Internet is the vehicle of social change?

Gone are the days when people use to agitate in parks, roads, and in front of government building. Today we are living in internet era, where we got our self into gadget world like: Laptop, Mobile, PDA’s, iPods etc. All gadgets are internet connection-less and all have a capability to connect to the outside world with in a second. Now we can get the access to the rural and villages in a few seconds. We can look after the condition through the internet and we can get to know about the latest updates through the internet. In this article we discuss about the conditions which exists before the internet era which also affects the social change. 
Today's because of the globalization of everything has changed the standards. Today we got facebook, twitter, and many more social networking sites which is not only allow us to communicate even they have given the huge space to express our views at SNS and we can discuss about various social problem and their solutions. 
Just think about that, if don't have the Internet, then what would happen?

It can be said that, we wouldn't be able to communicate at vast place. It is normal thought that can easily come in every human mind but only the question is not about the communication because before the internet era people were has the other mode of communication and they did. So what would happen? Let’s talk about the academic era without the Internet. It has been said that Time has keep on changing and so people are with the time i.e. lifestyle, Techniques, modernity, and much more things. If there was no space for internet in academic area then might be some problem occurs like. Some knowledge is not enough to compete the other in same area and if the concern data was not available students filled our books with problems and they got no solutions and if they got the solution then the solution was non practical, based on economic theory as it was result of a small survey done by few people. Today we have tremendous technology to use among the people which come in form of expressing their thoughts get solution of their problem through internet. It’s also helping us in policy making and help to understand the actual condition of the social problem.

YES we can say,..... the technology is helping somehow in a bringing a social change,

Yes society is getting benefit with internet.

In the starting no one thought that internet will become a powerful tool for communication and for business also. No one thought it will bring shops and showroom on our computers. No one thought it will bring gamers at a single platform. Surely how a man can imagine it can be a tool for social change? Yes it is, yes it is a powerful tool that helping out millions of millions needy people in the world.

Usually I feel that internet is playing a vital role in bring social change. Further before discussing about social change we should discuss about social problems. So what was the social Problem which were affecting to the people, poor people and the society in negative prospective. In India Before the internet era we had several problems like:

1. Suppose a man is working in the company and he didn’t have his salary due to malpractice done by clerical person in finance department so at that period of time he had very few options to say his problem to the Top level of the company to fulfill his desire.
Solution: Now a Person has lots of option to give voice their view or opinion among the people easily because of the internet. The company made their Website for redressed of complaint or feedback area for getting suggestion through the internet by the audience. Here we can say that internet has change the whole process of communication.    

2. There was a lack of connectivity between the people during the period of Pre internet era and because of that they could interacted with very few people because they hadn’t option to talk to other person. Whomsoever were living in the limited area i.e. Village, town, kasba. etc. only they could talk to each other.
Solution: After the emergence of internet in the life of people it changed the whole outcome of interaction mode. Now we are not in boundaries to talk to another person. Now we can share our view, opinion, thought, Picture with emotion and can talk because of Internet.  

3. Now a day we are living in the 21st ahead century and we have lots of thing in term of technology, which help to reach to person to another person before in pre-internet era people hadn’t that type of facility or we can say that the gadget which we are using now a days. They only had Telephone, Radio, Television, Telegraph etc. This thing also interact but the pace of delivery of the message was to slow or may be was not much effective.

As i said in my above lines that Internet played and still playing the vital role in the world. It is still changing the whole process, models and many more thing which does exist in the world but they could not effective that much. In world there are so many Countries, Continents, Islands and Sand area which came in light with the help of internet. Now we  knows that which Country is developed, which country is developing, which type of people live in the world, which kind of food is taking by the people, which type of people language speaks by the people in the world. The whole thing has come on one platform\ before that we had no idea about these things. Now a Person who live in India and he has his house in United Kingdom can have the information of their house their family and about their things with in a second.

In India there are so many culture and so many religions which has their own rituals and living standard but when a person who belong to Northeast side of India and travel to the Delhi will not have any problem to settle down in Delhi because of the internet.



Rahul Vimal
St. of Master in Mass Communication
Gautam Buddha University
India

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