Africa and the information superhighway: The need for mitigated euphoria (original) (raw)

Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies

Abstract

The concept of'information society'has been common currency since it was first used in the early 1960s by a Japanese scholar by the name of Umesao. According to Brarnan (1998: 69-71), information society has been conceptualised differently by different scholars. Some have used it to refer either to a society in which agriculture and industry have been replaced by information or to one where there is an increasing information-intensivity of all activities. Others have in mind the diffusion of information technologies in the service of capital, ...

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