Wednesday, 26 October 2016

POE QUESTION 3

QUESTION 3: POE

Digital Communication and fluencies

The social economy

- Social Technologies is defined as applying the used technologies for specific purposes especially social ones: to ease social procedures via social software and social hardware which might include the use of computers and information technology for governmental procedures.

Risk of social technologies for individuals, corporate and communities.

- The risk of social technologies for individuals corporate and communities is that South Africa will be faced with the increase in unemployment increased loneliness and also the world description weapons and will also face competency, risk of social technologies to communicate using Facebook people should be careful as to what they post online on their profiles. (Karen Mossberger, 2007)
 The risk of this is that when people get your personal information they might use it to stalk the person which may cause harm to the person.

Benefits of social technologies

- For individuals to benefit they will be able to send messages and by doing this they will be quickly connected. The individual will not lose out on any communication
- The space that they share allows cooperate to co-create content, coordinate joint projects and tasks. According to (Miller, 2011)  People work best and in full potential when they are in groups, sharing ideologies and allowing people build on each other’s ideas. The main idea is to make corporate communicate simultaneously to a large evidence and it is not expensive to communicate with customers.
- The benefit for communities is that communication has improved as modern technology has broadened the channels used in communication which can be video chat or electronic mail so this means that SA communities are able to communicate with friends and family located far away and can even Skype which is easy and people will communicate better.
- The Isizwe Project for providing free Wi-Fi to most cities in South Africa has improve lots of communication skills and   in minimising the gap of digital divide.


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