INFORMATIONALISM

•Refers to technological
paradigm that replaces and
subsumes that previously
paradigm of industrialism .
 Informationalism leads to problems of identity as
individuals adapt to the continuous state of flux of
technological, social, economic and political organization
of life. Barney’s The Network Society explores the
relationship between social formation and technology,
and its impact on identity, community and culture.
 Informationalism is a concept of strengthening the
capacity of information processing and
communication, made possible by technological
innovations. The environments in which this
revolution is directly represented are computers
and digital communication technologies
THREE OF THE MOST CUTTING-EDGE
ASPECTS OF SOCIAL WORLD IN GENERAL
AND GLOBALIZATION IN PARTICULAR
•Technology
•Media
 •internet
INFORMATIONALISM
•A term coined by Manuel Castells in 1996,refers to the post
industrial period we are now living in ,when intangible
goods,or information,are a greater commodity than material
ones (Aneesh,2012).
 These unpredictable and constantly expanding networks
have an enormous impact on how we interact as a
society .