THE EFFECTS OF

CULTURAL BELIEF &

INFORMATION AGE TO
SOCIETY
THE INFORMATION AGE
INFORMATION AGE

 A period starting in
the last quarter of the
20th century. (1901-
2023)
 Digital Age and the
New Media.
 Silicon Age.
THEORY OF INFORMATION AGE IN
1982 (James R. Messenger)
 “The Information Age
is a true new age based
upon the
interconnection of
computers via
telecommunications,
with these information
systems operating on
both real-time and as-
needed basis.
JAMES R. MESSENGER
 a documentarian best
known for his Emmy
Award-winning work on the
short film The Taj Majal,
which won the gold in 1982
for outstanding
informational or cultural
programming as well as
outstanding
cinematography for
director of photography
Arnie Sirlin.
JAMES R. MESSENGER

 Born: September 4,
1948
 Died: April 21, 2015
 Movies: 
Of Time, Tombs and Tr
easures
, The Taj Mahal, Koryo
Celadon
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

 3000 BC
SUMMERIAN
WRITING SYSTEM
which used
PICTOGRAPHS to
represent words.
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

2900 BC
EGYPTIAN
HIEROGLYPHIC
WRITTING
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

 1830
-FIRST viable design for a
digital computer.
- Augusta lady Byron
(Ada Lovelace) writes
the world’s first
computer program.
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

 Augusta Ada King, Countess of

Lovelace was an English
mathematician and writer,
chiefly known for her work on
Charles Babbage's proposed
mechanical general-purpose
computer, the Analytical
Engine. 
 Born: December 10, 1815, 
London, United Kingdom
 Died: November 27, 1852, 
Marylebone, London, United Kin
gdom
 Full name: Augusta Ada King-
Noel, Countess of Lovelace.
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

1899 'The first magnetic

recordings are released
 At the Copenhagen
Telegraph Company, in 1898
Danish inventor Valdemar
Poulsen (1869–1942)
recorded his voice by feeding
a telephone microphone
signal to an electromagnet
that he moved along a steel
piano wire.
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

 1923
Television Camera
Tube was
invented.
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

 1926
 First Practical Sound Movie.
 “THE JAZZ SINGER”
 American musical film,
released in 1927, that was
the first feature-length
movie with synchronized
dialogue. It marked the
ascendancy of “talkies” and
the end of the silent-film
era.
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

1939
Regulary scheduled
television
broadcasting began
in US.
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

 1946
ENIAC computer was
developed.
-The ENIAC (Electronic
Numerical Integrator
and Computer),
introduced at the
University of
Pennsylvania in 1946, was
the world's first electronic
digital computer.
TIMELINE OF THE INFORMATION AGE

 1958 1971
First integrated Intel introduced
circuit. the first
microprocessor
chip.
Why Is Culture Important?
( Impact on People & Society)

 Culture is a reflection of a community or nation.

This makes culture a vital and important
determining factor of how the community reacts,
responds, and grows. Culture plays a major role in
the lives of everyone in the society. Culture gives
you a sense of belonging, especially when
everyone speaks the same language. Language
evolves with the culture as an intimate product of
the way those within the society communicate.
Culture Provides Stability

 It provides stability that, in turn, gives you a

feeling of security and safety. For most
people, culture provides them with the same
emotional response as they have for 
their family. Strangers have an instant
connection when they are part of the same
culture. Culture provides a continuity
between cities, states, and regions.
Culture Can Nurture

In the right kind of culture, people feel

nurtured and even loved. They share the
same history and ideologies as those within
their community, and this gives everything
unity. It ties them to their ancestry and
provides a sensation of longevity which gives
them a feeling of truth and living an authentic
life.
Negative Aspects of Some Cultures

 Culture nuances are far-reaching and can

overshadow individual beliefs and ideologies.
That's because culture sets up certain
expectations for how members of the culture
should act.
Ingrown Cultures

 Cultures that don't embrace diversity by

accepting other cultures into their fold become
ingrown. In some more extreme cases when the
culture becomes too ingrown, its reach develops
into a groupthink mentality. In this extreme
form of culture, anyone who doesn't toe the
cultural line is viewed in a negative way. In fact,
the person will be ostracized and shamed into
conforming to the culture's precepts.
Cultural Stagnation Is Harmful

 This type of culture derives its power through

control of the community. In most instances of
groupthink cultures, there are a handful of
people steering the culture in their desired
direction. At other times, strong cultural edicts
simply morph as a result of strict cultural
practices. These practices may become
stagnant instead of continuously evolving and
changing the way most healthy cultures do.
Cultural Control of Community

 In strict instances of controlling cultures, the

biggest threat is the stifling of individuality. When
a person is forced to fall in line with strict cultural
mandates, they don't develop discernment or
critical thinking. What they think, what they do,
how they move through life is all dictated and
controlled by the culture they grow up in or
choose to become part of as an adult. Cults often
evolve from this kind of repressive cultures.