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Podział klasowy społeczeństwa informacyjnego
Class Division of the Information Society

Author(s): Jakub Bulik
Subject(s): Library and Information Science
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Information society;Class society;Digital exclusion;Internet;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses class division of the information society, caused by development of modern communication. Author presents features influencing social diversification (like education level, place of live), selects and characterizes levels of information society classes (new proletariat, cognitariat, digitariat). He mentions influence of the information society’s diversification on interpersonal relations, within families in particular. A new type of a society will also influence changes (i.e. simplification) in contents and forms of media transmission.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1 (97)
  • Page Range: 4-19
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish