Information Society

1. The term is widely uised to define a contemporary society in terms of what is thought to be its most central driving force or source of producvtive power, namely information of all kinds.The justification for this assumption derives from the seeming dependence of much modern life,materially as well as culturally on the productioon,handling and application of information and on the operation of complex networks of communication.Technology sector appears to have became the chief source of wealth in more economically advanced society.

Source: Denis McQuail,
Mass Communication Theory,
Fifth Edition.

2. An information society is charaterized by high level of infromation intensity in 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 activities,and by the ability to transmit,receive and exchage digital data rapidly between places,irrespective of the distance.

Source:IBM Community Development Foundation Report
1997

3. An information society is actually a society in which low cost of information technology,computers,and telecommunications are widely used to facilitate communication nationally,and to promote access to libraries,data archives and other stores of information held by private organization or in the public domain.

Source: www.higbeam.com/doc/10088-infromation society.thml