information on the time between buses and unforeseen incidents. Citizens have access to information on where the bus is located, and at what time it will arrive at the specific bus stop. The media that Seoul TOPIS uses to provide such information are BIT(Bus Information Terminal), Internet, mobile Internet (cell phone and PDA), ARS. Keeping up with the technological trend, TOPIS also provides bus
한국의 정보통신 인프라와 정보통신기술 ICT ; Information andCommunication Technologies 은
1970년대에 매우 열악한 환경에 놓여 있었으며, 이에 정부 주도하 신속한 ICT 구축이 이루어 짐.
정보 인프라 분야의 효율성을 높이기 위해, 한국은 규제완화와 자유화, 정부소유 통신업체의 사유화를 통해 이 분야에
information society is closely related to the concept of ‘Network Society’. It describes several different phenomena related to the social, political, economic and cultural changes caused by the spread of networked, digital information andcommunications technologies.
The term ‘network society’ was coined by Manuel Castells, a key sociologist on the theory of network society, in his book
I. Introduction
I understand cyber culture within the conceptual framework. As a wide social and cultural movement, I have outlined in this essay, that is closely linked to advanced information andcommunication technologies, their emergence and development and their cultural colonization.
and how well it has or has not been utilizing the merits and coping with the demerits of such industry.
Online shopping is a kind of subcategory of electronic commerce (or e-commerce) which in turn is a subcategory of electronic business (or e-business). E-business is defined as the “utilization of information andcommunication technologies in support of all the activities of business.” E-