Introduction Of Information Sociaty

Introduction:

There are 3 revolutions that have changed the human society up to now. The first was Agricultural Revolution, the second was the Industrial Revolution and now we are experiencing the revolution of Information.

In the narrower sense, information society is a new type of society and it can perhaps be understood as a society that has developed information technology and is learning how to use it. However, the revolution in our way of living is not just affected by technology, but also from economic, political, occupational, spatial and cultural aspects.

Technological Definition

In modern times, the appearance of new technologies become part of the most significant indicators e.g. mobiles, cable and satellite television, the Internet, personal digital assistants (PDAs) etc.

As people start to realise that the communication and memory are the most important things for human, we have invented wide range of media and developed system enable us to do so. For example, computer---'electronic brain' is one of the most significant developments in information society. Nowadays, computers can be found in almost every office and many homes and involves our routine life, from area of commerce to education etc.

Economic Definition

As we know that information is comparatively not free. From economic point of view, we could say that the information society charts the growth in economic worth of informational activities (Frank Webster, 2002, p12). For example, growth in the economic worth of advertising and television is one of the indicative of an information society.

It is not possible to calculate the cost of information, however, it is far more difficult to know the value. Information can be divided into primary and secondary sectors. The primary information is susceptibly ready for economic valuation. Compared with the former, the latter is harder to valuate, it involves information activities between companies and state institutions such as research and development sections of a business and it is essential to most of organisations.

In addition, we need to distinguish quantity and quality, it does not mean that as the value of the information getting higher, the quantity demand will increased. One example is The Sun has multi-million sales where as The Financial Times only get four hundred thousand.

Occupational Definition

In information society, the occupational structure is examined over time and patterns of change observed (Frank Webster, 2002. An information society can be achieved when occupations are found predominantly. A white-collar occupation will take place as a result of a decline of manufacturing employment and rise of service sector employment

In occupational sector, we focus on degrees rather than kind, for example, a coal miner is classified as an "Industrial worker" whereas a tour guide is classified as an "Information