KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

According to Daniel Bell,the post industrial era refers to the knowledge society.He says a knowledge society become intimately related because technology is driven by theoretic as opposed to practical knowledge and shares of employment of GDP in the knowledge field become relatively large.t

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Broadly speaking, the term Knowledge Society refers to any society where knowledge is the primary production resource instead of capital and labour. It may also refer to the use a certain society gives to information. A Knowledge society "creates, shares and uses knowledge for the prosperity and well-being of its people".[1]


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In Sally Burch’s book on Enjeux De Mots Abdul Waheed Khan (general sub-director of UNESCO for ¬Communication and Information) says“Information society is the building block for knowledge societies. Whereas I see the concept of ‘information society’ as linked to the idea of ‘technological innovation’, the concept of ‘knowledge societies’ includes a dimension of social, cultural, economical, political and institutional transformation, and a more pluralistic and developmental perspective. In my view, the concept of ‘knowledge societies’ is preferable to that of the ‘information society’ because it better captures the complexity and dynamism of the changes taking place. (...) the knowledge in question is important not only for economic growth but also for empowering and developing all sectors of society.

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INFORMATIOIN SOCIETY

Give three definitions of information society


1) Bell Peter Otto and Philipp Sonntag (1985) define an information society as a society where the majority of employees work in information jobs, i.e. they have to deal more with information, signals, symbols, and images than with energy and matter




2) According to Fritz Machlup an information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of understanding. People that have the means to partake in this form of society are sometimes called digital citizens.
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the geography dictionary 1992,1997 and 2004 says an information society is a term put forward by Castells (1993 1-2) to describe a society built on technologies of information storage, retrieval, and transmission, time-space compression, post-Fordism, flexible accumulation, and the advance of finance capital, which is characterized by networking, globalization, and the flexibility, individuality, and instability of work. Castells holds that such a society induces poverty, spurs ‘greed, innovation, and hope, while simultaneously imposing hardship, and installing despair’, while Donert (Geography 85), noting that ‘no place on earth is immune to the new information society’, calls for a legislative framework to recognize and protect the users of cyberspace, and a body responsible for financial issues, especially for taxation.