Methodological Analysis of the Information Society Concept

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of conceptualizing the ‘information society’ problem and categorizing this notion. Two well-known models of the emergence of the term – Japanese and American – are considered, and a conclusion is made about their practically equivalent contribution to the development of this topic at some parity of the Japanese model. Article draws attention to the change of the “information” concept and all its derivatives. It is also asserted that despite of some incorrectness of the “information society” concept, today it has a great heuristic potential and needs further methodological justification.