CMN 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Network Society, Manuel Castells, Social Stratification

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2170
• Professor: Slavka Antonova

Document Summary

Lecture 3: media and society: the information age. Information society: a society where the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. *note: slavka"s definition: a society, characterized by ubiquitous information, from creation, distribution, and to its use; any activity in that society depends on information* Knowledge society (un definition: a society that generates, shares, and makes available to all members of the society knowledge that may be used to improve the human condition) Rise of new technical elites and the advent of a new principle of social stratification- meritocracy.