Political Dimensions of an Information Society: A General Overview

One of the most dramatic phenomena of the contemporary world is the explosion of technology upon society. Science and technology have made such great advances in recent years that some people consider that we are undergoing a technological revolution. The significance of this revolution is measure by the perceived impact it has both on natural and social systems. Technological innovation is bringing about profound changes in our lives by solving many of our problems and creating others, therefore presenting us with new dangers, challenges and opportunities

Selection of indicators of information society development

This paper examines problem of the evaluation of the information society development. The information society is a complex phenomenon and the evaluation of its development is highly complicated. Some indicators are quite similar, others are unrelated, and therefore it is very difficult to interpret the information reflected by the indicators. This article presents the results of a research aimed at identifying the main indicators of the information society development

Volume 11 - 1980: KEEPING CURRENT WITH GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION - Proceedings of the 15th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society

Proceedings of the 15th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society held November 16-20, 1980 in Atlanta, Georgi

Volume 20 - 1989: FRONTIERS IN GEOSCIENCE INFORMATION - Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society

Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society held November 6-9, 1989 in St. Louis, Missour

Towards a Philosophy of the Mobile Information Society

This introductory section of my present paper is a kind of report on the ongoing social science research programme I am directing: the project “Communications in the 21st Century”, launched in January 2001, conducted jointly by T-Mobile Hungary (until 2004 Westel Mobile) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In the framework of the project a number of international conferences were held, on the basis of which altogether eleven volumes—four Hungarian, one German, and six English—have been published. I will first give a very brief summary of these volumes, and then provide a more detailed description of some of the main results we arrived at. The eleven volumes are witness to the history of the mobile phone between 2001 and 2007, no doubt the most dynamic aspect of the recent history of technological and social transformation. But most of all they amount to a first laying of the foundations for, and at the same time the awakening to consciousness and self-reflection of, a young discipline: the social science of mobile communication. Initially, research on problems pertaining to the mobile arose as an interdisciplinary task. From the interdisciplinary research, each of the participating disciplines pro?ted, being forced to take account, on the level of theory, of the new medium which by now has come to constitute their main communicational environment. As a consequence of this taking account of the new realities, by 2005 a transformation was occurring which today has clearly become irreversible: the internal adaptation of the social sciences to the world of mobile communications. At the same time, an autonomous line of research emerged, based on a set of wellestablished paradigms of its own: the social science of mobile communication, Mobile Studies. Both aspects of this juncture in the history of science are represented in Nyíri (2007a, 2007b), which on the one hand takes stock of the paradigmatic results of mobile studies, and on the other hand highlights some new perspectives of the social sciences becoming aware of their mobile environment