Imam muhammad bin Saud University

The Impact of Information in Society

T.Abrar Almjally !DIS 101 !L1

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Outline• Use of information in Daly Activities!

• Information Services!

• The use of information device and service !

• Use of information for individual !

• Use of information in the Society!

• Information in Transition!

• The Impact of information technology on society !

• Information Studies !

The relationships between information studies and IS & CS!

Importent Dates

• 25% Midterm (2-11-2014)

• Reflection (14-12-2014)

Introduction

Nowadays, we live in information age and the focus on information and technology has profoundly affected the nature of society and the world of work.!

More information is accessible to all people in our society, and more businesses are seeking employees who are proficient in information retrieval, analysis, and communication, in conjunction with highly developed technological skills.

Use of information in Daly Activities

1. Visually➔ through sight. Ex: receive information by seeing the print in book.

2. Aurally ➔ through hearing. Ex: hear the whistle of a train.

3. Tactilely ➔ through touch Ex: feeling the humidity in the air.

4. Olfactory ➔ through smell Ex: smelling the coffee in the morning.

5. Gustatorily ➔ through taste Ex: tasting to see whether the milk is fresh or not .

⦿ Some of the information activities we receive involve transforming it from one format to another.

EX: Studying , building a house.

Use of Information in Daly Activities ⦿ The total amount of new information created is escalating. ⦿ According to SINTEF, The largest independent research organization in

Scandinavia, May 22, 2013 “90% of world's data generated over last two years”

Social, Digital & Mobile in 2014!WEARESOCIAL.SG!

http://wearesocial.sg/blog/2014/01/social-digital-mobile-2014/!

Global Statistic

Information Devices

• Information devices are help to send, receive, record, track, manipulate information.

Information Services Information services are provided to meet a particular individual or organizational need, entail a professional-client relationship, and provide a selection of information bearing objects that might contain an answer.

Examples:!

• Telephone services !

• Internet-access!

• CableTV

The Use of Information for Individuals ⦿ Information devices and services provide to the individual information

that is used for a variety of purpose in the conduct of daily life.!

1. Make decisions!

• Information about course in university webpage (enroll or no) !

2. Resolve uncertainty !

• Ex: looking at the clock while studying for exam, you are trying to resolve uncertainty of wither to stop reading and go to class or not.!

3. Solve problems

Use of Information in the Society !

Economic sphere: Information is used daily to influence behavior, ex : advertising , oil. !

Political sphere: to influence behavior of citizens (voting, government response )!

In education sector: teaching, learning, and research !

 In health sector: for patient care and drug prescription !

In military and security: for war, fighting and protection from crime

Information in Transition ! Growth dependence on technology!

❖ Information is being treated more and more as a commodity that can be owned, controlled, and traded in the marketplace. !

❖ Information is not only a communication between human being, but also communication between human and machines and between machines.!

❖ For example who should control the ideas and information?

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The Impact of Information Technology on Society

Definition of information society:!

Webster (2002) who proposes examining a society on the basis of economic, occupational, spatial, technology and cultural criteria to determine the extent to which an information society exists (Lester & Koehler, 2007)

The Impact of Information Technology on Society ! The oral society

• Where most people reality and life was local

•  Knowing a very little about other places, people and societies

•  Society and societal institutional were oral

•  Information was stored in human memory

•  Human memory was the major way of transporting information across time and space

• Sources of information and authority were old people those who had more information stored in their memory (Lester & Koehler, 2007)

The Impact of Information Technology on Society

!Print Society

• It provided an accessible way to store information Information container, can gave access t information to much larger body of people

• That led to change the nature of the information transmitted which helps in increasing in mutual access to information, the sharing of information and ideas, changed the reality of society (Lester & Koehler, 2007)

The Impact of Information Technology on Society

Beyond print to electronic society

• Telegraph and telephone • Telegraph made the transmission of messages possible across space

and time from one individual to another • Telephone where individuals can share information through

individual interactive oral communication across space and time

◦ Radio

Which support sharing of information in large scale (Lester & Koehler, 2007)

The Impact of Information Technology on Society

Television

It changes the sense of community through provision of information, extending the community of the individual beyond the physical location

Computer and the Internet Which support recording, storing and distribution of information in digital format by using combination of networked digital infrastructure (Lester & Koehler, 2007)

Information Studies

It is board term was chosen by most department and schools because of its all inclusive character, which enables us to offer courses in many different areas. Board concept must have some boundaries in a way that may be useful when thinking about curriculum and relationships among courses (wilson, 2001).

Consist of Four Fields !

Consist of four fields

InformationContents InformationSystems People Organizations(Wilson,2001).

Information Contents

The management of information content is the core of this field. • Nowadays,we need to deal with the digital content. • Consequently, the means for identifying, organization

and providing access to sources.

Information Systems

Information technology.

Identify the technology and the human systems through which information sources and resources may be organized and managed.!

includes the communication and information technologies that are now used in the organization of information content.!!

People

• Information users

• Information providers(manage information system and services, manage organization)

Organization

• Publishers who produce information content

!• Libraries and other information agencies who traditionally

managed information content. (Wilson, 2001)

Information Studies

⦿ In simple words Information Studies is considered to be a bridge between management and technology in terms of information gathering, storing, processing, producing.

The relationships between information studies and IS & CS

• Information Systems :

❖ A system for managing and processing information, usually computer-based.

❖ A functional group within a business that manages the development and operations of the business’s information systems. Totally businesses management.

• Computer Sciences :

• The systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe and transform information.

• According to Peter J. Denning, the fundamental question underlying computer science is, "What can be (efficiently) automated? "Algorithmic, Theoretical, and Detail Study"

The relationships between information studies and IS & CS

• Information Studies complete the circle by connecting systems and computational devices with the context, yes it does care about which system we work on and which technical tools we used in order to bring high quality contexts.

Computer Sciences

Information Systems

Information studies

Reference ❖ SINTEF. 2013, May 22. Big Data, for better or worse: 90% of

world's data generated over last two years. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 2, 2014 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522085217.htm!

❖ Wilson, 2001, Mapping the curriculum in information studies.!

❖ Textbook ch1 !

❖ T.Nouf Al Sherif slides !