Question 6: Digital Law

Digital law:


 Q.6.1.
Digital Socialisation: On the Internet socialisation refers to the way that people communicate and the methods that they use to do so. Socialisation describes the customs, languages and quirks unique to a particular culture. The internet involves millions of people from different countries and backgrounds has developed some culture and quirks of its own.

 Social media tools can help create a more dynamic community of practice and provide an ongoing and searchable conversation to benefit others. To successfully introduce social media into a community of practice within an organization, there are several factors that need to be addressed and questions to be asked.


1. Social media is an important catalyst to education

Spending too much time on social media can distract children from their studies but the group found that many schools around the world also recognize that social media assists informal learning and maybe a primary means of education in some circumstances.

2. Social media is not making us more individualistic:

Popular opinion tends to regard social media as making us more individualistic and narcissistic, but that is not necessarily the case. Individual-based social networking is said to have grown at the expense of more traditional personal relationships. The research found this in some instances, but more commonly found social media being used to actually reinforce traditional groups, such as family, castes, and tribes, and to repair the ruptures created by migration and mobility.

3. Social media is not making the world more homogenous.


One of the primary discoveries of the project is that people everywhere generally find ways to make social media serve local purposes, instead of breaking down international boundaries. 

4. Public social media is conservative


The public-facing areas of social media platforms such as Facebook tend to be conservative, and in many of the research sites around the world people avoid political and religious postings.
5. Social media best promotes personal commerce.
Social media helps to develop aspects of commerce by expanding personal networks, such as peer-to-peer selling. Social media connection is a way to build trust that leads to new business relationships.

6. We now “talk” through photos


Social media has shifted human communication toward the visual at the expense of text and voice. Now a photo, or emoji, can become the core of our conversation. This benefits people who are not confident in their communication skills, as we can now simply communicate with pictures and images. Visual communication also helps maintains daily intimacy between family members separated by great distances.

7. Equality online doesn’t mean equality offline

Even though the ease of social media communication brings major benefits to previously excluded populations, this may not have any overall impact on social differences, or oppression offline. In other cultures, the study showed people tend to associate with their “caste” and not typically make connections out of their social status.

8. Selfies send different messages around the world


People taking their own photo with a smartphone has become associated with self-obsession. But the research reveals a much more varied picture of selfies taken for different purposes. In England, there are three distinct selfie styles. Social media is a new way to express cultural difference rather than a technology that has made the world more homogeneous. Populations in different parts of the world may use local or regional platforms and their own online “dialects” which keeps people separated and distinct, not united.

9. Social media has created a new genre of communication based on groups.

Before social media, most communication was either private and one-to-one (letters or the telephone), or public broadcasting (radio, TV, newspapers). By contrast, social media is mainly devoted to groups, and allows us to scale different sizes of audience and varying degrees of privacy. “Group communication” is something we take for granted today but is largely a modern implication of social media. When you consider it, this may be one of the most profound implications of the social media era — easy group communication and collaboration.
10. Social media can have a profound impact on gender relations
One of the areas where social media has had a profound cultural impact is gender relations, especially in highly conservative societies where this has enabled young women and men to establish sustained and direct contact with each other. In some cases, a crucial element of this is the use of fake accounts.
Q.6.2.

Socialisation on the Internet refers to the ways that people communicate and the methods they use to do so. Socialisation describes the customs, quirks and language unique to a particular culture.Social media tools can help create a more dynamic community of practice and provide a on going conversations to benefit others. 

Examples of Ethical Issues:
  • Digital divide: Inequalities in information access for parts of the population.
  • Unequal opportunities: for those who do not have access to the internet.
  • Privacy and security: People not respecting each others personal space and information online.
  • Intellectual property issues: people stealing other peoples ideas online.
  • Cyber bullying: online

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