Information society and communications: media and the Internet in the process of dissemination of information

Humanity has experienced various social structures as a result of the changes and transformations that have taken place since the beginning of societies. These social structures, which we can list in historical order as primitive society, agricultural society, industrial society, and finally the knowledge society we live in today, have their own characteristics that distinguish them from other social structures. In this sense, the study emphasizes the dominance of knowledge in a certain social structure that distinguishes the knowledge society from other social structures and gives it its characteristic features. In the information society, information takes a leading place in all activities, and this situation places the process of acquiring and disseminating information and communication in a very important place to achieve this. Media and Internet play a more important role than other means and methods of communication to ensure mass dissemination of information. Both the media and the Internet allow information to reach a wide audience in a very short time, at very little cost and without much effort, and is one of the important elements of a knowledge society.