Names for digital society
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Name five terms used for contemporary society
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Information age, computer age, post-industrial society, network society, fourth industrial revolution.
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Why “multiple digital societies”?
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Access, use and skills are unevenly distributed, so people under the same infrastructure live very different digital lives.
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What does “post-industrial society” emphasise?
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That services and knowledge work have replaced manufacturing as the main form of employment.
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A named example of exclusion from digital society
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The ITU estimated in 2023 that around 2.6 billion people had never used the internet.
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