Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age

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Processing large amounts of data - If you want to trust informal sources, 90% of the world's data has been created in the past two years. In the era of BigData, the Internet, smart phones, social media, e-commerce, large amounts of data and data of various natures are created everyday and stored on the company's server. Enhanced digital security and confidentiality - business data is very confidential. As software applications and hardware technologies are increasingly used in the execution of business processes and operations, enterprises are increasingly involved with customers and customers, financial transactions and reports, employee records, supply chain activities, business contracts and contracts, Generate data. wait. With intelligent and intelligent digital encryption technology, companies can strengthen the security and confidentiality of digital security and business data in storage and transmission.

Information technology is now ubiquitous in society. For example, mobile phones, sensors, retail scanners, and the Internet generate massive amounts of data potentially valuable to the enterprise. We are truly living in the data age and the amount of data collected will continue to increase. This data is valuable only when converted to information and insight. MSBA graduates develop deep quantitative competence and technical expertise by drawing useful insights and applying them to various occupational environments to create business and social value (Moneyball's Billy Beane I think)

The information society should be distinguished from the information age. The information society is a social system, and at the same time the information age is the era of human civilization and the phenomenon on the world scale. People may live in an information age rather than an information society. It also points out that trends in the information society can also be seen in the third world. For example, in Asia, some tendencies indifferent to political development suggest that Asia is moving in this direction. These trends include increased demand for mobile devices and software, broadband, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi services, and even online education programs.