1995
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.1995v20n4a891
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The Information Society: From Fordism to Gatesism: The 1995 Southam Lecture

Abstract: The information society model claims that the new information hegemony is transforming industrial society. But is it not the case that the major change has to do with the increasingly greater integration of information and communication into the functioning of the economy and society, in the submission of information and communication to the operative rules of industrial society, in sum, in the commodification of information, culture, and communication? Rather than a ``post-industrial society,'' the period of … Show more

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“…Experience elsewhere shows that introducing information technology does not always correlate with savings on employee numbers (Tremblay, 2001), but in theory at least more e-enabled HRM also should be linked to smaller HR departments.…”
Section: H R I S B R E W S T E R G E O F F W O O D M I C H a E mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Experience elsewhere shows that introducing information technology does not always correlate with savings on employee numbers (Tremblay, 2001), but in theory at least more e-enabled HRM also should be linked to smaller HR departments.…”
Section: H R I S B R E W S T E R G E O F F W O O D M I C H a E mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast to those who focused on the disruptive or revolutionary character of innovations in ICTs, Winston and others, including Mattelart (2002), Robertson (1990), Schement (1990) and Tremblay (1995), acknowledged the opportunities, but found the technologies were being implemented in ways that replicated existing inequalities within society.…”
Section: A Problematic Visionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Metrópolis como Montreal, ubicada en esa área geográfico-económica, de Canadá y Estados Unidos, de máxima influencia mundial, de la que surge y se prueba cualquier nuevo avance informático y tecnológico y que llevaban desde los 80 investigando los procesos comunicativos generados por la informatización social (SANTERRE, 1990, p. 71;, era un lugar adecuado para conocer estos procesos socio-comunicativos, motivados por la informatización social. Por eso durante los años 1996 y 1997, realizo una estancia como investigador del GRICIS-UQAM (Groupe de Recherche sur les Industries Culturelles et l'Informatisation Social de la Universidad de Quebec a Montreal, Canadá), con el profesor Gaetan Tremblay, director del GRICIS, y que por entonces era uno de los investigadores clave de las NTIC y sus repercusiones sociales (TREMBLAY, 1995).…”
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