[Air-L] digital society instead of info soc?

[Petr Lupac]

Hello,

I am teaching Information Policy course and writing dissertation thesis on
the sociotechnical construction of information society - and I got into
interesting question: 

what stands behind EU information policy moving from information society
concept in iEurope initiatives (2000-2010) to digital society concept in
Digital Agenda for Europe (2010-2020)? 

Does anyone here have a clue? Is that because original
information-society-based iEurope project went pretty unsuccesfull compared
to its original goals so they need a new term? Or can it be that the
European Comittee wants to move away from using the terms loaded by academic
disputes? Or is it just using the new, theoretically disembedded term so
they can defend themselves by broad scope of interpretation possibilities?
Or is there a new theoretical tradition working with the term "digital
society" which Eu is refering to implicitly and I haven't noticed yet?
 
Any answer helsping me answer would be pretty welcome :)


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Petr Lupac M.A.
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
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