The document discusses the impact of information in society. It covers several topics: 1. How information is used in daily activities through different senses and how the amount of new information created is escalating rapidly. 2. The use of information devices, services, and how information is used by individuals for decision making, resolving uncertainty, and problem solving. 3. The impact of information technology on society from oral societies to print and digital/electronic societies and how this has changed communication and a sense of community. 4. An overview of the field of information studies, how it relates to information systems and computer science, and how it connects systems and technology to context.

1. Imam muhammad bin Saud University
The Impact of
Information in Society
T.Abrar Almjally !
DIS 101 !
L1
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2. 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!

3. Importent Dates
• 25% Midterm (2-11-2014)
• Reflection (14-12-2014)

4. 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.

5. 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.
䡧EX: Studying , building a house.

6. 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/!

7. Global Statistic

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

9. 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

11. 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

12. Use of Information in the Society
!
䡧Economic sphere: Information is used daily to influence behavior,
ex : advertising , oil. !
䡧Political sphere: to influence behavior of citizens (voting,
government response )!
䡧In education sector: teaching, learning, and research !
䡧 In health sector: for patient care and drug prescription !
䡧 In military and security: for war, fighting and protection from
crime

13. 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?

14. !!
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)

15. 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)

16. 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)

17. 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)

18. 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)

19. 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).

20. Consist of Four Fields
!
Consist of four fields
InformationContents
InformationSystems
People
Organizations(Wilson,2001).

21. 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.

22. 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.!
!

23. People
• Information users
• Information providers(manage information system and
services, manage organization)

24. Organization
• Publishers who produce information content
!
• Libraries and other information agencies who traditionally
managed information content. (Wilson, 2001)

25. 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.

26. 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"

27. The relationships between information studies and IS & CS
Information
Systems
Information
studies
Computer
Sciences
• 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.

28. 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 !