What is the information society? What are the main features of the information society?

First, the meaning of the information society

Information society, also known as information society, is a society in which information will play a major role after leaving the industrialized society. The so-called information society is a new society based on electronic information technology, with information resources as the basic development resources, information service industry as the basic social industry, and digitalization and networking as the basic social communication methods.

Second, the main characteristics of the information society

1, the characteristics of the economic field

(1) The labor structure has undergone fundamental changes, and the number of people engaged in the information profession has an absolute advantage over other departments;

(2) In the gross output value of the national economy, the output value created by the information economy has absolute advantages compared with the output value created by other economic sectors;

(2) Less energy consumption and less pollution;

(3) Knowledge has become a huge resource for social development.

2. Social, cultural and life characteristics

(1) Computerization and automation of social life;

(2) It has a long-distance rapid communication network system with wide coverage and various data centers with quick and convenient remote access;

(3) Diversification and individualization of life patterns and cultural patterns;

(4) The time and activity space available to individuals are greatly increased.

3. Characteristics of social concepts

(1) It has become a social trend to respect the values of knowledge;

(2) People in society tend to create the future more actively.

The present situation and problems of expanding the information society;

In the era of information explosion, due to the limitation of time and space, people have no energy, time and conditions to obtain all the information generated every day. Only the information that meets the needs of the audience and is easily accepted by the audience is the focus of attention. Information filtering came into being. By using certain algorithms and corresponding carriers, it filters out the information that the audience needs and the information that the audience doesn't need.

In the era of oral communication, information exchange between people is the process of information filtering. People only care about what they hear, see and feel, and pass specific information to different objects.

In the traditional media era before the birth of the Internet, newspapers, radio and television were the main carriers of information dissemination. They filter information by playing the function of agenda setting, and deliver some information to the audience. With the popularity of network communication, the information in the network age presents the characteristics of complexity, diversification, viral transmission, huge quantity and easy reception, and also exposes a series of problems accordingly.

First, information filtering failed.

The endless instant push of various apps, small windows that pop up suddenly when browsing the web, mobile phone screens that can be seen everywhere on the road or in the subway, and long advertisements before watching live webcasts ... People's lives are full of too much information. To some extent, people have gradually changed from the publisher and active receiver of information to the passive receiver of information, and the huge amount of information often makes the audience unable to find the key points.

At present, the essence of traditional media has not changed. Some information is filtered out through news value standards and presented to the public. However, the involvement of the Internet has enriched the traditional media, and information is no longer limited to the traditional channels of communication. Website, Weibo, WeChat, and client undertake the dissemination of most information.

Second, excessive information filtering.

Excessive information filtering is a special case of information filtering failure, which easily leads to the phenomenon of "information interference" and "information cocoon room" in personal customization.

Netease news client can monitor the content searched or browsed by users in Netease news client through technical means, default that these contents are needed by users, and then push relevant information many times. This is in line with the characteristics of information filtering to some extent: the news client filters out the information that it thinks the audience needs and pushes it to the audience.

However, not all the audience are willing to buy it, and they may even think that this is a "self-righteous" personal tailor. The audience may search for a piece of information for a temporary need, and then the continuous push behavior becomes "information interference" in disguise.

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