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Information technology as an agent of post-modernism
Dissertation (MCom (Informatics))--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/26031 Information technology as an agent of post-modernism Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) davefnel@yahoo.com Nel, David Ferguson Nihilism Society Internet Post-modernism Information technology Technology Identity UCTD Dissertation (MCom (Informatics))--University of Pretoria, 2008. Society is in a tumultuous state. Today’s Western society is characterized by disillusionment, doubt, irony, fragmentation and plurality. With the failure of Modernism and the rise to prominence of Nihilism, Post-Humanism, Post-Structuralism and Individualism, society has entered a thoroughly Post-Modern era. Over the past couple of decades humanity has increasingly turned to Information Technology as the great enabler. Through the capabilities that Information Technology offers, undreamed heights of scientific and technological progress have been reached in an amazingly short span of time. However, rather than uplifting and emancipating society, the wholesale implementation of Information Technology has brought with it a host of unintended and unforeseen consequences. As with the promises of Modernism, Information Technology has not brought society the Utopia that it imagined. Information Technology rather has acted to create a universe characterized by virtuality, constant change, indeterminacy, and an information orientated perspective on the world. Technological progress has not been accompanied by social progress. Through a comprehensive literature review and an examination of both Post-Modernism and Information Technology, it is proposed that the influences of Information Technology have acted and continued to act to promote Post-Modernism. These influences amongst others include its displacement of space and time, its promotion of the Information Society, its ability to create digital hyperrealities, its destructive influence on tradition and culture, and most of all its catastrophic/revolutionary impact on the identity. Through these influences this paper seeks to prove that Information Technology acts an agent of Post-Modernism. Informatics unrestricted 2013-09-07T02:07:45Z 2008-07-04 2013-09-07T02:07:45Z 2007-04-23 2008-07-04 2008-07-03 Dissertation a 2006 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26031 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07032008-130105/ © University of Pretoria 20 application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Nihilism Society Internet Post-modernism Information technology Technology Identity UCTD Information technology as an agent of post-modernism |
| title | Information technology as an agent of post-modernism |
| title_full | Information technology as an agent of post-modernism |
| title_fullStr | Information technology as an agent of post-modernism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Information technology as an agent of post-modernism |
| title_short | Information technology as an agent of post-modernism |
| title_sort | information technology as an agent of post modernism |
| topic | Nihilism Society Internet Post-modernism Information technology Technology Identity UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26031 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07032008-130105/ |