THE DEFINITIONS OF THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

1. Knowledge society has to do with a society in which the conditions for generating knowledge and processing information have been substantially changed by a technological revolution focused on information processing, knowledge generation, and information technologies. Castell

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2. Knowledge societies have the characteristic that knowledge forms major component of any human activity. Economic, social, cultural, and all other human activities become dependent on a huge volume of knowledge and information. A knowledge society is one in which knowledge becomes major creative force.

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3. Knowledge society is a society that creates, shares and uses knowledge for the prosperity and well-being of its people.
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THE THREE DEFINITIONS OF INFORMATION SOCIETY

1. Information Society is a post-industrial society in which information technology (IT) is used to transform every aspect of cultural, political, and social life and which is based on the production and distribution of information.
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2. Information Society is a term for a society in which the creation, distribution, and manipulation of information has become the most significant economic and cultural activity
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3. A term put forward by Castells (1993 1-2) to describe a society built on technologies of information storage, retrieval, and transmission, time-space compression, post-Fordism, flexible accumulation, and the advance of finance capital, which is characterized by networking, globalization, and the flexibility, individuality, and instability of work.
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