THE CONCEPTS OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES: AFFINITIES AND DISTINCTIONS

Authors

  • Živilė Paužaitė, Kęstutis Kriščiūnas Kaunas University of Technology Institute of Europe

Keywords:

Information society, Knowledge society, development of society.

Abstract

The human society experience continual and never ending process of development in social, cultural, economical, and technological as well as others aspects. The scientific literature analyses and presents several periods of its development. Recently the society appears in very dynamic and constantly changing stage in which technologies, information and knowledge play very important and significant role in contemporary society. With the reference to these processes the phenomena of Information and Knowledge societies rises. This paper analyses the affinities and distinctions of the concepts of Information and Knowledge societies as the results of the development of society.

 

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Published

2007-04-16

Issue

No. 1 (2007)

Section

Social Evolution of Europe

License

This article is an Open Access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).