User:Marissa1989

    It’s overstated that digital technologies have helped us become more connected. I am thankful for the ability to Skype my sister while she is in traveling in Kenya, or take this Cambridge based course while living in Sydney, Australia. This ‘digital cosmopolitanism’ is making us more virtually connected, but is moving us farther away from globalization at the same time. 

        Australian companies will virtually outsource jobs to skilled workers in India, while reaping the cost-efficient benefits of paying them Indian wages, which are significantly lower. (Similar outsourcing practices of the United States). Australia has since increased the difficulty for these skilled Indian workers to live here. In other words, we want your in-demand skills, virtually, but now don’t want to make it easy for you to migrate here, which would mean paying you in Australian wages. The same technologies that make us more connected and seemingly more globalized, have a strong power to move us further away from it.

A second significant social change associated with the spread of digital technologies is how online introductions have become one of the most common way to meet a partner. However, technologies that can foster relationships will also play a role in what ends them. Social media evidence has dominated the divorce courtroom, where about three out of four cases now contain it. Text messages have become the “Digital lipstick on the collar,” as Tiger Woods and Anthony Weiner have demonstrated to us all.