[Air-L] Informatization?

[Peter Gloviczki]

Hi, Katja,

I also wonder if it has to do with the process, as in, the process of
making society/culture information-based. Much in the same way that
political scientists discuss democratization, for example.

Hope this helps,

Peter

On 7/8/12, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm fairly sure it is an anglicization of the French "informatisation"...
> Which if I'm not mistaken was first used in the Nora/Minc Report
> 	
> L'informatisation de la société: rapport à M. le Président de la République
>
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapport_Nora-Minc and wikipedia even seems to
> have had the same thought :)
>
> Informatization - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatization -
>
> Origin of the term. The term informatisation was coined by Simon Nora and
> Alain Minc in their publication L'Informatisation de la société: Rapport à
> M. le ...
>
> M
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>
> I have largely seen this term used in Japanese (in which the -ization
> suffix
> is a lot less cumbersome), and used in the sense of other developmental
> -izations, like "modernization,"  "industrialization," and
> "internationalization," to refer to public policy designed to encourage
> changes in social and economic structure. I have seen it used in other
> contexts--e.g., by IGOs--but always assumed for some reason it was borrowed
> from the Japanese.
>
> Alex
> On Jul 8, 2012 10:26 AM, "Katja Mayer" <katja.mayer at univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize
>> this term?
>>
>> I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what
>> informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context,
>> looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on
>> labour, e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more
>> about other approaches.
>>
>> Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since
>> the term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc:
>> L'informatisation de la societe.)
>>
>> Thanks for your assistence,
>> Katja
>>
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>> Department of Social Studies of Science
>> University of Vienna, Austria
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