INFORMATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE 1990s: a european perspective

Authors

  • Kevin Harris

Abstract

This paper begins with an exploratios of the meaning of social change and the role of community development. I shall then discuss a key aspect of the context of information,work - the information technology (IT) context. In the last section of the paper i want to look at three significant issues to do with information and social change. firstly, the notion of "information cabability" as an essential but hitherto overlooked ingredient in the relationship between IT and people; secondly, the question of how we value information; and thirdly, the concept of partnership and the kinds of information workers who will be needed in the context that it implies.

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Published

1991-01-01

How to Cite

Harris, K. (1991). INFORMATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE 1990s: a european perspective. Informação & Sociedade, 1(1). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/ies/article/view/22

Issue

v.1 n.1 1991

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Artigos de Revisão

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