The document discusses the evolution of social globalization through the development of mass media and communication technologies over time. It begins with human's innate social nature and traditional face-to-face interactions. The advent of writing, printing press, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, internet, and smartphones have enabled increasingly long-distance and mass communication. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated this shift and changed how people socialize and conduct activities like work, education, religion, and business. The conclusion predicts that the world will become even more interconnected and social norms will be altered by the pandemic's effects on various industries and institutions.
The document discusses the evolution of social globalization through the development of mass media and communication technologies over time. It begins with human's innate social nature and traditional face-to-face interactions. The advent of writing, printing press, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, internet, and smartphones have enabled increasingly long-distance and mass communication. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated this shift and changed how people socialize and conduct activities like work, education, religion, and business. The conclusion predicts that the world will become even more interconnected and social norms will be altered by the pandemic's effects on various industries and institutions.
The document discusses the evolution of social globalization through the development of mass media and communication technologies over time. It begins with human's innate social nature and traditional face-to-face interactions. The advent of writing, printing press, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, internet, and smartphones have enabled increasingly long-distance and mass communication. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated this shift and changed how people socialize and conduct activities like work, education, religion, and business. The conclusion predicts that the world will become even more interconnected and social norms will be altered by the pandemic's effects on various industries and institutions.
Introduction • Man is a social being • Humans interact with one another • Socialization is essential in life Before… • Face-to-face interaction • Family, village, community Before… • People learned to write • Written communication added to face-to-face communication • Personal letters, edicts of kings, books Advent of Mass Media • Invention of the printing press • Caused the mass production of writings • Print media • Newspapers Advent of Mass Media • The Telegram was invented in the mid 1800s • The Telephone was invented in the late 1800s • Radio Broadcasting began in the 1920s • Television Broadcasting began in the 1940s • The internet was invented in the 1980s • The Cellphone was invented in the 1990s • Social Media was invented in the 2000s
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Today… • The Quad Media • Print • Radio • TV • Internet Today… • Massive personal communication across the globe thru social media Today… • We do these things on line… • Personal communication • Shopping • Banking • Job hunting • Courtship and dating • Entertainment • Education With the Covid-19 Pandemic…. The social landscape is having a tectonic shift • What could the “new normal” look like? • How are we to socialize after the pandemic? • Shall we maintain social distancing? Or go back to the pre-covid days? • What will happen to certain industries like tourism? Sports? mass transportation? Music industry? Education? • What will be the normal way of Christian churches and conducting their worship services? How about other religions? • Think about these things…. Conclusion • The world is smaller nowadays because of mass media and the internet • The covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we do socialization For the Discussion Board • Write a one sentence “prediction” how the new normal would look like in the field of… • Courtship and Dating (1st to 5th student to give a comment) • Sports (6th to 10th student to give a comment) • Tourism (11th to 15th student to give a comment) • Mass Transportation (16th to 20th student to give a comment) • Church services (21th to 25th student to give a comment) • Education (26th to 30th student to give a comment) • Business (31th to 35th student to give a comment) • Jails (36th to 45th student to give a comment) • Elections (46th to 50th student to give a comment) Example • You enter the Discussion board and there are 3 people already who made their comments • That means you are the 27th commenter. • Thus, the assigned topic for you is education. • So you write a one sentence prediction how the new normal would look like in the field of education. You may write… • “The class size will be smaller, from 40, it will just be 20.”