FI:CORE012 Information Society - Course Information
CORE012 Information Society
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Jiří Zlatuška, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Jiří Zlatuška, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Jiří Zlatuška, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Mon 10:00–11:50 A318
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- !FAKULTA(FI)
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The goal of this course is to introduce the nature of wider impacts of Informatics on the society.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course students will be able to understand and explain the nature of wider impacts of Informatics on the society; to use information about events characteristic for the impact of the information revolution; to draw parallels with the industrial revolution; to explain and characterize events and processes associated with the formation of information society; to better comprehend the role of the information and communication technologies in the society not only as technical tools, but also as a phenomenon enabling social processes transformation; to understand newly emerging organizational structures both in business and in e-government resulting from intensification of the information processing; to understand the nature of innovative processes associated with informatics and to thing through the consequences of differencec from prevailing older paradigms; to grasp idea of the structure of policies assiciated with information society; to present thoughful analyses of nontechnical impacts of widespread availability and use of services based on information processing; to think through and creatively develop designs of new possible applications; to develop motivation for future theoretical or practical work in this area.
- Syllabus
- This course deals with the impact of Information Technologies on society, with the nature of computer (information) revolution, and the advent of an information society.
- Informatics in historical perspective.
- Computer revolution.
- Productivity paradox.
- The Internet and WWW.
- Digital economy.
- Network economy and virtual communities.
- Organizational and company structure.
- Organizational transformation.
- Teleceoomunications and information infrastructure.
- Legal aspects of an information society.
- Ethical problems.
- Riskc of computing technology.
- Social impacts.
- There is a seminar IV057 Seminar on Information Society accompanying this course for students interested in presenting up-to-date material based on literature on an information society.
- Literature
- TOFFLER, Alvin. Future shock. 15th print. New York: Bantam Books, 1971, 561 s. info
- DAVIS, Stan and Bill DAVIDSON. Vize roku 2020 :kniha pro chvíle uvolnění. Translated by Rudolf Štefec. 1. vyd. Praha: ART press, 1995, 264 s. ISBN 80-212-0122-3. info
- GATES, Bill, Nathan MYHRVOLD and Peter RINEARSON. Informační dálnice. Translated by Petr Koubský. Vyd. 1. Praha: Management Press, 1996, 229 s. ISBN 80-85943-28-X. info
- LUHAN MAC, Marshall. Jak rozumět médiím. 1. vyd. Praha: Odeon, 1991, 349 s. info
- TOFFLER, Alvin. The third wave. New York: Bantam Books, 1990, 537 s. ISBN 0-553-24698-4. info
- TOFFLER, Alvin. Třetí vlna. [S.l.: s.n.], 1989, 834 s. info
- TAPSCOTT, Don. The digital economy : promise and peril in the age of networked intelligence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, xviii, 342. ISBN 0070622000. info
- TOFFLER, Alvin. Šok z budoucnosti. Translated by Stanislav Mundil. 1. vyd. Praha: Práce, 1992, 284 s. ISBN 80-208-0160-X. info
- GATES, Bill. The road ahead :completely revised and up-to-date. 2nd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1996, xviii, 332. ISBN 0-14-024351-8. info
- MCLUHAN, Marshall. Understanding media : the extensions of man. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, xxiii, 365. ISBN 0262631598. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, discussion, independent study of literature related to the topic.
- Assessment methods
- Two essays on the impact of the information society, critical reflection, or visions of development.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2022, recent)
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