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This paper posits that the Internet and digital media are postmodernizing technologies. Focus is placed on how this affects cultures around the world (as a global community). Bibliography lists 8 sources. JVpstdig.rtf
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for commodities by citizens worldwide, and is the earmark of postmodernism. Nationalist states that once controlled the desires of its people for commodities no longer have that control, whether they
want it or not, and some nations do not. Yet, such control is now in the hands of individuals, not states. The Internet and other digital media make the choices
available to any one with access to a computer. While there are some societies that preclude access, this would naturally fall by until it includes everyone in the world.
The student may want to add that digital media and the Internet promulgate global postmodernism, as the 1990s World Values Surveys show. Based
on the surveys, Inglehart (1997) argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go hand in hand, and are therefore predictable and foreseeable. Once a society makes an economic
choice, perhaps to add a new industry to its stable of jobs, for example, a whole system of changes are brought with that one change, including cultural changes in gender
roles and mobilization toward industry (in the postmodern world, information technology). In the advanced stages of the shift, there is also a shift in values, postmodernism, which in itself brings
additional changes in society, most notably in belief systems and related economic and political views. Cavalli & Cavazza (2001) state that one
such mass change has been brought about by the Internet and other digital media. This media brings democratization of the world to the world, including parts of it that are
not yet democratized. Whether the national government is on a par becomes irrelevant because the public has access. Eventually, this leads to the mass changes described by Inglehart (2001). The
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