Information society (preliminary)

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This section is devoted to collect the preliminary definitios one can hold about the information society concept, as a first step in a further inquire of the core concepts of political philosophy in the information age. The question "what is information society?" is posed to participants in the seminar "From Ancient Utopias to Cyberutopias. An introduction to political philosophy" in a very early stage. Thereafter, participants are invited to write down here their understandings of the term trying to group them in the definitions provided by other participants.

Please, before providing your definition take a careful look to the previous ones and ammend them if you consider necessary, leaving a note in the discussion tab (top, left). Indeed the discussion page can be very productive in a free confrontation of the different understandings as a dialectical approach to a better common understanding.

Preliminary definitions of the concept

The Information society is to be understood as a society which is defined by their usage, storage and even manipulation of Information itself.

Main driver of this form of society is the advances which are made in the communication technologies as also in the science of Information itself. Therefor, the Society itself is heavily connected or rather the people in this form of Society are connected with each other. Exchanging constantly information.

This can be extremely beneficial as also extremely dangerous on the same time. While Information’s are important and the free distribution of it, helps the society itself to grow – The control of it automatically brings a lot of power to those, which control them.

Supporters of this understanding: Alexander Prugger