CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Elementary Class, Carbon Footprint, Non-Departmental Public Body

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Rhonda Mc Ewen

Document Summary

New technologies change the cultural and ethical norms. Change is either progressive or regressive but it is an inevitable aspect of society. Change brings along new trends in society and people sooner or later adapt towards it. A lot of these trends are triggered by the advancements in technology. Contemporary communication technologies such as facebook and ebooks have catapulted a huge change in the cultural and ethical norms of society. The social networking site, facebook has given the word friend an obligatory tag (light and mcgrath, 2010, p. 304) and the concept of privacy ceases to exist. On the contrary the rise in ebooks is eliminating the norm of paper books (hanna, 2010, p. 1) and it is also encouraging a greener environment and more opportunities for learning: the impact of facebook. Facebook"s emergence has vastly impacted the ethical norms of society. The program"s function is to interact with others, find old friends or make new ones.