Techno-Culture and Risk

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      · Name: Abulhasan H. Aabedi

             

        Roll no: 01

     · Topic: Techno-culture and Risk

     · Paper no.8: Cultural Studies

              

     · Class: Semester 02

     · Enrollment no.:2069108420180001

     · Batch: 2017~19

     · Submitted to Department of English MK Bhavnagar University.

·         INTRODUCTION:

                                                               UlrichBeck propounded the influential ‘Risk society’ thesis in Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1992) and later works (1995, 1997). Risk, Beck inform us, is not real, risk are about ‘becoming real’. As soon as risks become real, they cease being risk, and become, instead, disasters. Risk then get displaced to other ‘Sites’: future disasters. So, risks are potential disaster and how risk is relevant with techno culture is important.

We live in an increasingly technologied world. Global capitalism- the immediate geopolitical context of our nation-state run on the engines of information and communications technology. Our everyday life from shopping to education depends heavily on technology, with greater or lesser degrees of both efficiency and necessity. Further, as 9/11 and its aftermath demonstrated so clearly, everyday life is vulnerable to technological threats, and these threats real or imagined, such as weapons of mass Destruction (WMD) are solved using more technological system and machine (smart bomb, electronic surveillance system), which in turn generate more threats/risk.

·         Technology helps in various fields:

                                                              We use technology in education, shopping, banking etc. In educational area now most of the study based on Online, with the help of Laptop, mobile etc. Virtual class rooms are introduced E-book are available. In agriculture many new facilities came through technology, we are using cell phone, laptop and other social media for communication like Facebook, Twitter, whatsapp etc in our everyday life. Our banking system also connected with technology, we use technology to transect money through E-banking and through ATM. In shopping field also we use various electronic cards to purchase new thing and our hospitals also connected with technology.

·         Thus, technology played very important role for human being progress as well as for nation. People of 21^st century will not survive without technology, every moment we need technology to stay with the world and be a member of Global world.

Our prime minister also launched the campaign ‘Digital India’ on 1 July 2015, and gave much importance to technology, and try to make digital India. Through this kind of various program, Govt. of India hopes to achieved growth on multiple fronts. Government aims to target nine ‘Pillars of digital India’ like Universal access to internet, E-Governance, E-Kranti, IT for jobs etc. Govt. of India launched many applications like E-Hospital, SBM-mobile app, My Gov.in etc.

·         Each coin has two sides:

                                            Technology provides us so many facilities and without any problem we can do our all works easily. But with technology various types of risk also connected and many disadvantages also, but sometime it is depends on people that how they use.

·         Techno-culture and Risk:

                           With use of Technology various types of risk are connected, for example.

·         PC/LAPTOP-

                        PC and Laptop both the devices are very helpful in now3 days. Both the devices provide solutions to numerous problems of communication, writing and information etc. But it gives some time problems also like, corruption of the hard drive, some time virus problem we face. So, this all are risk while using technology. But it is also offers solution, like download anti-virus and update your laptop and PC. Thus, both risk and solution are connected.

·         CCTV Camera-

                         CCTV Camera is very helpful device, now a day in each and every public place and at different places this type of camera use well. It helps a lot for security, proof and use well in various way. But when we under this CCTV Camera at that time we always much conscious for that and we have some type of risk like what about for our privacy?

·         Pendrive:

                  Pendrive is very little e-device, but with the help of this we can carry a lots of things at one place to other. But risk also there for example when we have presentation in our department generally we use pendrive and at that time it may corrupt and our all data might be lost. So, this is a big risk in technology.

·         Online shopping:

                                                             Now a day, online shopping becomes a craze. But when we ordered at that time we have one risk that, which type of things we ordered same we will get but many time it will change when we received. So, this is risk for us that we don’t got  exactly thing which we exactly want. So, this kind of risk we face from market.

·         Terrorism:

                    Terrorism is always very harmful to human being and now days they also use technology because many of them are very well educated and masters in technology so this kind of terrorism very risky for society and the world.

·         Facebook:

                   Recently, we have seen that people’s personal information and data leak through facebook application and lot many debate or cases were going on about the safety of people’s privacy. Thus, we may say that this kind of social media is risky for people’s privacy and risk for society.

·         Culture of Warning:-

                                     Now we all are living in the culture of warning. In various fields like bank, railway coaches, mall and any place you find warning against all sorts of dangers and risk. It happens because the excessive amount of technological and mediated information is being made available to us about the potential of risk from every object like food, use of credit card, infection, molestation, kidnapping etc.

We find this kind of risk in various advertisement like that many advertisement talked about this kind of things if you don’t use, you become ill, or it is not good for your health and that’s why use this, for example- Aqua Guard, in this add, they say that this is best for pure water. Hence, we think that if we don’t drinks this kind of pure mineral water then we become increasingly anxious about potential threats to our health and safety precisely when we are fed information from technology.

In the use of internet, we always have a problem of privacy. Because we always worry for our private or personal documents and other things which we put in laptop or in cell phone. So, we are always in risk.

When children use technology at that time also we have risk. Especially, parents feel moral panic such a technology engenders risks while simultaneously providing solution to such a risk. Thus, we know that how technology and risk both are connected. So it is like ‘vicious circle’. Techno science reveals the risk involved in contamination and other newer problems which were previously unknown, it also delivers information about these risk. Then it reproduces the risk by making us aware of these risks. So, techno-science generated the risk.

Risk theory for cultural studies reveals the extent that society/culture thrives on risk, providing information about risk potential, possible solution and so on. Risk theory reflects on the psycho-social impact of techno-culture where cultural responses to new devices are based upon awareness that they create new risk. So, we think what the solution of this problem is.  But there is no any solution. But as per Beck’s point of view that the autopoitic (self maturity) risk culture. When a system generates risk and its possible solution within itself.

Technology became  a risk is not  only just as above point but in politics also. ‘I Am Troll’- Inside the secret world of the BJP’s digital Army-written by Swati Chaturvedi. Swati chaturvedi is an investigative journalist, the book published in 26 December 2016. She has a good courage to write this book. In this book we can find that how social media is used to attack political opponents. In this book she wrote about the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), that how BJP use of social media and cyber bullying how impact on the political culture. How BJP use twitter as weapon, and many people were uses as volunteers and paid employees for fake news and gave supports for their own party. This is first political party that they used brilliantly the social media for their own benefit.

In the Movie Robot, we also find that Rajnikant made Robot but at the end how this robot became risky for him. Same ways in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in which Victor alive a dead body for the help of human being from the electricity and in the end he turn in Monster.

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Total words-1430