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An '''information society''' is a [[society]] or [[subculture]] where the usage, [[Content creation|creation]], [[information distribution|distribution]], manipulation and [[information integration|integration]] of [[information]] is a significant activity.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Soll, Jacob, 1968-|title=The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system|date=2009|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-02526-8|oclc=643805520}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Duff |first1=Alistair S. |title=Information Society |journal=International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition) |date=2015 |pages=83–89 |doi=10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.95017-7 |isbn=978-0-08-097087-5}}</ref> Its main drivers are [[information and communication technologies]], which have resulted in rapid growth of a variety of forms of information. Proponents of this theory posit that these technologies are impacting most important forms of social organization, including [[education]], [[economy]],<ref>[[Martin Hilbert|Hilbert, M.]] (2023). Digital Technology and Social Change [Open Online Course at the University of California] freely available at: https://www.coursera.org/teach-specialization/digital-technology-and-social-change</ref> [[health]], [[government]],<ref>[[Martin Hilbert|Hilbert, M.]] (2023). Digital Technology and Social Change [Open Online Course at the University of California] freely available at: https://www.coursera.org/teach-specialization/digital-technology-and-social-change</ref> [[warfare]], and levels of [[democracy]].<ref>[[Martin Hilbert|Hilbert, M.]] (2023). Digital Technology and Social Change [Open Online Course at the University of California] freely available at: https://www.coursera.org/teach-specialization/digital-technology-and-social-change</ref> The people who are able to partake in this form of society are sometimes called either [[computer users]] or even [[digital citizen]]s, defined by K. Mossberger as “Those who use the Internet regularly and effectively”. This is one of many dozen internet terms that have been identified to suggest that humans are entering a new and different phase of society.<ref name="Beniger 1986">{{cite book |title= The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society |last= Beniger |first=James R. |author-link= James R. Beniger |date=1986 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |publisher=Harvard University Press|title-link= The Control Revolution }}</ref>

Some of the markers of this steady change may be technological, economic, occupational, spatial, cultural, or a combination of all of these.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last=Webster |first=Frank |title=Theories of the Information Society |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |location=Cambridge}}</ref>
Information society is seen as a successor to [[industrial society]]. Closely related concepts are the [[post-industrial society]] ([[post-fordism]]), [[postmodernity|post-modern]] society, computer society and [[knowledge society]], telematic society,  [[The Society of the Spectacle|society of the spectacle]] ([[postmodernism]]), [[Information Revolution]] and [[Information Age]], [[network society]] ([[Manuel Castells]]) or even [[liquid modernity]].