technoculture and risk

Prepared by: Virji Bathvar

Topic: Technoculture and Risk

Roll no:1

paper no: 07 Cultural studies

submitted :Department of English m.k.b.u

email id: bathvarvirji@gmail.com

Risk and Society introduced in 1980

Ulrich Beck Anthony Giddens

Risk society : Towards a new modernity

“ A risk society is a society increasingly preoccupied with the future (and also with the safety) which generates the notion of risk.”

-Anthony Giddens “A risk society is a systematic

way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself”

-Ulrich Beck

Technoculture in Everyday life we live in increasingly digital world. Everyday life, shopping to education depends

heavily on technology. Communication –mobile Online shopping Entertainment Access to information Commerce Even in literature also we can see for example

poem written by Krushn Dave ‘Vasaladi.com, ‘morpich.com’, ‘Vrindavan akhu.com’

As soon as risk become real they become disaster.

Example: 1) Suppose right now I am

giving my presentation and the projector stops than it becomes disaster.

2) Indian cricket batting line up.

Risks are potential disaster.Example:

Our everyday life is also surrounded by risks. But problem from where is we know about it. It was already there before we know it is there.

Example• PC Risk – ‘Virus’, ‘illegal operation’,

corruption of hard disk and so on. Solution – Contact the help centre,

download anti-virus and update your PC.• Aqua guard Risk- kills vitamins and other minerals

by purifying water. Solution- new advanced aqua guard

P.C Aquaguard

Both are going parallel • NOTICE- That both risk and

solution are embedded in the same system.

• First do no harm is the prudential norm of choice, but it is impossible to anticipate all possible harms.

When we are using technology at that time we have some problems also. But point is that we must have to go back technology for solutions. For example when our pen drive corrupted at that time also once again we go to technology for help.So, from these types of examples we can say technology is always risky.

CONCLUSION So after all we can say that everything has its both sides as same like coin. And in using technology also the same useful as well as risky. But it not mean that we are stop to using it. But if we have to work with technology so we must have to be ready with plan A,B and C. And for solution we have to go outside the technology otherwise we are stuck in the vicious cycle of problem and solution.

Thank you

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