MASS COMMUNICATION ASSIGNMENT
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MASS COMMUNICATION ASSIGNMENT
MASS COMMUNICATION DEFINITIONS OF INFORMATION SOCIETY 1. A society where communication and information technologies influence the everyday lives of most of its members. Helped by the advance of the Internet and a 'wired' culture, technology is used for a wide range of personal, social, educational and business activities, and to transmit receive and exchange digital data rapidly between places despite great distances. In an information society, information is as powerful a resource as the manufacturing and agricultural industries were in previous eras. Also known as the knowledge economy, digital era or information superhighway. - http://www.redgoldfish.co.uk/viewglossary.asp?gid=106 2. In a broad sense, the term Information Systems (IS) refers to the interaction between people, processes, and technology. This interaction can occur within or across organizational boundaries. An information system is not only the technology an organization uses, but also the way in which the organization’s people interact with the technology and the way in which the technology works with the organization’s business processes. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_systems 3. information society A society in which low cost information technology , computers, and telecommunications are widely used to facilitate communication nationally and internationally, and to promote access to libraries, data archives, and other stores of information held by private organizations or in the public domain. It is argued that this greater facility of communication and increased access to information creates a qualitatively different society with attendant new problems, such as information overload, and the need for new forms of regulation to control information flows between persons, companies, and countries. Whereas market economies have traditionally been geared towards solving ... - http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1O88-informationsociety.html 4. The European Union High-Level Expert Group report of 1997, defines information society as: The society that is currently being put in place, where low-cost information and data storage and transmission technologies are in general use. The generalisation of information and data use is being accompanied by organisational, commercial, social and legal innovations that will profoundly change life both in the world of work and in society generally (Nassimberi 1998: 154). 5. Dennis McQuail (1997: 87) states that in the information society, "information work predominates, and information is the most valuable resource". He further notes that the characteristic of information society is an exponential increase in the production and flow of information of all kinds. One of the most explicit definitions of information society is the one offered by the Finland's Council of State. Information society is seen as a: