Info Society Flashcards
What does spatial info society place emphasis on?
Places emphasis on spaces, more particularly on info networks which connect locations, and thus, hae profound effects on organisation of time and space.
What is the theory of spatial info society?
That increasingly we are all connected to networks of one sort or another, and these networks are expanding their reach and capabilities exponentially.
What is the core idea of a spatial society?
In a network society, relations between time and space are revised or transformed, because we aren’t limited by the clock ot our physical location.
3 critiques
What are the critiques of the spatial society?
- What constitutes a network and hoe do we distinguish between difficult levels of networking and stipulate the point at which we enetr a network or info society?
- Are we defining networks as tech systems, or would it be better to focus on the flow of info?
- Info networks have been around for long time so why only now that commentators are bringing up idea of having arrived at info age?
What is the most orevelant factor of a cultural info society?
A sea of media
regarding the cultural info society, what does it mean to live in a media saturated society?
The informational environment is great deal more intimate, more constitutive than us.
What happened to signs due to media saturation in the cultural perspective?
The explosion of info has also led some writers to pronounce the death of the sign, or more specifically the loss of meaning.
What are the critiques for the cultural perspective?
This definition provides no real criteria to measure this growth in signification. It may
seem self-evident but on what basis can we distinguish this so-called info society from
that of the 1920s
What was Roszak’s view regarding quantity of information vs the quality of information?
It’s all about the quality of information. He proclaims that the quantity of information strips away the value of it.
What happens if the majority of information was qualitative?
It will first lead to theoretical ideas which will lead to a knowledge society - one focused on/ based on theoretical knowledge
Define a knowledge society.
One in which theoretical knowledge occupies a pre-eminence it previously lacked.
