The Information Society Communications & Media Coursework

The Information Society by “Barney”
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The Information Society by “Barney”
Introduction.
Today we are living in a changing world where technological advancements are taking place day after day thus marking the most fundamental technological and social change in economic history. The information society is generally described as the modern change of economically and developed society. Berny defines information society as a developed modern economic system with socio-spatial structure and forms of dynamic which are determined by the reliance of culture, human power, and even the level of wealth where all are based in the technical knowhow and data processing in the global network. This is planned and controlled by the intensive use of all the communication technologies. Barney’s writing opens that communication and information are both used in defining information society which is based in two different dimensions which are the social dimension that works about the communication aspect and the intellectual dimension which works about the information aspects.
Information society occurs with the existence of both communication and communication techniques. The author simply means for the information n society to occur there must be the use of communication technologies that will be sued in passing information to the society and also there must be information which simply means the message given or communicated to the society. He tries to define information society as a channel or...