Globalization, Technicity and the Digital Divide

The term globalization is often used when referring to or talking about the spread and correspondence between production, communication, and technologies across the globe. As a phrase globalization accommodates a variety of profitable changes these changes can range from being social to political along with economic changes. With all that being said globalization also increases and even speeds up the trade of ideas and commodities over immense space. The impacts of globalization are often best understood at the local level many cases of globalization explore the various manifestations of interconnectedness in the world, nothing about how globalization affects real people and places.

Globalization repeatedly becomes known as being a force of the natural world, an experience that takes place and avoids limits or substitutes. However the association of individuals has revealed that globalization is neither unchangeable nor predictable. Societies from in and around  the world normal people from the global north and south can work together to form alternate futures, to build a globalization of cooperation, solidarity and respect for our common planetary environment.

Cultural globalization.

Another type of globalization is ‘cultural globalization’ which communicates the transmission of ideas, meanings and values universally. This course of action is evident by the common utilization of traditions that are beginning to be circulated by the internet, fashionable culture and global travel. This particular circulation of various cultures and traditions allows individuals to participate in extensive social affairs outside without having any limitations. The formation and growth of these social relations are not observed on any material level.

Digital divide - A term used to describe the discrepancy between people who have access to and the resources to use new information and communication tools, such as the Internet, and people who do not have the resources and access to the technology. The term also describes the discrepancy between those who have the skills, knowledge and abilities to use the technologies and those who do not. The digital divide can exist between those living in rural areas and those living in urban areas, between the educated and uneducated, between economic classes, and on a global scale between more and less industrially developed nations.

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