the works of classical (1960-1990s) and contemporary researchers of this issue. In addition, the article examines the main areas of the «knowledge society» (economy, education, culture and law), thus proposing on the basis of the UNESCO Report and the main scholarly works in this area comprehensive approach to building a platform of the «knowledge society».

Growth of the Digital Economy

2011 ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Mutula
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
New Jobs

As pointed out in the previous chapter, the concepts ‘digital economy’, ‘information economy’, ‘information society’ and ‘knowledge society/economy’ are inextricably intertwined and are often used interchangeably. However, the concept ‘information society’ is increasingly being seen as a unifying term. In defence of why this is so, Schienstock et al. (1999) have argued that the notion of an ‘information society’ is presented as a strategic aim meant to overcome current social stagnation. The central argument is that the information society would create and secure millions of new jobs; guarantee economic competitiveness; bring ecological advantages; intensify democracy; and revolutionize our ways of living and working with the help of new communication technologies.

Dialogue between smart education and classical education

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Sharonova ◽  
Elena Avdeeva
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Classical Education ◽  
Smart Education ◽  
New Space ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract Paradigmatic changes in education arise as a result of the emergence of a fundamentally new reality in society. Society has predicted this new reality through the concepts of post-industrial society, information society, knowledge society. The basis of this new reality is the development of information technologies (IT). These transformations of reality are taking place so rapidly that the institute of education has not had the time to realign itself in this new space and has been late in its development of new breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence. The purpose of the study is to show the fundamental paradigmatic differences between classical education and smart education, and to build a bridge of dialogue between these two paradigms.

scholarly journals INFORMATION ECONOMY: A NEW PARADIGM FOR ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Inna KOTKALOVA-LYTVYN
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Economic Paradigm ◽  
Evolutionary Changes ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Economic Outlook

The article investigates essence and content of the information economy, which, at the present stage of the global ecosystem is changing traditional narratives of economic theory. Article studies influence of post-industrial society to the origin of the information economy paradigm statements and its ecosystem. The author systematized conceptual provisions of foreign and domestic scientists on the essence and content of the information economy in the context of the evolution of development of this economic paradigm (starting from theory’s inception in 60s of the twentieth century up to modern theoretical and methodological developments). Based on research, the author concluded that the information economy is not just post-industrial wave of development. It is a separate, independent paradigm of world economic outlook, which is the result of evolutionary changes in the technological, economic, political and social arrangement on the general international level.

From Information Society to Community Service

2016 ◽  
pp. 101-123
Author(s):  
Benedito Medeiros Neto
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Wealth Concentration ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Operational Processes ◽  
Post Industrial

This chapter presents a perspective of a post-industrial society, through the development of the information society and its deployment, focusing on the possibilities of a service predominant society. The most important point of this exercise is that this approach did not happen as expected in form or time. In the past, the ICT tools were restricted to centers of competence or in organizations. Nowadays, their increasingly presence in individual lives, as well as in their human relationships, is changing social and commercial relations, the meaning of work and political participation of people in a compulsory way, unlike what had happened at the turn of agricultural to industrial Eras. New possibilities happen in a rapid manner in a society based on wealth concentration, when there is association of ICTs with the restlessness of social movements or collective protests demanding better living conditions of minority communities. The increasing information flows have led to the desire of knowledge. However, this search for the social welfare achievements has occurred in a superficial manner, leading to anxiety and depression of common and deprived citizens. A new Citizenship or, better defined, e-Citizenship emerges between their aspirations. Based on facts and observations of recent research on the impacts of ICTs in the last ten years, the approach of a community service changes the daily lives of individuals, despite its acceptance or perception, the presence of virtual media, the growing media innovation and agricultural, industrial and operational processes, as well as the claimed social movements.

The Making of the Information Society

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
P.E. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Service ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Transitional Phase ◽  
Dominant Phase

Unlike the decisive occupations which facilitated the unambiguous naming of the agricultural and industrial societies, the present one which is tagged with an array of groupings—Post-Industrial, Service, Knowledge, Post-modern, Wired/Networked, Artificial, so on and so forth—can hardly ever be viewed from the perspective of a single occupation. With technology in the forefront working as the driver of information and knowledge, it supports and causes the rampant changes in the provinces of economy, occupation, spatial relations, and culture. And, together they signify the arrival of the ‘Information Society'. The obvious shift of a considerable population from the landed labour to industrial labour to knowledge workers marks the transitional phase of the society from agriculture to manufacturing to knowledge society. Hence, this chapter proposes that the dominant phase of a society is not to be visualised as an independent system that is divorced from the other two, but to be understood as an extension of its past.

Attention to Education in the Post-Industrial Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Christoffer Green-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Party System ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Incentive Model ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Policy Problems

This chapter provides an analysis of party system attention to education based on the issue incentive model. The analysis shows that large, mainstream parties’ incentives are the key factor in explaining the dynamics of party system attention to education. However, compared to the three issues analysed before, problem characteristics rather than coalition considerations and issue ownership shape the incentives of large, mainstream parties. The fact that education is an obtrusive valence issue relevant to more or less the whole population implies that it is an issue that large, mainstream parties cannot ignore if public debates about policy problems emerge. The increased focus on education and human capital in the knowledge society has thus led to an increased focus on education. This focus has clearly been most pronounced in countries where it has materialized in a debate about the quality of primary schools. In Denmark, and later on also in Sweden, this debate came as a reaction to what was seen as disappointing PISA scores. In the UK, the PISA scores played a limited role in the debate about primary schools.

Economics of the information society

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy Bashin ◽  
Gennadiy Grinev ◽  
Yuliya Dremova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Business Informatics ◽  
State Educational ◽  
Post Industrial

The textbook presents modern ideas about the development and formation of the economy of the information society. Scientific concepts of transformation of the modern post-industrial society into an information society based on information and communication technologies and knowledge are highlighted. The basic concepts of technological processes of the information society, as well as definitions and dynamics of development of information resources, products and services in the economy of the information society, and a number of other topical issues are presented. The structure of the manual helps to identify the main aspects of the studied socio-economic processes, organize and specify the educational process. Questions for self-control and tasks are offered to activate the assimilation of the material. Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. It is intended for students of higher educational institutions studying in the field of training 38.03.05 "Business Informatics".

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