Editing Society (section)

===Post-industrial===
{{main article|Post-industrial society}}
{{see also|Information revolution}}
Post-industrial societies are societies dominated by information and services, rather than the production of goods.{{sfn|Conerly|Holmes|Tamang|2021|p=102}} Advanced industrial societies see a shift toward an increase in service sectors, over manufacturing. Service industries include education, health and finance.{{sfn|Conerly|Holmes|Tamang|2021|p=528}}

==== Information ====
{{Main article|Information society}}
[[File:ONU Geneva mainroom.jpg|thumb|upright=1|alt=Many people gathered in a large meeting room |World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva]]

An information society is a society where the usage, [[Content creation|creation]], [[Information distribution|distribution]], manipulation and [[Information integration|integration]] of information is a significant activity.<ref>{{cite book |last=Beniger |first=James Ralph |author-link=James R. Beniger |year=1986 |title=The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=0-674-16986-7 |lccn=85031743 |oclc=13064782 |pages=21–22}}</ref> Proponents of the idea that modern-day global society is an information society posit that information technologies are impacting most important forms of social organization, including education, economy, health, government, [[warfare]], and levels of democracy.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mattelart |first=Armand |author-link=Armand Mattelart |translator-last1=Taponier |translator-first1=Susan G. |translator-last2=Cohen |translator-first2=James A. |language=en |year=2003 |title=Histoire de la Société de l'information |trans-title=The Information Society: An Introduction |publisher=[[SAGE Publications]] |isbn=0-7619-4948-8 |lccn=2002114570 |oclc=52391229 |pages=99–158}}</ref> Although the concept of information society has been discussed since the 1930s, in the present day, it is almost always applied to ways that information technologies impact society and culture. It therefore covers the effects of computers and telecommunications on the home, the workplace, schools, government, and various communities and organizations, as well as the emergence of new social forms in cyberspace.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lyon |first=David |author-link=David Lyon (sociologist) |editor-last1=Armitage |editor-first1=John |editor-last2=Roberts |editor-first2=Joanne |year=2002 |chapter=Cyberspace: Beyond the Information Society? |title=Living with Cyberspace: Technology & Society in the 21st Century |publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group|Continuum]] |isbn=0-8264-6035-6 |lccn=2002071646 |oclc=824653965 |pages=21–33 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324224249 |access-date=10 January 2024 |archive-date=29 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429040244/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324224249_Living_With_Cyberspace_Technology_and_Society_in_the_21st_Century |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Knowledge ====
{{Main|Knowledge society}}
[[File:Seoul-Cyworld control room.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.9|alt=Three people working on computers in a control room |The Seoul [[Cyworld]] control room]]
As the access to electronic information resources increased at the beginning of the 21st century, special attention was extended from the information society to the knowledge society. A knowledge society generates, shares, and makes available to all members of the society knowledge that may be used to improve the [[human condition]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Phillips |first1=Fred |last2=Yu |first2=Ching-Ying |last3=Hameed |first3=Tahir |last4=El Akhdary |first4=Mahmoud Abdullah |date=2017 |title=The knowledge society's origins and current trajectory |journal=International Journal of Innovation Studies |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=175–191 |doi=10.1016/j.ijis.2017.08.001 |doi-access=free}}</ref> A knowledge society differs from an information society in that it transforms information into resources that allow society to take effective action, rather than only creating and disseminating [[raw data]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Castelfranchi |first=Cristiano |date=December 2007 |title=Six critical remarks on science and the construction of the knowledge society |journal=Journal of Science Communication |publisher=[[International School for Advanced Studies|SISSA]] |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=C03 |doi=10.22323/2.06040303 |doi-access=free |issn=1824-2049 |oclc=56474936 }}</ref>