Information society

decentralized, internet-based protest movement which organizes cyber attacks and demonstrations for freedom and against various forms of grievance

inequality of access to information and communication technologies

thumb | right | alt=alt=Refer to caption | Area Cartogram: Internet Users in East Asia, 2008 The term netizen is a portmanteau of the English words internet and citizen, as in a "citizen of the net" or "net citizen." It describes a person actively involved in online communities or the Internet in general.

national reputation system being developed by the Chinese government

new practices aimed at solving social challenges

thumb|alt=A photo of a person's hand while scrolling through news on smartphone|A person scrolling through news on a smartphone Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time watching short-form content or watching large quantities of user-generated content or news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media. The concept was coined around 2018, and became more widespread in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the pandemic was accompanied by widespread misleading information, conspiracy theories, a

person who has grown up in the digital age

objects or patterns that are able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them

related to the social, political, economic and cultural changes caused by the spread of networked, digital information and communications technologies

person using IT to engage in society, politics, and government

Infosphere is a metaphysical realm of information, data, knowledge, and communication, populated by informational entities called inforgs (or, informational organisms). Infosphere is portmanteau of information and -sphere.

Informatization or informatisation refers to the extent by which a geographical area, an economy or a society is becoming information-based, i.e. the increase in size of its information labor force. Usage of the term was inspired by Marc Porat’s categories of ages of human civilization: the Agricultural Age, the Industrial Age and the Information Age (1978). Informatization is to the Information Age what industrialization was to the Industrial Age. It has been stated that:

economic branch and at the same time the teaching or science of the efficient procurement, organization, representation, distribution, presentation and storage of information

sharing knowledge for problem solving

Netocracy was a term invented by the editorial board of the American technology magazine Wired in the early 1990s. A portmanteau of Internet and aristocracy, netocracy refers to a perceived global upper-class that bases its power on a technological advantage and networking skills, in comparison to what is portrayed as a bourgeoisie of a gradually diminishing importance.

Datafication is a technological trend turning many aspects of our life into data, which is then converted into information, thereby manifesting as a new form of value.

research center at Harvard University

Internet slang

usage of media

RedHack is a Turkish Marxist-Leninist computer hacker group founded in 1997. The group has claimed responsibility for hacking the websites of institutions which include the Council of Higher Education, Turkish police forces, the Turkish Army, Türk Telekom, and the National Intelligence Organization others. The group's core membership is said to be twelve. RedHack is the first hacker group which has been accused of being a terrorist organization and circa 2015 is one of the world's most wanted hacker groups.

term of technology that enabled social interactions

interdisciplinary academic research area regarding influences & impacts of technologies

Sociotechnology (short for "social technology") is the study of processes on the intersection of society and technology. Vojinović and Abbott define it as "the study of processes in which the social and the technical are indivisibly combined". Sociotechnology is an important part of socio-technical design, which is defined as "designing things that participate in complex systems that have both social and technical aspects".

process having new developments implemented by the productive sector that increase efficiency or create/enhance a product

political campaign and organization in Catalonia

Approach in science and technology studies

In futurology, cyberocracy describes a hypothetical form of government that rules by the effective use of information. The exact nature of a cyberocracy is largely speculative as, apart from Project Cybersyn, there have been no cybercratic governments; however, a growing number of cybercratic elements can be found in many developed nations. Cyberocracy theory is largely the work of David Ronfeldt, who published several papers on the theory. Some sources equate cyberocracy with algorithmic governance, although algorithms are not the only means of processing information.

term used to describe a form of peripheral social awareness

socio-cultural grouping

University research center for the study of Digital History

CyberBerkut (, ) is a modern organized group of pro-Russian hacktivists. The group became locally known for a series of publicity stunts and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Ukrainian government, and western or Ukrainian corporate websites. By 2018, this group was accused by western intelligence agencies, such as National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom) of being linked to the GRU, providing plausible deniability.

database of legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials; project of Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University