Z. Karvalics László: Information Society Dimensions

Cím: Information Society Dimensions Szerző: Z. Karvalics László ISBN13: 9789634829997 ISBN10: 9634829996 Kiadó: JATEPress (Szegedi Tudományegyetem kiadója) Megjelenés dátuma: 2009. október 10 Kötetek száma: 1 Kötéstípus: Keménykötés Terjedelem: 226 oldal Súly: 382 g Listaár: 3780 Ft (áfával) Beszerezhetőség: A kiadónál véglegesen elfogyott, nem rendelhető Nyelv: magyar Témakör: Könyvtár és információtudomány

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Acknowledgements

Preface

1. THEORY. Information society – what is it exactly? (The meaning, history and conceptual framework of an expression)
A concept and what lies behind it
Information society – the birth of a concept
Tribulations concerning the etymology of the information society
Information and knowledge – surpassing an artificial separation
Defining the information society
Models instead of definitions
The historical background of information society
The theory of information society in operation – three information society narratives
The „great narrative” – civilisation theory context – macro level
The „small narrative” – development theory context – meso level
The „mini narrative” – praxis and reflection – micro level
Social informatics and information society
Vital issues of information society
Meaning-archeological considerations – once again and finally
„Information society” as a new industrial dominance-position – descriptive economic classification
„Information society” as a post-industrial substance – the economy and the society approached from a comprehensive, normative political change of paradigm
„Information society” as a social image and ideal based on the analysis of trends and serving inderstanding and strategic planning – anthropological prognostics
„Information society” as the apprehension of the appliers’ world of the present and the near future – analysing pistures of the transforming social subsystems
„Information society” as policy – the hybris of social planning
„Information society” as the focus of a social synthesis – from the in depth analysis of the changing reality to the scientific-teleologic abstraction
The completive creators of public opinion

2. POLICY. Information strategies: an „information society” being under construction
Historical prelude: gleaning from patterns of information competitiveness as generated among nations from the early high cultures to the middle of the 20th century
Prehistory: the Information Society emerges and becomes an issue of competition. The Amerocan-japanese Tandem (1956–1978) and the newcompetitors (1978–1991)
The decade of comprehensive national information strategies: sprinting into the future – winners and losers (1992–2002)
Conclusions
The Malaysian case
Types, preliminaries, initiatives and future of the information strategies (Typology under construction)
Complete and Partial Information Strategies
Types and features within the Complete Information Strategies
Fields of Information Strategy Pre-History
The future of Information Strategies
„Information society” in Eastern Europe? Chances, possibilities, tasks and programs
Burdens 1. Historically developed problems of structure and attitude
Burdens 2. The cultural sphere as the loser of the change of regime
Burdens 3. hardships of financing grand scale programs
Starting points for the program of catching up
The elements of change
Change and implementation: governments in key role
The self motion of civil society
The key areas of building „information society”
Schools and education put into focus
„Connecting” community scenes to the superhighway
New dimensions of producing knowledge
Brain Drain in Information History and Knowledge Management Context
The Hungarian case: on the highway of brains
Two models and Six Types of the Telecentres. A Typological Experiment
A Community IT-Development Byte
The Mauritius Case – questions and answers

3. SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Our Netizen: Myths and misbeliefs vs. realities and perspectives
The structure of the problem: the end of the cybersex-myth
The problem is not a problem: the actual portrait of the Netizen
Back to the problem: what do we actually know about the Netizen
From Individuals to the Global Community
The solution, coming from the Web
Limits, coming from the Web
E-knowledge: channels and directions
History considerations – early human agents
Towards next generatoin human agents
The message of the blogosphere
Three Theses on the Culture „Informatique”

4. HISTORY – Information history
The phenomenon of information as a sociological and historical challenge
The claims of information history
The latest stage of the conceptual siege
Pre-history
The short program of information history
The professional source regions of information history
Brief review of the latest information history literature
Internet: the real pre-history and its implications for social theory
Book and mail (communication pre-history)
Victorian and post-Victorian Internet: from the Telegraph to the Radioamateurs (Online community pre-history)
Cybersyn, Infostrada, Minitel (functional computer-based network pre-history)
Chile, Cybersyn, 1973
The original Infostrada (1971–1974)
The rise… and survival of Minitel, 1982–?
Pioneers of vision (conceptual pre-history)
From Gessner to Otlet („wordl library” pre-history)
Fax, radio, radar (technology pre-history)

5. PROFESSIONS AND DISCIPLINES: Heading Social Informatics From Technology to Content and Context – The Restructuring of knowledge Background in Telecommunications Development
Social sciences in a new sphere of action
The new generation of telecommunication experts and informaticians
Informaticians: Dilemma sin search for identity
What about the training?
Designing a Discipline: Social Informatics Revisited
Chanelling the Perception: The five Axioms of Social Informatics
Building an identity environment
Mapping the topic
Social Informatics in education

6. EDUCATION. SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE PRODUCING MEGAMACHINES: Social innovation for the information age
The control crisis of science and the inevitable control revolution
Prelude to the knowledge producing mega-machines
Plan of a mega-machine
The spirit of the industrial era – or delayed century of the child
Mini-Einsteins versus intellectual immigrants
The architecture of the mega-machine and its impacts
Policity implications

7. SYSTEM: Security, dynamics and future
The Security Aspect of Information Society as a Global Biocultural System
The complexity paradox
Plato revisited
The pushbutton effect
’Mantis religiosa’ scenario
On the knowledge sociological background to widely held approaches
Centrum-periphery axis
Community axis
Value axis
Information society as a global biocultural system
Recommendations for the prominent discourses of the security of information society
Cosmic expansion as a system dynamical force
The preservation of creative diversity
The philosophy of danger and risk perception
Ómega – the Emerging „Cosmic Orientation”
From the „digital skin” to an ultimate global network?
Terraforming: a narrative appears
Science and terraforming
Technology and terraforming
Arts and terraforming
Cosmic orientation as post-global identity: the revolution of imagination and extended activity
Information Technology, cosmic orientation, media
Europe, the ICT and cosmic orientation

Bibliography

List of original publications

Index