DIGITAL MULTICULTURALISM OF GVR [GLOBAL VIRTUAL

REALITY] PPT BY : PROF. DR. SUDHIR GAVHANE [ INDIA ]

Professor & Head , University Department of Mass Communication & Journalism ,

DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR MARATHWADA UNIVERSITY, AURANGABAD , MAHARASHTRA STATE ,

INDIA

EMAIL : profgsudhir@gmail.com

DIGITAL MULTICULTURALISM OF GVR

Multiculturalism Defined : Multiculturalism is nothing but harmonious & peaceful

coexistence of people of different & so called opposite races , cultures , creeds, castes, religions , intra –religious groups , faiths based on mutual respect , tolerance and understanding promoting humanism & equality and justice ending all kinds of discriminations. [ Prof. Sudhir Gavhane:2014 ]

According to Prof. John Rex of University of Warwick : Multiculturalism is recognition of mainly respect for and rights of minorities in terms of their own language in family and community context , to practice their own religion , … organize domestic and family relations in their own way, ..to maintain own customs .[ `Contemporary Cultural Theory’ by Andrew Milner & Jeff Browitt , page 142 ]

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MULTICULTURALISM & RELIGION

Cost paid by humanity for Racial and Religious hatred in terms of Genocide and Democide World over :

GENOCIDE and DEMOCIDE STATISTICS : Political Scientist R.j.Rummel`s estimation of Democide muders by state

.his estimation of last century about Democide is 262 millions victims . Nazi Germany : 21 million victims Armenia : 1,000,000 killed from 1915-1923 China under Mao : 58,000,000 killed USSR under Stalin : 20,000,000 killed Cambodia : 1600,000 killed between 1975 – 1978 Holocaust : 5700,000 killed from 1933- 1945 Bosnia : 250,000 killed from 1992-1995 Rwanda : 1,000,000 killed in 1994 Somalia : 300,000 killed from 2003 Sudan : Darfur : at least 450,000 killed from 2003 Iraq : 200,000 Kurdish killed during Al Anfal campaign [ source: City Vision College : www.cityvision.edu ]

LINGUICIDE : Death of languages of speech communities of small minorities and tribes

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Digital Multiculturalism of Global Virtual Reality

Post 1990`s we are living in the New Digital Age Never before in human history such a revolution in

living conditions had been experienced by our race, as we are living in simultaneously in two worlds

One real Physical World [PW] of where we are living centuries together ; and other brand new Virtual World [VW] generated by Global Virtual Reality which provides us an instantaneous and real time two way communication.

We are ONLINE with the whole world any time , any where & 24/7 in engagement of communication.

This has created new opportunity structures , new pathways and even new threats and dangers to our human society.

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We are having two types of citizenship now National Citizenship [ NC] of our respective countries with

geographical boundaries and Cyber Citizenship [CC] of Global Virtual World [ GVW] with borderless virtual world ; connecting us to whole world. No boundaries at all.

Here we all are Prosumers : who are Consumers as well as Producers of digital WEB content : UGC

It’s a all together multinational , multi-ethnic , multicultural , multilingual & multimedia platform of millions of Global citizens expressing , communicating and sharing ideas , viewpoints , cultural and artistic diversities with full freedom and that too without any cost .

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Digital Multiculturalism Of GVR

Global Virtual Community [ GVC ] 2.1 Billion mobile broad band subscribers,

overall mobile subscribers 6.8 billion out of 7.1 billion population of world

2.7 billion Internet users 31% population online in developing

countries , in developed countries 77% percent population online

634 million websites in the world , 51 million websites added per year. 246 million domain name registered.

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Digital Multiculturalism of GVR

SOCIAL MEDIA UNIVERSE Facebook : 1.26 billion users , 2.5 billion pieces content per day

, 500 terabyte content per day YouTube : users upload 48 hours new video every day Google : 2 million searches per minutes 571 new websites per minute Twitter : 55 cr 45 lakh users , 230 million tweets per day , 1 lakh

tweets per minute , 9100 tweets per seconds , per second 80 MB posts

Linkedin : 25 cr . 63 lakh users world wide This is nothing but Global Virtual Community [GVC] ,

multicultural Cyber world , expressing and sharing with daring Creating connectivity , creating problems . It’s a platform

multiculturalism , without any doubt . It is global connect and global conflict .

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Digital Multiculturalism of GVC

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