SAADI Syntia
Information Society Activities
Section 1 Activity:
Answer:
1) - The two essential concepts to understand the evolution of a nation to an
Information Society are : information economy and postindustrial society.
2) - The specific about the Informational Economy is typically divide a nation's
economy into primary and secondary sectors:
- Primary (e.g., agriculture, mining, fishing, forestry).
- Secondary (e.g., production of goods manufactured from raw materials).
3) - The three characteristics that Postindustrial Society is based on are
- The production and circulation of knowledge rather than manufactured goods.
- The shift from manufacturing-based economies to service-oriented economies
where.
Section 2 Activity:
Answer: true or false
1- Information Society is characterized by the central role of manufacturing
goods as key drivers of economic growth, social development, and
innovation. False
-This society is characterized by the central role of information and knowledge
as key drivers of economic growth, social development, and innovation.
2- Information technologies play a crucial role in shaping the Information
Society. True
3-An information society can be understood as a society where the usage and
knowledge of information and communication is at a low level. False
_ In common usage, an information society can be simply understood as a
society where the usage and knowledge of information and communication is
at a high level.
4- Family life, the workplace, leisure and entertainment, teaching and learning,
and earning and spending, have been affected by the new technologies and
the ways people use them. True
5- Information Society is characterized by industrial based economy,
manufacturing, traditional workers and a firm distinction between work and
leisure. False
The Information society is a society characterized by a high level of information
intensity in the everyday life of most citizens, in most organizations and
workplaces; by the use of common or compatible technology for a wide range of
personal, social, educational and business.
Section 3 Activity:
Answer:
1). Data and Information are related:
Data: is evaluated, interpreted, organized, and arranged (i.e. processed,
operated, dealt with, or processed), it becomes a meaningful content that affects
the direction, reaction, and behavior, and is thus transformed into information.
Information: is defined, according to the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Library
and Information Terms, as “data that has been processed to achieve a specific
goal or for a specific use, for the purposes of decision-making, that is, data that
has value after being analyzed, interpreted, or compiled in a meaningful form
and which can be circulated, recorded, published, and distributed officially or
informally and in any form.
2). Yes, it is. While, information, and after collecting information, we rise to
knowledge. Knowledge is superior to information. We seek information in order
to know or increase our knowledge.
3).The principal requirement of the workers to integrate the Knowledge Society
according to Peter Drucker is: their ability to change and adapt to the
requirements of the Information Society,and that the task at hand was to forge a
strong commitment to technological innovation as the mobilizer of economic
and social progress.
4). The common point between Information Technology and Network Society
according to Manuel Castells is : the role of digital communication networks.
Section 4 Activity:
1- Changes associated with information technology constituted a major
break with the past. DP
2- People control technologies and decide what to do with them. CP
3- New information and communication technologies tend not to break
down established relations of power and wealth. CP
4- It’s taken for granted that we are in the midst of a "technology
revolution" that would radically change society and culture forever.
DP
5- Industrial capitalism just had taken on a new form. CP
6- The belief that new-technologies were driving human action is
definitely unquestioned. DP
7- It examines how people use and understand information technologies.
SP
8- American-style culture and politics being widely spread all over the
world. SP
9- Technologies are constantly influenced by human actions and social
needs, as well as being society-shaping. SP
10- Societies and people that would not adapt to technological growth
would be left behind. DP
Section 5 Activity:
1. Daniel Bell wrote “The Coming of Post-Industrial Society ” in 1973.
He say about:
1: Principle of Pre-industrial societies:
- Bell stated that Preindustrial societies have an axial principle of
traditionalism, an orientation to the past, and rely on common sense or
experience as the best type of knowledge.
2: Principle of industrial societies
- He argued that axial principle is economic growth; they are oriented to the
present and they believe that empiricism—knowledge gained from
observation—is most valuable.
3: Principle of Post-industrial societies:
- In postindustrial societies, the axial principle of centralizing and codifying
theoretical knowledge. They are oriented toward the future and
forecasting, and they consider abstract theory to be the best type of
knowledge.
2. Manuel Castells introduced the concept of the “Network Society “in
1996.
- The phenomenon that is important to Castells is digital communication
networks, which changes social structures and power relations.
3. - Continuity Perspective: Frank Webster.
- Discontinuity Perspective: Herbert Schiller.
- Socio-cultural Perspective : Anthony Giddens .
Section 6 Activity :
The specific concepts could you use to explain the impact of Internet,
Social media and Mobile Technologies on social life and relations to
others in the Information Society:
Internet : global connectivity
Social media: community-building.
Mobile Technologies: communication and access.
- importance of the multiple innovations merged as a result of
technological growth:
The multiple innovations resulting from technological growth are significant
not just as means of communication or access but for several other reasons:
Enhancing Efficiency;
Accessibility;
Interactivity;
Societal changes.
Section 3 Activity :
Answers:
1)- The data and Information are related:
a) Data : is defined as a set of numbers, letters, symbols, or words
that can be processed by a computer and is therefore “the raw
material from which information is derived.
b) Information : is defined as a set of data, meanings, knowledge, and
contents that relate to a thing or topic, and help those interested in
identifying and learning about it.
2)- Knowledge is superior to information. We seek information in order
to know or increase our knowledge.
3)- the principal requirement of the workers to integrate the Knowledge
Society according to Peter Drucker is :
