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چکیده
Several concepts are available to indicate the type of society that evolves under the influence of the use of information and communication technology. The most popular concept is the information society. In this book that concept is used in combination with the concept network society to typify contemporary developed and modern societies marked by a high level of information exchange and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). In the concept of an information society, the changing substance of activities and processes in these societies is emphasized. In the concept of a network society, attention shifts to the changing organizational forms and (infra)structures of these societies. I start with my own complete definitions of these types of society and continue with a number of qualifications of these definitions and their relationships with other classifications such as capitalist society and (post-)modern society. In an information society the information intensity of all activities becomes so high that this leads to:
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