Evaluate the capabilities of information and communication technology for social development - Cultural Village (Case Study Azarbaidjan)

Subject Areas : Journal of Cultural Management

Abolfazl Samadian ¹ ( مسئول مکاتبات )
Rahim Modabberi ² ( ندارد )

Received: 2014-08-19 Accepted : 2014-10-04 Published : 2014-03-21

Keywords: ICT, socio – cultural, Social exclusion, Modernism, Fatalism,

Abstract :

Introduction: Socio- cultural development is cared by social scientists almost in1980s and after a failure in economic and industrialdevelopment theories.Researches showed despite popular idea of those days satisfaction of life andwelfare doesn’t essentially happen as a result of economic and industrial development and societies can increase their social welfare without improving economicdevelopment or even in a condition that economy is getting poorer.at the otherhand social welfare can decrease while economy is improving.Methods: A LOT OF factors effect socio – cultural development.one of the mostimportant of them is information and communication technology . information andcommunication technologies hn culuding computer, internet, radio, tv, video, phone,mobile, and dish have a lot of potentialities for effecting socio – culturaldevelopment and its important indexes.Conclusion: the result of statistic analyzing with spss soft ware using pearsonscorrelation coefficient , kendalls correlation coefficient, goodmans correlationcoefficient kruskal wallis test and man whitney test showed that information andcommunication technologies increase level of public information, modernism, andnon –ethical using (of these technologies)and decreases fatalism and trust. At theother hand information and communication technologies have no effect on socialexclusion , participation , globalization and enterprise.