What are the key characteristics of an Information Society



What are the key characteristics of an Information Society?

Up-to-date

Not always reliable

Widely available

Depend on information; can’t live without it

Creates power structures that can be projected into other countries (US creates this need elsewhere)

Macintosh and Windows primarily in English—World Englishes (Dell computer)

65% of Internet in English

Space doesn’t matter as much and time (Negroponte—extension of Ong)—public vs. private space (personal space brought into public space on the cell phone)

The network to bring the world together: create a global society—but we don’t necessarily do that

The government (and school) budgets spends more and more money on technology and maintenance

Intellectual property—who owns the information?

Everything becomes free—democratic

Also creates information overload

Requires education to help students handle all of this information, determine its accuracy, its ownership, its reliablity

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