The Impact of Digital Technology on Society

The provided assignment is a report that discusses the importance and influence of digital technology in modern society. It highlights how digital networking helps individuals stay connected with friends and family, and how it saves time by facilitating easy communication and access to information. The report also mentions the benefits of digital technology in learning and personal development, but notes its negative impacts such as excess dependency and isolation. Overall, the assignment provides a detailed analysis of the impact of digital technology on society.

Living in a
digital World

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK...............................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
In the present scenario everybody is busy in virtual world. Anyone can contact with any
individual in any part of the world. Gap between people has been filled with the help of digital
life. Access to information and services is easy with the use of digital technology. Under this
category we can include print media, televisions, mobile phone etc.
TASK
Meaning and importance of digital world
Connection through digital device it can be with the help of media, mobiles etc. this
process is available to us 24/7. it is one of the best way to communicate with each other using
various mediums. Today almost 50% of our global population is using this digital technique and
number of users in social media are rapidly increasing day by day and it has reached
approximately to 68%. Many companies are opting digital life for growth of their business so
that outcomes can be increased (Couldry, 2012).
Its important has influence our like directly or indirectly. They have unlock our
perspective of information and connection. Through this we can gain digital proficiency or
literacy. This have increased digital literacy level strategies which were obstacles earlier. Social
media is the biggest invention in the field of digital world. They can be touch with their friends
and family even though they are thousand miles away. Technology has made each other closer to
one another but excess use of digital tools have lots of drawback. They can contact with other
person who is sitting in different corner of the world. Nowadays technology is getting faster and
it is being accepted by society which includes old aged person, children, young and many more.
Whatever new things happens in their life they will first post it into social media sites so as to
inform their friends and family about what is going in their life. For gaining information it is like
a book to you (McPake, Plowman and Stephen, 2013). Any knowledge you require you can
easily access to it. Through this exchange of messages for one specific location is relevantly
easier as compared to other means. The biggest disadvantage of this is that excess dependency in
this can cause trouble to an individual.
Technology make life easier. I have use technology for do our day to day activities or
work from morning to till night. I-Phone is my one of the fevarate tool that I use to teach with
environment like link with friends on social media, news, events, music, game etc. Technology
give support to my work and increase productively of my work. Through technology I can learn
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new things that help me to enhance my knowledge and skills. My grandfather also use social
media site very easily by operating both computer and phone. My most of the friends are
technology friendly, they all are give me latest information and knowledge about up gradation
in technology (Nedelcu, 2012). Technology have wast area of learning so that no single person
are able to understand all technology. I have many technical equipment in my house, but I have
mostly use phone, computer and television.
Digital networking helps me to keep connected with my friends and my old friends too.
It helps me to make relations with the new people and interact with them. It helps me to connect
with each other stay connected for a long time. I can send the wishes, greeting, videos and
wallpaper to many friends at a time this way it look like people remember us and make a bond
on the relations itself. It saves my time a lot through digitalization because of this I can easily
send information very fast to anyone. If I am so far I can see my parents through the video call
and it feel so happy while seeing them all. Grandmothers can send me the useful information see
want to tell me see can easily give me her guidelines this way we get the love of our
grandparents also. If any of an important paper we are not having through the network we can
easily have through photos with us it makes are incomplete work complete through a network
(Pearce and Rice, 2013). Mothers can meet their old friend which see never thought that see will
ever meet a old friend makes a meeting of old friends hapinesss.
CONCLUSION
From the above report we can conclude that digital technology plays an important role
but it has some positive and negative impact on people's life. They can easily connect with each
other through just one tool and click.
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REFRENCES
Books and Journals
Couldry, N., 2012. Media, society, world: Social theory and digital media practice. Polity.
McPake, J., Plowman, L. and Stephen, C., 2013. Pre‐school children creating and
communicating with digital technologies in the home. British Journal of Educational
Technology. 44(3). pp. 421-431.
Nedelcu, M., 2012. Migrants' new transnational habitus: rethinking migration through a
cosmopolitan lens in the digital age. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 38(9). pp.
1339-1356.
Pearce, K. E. and Rice, R. E., 2013. Digital divides from access to activities: Comparing mobile
and personal computer Internet users. Journal of Communication. 63(4). pp. 721-744.
Schade, S. and Granell, C., 2014. Shaping digital earth applications through open innovation–
setting the scene for a digital earth living lab. International Journal of Digital Earth.
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Schneier, B., 2011. Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world. John Wiley & Sons.
Wilsdon, J. ed., 2014. Digital Futures: living in a networked world. Routledge.
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