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• Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

  Mechanisms that help us transmit, access, and store information by electronic and other automated means
• ICT

  • Integrates innovations like internet access, camera, ATM, etc. into mobile phones
  • Facilitates social relationships
  • Facilitates political movements
• Internet is an abbreviation of inter-networking
• Mechanisms in social media that help us in ICT include transmitting, accessing, and storing information
• Psychologist Kathryn Moore, Ph.D. says "You can connect with those people in similar situations and share worries, fears and celebrations"
• 83% of teenagers say they have made a new friend online
• Types of social movements

  • Redemptive
  • Visionary
  • Reformative
  • Revolutionary
• Netiquette

  Core rules of standard behaviour online, including remembering the human, respecting privacy, and making messages with good spelling and grammar
• In the 1500s, printing press brought information to the masses


  Today, the same ideas have continued with Twitter, Facebook, and blogs
• Social media can positively and negatively affect relationships
• To adhere to standard behaviour online, you should change your behaviour compared to real life
• Netiquette


  The set of rules of etiquette that apply to online communication
• Core rules of netiquette

  • Know where you are in cyberspace
  • Make yourself look good online
  • Remember the human
  • Respect other people's privacy
• The core rule of netiquette that is known as the 'golden rule' and must apply even in cyberspace is 'Remember the human'
• You will be mostly judged for your writing, so read and read in order to make comments and messages with good spelling and grammar
• The core rule of netiquette being discussed is 'Remember the human'
• In the midst of the 1500s, the printing press brought information to the masses. Today, those same ideas have been continued with Twitter, Facebook, and blogs
• To adhere to the standard behaviour online that you follow in real life, you should not change your persona whenever you are in front of the screen
• You cannot snoop into other people's accounts in social media
• Never use your Google Account Password on another website
• Developments in ICT have put most parts of the world within reach of information dissemination and connectivity
• Face Communication


  Communication with people online has improved social relationships significantly, but there are some issues with face-to-face communication
• Face-to-face communication causes frustration in different social circles, especially if referring to quality family time
• Convoy Model of Social Relations

  A model developed to specify the scientific study of social relations by detailing the antecedent factors influencing social relations (personal and situational), identifying multiple dimensions of social relations, and illustrating how these factors influence health and well-being
• Technological advances have occurred within the context of broader demographic changes, including shifts in mortality, fertility, mobility, and marital patterns
• Families are changing such that intergenerational ties, especially those across more than two generations, are becoming increasingly salient
• New and varied ways to communicate across geographic distances have created a world of possibilities for immigrants. The advent of communication technologies such as Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, and FaceTime (among others), has made the ability to connect with close others who are geographically distant almost effortless
• A population trend that has widespread implications for how older adults use technology is the heterogeneity of marital statuses, including "gray divorce" (i.e., divorce after the age of 50) and never married older adults
• New technologies have been found to directly influence health due to the possibilities they generate to better connect with others. New ways to create and sustain social relations may represent viable alternative sources for developing a sense of community in situations where mobility is limited or restricted
• Politics and social unrest have been around since man first gathered into groups in order to survive
• Leaders have always used private or public communication tools and propaganda to gain or maintain power, and those who oppose them have always used the same to overcome them when necessary
• The difference today, with instant communication possible on a global scale through email, IM, and social media, is that these things happen much faster, and often much more effectively
• This can be a liberating force for good and freedom, but there is also a dark side as authoritarian governments - and frighteningly, many who claim to be for freedom - use the same tools to monitor their citizens for any dissent in order to clamp down and maintain control
• Social movement

  A loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one
• Aberle's Four Types of Social and Political Movements: redemptive, reformative, revolutionary and alternative
• Political Movements in the Philippines: Communism in the Philippines, Environmentalism in the Philippines, Federalism in the Philippines, Islamism in the Philippines, Left-wing politics in the Philippines, Filipino nationalism, Separatism in the Philippines, Socialism in the Philippines
• Leaders have always used private or public communication tools and propaganda to gain or maintain power
• Which do you prefer, a day with budgeted time for activities or a day without any plan/schedule? Why
• Netiquette

  The 10 rules of etiquette for the internet published in a book by Virginia Shea
• 10 Core Rules of Netiquette


  • Remember the human
  • Adhere to the same standards of behaviour online that you follow in real life
  • Know where you are in cyberspace
  • Respect other people's time and bandwidth
  • Make yourself look good online
  • Share expert knowledge
  • Help keep flame wars under control
  • Respect other people's privacy
  • Don't abuse your power
  • Be forgiving of other people's mistakes