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INFORMATONALISM
INFORMATONALISM
DEFINITION
Industrialism
• Informationalism is Technological
a techonological paradigm that
paradigm paradigm
replaces and subsumes the previous paradigm of
industrialism
IMPORTANT NOTE
However, the rise of informationalism, as the new paradigm, does not
suggest that industrialism disappears as a material fact; it only suggests
that industrialism loses centrality in discourses of technology; indeed,
informationalism subsumes and transforms industrial technologies from
within.
INFORMATION