Science Technology and Culture.

Running Head: Science, Technology and Culture
Science, Technology and Culture
Essay
System04104
12/11/2019

Science, Technology and Culture
1. Impact of digital technologies on national culture
Digital technology is a now an essential part of human life and strongly associated
with the culture of people in every society. One way technology affects the global culture is
through media globalisation. Media technology is one of the most popular and effective way
that affects the culture of people in most part of the world. People now a day can access any
information on their fingertips through the mobile phones and internet (Sunny, Patrick, &
Rob, 2019). Apart from this, social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
Instagram etc. are providing immediate and clear picture of the world when people want to
seek information about that. The increasing use of technology and technological advancement
in the every part of the world somewhere affected the culture of people, which is described in
this essay, and shows how digital technology is directly related with national culture. The
essay also shows the correlation between technology and culture and role of technology in
cultural development.
There has always been a strong correlation between technology and culture. As
technological advancement and human invention directly associated with the human culture,
one cannot ignore that culture is also responsible for evolution of technology as well. As most
of the people are addicted of digital media and social networking sites, it is very easy for
them to see and adopt the culture of other society of country. Even most of the people believe

that technological advancement make the world truly globalised in the 21st century (Jasanoff,
2015). People see, learn, and adopt the culture of other people and adopt the changes in their
daily lives as well. Thanks to modern global communication and use of digital devices, that
makes the world as a globalised world where distance is no longer relevant for the people in
their daily lives (Ellis, 2019). The advancement in technology almost changed the culture of
every society and country. It has been noted that digital technology also has a positive
influence on the culture, art, business, law, healthcare, education, mobility, enforcement, and
religion. For example, in healthcare sector, it is easy for the patient to provide treatment or
advices to the patients on the video conferencing calls and advised them proper treatment.
Apart from this, the video conferencing can also play a vital role in law and enforcement
industry. The technology helps the judges to listen the case on the video conferencing of
those criminals or victims who cannot enter in the court because of security reasons. This
shows that how technology affects the various part of culture and how it helps the people to
make improvement in the life standard as well (Crowley & Heyer, 2015).
The technology has lot of positive impacts on the human culture, but it has some
negative impacts as well. The major drawback of technology is that it negatively effects the
creativity of people in any country. People take the help of digital technology in every small
work in their daily life and it leads to destruction of creativity among people (Ellis, 2019).
Apart from this, technology can also have some negative effect on the daily life of people and
especially children because it make them addicted of digital devices that limits the thinking

capabilities of people and raise unsocial behaviour in youngsters like hacking, cyber-bullying
or theft. Although the long term impact of digital technology on national culture is generally
not foreseeable but it can be said that digital technology have large numbers of positive
impact on the national culture rather than negative impacts (Jasanoff, 2015).