Digital Society · 1 Introduction

DS1.1 — What is digital society?

Digital Society · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. DS1.1.1

   A contested term

   “Digital society” is a contested term used to describe contemporary life. There may be multiple digital societies rather than just one.

2. DS1.1.2

   Analogue into digital

   Digital society involves the transformation of analogue processes and objects into digital forms.

3. DS1.1A

   Digital society has multiple names

   Information age, computer age, post-industrial society, network society, fourth industrial revolution

4. DS1.1B

   Digital society is characterized by uneven access to digital systems

   Digital divide(s)

5. DS1.1C

   Milestones in the development of digital society

   Integrated circuit, microprocessor, personal computer, the internet, online social networks, mobile and cloud computing

6. DS1.1D

   Digital systems use binary digits to represent data and information

   Binary, bits, bytes

7. DS1.1E

   The digital is different from the analogue

8. DS1.1F

   Digitization changes data and information from analogue to digital

   Digital preservation, digital archives, digital reformatting

9. DS1.1G

   Digitalization is the use of digital systems to change the structure and/or operation of an organization

   Digitalization and disruption in education, businesses and organizations