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A note on our changing society.
Coronavirus.
Hasn’t the world changed? We didn’t realise how happy go lucky we were until Coronavirus hit. We all had houses full of stuff, had to fix nothing and didn’t even need to wash our hands. Now suddenly the quintuple issues of Covid-19, Climate Change, #MeToo, #BlacklivesMatter, and LGBTIQ+ Rights are on the agenda for everyone.
Michael Jackson had been saying it for decades...’They don’t really care about us’ (Jackson, 1995) and although it is too late for Michael the issue of #BlackLivesMatter became forefront with the death in custody of George Floyd. It came on the heels of coronavirus as protests happened in a lull in cases.
The riots started in Minnesota and were watched on the internet with lightning speed. The ferocity of the spread of information has lead to copycat rioting which spread to over 50 cities in the United States and led to protests around the world.
In Librarianship and Print Culture, Luke Tredinnick argues the case of Arnold, 1869 that culture is anathema to anarchy. The internet has with incredible 25 year ferocity become a roaring fire of information joining people and ideas the world over. Tredinnick also states it is the innovation itself or ‘idolatry of the machine’ which is the besetting danger. Just as the fire of the internet has had many advantages it has clearly showed each other the inequalities that exist in our collective world society. All of these major issues have been fuelled by the internet and at the time of writing this see no abating.
Traditionally the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time.
Coronavirus.
Hasn’t the world changed? We didn’t realise how happy go lucky we were until Coronavirus hit. We all had houses full of stuff, had to fix nothing and didn’t even need to wash our hands. Now suddenly the quintuple issues of Covid-19, Climate Change, #MeToo, #BlacklivesMatter, and LGBTIQ+ Rights are on the agenda for everyone.
Michael Jackson had been saying it for decades...’They don’t really care about us’ (Jackson, 1995) and although it is too late for Michael the issue of #BlackLivesMatter became forefront with the death in custody of George Floyd. It came on the heels of coronavirus as protests happened in a lull in cases.
The riots started in Minnesota and were watched on the internet with lightning speed. The ferocity of the spread of information has lead to copycat rioting which spread to over 50 cities in the United States and led to protests around the world.
In Librarianship and Print Culture, Luke Tredinnick argues the case of Arnold, 1869 that culture is anathema to anarchy. The internet has with incredible 25 year ferocity become a roaring fire of information joining people and ideas the world over. Tredinnick also states it is the innovation itself or ‘idolatry of the machine’ which is the besetting danger. Just as the fire of the internet has had many advantages it has clearly showed each other the inequalities that exist in our collective world society. All of these major issues have been fuelled by the internet and at the time of writing this see no abating.
Traditionally the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time.