Information Technology Is Creating A New Social Fabric Definition - - PDF document

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS

CREATING A NEW SOCIAL FABRIC

Speakers: Niall Conroy Derek Foley Andrew Anderson

Information Technology Is Creating A New Social Fabric

Definition

• Social Fabric
• Information Technology

Examples

• Television
• Email
• Online Communities
• Globalisation

Conclusion And Summary

Information Technology

Technology which is involved in the collection, receiving and sending of information Not just Personal Computers

Social Fabric

Context in which we interact with each other, based on the rules, morals and shared influences of the society

Television

99% of the western world have at least 1 TV 96% spend 5.3hrs watching TV on an average day Television influences culture

Email

80% of small business owners consider email a vital tool to their success Allows interaction between different societies Reliance on email changes the context in which we communicate

• Social Networking

Allow interaction between different societies Anonymity allows self-expression Lack of rules for social conduct September 2007, 2 of the top 5 visited sites were online communities

Globalisation

Globalisation is causing the spread and amalgamation of various cultures around the world

From The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Discussion Paper 114:

“Globalization and liberalization do not eliminate the nation state, but they fundamentally redefine its role and affect its operation.”

How does this affect

• ur social fabric?

The state is a member of the global community, contributing a wealth

• f information and produce to other

countries. Examples are:

News Literature Film Music Political Ideas Business.

The Global Community is composed of states. If one

• f its component states undergoes a change, it

follows logically that the Global Community as a whole is changed.

Globalization is a change in the Global social fabric, namely its expansion.

Globalization is an indicator of a changing social fabric But Globalization uses Information Technology to effect the change. None of this would be feasible without Information Technology.

• Globalization represents a change in the global

social fabric Globalization uses Information Technology to effect this change It is therefore Information Technology which is doing the changing, and Globalization which is the motive. Information Technology Is Creating A New Social Fabric

Summary

1BA6 Computers And Society

Blue team is:

Derek Foley Ciaran Brien Niall Conroy Mark King Andrew Anderson Stephen Murphy Karl Reid