Abstract
The combination of increasingly pervasive information technologies and the related structural changes in the occupational and production structures of many western economies are often claimed to have launched a ‘knowledge society’ (Castells 2000). In this society access to ‘information’, its distillation into ‘knowledge’ and its use in producing ‘value-added’ services is argued to be one of the key driving economic forces.
Information, information everywhere,
And all the world did shrink;
Information, information everywhere,
But who can take a drink?
(with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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Anderson, B. (2005). Everyday Domestic Research in the Knowledge Society: How Ordinary People Use Information and Communication Technologies to Participate. In: Participating in the Knowledge Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523043_13
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