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The document discusses how digital technology and ICT can transform society and cause social change. It covers topics like how ICT impacts entertainment, business, education, jobs, health, and theories around technological determinism and social constructivism. The document provides examples to explain these concepts.

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Ict Chapter 7

The document discusses how digital technology and ICT can transform society and cause social change. It covers topics like how ICT impacts entertainment, business, education, jobs, health, and theories around technological determinism and social constructivism. The document provides examples to explain these concepts.

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Digital Technology and

Social Change
CHAPTER 7
Desired Learning Outcomes/Competencies

At the end of the semester, the students must:


● Explain the role of ICT in social change.
● Identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and imminent
threats of the digital age.
● Articulate basic, but fundamental definitions of complex issues
and dynamics that humans encounter every day, such as
technology, social progress, development, and digitalization
Introduction to the Digital Age
Digital age/ Information age
is a period when the computer and
internet were introduced. It is caused by rapid
shift from traditional industry to computerization
all the way to artificial intelligence which brought
by Industrial Revolution.
The ICT and its role in Social Change
Information Communications Technology (ICT) has
the power to transform society.
ICT is defined as a group of interrelated technologies (electronic
devices) for accessing, processing, and disseminating information. It
is a system of electronic network activated through a complex
hardware and software systems linked by a vast array of technical
protocols.
The term ICTs has been used to embrace technological innovation
and merging in information and communication transforming our
world into information or knowledge societies. The rapid
development of these technologies has fainted the boundaries
between information, communication, and various types of media.

Entertainmen
t Digital broadcasting has completely changed the way we experience
television and radio. Cinema can now be found at the comfort of
your home through application such as Netflix, iFlix, etc.
Business
ICT helps to increase productivity in business with the use of
social Media platforms for marketing and promotion. The
use of websites now allowed companies to develop new and
cheaper ways of offering customers with opportunities of
buying goods and services at their convenient time and
enhance the level of customer service. Online platform has
been the marketplace where people can transact and
communicate.
Education
ICT supports the concept of open learning where the thrust is upon
enhanced student access and the development of student
autonomy.
It assists teachers and helps explain core content concepts and
addresses misconceptions.
It acts as a stimulant and fosters analytical thinking and
interdisciplinary studies.
It networks a learner with the peers and experts and develops
collaborative atmosphere.
It plays the role of a guide and mentor by providing tailor made
instructions to meet individual needs.
Jobs and earnings
The digital transformation has the potential to generate substantial
changes in the composition of the labor market as jobs that require
certain skillsets are replaced by a combination of technology and
higher skilled labor, or even completely automated.
The digital economy also fundamentally changes the nature of work
for many people, with fewer jobs exerting physical demands on
workers but more jobs placing an emotional strain on desk-workers
Health Digitalization
can affect people’s health status through the emergence of new physical
and mental health risks and through its impact on the health-care delivery
system.
Health risks associated with the digital transformations include mental
health problems associated with the extreme use of digital technologies,
especially among children and teenagers and the crowding out of other
activities such as physical exercise.
Extreme Internet use, defined as children who spend more than 6 hours
on the Internet outside of school, is becoming more common among
children and teenagers, with time spent online by 15-year-olds increasing
by about 40 minutes between 2012 and 2015 on average.
Theories in Technology Technological Determinism
technology shapes the culture, values, social structures of a society.
The main reason why society progresses is because of the kind
technology the society has. Technological innovation is the cause of the
social progress. The technology has the control over the society over
human actions, culture and values. Technology greatly influences human
thought and action. In other words the society is changing because of
technology.
According to Winner, technology is not the slave of the human being but
rather humans are slaves to technology as they are forced to adapt to the
technological environment that surrounds them.

The invention of gun. Before, the weapons used were swords and
archery soldiers had to be skilled and trained in using these weapons. But
a new invention in technology changed it all. A gun was invented which
require a less effort and can be used even from far distances. This
technology changed the way soldiers are trained. It also changed how
soldiers fight in a war.c
Social Constructivism
Social Constructivism believes that humans play a main
role in shaping technology rather than technology
shaping society. It believes that technology does not
determine human action, but rather, human action
shapes the technology. Our curiosity, the hunger to
expand, and the need to do things efficiently drive us to
create these technologies.
Technological Change
The various changes in technology leads to an increase in the
productivity of labor, capital and other production factors.
The development of new technical knowledge can be defined as
the growth of the new technique that can produce goods and
services at lesser cost of production.
The process of growth of technical knowledge can be divided into
following stages:
(a) Formulation of scientific principles
(b) Application of these principles to give 7 technical problems
(c) Development of technical inventions to the point of commercial
exploitation.CREDITS: This presentation template was created by Slidesgo, and
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