Modernization

Modernization and social pattern are important concepts in social change study, which is related with industrialization. Modernization is a concept in the sphere of social sciences that refers to process in which society goes through industrialization, urbanization and other social changes that completely transforms the lives of individuals.

Modernization brings human civilization on modern way. Science and technology increasingly grow by the discovery of up-to-date and new innovations. Innovations, which are usually founded by western country will be introduced to development country, such as Indonesia. E-mail, social network, and internet are born to give an easy way to communicate with people around the world.

One way to think carefully about the role of media in modernization is to look at past socio-cultural changes related to communication, such as the shift from an "oral culture" to a "print culture," from a world where most communication is almost entirely verbal to one where much of the most crucial forms of communication occur in writing and print.

The spread of reading and writing that was made possible by the printing press and widespread literacy is generally acknowledged to have been a central component in the making of the modern world. Writing allows communication between people who are distant from one another; it creates a kind of communication that's necessarily one-way, with little or no interaction. Writing was the first decontextualized communication, disembodied from the immediate experience of another individual. In print culture, where writing becomes omnipresent, communication is impersonal, often anonymous. As a result, in our world, we are in constant relations with people you don't know. The most important evidence in most court cases is written documentation. (That's why they tell you to always save the receipts; it's the piece of paper that matters, not the particular people involved.) This new way of relating has had profound effects.

Print was just the first of modern, impersonal communication technologies that allowed the widespread dissemination of ideas. Today, print and its successors allow the world to be full of alternative ideas: Karl Marx, George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden and countless others have all been able to spread their different views through the world only because they have access to modern communication technologies.