Societatea informaţională

O societate informaţională este o societate în care crearea, distribuţia, folosirea, integrarea şi manipularea informaţiei este o activitate economică, politică şi culturală semnificativă. Economia cunoaşterii este componenta sa economică în care bunăstarea este creată prin exploatarea economică a înţelegerii. Participanţii la aceast tip de societate sunt denumiţi uneori cetăţeni digitali.

Specific acestui tip de societate este poziţia centrală pe care o deţine tehnologia informaţiei în producţie, economie, şi societate în ansamblul său. Societatea informaţională este văzută ca succesoarea societăţii industriale. Concepte strâns legate de aceasta sunt societatea post-industrială (Daniel Bell), societatea post-fordistă, post-modernă, societatea cunoaşterii, societatea telematică, revoluţia informaţională, şi societatea reţelelor (Manuel Castells).

Bibliografie

• Manuel Castells (2000) The Rise of the Network Society. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume 1. Malden: Blackwell. Second Edition.
• Michael Dawson/John Bellamy Foster (1998) Virtual Capitalism. In: Robert W. McChesney/Ellen Meiksins Wood/John Bellamy Foster (Eds.) (1998) Capitalism and the Information Age. New York: Monthly Review Press. pp. 51–67.
• Esther Dyson/George Gilder/George Keyworth/Alvin Toffler (1994) Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age. In: Future Insight 1.2. The Progress & Freedom Foundation.
• Tony Fitzpatrick (2002) Critical Theory, Information Society and Surveillance Technologies. In: Information, Communication and Society. Vol. 5. No. 3. pp. 357–378.
• Christian Fuchs (2008) Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-96132-7.
• Christian Fuchs (2007) Transnational Space and the ’Network Society’. In: 21st Century Society. Vol. 2. No. 1. pp. 49–78.
• Christian Fuchs (2005) Emanzipation! Technik und Politik bei Herbert Marcuse. Aachen: Shaker.
• Christian Fuchs (2004) The Antagonistic Self-Organization of Modern Society. In: Studies in Political Economy, No. 73 (2004), pp. 183– 209.
• Michael Hardt/Antonio Negri (2005) Multitude. War and Democracy in the Age of the Empire. New York: Hamish Hamilton.
• Michael Hardt/Antonio Negri Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• David Harvey (1989) The Condition of Postmodernity. London: Blackwell.
• Fritz Machlup (1962) The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• OECD (1986) Trends in The Information Economy. Paris: OECD.
• OECD (1981) Information Activities, Electronics and Telecommunications Technologies: Impact on Employment, Growth and Trade. Paris: OECD.
• Peter Otto/Philipp Sonntag (1985) Wege in die Informationsgesellschaft. München. dtv.
• Radovan Richta (1977) The Scientific and Technological Revolution and the Prospects of Social Development. In: Ralf Dahrendorf (Ed.) (1977) Scientific-Technological Revolution. Social Aspects. London: Sage. pp. 25–72.
• Dan Schiller (2000) Digital Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Rudi Schmiede (2006a) Knowledge, Work and Subject in Informational Capitalism. In: Berleur, Jacques/Nurminen, Markku I./Impagliazzo, John (Eds.) (2006) Social Informatics: An Information Society for All? New York: Springer. pp. 333–354.
• Rudi Schmiede (2006b) Wissen und Arbeit im “Informational Capitalism”. In: Baukrowitz, Andrea et al. (Eds.) (2006) Informatisierung der Arbeit – Gesellschaft im Umbruch. Berlin: Edition Sigma. pp. 455–488.
• Seely Brown, John; Duguid, Paul (2000). The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press. 
• Nico Stehr (1994) Arbeit, Eigentum und Wissen. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp.
• Nico Stehr (2002a) A World Made of Knowledge. Lecture at the Conference “New Knowledge and New Consciousness in the Era of the Knowledge Society", Budapest, January 31 2002. Online: [3]
• Nico Stehr (2002b) Knowledge & Economic Conduct. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Alain Touraine (1988) Return of the Actor. Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press.
• Jan Van Dijk (2006) The Network Society. London: Sage. Second Edition.
• Yannis Veneris (1984) The Informational Revolution, Cybernetics and Urban Modelling, PhD Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• Yannis Veneris (1990) Modeling the transition from the Industrial to the Informational Revolution, Environment and Planning A 22(3):399-416. [4]
• Frank Webster (2002a) The Information Society Revisited. In: Lievrouw, Leah A./Livingstone, Sonia (Eds.) (2002) Handbook of New Media. London: Sage. pp. 255–266.
• Frank Webster (2002b) Theories of the Information Society. London: Routledge.
• Frank Webster (2006) Theories of the Information Society. 3rd edition. London: Routledge
• Wark, McKenzie (1997) The Virtual Republic, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, p22-29

Linkuri

• Special Report - "Information Society: The Next Steps"
• Knowledge Assessment Methodology - interactive country-level data for the information society and knowledge economy
• The origin and development of a concept: the information society.
• Global Information Society Project at the World Policy Institute
• I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society - Ohio State law journal which addresses legal aspects related to the information society.
• [5] - Participation in the Broadband Society. European network on social and technical research on the emerging information society.

Wikibooks : Cărţi UNDP-APDIP

• The Information Age
• Legal and Regulatory Issues in the Information Economy

Alte cărţi relevante

• The Information Society Library: Getting the Best out of Cyberspace, DiploFoundation
• Gelbstein, E. (2006) Crossing the Executive Digital Divide. DiploFoundation, ISBN 99932-53-17-0

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