Question

Discuss how your specific generation creates and manages issues of identity. What are the aspects of culture and society that are instrumental in shaping your technological identity? Discuss the pros and cons.

Answer 1

It is important to understand that the construction of identities, when analyzed in contemporary times, must be viewed from two dimensions: “Conflicting diversity within the nation-state (regions, ethnic issues, etc.) and the emergence of transnational identity references. For example, the world of consumption. Different social groups can thus appropriate globalized symbolic references (from Madonna to hip-hop) to construct their own image, their “identity”. There is, therefore, a situation within which different "identities" complement or enter into dispute. The monopoly that the state had (or thought it had) collapsed. The construction of national identity must now be done in a context of diversification that previously did not exist, technological transformations are obviously important, but one should not fall into a reductionist temptation that gives technologies a transformative capacity that they do not possess. The world will no longer be democratic because the technologies we have are more sophisticated. Today there is a certain technological panacea that often deludes us. Social problems will not be solved with 'more technology' or 'less'.