Today globalization is a reality and not only affects the economy, but its effects also extend to culture. Over time, communications, customs and ways of life are giving way to some cultural models that spread throughout the world. This reality of globalization and the enormous flow of information are two aspects that propitiate people to become citizens of the world.
In every company there must be a balance between your own cultural values, local cultural values and the cultural values of the company. Cultural diversity is a driving force in economic development.
Infomulticulturality is a relatively new term and refers to the way in which information is distributed to a group of people with different cultures and who have different characteristics and tastes. However, good communication between people of different cultures is essential for a successful understanding and understanding.
BASE CONCEPTS:
INFORMATION:
"Information is a set of mechanisms that allow the individual to take back the data from their environment and structure them in a certain way, so that they serve as a guide for their action." (Jiménez Rosano, 2005)
"Information is a set of data with meaning that structures the thinking of living beings, especially human beings." (Definition abc, sf)
"Information: an answer to the question asked." (Goldratt, 1992)
Although we are always in the middle of an ocean of data, we should not confuse information with data. To distinguish between when the characters are data and information, we must analyze the relationship they have with the decision in question. Therefore, it can be deduced that the information is the data that is required to arrive at the decision-making. The data alone is not enough, we must apply a deduction process which we can also call decision-making process.
One way to exemplify what is mentioned is the following example:
If we ask what is the best way to get to Atlanta today? And we get in response "you must take flight z", we are obtaining information. On the other hand, if we are provided with a flight catalog, we are obtaining data. However, if the question is What are all possible flights to Atlanta ?, the catalog would be information.
As we can see in the example, it depends on the question that is asked if what we are provided is data or information. Information at one level may only be data at another level.
Data, decisions and information
CHARACTERISTICS OF USEFUL INFORMATION:
- Reliability: the quality of data and information sources must be guaranteed. Accuracy: the information must be free of errors and must be accurate. Verifiability: the information must always be verifiable. Relevance: the information must be useful for decision making; therefore, the information must not be superfluous or worthless. Economics: The cost of obtaining the information must be less than the benefit that this information provides to the organization. Completeness: the information must contain all relevant facts; therefore it must be complete. Level of detail: the information must be provided in the ideal format so that it is simple and easy to handle.
COMMUNICATION:
"Communication is the act by which an individual establishes a contact with another that allows him to transmit information."
ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS:
- ISSUER: It is the person who emits the message (Size, shape and means of how it is sent). RECEIVER: It is the person who receives the message, interprets and decodes it. MESSAGE: Content of the information sent by the issuer. CHANNEL: Medium through which the message is sent (It can be by air, paper, waves or virtual). CODE: Signs and rules used to send the message. CONTEXT: Situation in which communication occurs
Context of the Communication
TYPES OF COMMUNICATION:
Types of communication
CULTURE:
In antiquity the term culture referred to the cultivation of the land; therefore, it would derive in the cultivation of the faculties of the human being. Therefore, it was called "cultivated man" that is to say a civilized man.
“In short, culture is a set of symbolic, economic, and material elements that mark the individual's social and family actions; without forgetting that it is influenced by historical development and by the education received throughout life: through it, the human being becomes aware of himself and recognizes himself as something in constant construction. ” (Bernabé Villodre, 2012)
UNIVERSAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE
(Herrero, 2002) :
- Categories: Categories and taxonomies (ways of classifying) help people not to get confused within the group. Symbolic Code: Members of a culture share symbols (example: language) with each other that allow them to communicate effectively with each other. Arbitration system: Each culture has its own model of cultural behavior. It is learned: one person is the teacher of another (An example of a teacher may be parents, uncles, etc.). It is shared: so that the culture is shared from childhood. It is necessary that all members have the same culture patterns in order to live together.Integrated system: all parts of the culture are related to each other and affect each other.Ability to adapt: the culture is constantly changing.Culture exists at different levels of knowledge. The idea of Culture is not the same as the actual culture lived. The main function of culture is to adapt to the group.
GLOBALIZATION:
Globalization is a relatively recent term that marks the economic future of the world and affects all countries.
" The term globalization includes a process of increasing internationalization or globalization of financial, industrial and commercial capital, new international political relations and the emergence of the transnational company." (Ramiro Mateus & William Brasset, 2012)
"We will define globalization as a planetary movement in which societies renegotiate their relationship with space and time through concatenations that put planetary proximity into action under its territorial, symbolic and temporal form." (Cruz Soto, 1999)
MULTICULTURALITY:
The term Multiculturalism has its origins in Canada with its Act for the preservation and Enhancement of Multiculturalism in Canada (1988), in this it was intended to establish a respectful policy with the immigrant cultures present in the territory. In other words, multiculturalism is understood as the existence of diverse cultural groups located in the same territory, which show respect but not necessarily promote situations of exchange.
It can be defined as the presence in a territory of different cultures that simply coexist, but not coexist.
Sometimes the term multiculturalism is commonly confused with the term Interculturality and with the term multiculturalism, however, they are different terms. These terms are explained below:
PLURICULTURALITY:
From a sociological point of view, multiculturalism is defined as the presence of diverse ideological tendencies and coordinated social groups in a state unit.
Therefore, we can understand multiculturalism as the simultaneous presence of two or more cultures in a territory and their possible interrelation.
INTERCULTURALITY:
Interculturality guarantees understanding between the different cultures that inhabit the same territory, since interculturality is not exclusive, it promotes communication between different cultures, mutual learning between cultures, awareness of the differences that exist for conflict resolution.
Basically interculturality is about defending diversity, respect and cultural dialogue. A society can be said to be intercultural when its members interact and enrich themselves with such interaction.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
"In general terms we could say that the new information and communication technologies are those that revolve around three basic means: computing, microelectronics and telecommunications; but they revolve, not only in isolation, but what is more significant in an interactive and interconnected way, which enables new communicative realities to be achieved. ” (Sampedro, 2002)
“Technologies for the storage, recovery, processing and communication of information” (Belloch)
INFOMULTICULTURALITY:
Now that we have the basic concepts, we can proceed to define Infulticulturalism as an exchange of information between people from different cultures where culture is essential to achieve understanding of the message.
However, we must analyze the way in which the subject who receives the information is affected and change their decisions and what it contributes to their environment. All this through Infomulticulturalism.
Infomulticulturalism involves the study of various elements such as: Globalization, Communication, ICT, Information, culture and multiculturalism.
Infomulticulturality
CONCLUSIONS:
Nowadays, new communication technologies offer many opportunities for accessing information, giving all people their status as recipients of information, to become content producers and cultural creators.
Today it is very important that all members of organizations are enrolled in the digital culture because it is the future for both individuals and organizations.
It is of utmost importance not only to know the use of tools but also to be generators of information.
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