The document discusses technophobia, defined as the fear or aversion to technology, particularly complex devices like computers. It explores the cultural implications of this fear in the context of a risk society, as highlighted by Ulrich Beck, and addresses concerns about technological unemployment and its socio-political repercussions. Additionally, it touches on issues of privacy and cybersecurity in the modern age of e-banking.

1. Sem : 2
Cultural studies
Prepared by : Ravina Parmar
Enrollment no: 2069108420200031
Batch : 2019-2021
Date : 28 February 2020
Email address : ravinaparmar827@gmail.com
Submitted to : Department of English ( MKBU)
M. K. Bhavanagar University
Department of English Topic :
Cultural
studies in
Technophobia

2. ● Meaning of Technophobia :
● Fear of Technology.
● Dislike or avoid new or advanced
technology or complex devices especially
computers.
● Do not comfort with technology like
computer and machines.
● Extreme avoidance.
● Automatic or uncontrollable reaction.

3. The opposite term
that is Technophile :
A person who is
Enthusiastic about
new technology.
● We have a Culture of
warning. In whatever places
we visited we find that
innumerable warning and
risk.

4. ● Risk society : Ulrish Beck
● Ulrish Beck was the German socialist.
● Risk Society : To wards a new
Modernity.
● while in the past experiments were
conducted in a lab, now the whole world
is a test bad.

5. ● Fears about technology, and certainly fears that
technology will destroy our jobs, have been with us
for as long as jobs have existed,”
● That is the important question. If robots worked in
factories then what about those people , who were
replaced by Machines.
● Impact on three groups : those who invent, those
who are purchase and those who replaced by
machines ( poor people).
How we connect with cultural studies :

6. ● Fear of technology taking over the
human (individual or society).
● Every technology has a dark side.
● The relationship between two countries (India
and Pakistan).
● If one country purchases tools of atomic bombs
or missiles. Then the opposite country in at risk
and they think about more powerful missiles etc.

7. ● Fears related to privacy and cyber security :
● We live in the age of E - Banking.
● Many times people face problems with online
transactions. So the larger numbers of people think that
is not reliable.
● Here we can say that those who are in duty to find out
the cyber criminals they don't perform well.( That is
differ in every country. How Culture react upon that
situation.)

8. Work Cited :
● Beck, Ulrich (1992) Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage
● Cookson, Clive. “AI and Robots Threaten to Unleash Mass Unemployment,
Scientists Warn.” Financial Times, Financial Times, 14 Feb. 2016,
www.ft.com/content/063c1176-d29a-11e5-969e-9d801cf5e15b.
● Narayana Pramod K. An Introduction of Cultural studies. Viva Books Private
Limited (April 20,2011.
● “Technophobia.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster,
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/technophobia. Accessed 27 Feb.
2020.

9. Thank You