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IB DP: Digital Society: 1.1 What is digital society?

1.1 What is digital society?

“Digital Society” is a contested term used to describe contemporary life and there may be multiple digital societies rather than just one. "Digital Society" involves the transformation of analogue processes and objects into digital forms.

  • 1.1A Digital Society has multiple names: Information age, computer age, post-industrial society, network society, fourth industrial revolution

  • 1.1B Digital Society is characterized by uneven access to digital systems: Digital divide(s)

  • 1.1C Milestones in the development of digital society: Integrated circuit, microprocessor, personal computer, the internet, online social networks, mobile and cloud computing

  • 1.1D Digital systems use binary digits to represent data and information: Binary, bits, bytes

  • 1.1E The digital is different from the analogue: Analogue is continuous physical qualities and signals / Digital is discrete signals with a finite set of values

  • 1.1F Digitization changes data and information from analogue to digital: Digital preservation, digital archives, digital reformatting

  • 1.1G Digitalization is the use of digital systems to change the structure and/or operation of an organization: Digitalization and disruption in education, businesses and organizations

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