DEFINITIONS OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

A knowledge society is one in which knowledge becomes a major creative force.Knowledge societies are not a new occurrence. For example, fishermen have long shared the knowledge of predicting the weather to their community and this knowledge gets added to the social capital of the community.

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Broadly speaking, the term Knowledge Society refers to any society where knowledge is the primary production resource instead of capital and labour. It may also refer to the use a certain society gives to information.

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Knowledge Society is a society that creates, shares and uses knowledge for the prosperity and well-being of its people.
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DEFINITIONS OF INFORMATION SOCIETY

• Information society is a term widely used to describe contemporary society in terms of what is not to be its most central driving force or source of productive power, namely information of all kinds. The justification for this assumption derives from the seeming dependence of much of modern life, materially as well as culturally, on the production, landling and application of information an on the operation technology sector appears to have become the chief source of wealth in more economically advanced societies.source: McQuails Mass Communication Theory 5th Edition.

• Information society is the means of getting information from one place to another. As technology as become more advanced over time so too has the way we have adapted in sharing this information with each other.Source: Wark 1997 page 22.

• Information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manupulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. the knowledge economy is its economic counterpart whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of understanding.Source:http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/information_society