The Information and Communication Revolution: Impact on Society

Abstract

The simple idea of connecting people through a variety of open platforms and freely editable is significantly destabilizing the common perception of concepts , such as identity , knowledge and research information. Access to the convergence between telecommunications ,computer and traditional media is speeding up the cycle of news , interactivity and availability of multimedia content on the same customization of information .The new media make possible an immediate return issue sent by the receiver on the same transmission channel used by the issuer. In this new dimension , the text is not only necessarily written or sound or linked to images. Which have initiated a profound transformation. The objective of this paper is to give a point of view about the impact of information and communication technologies on the everyday life. For this paper was used mixed method approach and different number of perspectives from general to comparative one in order to enhance the research .

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s1p282