Information and communication technology and globalization the effects of: digital thought slavery

Document Type : علمی وپزوهشی

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Associate professor and faculyy member of Islamic Azad uni Roudehen Branch, Mirzaee_khalil@ riau. Ac.ir

Abstract

Importing digital Communicative instruments to the world has revelutionized the life styles and word relations both in width and intensity and its effects has been greater then the industrial revolution and in a few decades changed the word more than the whole are of its history. ICT’s (Information and communication technology) with a new process called globalization encompasses not only the economy but also the whole structures governing in men’s Life and even his or her thougth and created a new condition called digital and thought slavery. In this article, it has been tried to pose and define such concepts as globalization, ICT’s and digital slavery and the relations among them and explain the new conditions created by them.
The method of this study has been fundemental – theoretical in its purpose and based on the rational – logical reasoning and documentary in its administration and based on theoretical base. The findings and reasonings of this article suggest that today slavery imoses in new form and condition and the gap between the developed contries reljed on Information and services indusrty and the nondigital contries relied on natural resources has been increased extraordinarily.

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