The Effects of Technology and Innovation on Society

TL;DR

This paper discusses the diverse and fragmented theoretical models of the information society, highlighting challenges in applying these models to ICT's societal impact and emphasizing the need for integrated approaches.

Contribution

It critically examines existing theories on technology and society, identifying gaps and the lack of a unified framework for understanding ICT's role in the information age.

Findings

Current models are highly diverse and country-specific.

Fragmented approaches hinder comprehensive understanding of ICT's societal effects.

There is a need for integrated theories that encompass information, communication, and knowledge.

Abstract

Various models of the information society have been developed so far and they are so different from country to country that it would be rather unwise to look for a single, allencompassing definition. In our time a number of profound socioeconomic changes are underway. The application of these theories and schools on ICT is problematic in many respects. First, as we stated above, there is not a single, widely used paradigm which has synthesised the various schools and theories dealing with technology and society. Second, these fragmented approaches do not have a fully fledged mode of application to the relationship of ICT and (information) society. Third, SCOT, ANT, the evolutionary or the systems approach to the history of technology when dealing with information society does not take into account the results of approaches studying the very essence of the information age: information, communication and knowledge. The list of unnoticed or partially incorporated sciences, which focuses on the role of ICT in human information processing and other cognitive activities, is much longer.