CMNS 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Critical Role, Information Technology, Intellectual Capital
16 Oct 2016
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People become aware of changes largely through media alerts is to the fact that a key feature of upheaval is information and the technologies which handle, process and act upon it. The mass media themselves have been radically changed by new ways of gathering and transmitting information from lightweight video cameras to global satellite. Huge expansion of the symbolic environment (books, radio,tv), has also meant that information on issues such as sexual relations, their satisfactions and their difficulties is more widely available than hitherto, and this unavoidably enters our consciousness. The import of information in current change is much more than the matter of increasing the messages audiences receive. Computerization accelerates changes in the here and now promises continuous change and a consequent need for ongoing adaptation among the workforce. The extension of telecommunications around the globe means that economic and political strategies can be developed and instigated with a sensitivity towards global factors.
