[Air-L] Informatization?

Dear list members, if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize this term? I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context, looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on labour, e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more about other approaches. Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since the term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc: L'informatisation de la societe.) Thanks for your assistence, Katja --- Dr. Katja Mayer Department of Social Studies of Science University of Vienna, Austria http://homepage.univie.ac.at/katja.mayer