Name:Gohil Poojaba SRoll No.:16Std:M.A.Sem-2Sub:Paper No 8(C)Cultural StudiesPreentation Topic:Technoculture & RiskSubmitted To:M.K.Bhavnagar UniversityYear:2015-2017

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.

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.

Question:-Do you see the use of technology as risky andThat same technology asks you to buy moreProduction to avoid risks?

Risk Society

• Risk society:• Towards a new

Modernity (1992)-Ulrich Beck

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

Technoculture in everyday life:-

• From shopping to education

• We live in incresingly technolosized world

• Communication tool• Online shopping• Entertainment• Access of information• commerce

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.

Risk of declaration of confidential or privateInformationCredit card,password,home address etc…Moral panics about childrenCyber-talk