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Selected consequences of society‘s informatization
Zíma, Stanislav ; Rosický, Antonín (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Antonín (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to describe selected consequences of informatization on the basis of three different views' critical synthesis. First view is an historical perspective focused on medialisation of information and its influence on shaping of man's thinking. On the background of technological progress are shown the milestones in changing of social reality. Another view is to describe the infromation society as a present phenomenon with its general characteristics. The last point of view is based on the hypothesis sof Global brain, which describes mankind as a network of nerve cells, connected to global computer network. Thesis is not intended to be a comprehesive overview of the informatization's consequences but it tries to explain basic issues related to information society.
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Informatization and Social Realities - Application to Domain of Global Economy
Galatík, Lubomír ; Rosický, Antonín (advisor) ; Sigmund, Tomáš (referee)
Information and communication technologies constitute a substantial part of today's world. Growing informatization, i.e. implementation of these technologies, in all areas of human activities generates a need to reflect upon their influence on man and society. The significance of this intellectual endeavor is accentuated by the very nature of these technologies. Since they are inserted between individuals in acts of mutual communication their application impacts on information processes within the frame of human societies. This factor takes effect everywhere, no less in the economic environment. In consequence of recent events which gave rise to a financial meltdown at first and an economic crisis later, the necessity to inquire into the effect of informatization on the domain of arrangement of economic relationships acquires its sense of urgency. At present, however, there is a significant gap between the theoretical framework which man uses to intellectually embrace these phenomena and the application of the technologies in question in which a disproportionately greater amount of resources are being invested. Therefore our capability of capturing in our train of thought the changes in the socioeconomic environment of today caused by informatization lags behind the very speed and dynamics of the changes. For that reason, the objective of this diploma thesis is to create a methodological-phenomenological framework for deliberation on the influence of information and communication technologies on the globalizing economy. The fundamental attribute which induces far-reaching transmutations in this field is the virtualization potential that the modern, symbolic and highly interactive forms of these technologies have obtained. As they began to be implemented in the frame of the arrangement of economic relationships, they impinged on a domain whose inner dynamism has already split into two components -- virtual and real -- by the symbol of value -- money. Another layer of virtualization related to the information and communication technologies as such therefore transforms the economy into a much more complex whole, the research of which poses an intellectual challenge as well as a necessity as the changing character of the globalizing economy shelters many pitfalls. This thesis offers theoretical points of departure for grasping the issues in question.
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Information Society and the Internet
Bartušek, Pavel ; Rosický, Antonín (advisor) ; Brixí, Radim (referee)
Internet has an important role in the society. Internet is one of the most important factors to transmit and receive information. Information in electronic form has advantages and risks. The aim of this work is to describe the advantages and risks and recommend how to proceed in a given situation. In the first part we will work with demarcation of the importance of information and what information is. There is no a single view on information. Here we meet with the definitions of various disciplines. In the second part of the work is described the computerization of the pros and cons associated with that new approaches and technologies have brought. The aim of the computerization is to come to the emergence of the Internet and characterized the current information society in a few selected contexts, when the society is dependent on modern information networks and information.
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