INTRODUCTION

TO
THE DIGITAL
 DIGITAL AGE
• Also known as “Information Age”.
• 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.
• Digital technologies have radically changed the way people
work, consume, and communicate over a short period of
time.
 These technologies enabled people to
communicate information easily and rapidly. Digital Technology
became prevalent and widely used
around the world. Information can be accessed easily specially
with the use of the internet.
 House chores and jobs are getting automated with the
help of machines and equipment.
 Mobile phones became very useful in every areas of
life --- in education, entertainment, jobs, etc.
 THE ICT AND ITS ROLE IN SOCIAL
CHANGE
INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY or
ICT
• Has the power to transform society.
• A group of interrelated technologies 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
 THE ICT AND ITS ROLE IN
• SOCIAL
ICTs are indisputably CHANGE
important part of our social setting today.
• 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.
 THE ICT AND ITS ROLE IN
SOCIAL CHANGE
• The development of a society mostly depends on the access to
information.
• The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
greatly ease the flow of information and knowledge offering the
socially marginalized community an extraordinary chance to
attain their own rights socially, economically, educationally, and
politically.
 THE ICT AND ITS ROLE IN
• The emergenceSOCIAL CHANGE
of Internet, World Wide Web, mobile cell
phones, digital television, and several other new electronic
devices pertaining information and communication
technologies (ICTs) are opening a fresh passageways for
transforming the way we live, work, learn, communicate and
also provides a strategic opportunities of diverse and
significant social and economic benefits to people across the
globe.
SOCIAL CHANGE
o Refers to a transformation of culture and social
organizations/structures over time.
o We are aware that in a modern world, a society is never static
and that of social, political, economic, and cultural changes
occur constantly.
o To increase the consent potential of ICTs, it is important to
understand some of their basic features, which make them a
unique kind of technologies.
 SCIENCES We get entertained by the
content that we see in Facebook,
With the advent of new YouTube, and Instagram.
technologies, the world of Computer gaming has also been
entertainment is constantly evolving. an important influence in the
Digital development of graphical
broadcasting has completely interfaces. Technology has been
changed the way we experience at the forefront of changes in
television and radio. Cinema production and distribution of
music. We can now listen to
can now be found at the comfort of
music and podcast using Spotify.
your home through application such
as Netflix, iFlix, etc.

The impact of ICT on business
is particularly significant. It empowers
people to share knowledge and advice
instantaneously and set up an online shop
or website at a low cost, dramatically
lowering the barriers to starting a
business.
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.
BUSINESS
Businesses in today’s life have
promoted a lot with the coming of ICT.
For example, ICT helps to increase
productivity in business with the use of
Social Media platforms for marketing and
promotion.
Online platform has been
the marketplace where people can
transact and communicate.
 ● It is changing the way of the
education delivery system in
the world by enhancing
access to information for all.
It also ensures effective and
inclusive education.
● It makes education accessible to
all, irrespective of geographical
barriers or resource constraints.
Learners from remote areas,
working people who want to
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learn further and update their
knowledge and differently abled
students who find travelling an
issue of concern - benefit from
the mobile learning mode.
● ICT can play varied roles
in developing an effective
learning environment. It
assists teachers and helps
explain core content
concepts and addresses
misconceptions.
● With the help of multimedia, it
effectiveness
teaching-learning and hence
of
proves crucial for early learners,
slow learners and differently
abled learners. Modern ICT tools
not only deliver the content but
also replicate formal learning
experience via virtual learning.
 JOB AND EARNINGS
Beyond income security, employment fulfils a number of
important roles for human wellbeing, such as time structure, social
contact, a sense of purpose, a valued social position as well as an
opportunity for skill use. digitalization yields opportunities by creating
employment in new and existing industries, with greater job-to-job
mobility facilitated by online job search tools.
Despite fears for the automation, there is little evidence so
far that technological change has led to a net loss of jobs. As a
result, automation may, in the future, have much more impactful
consequences on the need for human labor than it has so far.
 JOB AND EARNINGS
TELEWORKING (Work from Home)
 allows people to save time and combine their work and personal lives
Teleworking , on the other hand, may present an opportunity for work-life
balance as it improves time management and may reduce time spent
commuting.
 A variety of studies have found that employees who engage in telework
have higher job satisfaction.
 Among positive effects, teleworkers report reduced commuting times, more
flexibility in organizing their working time, and better overall work-life
balance.
 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.
● Health-care delivery is also affected by new digital technologies, such as electronic
records, new treatment options, telecare, and teleconsultation. An important aspect
of digitalization concerns the production and use of medical data to improve the
effectiveness and efficiency of health systems.
 THEORIES IN TECHNOLOGY
● Example. The Medium is the Message by
TECHNOLOGICAL
DETERMINISM
● It is the theory which strongly believe that
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.
● 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.
Marshall McLuhan. The technology which
is used as a channel of communication
matter more than the content.
Example. 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.
 “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
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surrounds them”.
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 THEORIES IN TECHNOLOGY
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM

Social Constructivism is the opposite of the Technological

Determinism. 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
Technological change means the technical knowledge used in the
production of capital and machinery. Technological progress comprises of
creation of skill, new means of production, new uses of raw materials and
the widespread use of machinery. The technology is the most powerful
means of wresting power from nature in all possible ways. It strengthens
the facilities of man.
 PROCESS OF TECHNOLOGICAL
CHANGE
Technological changes devise new goods and techniques of production. 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:

Development of
Application of technical
Formulation
these principles inventions to the
of scientific point of
to give technical
principles commercial
problems
exploitation.
 JOSEPH SCHUMPETER has distinguished between
invention and innovation.

Invention Innovation
● Implies the discovery of new ● Practical application of
technique. invention in production for
● Scientific fact market.

● Economic fact
Thank you!
Arcebuche, Dimple O.
Gutierrez, Bernadeth
Mendoza, Jhosua
Sangalang, Mae
Silvestre, Benzi