Web technology and the culture of virtuality: A study on urban youth in Dhaka city

Abstract

This era is marked by huge transformation in information and other technology. Now-a-days we cannot think a single moment of our life without internet, mobile phone etc. Moreover, now the life of citizen’s mainly urban dwellers become busier with different types of work load. For this reason they adjust their communications, everyday shopping and many other tasks with the help of various electronic and internet services. By this way our life is becoming highly dominated by this type of modern technology and this causes transformation of our intimate relationship, human communication and other interpersonal relationship. The aim of the study is to explore the impact of web technology for creating different types of communication process that has some existence in the real world despite the communication process is virtual. In Bangladesh the rate of internet users are increasing at a great number and among them young people it is more dominant. Moreover, using web technology different types of on-line shopping portals can be found that tremendously change the style of living. Now this type of on-line shopping portals provides the opportunity of choosing goods in online and home delivery system. Someone can pay the bill in on-line. Young people are the intense user of on-line shopping portals. By using internet technology young people are forming different types of social relationship and personal bonding. The main purpose of the thesis is to find out the changes in social relationship based on the theory of Castells and to find out the implications of such type of communication.