Informatization In The Editing And Publishing Organizations

The advent of the Informatization age have brought in Chinese publishing organizations opportunities as well as challenges ever since; the entering into the WTO also left them into the situation where they have to fight against foreign publishing enterprises hand to hand without well-preparedness in some aspects. In order to seize opportunities, forestall others and grab the market, some of the publishing organizations have been making great effort to prove their construction of informatization through enhancing their software and hardware constructions, which proves not to be very fruitful. The construction of informatization in China generally is not high-level and faced with some problems as well.This thesis employs a novel theory, social informatics to undertake a basic study on the application of it. The social informatics aims to adsorb the efficiency and sufficient circulation of social information,utility of social information into the scope of informatization, which enlarges the conation of the latter.Taking into consideration the respective roles and functions of the personnel in the editing and publishing organizations, the thesis introduces to the information concepts and methods they follow and hold , and the information features of the external agents closely relevant to the organization. Meanwhile, it analyses how the internal departments implement the informatization according to their own features. In addition, it put forward valuable advice in connection with the present situation of the construction of informatization in our publishing enterprises.Since the construction of informatization is a systemic project, and involves variety of factors such as the managing systems, sense and ideas, information skills and the like present within a publishing organization, the publishing organization is supposed to carry foreword the construction of informatization in order in accord with its characteristics and the status quo of publishing industry.