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Technology and Society: Cultural Interaction for the Use of Social Networks, and Its Impacts in the Development of a Democratic Culture in Ecuador.
Author: Napoleón Velástegui Bahamonde.
E-mail: nvelasteguib@gmail.com
Keywords: Social Networks, Technology, Society, Democracy.
General objective
Analyze the interrelation between technological changes, resulting from political changes in the Ecuadorian state and the development of a new national culture whose quality level is expressed, among other channels, through social networks, particularly in electoral processes.
Specific objectives
- Examine the intersection of Technology and Society in a process of social change at the local level, with contemporary methodologies.
- Systematize the results of technological impacts on social processes in a period of change, specifically in electoral processes, and their feedback.
- Analyze comparatively, technological impacts of social networks in social processes of intense social change, at a global level.
Theoretical framework
Marx pointed out that "Society is not merely an aggregate of individuals; but, "it is the sum of the relations that individuals hold together." Karl Marx, Die Grundrisse (1857).
On the other hand, the contemporary methodology of the "Analysis of Social Networks", ARS, has very advanced applications.
Why sociologists should study Social Networks? Ofelia Cervantes responds: "Because it is the semantics of the relationship alluded to, reciprocal to the" doing "of people and their" saying. "
Results
Ecuador is going through a period of consolidation as a democratic nation. This is not just a semantic problem. It is a semantics of life, regarding the content of the communication and culture that we establish.
Sociology must take in its hands the Analysis of Social Networks, ARS, to contribute to the development of civilized forms of life with transformations that eradicate inequality, through mechanisms of lower social cost.