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Global Information Society

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Information economy; Knowledge society; Network society; Post-industrial society; Weightless world

The term Global Information Society is often used as a loose “umbrella term” to encapsulate the consolidation and universal expansion of the so-called Information Society in the last two decades. According to this first definition, the Global Information Society represents the more recent stage of a social and economic process that started after World War II and that builds on the growing and transformative role of information and communication technologies (Mattelart 2001; Webster 2002). This form of society first gained academic attention in the 1960s of the twentieth century. The early works focused on the increasing role of information-related activities in the economy of the United States, and they frequently restricted the Information Society to an Information Economy (Crawford 1983). Among these works – which include those of Fritz Machlup (1962), Peter F. Drucker (1969)...

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  1. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

    Pablo Pareja-Alcaraz

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Pareja-Alcaraz, P. (2018). Global Information Society. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1182-1

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