1001-Week 2

• What is meant by information society?• New World Information & Communication

Order (NWICO) (1970s)• World Summit on the Information Society

(2003 and 2005, in Geneva and Tunis • What is this thing called a knowledge-based

economy/society? • Digital economy rhetoric of today

Information Society

• Can be technologically deterministic

Frank Webster - 5 Spheres of Information Society

• technological • economic• occupational• spatial• cultural