Title:
Impersonal and Unsocial Influence of Information & Communication
Technology and Their Consequences
Abstract: A few thousand years ago Aristotle said that human
beings are a social species. The social scientists of today go further and
assert that person-to-person interactions and face-to-face communications
are indispensable to human life. The omnipresent information and communication
technology (ICT), on the other hand, has the power to disintegrate the conventional
human communities into isolated individuals whose contacts and communications
are mainly impersonal and unsocial. This paper is an introductory investigation
into such influence of ICT and its consequences on human societies.
Authors: M Ranjbar and Abbass Ghanbary