Informationalism

Define and understand the concept of informationalism. Castells identified four features that distinguish informationalism from the other industrial revolutions: the driving role of science and technology for economic growth; a shift from material production to information processing; the emergence and expansion of new forms of networked industrial organization; and the rise of socioeconomic globalization. Informationalism represents the third industiral revolution that is shown in table 1.1 on page 13.