Information Age

• Information Age


  Period in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became effortlessly accessible through publications and through the management of information by computers and computer networks
• Digital Age


  Another term for the Information Age, associated with the development of computers
• New Media Age


  Another term for the Information Age, associated with the development of computers
• Our society nowadays


  • Technologically advanced
  • Data-driven
  • Fast-paced
  • Modern
• Information is easily accessed and shared
• Various areas of our society are continuously being influenced by the very fast pace of modernization
• Information Anxiety Age


  Term coined by Richard Wurman in the 1990s to describe the pressure we feel to maintain some level of information awareness in the face of ever-increasing quantities of information
• Information became the currency in the business world
• "Truth of the Information Age" - Robert Harris


  • Information must compete
  • Newer is equated with truer
  • Selection is a viewpoint
  • The media sells what the culture buys
  • The early word gets the perm
  • You are what you eat and so is your brain
  • Anything in great demand will be counterfeited
  • Ideas are seen as controversial
  • Undead information walks ever on
  • The medium selects the message
  • Media presence creates the story
  • The whole truth is a pursuit
• Computer


  An electronic device that stores and processes data (information), runs on a program with step-by-step directions to solve a problem
• World Wide Web (WWW)

  Originated from the work of Claude F. Shannon, who proposed that information can be quantitatively encoded as a sequence of ones and zeroes
• Fiber optics is used for long-distance and high-performance data networking, as well as telecommunication services like internet, television and telephones
• Google


  The world's most popular search engine, accepting more than 200 million queries daily, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page
• Email was a suitable way to send and receive messages at the convenience of the individual
• Cyberbullying


  An issue that poses alarm worldwide, involving crimes in various forms due to the use of social media
• Internet


  A global system of interconnected computer networks that serve billions of users worldwide
• Advantages of the Internet

  • Information
  • Communication
  • Software Downloads
  • Entertainment
  • Services
  • Ecommerce
  • Communities
• Disadvantages of the Internet

  • Addiction
  • Isolation
  • Cyber-Bullying
  • Inappropriate Content
  • Sexual Predators
  • Identity and/or Personal Information Theft
• Cyberbullying


  Willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices
• Forms of Cyberbullying


  • Harassment
  • Flaming and Trolling
  • Happy-Slapping
  • Identity Theft/Impersonation
  • Denigration
  • Outing and Trickery
  • Cyber Stalking
  • Rumor Spreading
• Characteristics of Cyberbullying


  • Anonymity
  • Infinite audience
  • Disinhibition
  • Permanence of expression
• Bioinformatics


  The application of information technology to store, organize, and analyze the amount of biological data which is available in the forms of sequences and structures of proteins and nucleic acids
• The human brain cannot store all the genetic sequences of organisms, so this huge amount of data can only be stored, analyzed and be used efficiently with the use of computers
• How to check the reliability of Web Sources

  1. Who is the author of the article/site?

  2. Visit the University Library and seek help from the Librarians
• We need to carefully check our motives before disseminating information and we also need to verify information before believing, using and sharing them