Information technology and the transformation of mass societies. Information technology today

Alain-Marc Rieu (1)

1 IAO - Institut d'Asie Orientale

The goal is to analyze the formation and content of the notion of Information Society (Joho shakai). The point is that it needs to be understood not as a technology but as part of techno-industrial system in the sense of Bertrand Gille and Gilbert Simondon.

La notion de "société de l'information" ne désigne pas une technologie générique qui en serait l'infrastructure mais l'émergence d'un nouveau système technique, tel que Bertrand Gille et Gilbert Simondon permettent de le penser et analyser.

Mots clés: information technology; technological system; technology; industrial structure; techno-industrial evolution

Mots clés: technologie de l'information; système technique; technologie; structure industrielle; évolution techno-industrielle

Domaines: Philosophie; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Alain-Marc Rieu. Information technology and the transformation of mass societies. Information technology today. Keio Communication Review, 1997, 19, pp.85-100. ⟨halshs-00871148⟩