How the Information Infrastructure Has Changed in the Digital Age - Evolving Global Information Infrastructure and Information Transfer - page 88

Summary
A paradigm is a set of fundamental beliefs or assumptions that provide a world-
view: the way that we perceive the world and how it works. A paradigm is the soul
of the information infrastructure. The information transfer processes described in
Chapter 4 remain the same as the new paradigm emerges, because the informa-
tion transfer processes are the structure, but the way the processes operate may
change.
Advancements in technology have produced new methods for recording, mass-
producing, disseminating, diffusing, utilizing, and preserving information. In the
emerging paradigm world, the central role of information professionals in the digital
age is to support diffusion and utilization of information and knowledge.
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