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A Socio-demographic Study on E-culture
Journal of Community Guidance & Research, November 2007, Vol. 24, No. 3, p: 253-261.
INTRODUCTION
Electronic culture is of universal prevalence. The impact and ambience of electronic technology is invariably and inevitably felt by everyone throughout the world. The indisputable reality today is that individuals and organizations inextricably exist in an E-world. Today, much of human needs are gratified by the use of electronic goods and services. This fact is explicit from the numerous electronic products available and used by people in their homes, offices, public places and also those they personally carry. The emergence and rapid spread of technologies like e-commerce, e-learning, e-medicine, e-governance, e-business, e-communication, e-banking, e-entertainment, e-homes, etc, also emphasize the importance of electronic medium in the gratification of our psycho-social needs.
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E-culture Among University Students
SCOPE-ANNAMALAI PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL, DECEMBER 2006, Vol.2, p:1-7.
INTRODUCTION
Electronic technology is changing our life-style to a great extent. There are many areas of electronic technology helping different sections of a common man. For instance, terms like e-commerce, e-business, e-banking, e-mails, e-organizations, e-governance, e-journals, e-books, e-medicine, internet, web-shopping, etc have become part of the current lexicon. Advances made in the fields of information and communication technology (ICT) and electronics has resulted in the emergence of e-culture. Electronic culture is enveloping the entire world, it is a global phenomenon. Today e-culture is the reality that we live in; it is no longer an option. Kanter (2001) indicates that organization will successfully meet the challenges of the ‘Internet Age’ only if they become communities of collaborative work relations with distinct ‘e-cultures.’
E-culture is also increasingly understood as a new digital media culture or digitalization of culture. Netherlands council for culture in its advisory report on digitalization of culture submitted to the state secretary of education, culture and science (2004) defines e-culture as “all about a new, digital dimension; a new and –until recently- undreamt of medium with which existing culture must seek to interact and in which new culture is being generated.” De Haan and Huysmans (2002) states the term ‘e-culture’ refers to the diffusion of new technology, its application for various purposes (especially information and communication) and shifts in related attitudes, values and norms. Patel and Rajendran (2005) have defined “electronic culture” as “increased use of electronic goods by individuals in various areas”; they have also developed an inventory to measure e-culture. In this research study e-culture was assessed based this perspective.
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