TECHPopuli

Change all over the place

One of the themes of TECHPopuli is how technology changes our lives. Check this out.

MIT Technology Review website:

Two recent articles in the International Times Herald point to the ways that modern media are changing the ways people live in relation to national cultures. Both of the stories are interesting on their own terms but even more provocative read side by side.

In the first story , we learn that the ability to access national language and in some cases national origin cable programing is allowing immigrants to maintain much stronger ties back to their mother countries than had been the case for previous generations.

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The second story reverses this argument, showing the ways that the outsourcing of communications-related job to India and other Asian countries is speeding up the process of westernization.

BTW, I don't think these two things are mutually exclusive. Both could be true.

Posted by jackhodgson at February 24, 2004 01:48 PM