Positive and negative of cyberculture

The emergence and growth of cyberculture and cyberspace has changed the life of individuals into much better, les difficulty and cooperative way. Thanks to the digital tools, softwares, or programs that made our business, education, communication or else so easy, fast and intercooperative. However, it was not with limitations, we opt to choose integrating it with its limitations and with an intention to minimize using the technology itself. Therefore, here I will mention the positive and negative part of the cyberculture as we tend to use it.

The positive point of cyberculture either as part of practical user or analyser seems, like;

(Source from Google)

·        Connectivity which leads us to:

o   Information sharing and exchange for many reasons

o   Cooperative work among societies internationally or nationall in various meaningful perspective;

§   Educational perspective

·        Elearning ( online learning, bleded learning, computer assisted learning and other technology assisted facilities)

§  Socio-cultural exchange

o   couchsurfing, hospitality and so on

§  Making campaign in any of the world dimensions, including presidential election, climate change issue, free nuclear zone, and natural disaster( e.g. Japan fukishima)

§  Gathering the voice of national or international protesters, demonstrators and get the attention of concerned organizations. What we have seen in Tunisia, Egypt, and so on prodemocracy protest could be a representative example.

§  For communication purpose,

·        Blogging, emailing social networking, chatting and skyping are multiple and optional way of communication

§  Educational purpose; reusable learning materials production, management, and repository systems

In general, eventhough I have tried to mention some of the essentialness of the cyberspaces, in broader sense, its detailed advantage is much more than possible to mention, as almost we are fully integrated into the digital areas. However, in contrary to the positive outcome of digital space and culture, we are also entertaining the negative, limitation; of the technology with an intention the technology will solve technological limitations. Consequently, similar to some criticizers, in my opinion, some of the negative parts of the cyberculture will be;

·        The question of privacy, mostly social networking(facebook and twitter) and youngsters who tend to use all its features

·        The digital safety:

o   Intellectual property rights

o   Cyber crimes and so on

·        Too crowded online information which made it quiet confusing for users

·        Digital divide, the domination of wealth nations and people who has full access(have’s and have not’s)

·        Digital ethical problems

·        Information toxication and so on

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