Information Economy- Dr. Sara Madani

A- The emergence of new post-industrial economies and societies: traditional economy v/s globalized and mediatized economy

Introduction

The primary objective of this course is to acquire a global then particular overview of the relation between  the development of the new information and communication technologies and the spreading of information through time as well as its macro and micro impacts on economies. Numerous problematic arise and bring us to evaluate our current economical context through studying its progression through space and time.

Economics:  is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term “economics” comes from the Acient Greek (meaning the "management of a household, administration"). It interferes in the everyday life of individuals and has an impact on all its scales: behaviors starting from home and reaching citizenship, politics and international strategies, cultures…

The economics’ fields of investigation are:

·        Production, distribution and consumption of good and services

·        Material means of human existence

·        Exchange systems regardless their structures

·        The allocation of ressources

Information economy is a branch of economics that explains the importance of information and reflects the way that it affects economic decisions. It allows us as well to visualize the place of information as an important sector of the post industrial economy and the interactions interfering in the information market. The information is considered as a factor that orients economies and one of its important components.

Quick definitions of NICT and the information:

§  NICT: Information and communications technology (ICT), is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and
audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.

§  Information: news, inquiry, documentation on something or someone, brought to the attention of a person. It is also the news spread by media: press, radio, television, internet.