Resumen

ANDRADE CASTRO, Jesús Alberto. Information Society: The Public and the Private in Information. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.39, pp.351-372. ISSN 1315-9984.

The purpose of this paper is to make a critical analysis of the construction of a society that is considered innovating, as it is sustained by information digital technologies (IT). Certainly, It have considerable effects upon the social, the political and the economic, however, the results are overestimated as innovating and with no connection to the past. Our premise is that there is no need to eliminate the proposals made by diverse pioneers of the commonly called Information Society (IS), to analyze its consequences. Therefore, it makes a revision of some IS pioneers, hoping to demarcate a line between the private and the public spheres of the IS and their effects upon the construction of a farewell State. It makes a critical analysis of the policies instrumented in the construction of an IS in the frame of the global processes. Finally, it draws some conclusions regarding the experienced social processes that are derived from the development of the incorporation to the society of new informational technologies.

Palabras clave : Information Technologies; Information Society; Globalization; Neoliberalism; Public and Private Information.