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Prescribed enduring understandings
Prescribed enduring understandings
Change in digital society is explored and investigated by diverse subjects, fields and professions, such as history, science and technology studies (STS) and future studies (IB. Digital Society Guide, 2022)
2.1.A
2.1.A. Change is the evolution, transformation, adaptation or movement from one form, state or value to another. (IB. Digital Society Guide, 2022)
Evolution
Evolution
a gradual process of change and development (cambridge.org, 2022)
The evolving digital society: concepts, discourses, materialities
The evolving digital society: concepts, discourses, materialities
The digitalisation of society, politics and the economy affects the foundations of all parts of our lives. What will a digital society look like when it is increasingly based on automation and algorithmic data processing? What theories and concepts will help us to make sense of this transformation and to what extent do discourses shape and explain it? What role is played by the new networked devices and technologies that have become a natural part of the material structures of our everyday lives and experiences?
These fundamental questions on the distinguishing characteristics of digital societies pose an enormous challenge for researchers. Empirical studies can only offer limited answers, as they are mainly focused on clearly defined aspects of much larger phenomena. It is, however, difficult to detect and explain long-term and comprehensive changes. Furthermore, it is unclear whether the prevalent concepts and theories are capable of capturing the current transformations and the emerging digital society at all.
2.1.A. Change.
2.1.A. Change.
Group activity
Group activity
Bächle & Katzenbach pose some questions in The Evolving Digital Society.
Choose one of their questions.
Discuss the possible answers.
Explore the answers posed by your group members.
You may want to explore them using the CCC model of Digital Society: Concept, Content, Context
You may want to explore the answers using a Stakeholder approach. Who are the actors who have power in each ot these questions. Who is effecting Change? Who is affected by Change?
How would you rate the importance of the question and answer?
Save your thoughts on a group sheet of paper which can be seen by others in the class. Display this paper in the classroom for all to see.
Here's how digitalization is helping to transform the creative industries
Here's how digitalization is helping to transform the creative industries
The next frontiers
The next frontiers
We are seeing the emergence of several pockets of excellence with the creative industries and the role of digitalization in amplifying them, or creating entirely new creative industries in emerging market. They include:
The re-emergence of Latin music has been driven largely by digital streaming and was spearheaded by a proactive private sector that sought to digitalize and address international demand. Latin music accounted for5 percent of the total $12.2 billion recorded music revenues in 2020 in the U.S. market, achieving its highest revenues since 2005. The rise of Danny Ocean, a Venezuelan musician whose songs “streamed [their] way onto the airwaves,” is a case in point on how digital tools lower the barriers to entry for musicians to market their creative products.
Digitalization also created entirely new creative industries, such as the creator economy ― a software-facilitated economic ecosystem that allows digital content creators to earn revenue from their creative products. Leveraging affordable production technologies and creator tech applications, creative entrepreneurship has become a viable source of living and resulted in a number of economy-wide effects. Taking the example of the creator tech application YouTube, which directly and indirectly contributed around $875 million to GDP in India, and $710 million in Brazil, in 2020. YouTube also supported around 700,000 jobs in India and 122,000 jobs in Brazil. Creator tech applications have facilitated the emergence of new digital startups that support the creator economy, such as One Impression in India, a marketing platform for influencers that automates the brokerage of brand promotion contracts between creative entrepreneurs and businesses seeking to advertise their products.
The multiple benefits of developing a creative industry, paired with the unprecedented potential provided by digitalization, present opportunities for the sector to be transformed from a forgotten industry into a focal industry that supports economic growth and development. Yet much needs to be done to fulfill such promise. The industry needs a combination of investment by private and public stakeholders, including development finance institutions, and integration of the creative industries into the development ambitions of emerging markets. This could eventually help spur growth of their creative economies, create jobs, and in a broader sense lead to greater economic diversification.
2.1.A. Change.
2.1.A. Change.
Group activity
Group activity
Discuss and come up with a definition of the term digital ecosystem.
Create a display that visualises one digital ecosystem.
Discuss the articles description of creator economy, and come up with your own description.
The article states "digital tools lower the barriers to entry for musicians to market their creative products". To what extent is this statement valid? Justify your answer.
ATL. Presentation
ATL. Presentation
Present your discussions.
You might want to choose a stand-up presentation, a PPT or a paper-based presentation.
Present your ideas to the class and give time for others to think of your explorations and to add their own thoughts where possible.
ATL. Research
ATL. Research
Investigate a force of digital change that is impacting on a community of your choice.
Create a display that creates awareness of this force of change.
Exam Style questions
Define evolution. (1 mark)
Define digital transformation. (1 mark)
Outline two advantages of a software-facilitated economic ecosystem. (4 marks)
Describe two digital tools that could lower the entry barriers for upcoming artists. (4 marks)
Distinguish between a software-facilitated economic ecosystem and a creator economy. (6 marks)
2.1.B
2.1.B. Change involves understanding and evaluating people, ideas, objects and forces that shape the world: past, present and future.
Steve Jobs
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Shaping our world.
The past affecting us today
Biography Online presents a large number of forces that have shaped our world.
Activity #1:
Activity #1:
Open one of the lists below. Choose one of the forces from within the link you've chosen. Present the force that you have chosen. Propose how the world would be different if that force had never been present in our world.
Source.
2021.
The Digital STS Hub
The Digital STS Hub
Digital infrastructures and the grand challenges of our times
Digital infrastructures and the grand challenges of our times
Artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms, sensors, and models are increasingly shaping today’s society and culture as humanity increasingly apprehends and creates the world through a multitude of digital technologies.
The grand challenges of our times are increasingly handled and understood through digital means. Today, societies use digital infrastructures and technologies to know and deal with issues ranging from pandemic response, telecommunication, smart cities, wars, climate change, collapsing ecosystems, water shortages and floods, biological bodies, changing economies, as well as migration. Moreover, digital infrastructures and services are embedded in systems of competition between major actors, with significant repercussions for international relations.
In this shift toward a digital world, it is a pressing matter to understand how digital infrastructures are reshaping science, society, and culture, both nationally and internationally.
Activity #2.
Activity #2.
"societies use digital infrastructures and technologies to know and deal with issues ranging from pandemic response, telecommunication, smart cities, wars, climate change, collapsing ecosystems, water shortages and floods, biological bodies, changing economies, as well as migration. "
choose one of the issues in this list. Research a digital infrastructure that can help to support the issue.
Concept: 2.1.B
Content: 3.4 & 3.7
Context: 4.2.A & 4.2.C
Shaping our world.
Predictions of the future.
Earth 2050.
Earth 2050.
Predictions of the world by 2030, 2040 and even 2050.
Activity #3:
Activity #3:
Log in to https://2050.earth/. Explore the predictions that people have for our world
ATL. Presentation
ATL. Presentation
Presenting ideas that are based on research
Focus: Forces that shape our present and future.
Explore: Predictions of the future
Investigate: How did the past shape our present?
Reflect: What are our forecasts for the future?
Share: Present ideas within a group, and between groups.
2.1.C
2.1.C. The nature and importance of change is debated.
Activity 1
Activity 2
ATL
Exam Style questions
2.1.C
2.1.C. The nature and importance of change is debated.
Activity 1
Activity 2
ATL
Exam Style questions
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