Technoculture & Risk

1. Name:Gohil Poojaba S
Roll No.:16
Std:M.A.Sem-2
Sub:Paper No 8(C)
Cultural Studies
Preentation Topic:Technoculture & Risk
Submitted To:M.K.Bhavnagar University
Year:2015-2017

2. Brief detail on Technoculture & Risk
• Contemporary critical theory has to negotiate
with massive environment disaster,industrial
disaster,9/11 & other cataclysmic events.
• Much contemporary social theory examines
the role such events play in culture.
• One of the most influencial of such theories is
that of the Risk Theory.

3. Examples
• You will discover that Pc gives you information
on the risks involved in using it.
• Virus,illigal operation,repeted striking of the
shift key,corruption of the hard drive & so on.
• It also offers solutions:
• Contact the help centre,download anti
virus,update your Pc & so on.
• Risk & solution are embedded in the same
system.

4. Question:-
Do you see the use of technology as risky and
That same technology asks you to buy more
Production to avoid risks?

5. Risk Society
• Risk society:
• Towards a new
Modernity (1992)-Ulrich
Beck

8. Risk society:-
Towards a new modernity-1992
-Ulrich Beck
As soon as risks become real,it turns to
disaster.
Risks are potential disaster.

9. Technoculture in everyday life:-
• From shopping to
education
• We live in incresingly
technolosized world
• Communication tool
• Online shopping
• Entertainment
• Access of information
• commerce

10. Technological threats
• Mass destruction weapons
• 9/11 & other terrorist attacks
• All are solved using more technology,systems
and machions-that turns ultimately to another
risks.

13. Risk of declaration of confidential or private
Information
Credit card,password,home address etc…
Moral panics about children
Cyber-talk