ISRAEL, MITCH C.

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THE ICT AND ITS ROLE
IN SOCIAL CHANGE
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 ■ Health-care delivery is also
of digital technologies, especially affected by new digital
among children and teenagers technologies, such as electronic
and the crowding out of other records, new treatment options,
activities such as physical
telecare, and teleconsultation.
exercise.
 The effects of mobile phones, video
games, and the pervasiveness of
Extreme use of digital ubiquitous screens on the mental health of
technologies may children and teenagers have drawn
have negative mental significant attention in the public debate

health effects because they may present risks of

addiction.
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.
A study also found that the iGeneration
members (the generation grown up in an
environment where technology is
ubiquitous) check their social media
accounts on average every 15 minutes. While
video games used to be the primary source of
extreme use of digital technologies, the
smartphone has extended this risk to a wider
range of applications. A recent study found
that 39% of 18- to 29-year-olds in the United
States are online “almost constantly”
 THEORIES IN
TECHNOLOGY
 TECHNOLOGICAL
DETERMINISM
It is the theory which strongly believe that technology shapes the culture, values, social
structures of a society.

■ Technological innovation is the cause of the social progress.

■ 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.
Example. The Medium is the Message
by Marshall McLuhan.
Example. The invention of the stirrup.
Example. The invention of gun.