#blogentry7

As our technology advances, internet crime became rampant. The internet has been used as a haven for illegal activities such as piracy in which people download content illegally without the permission of the owner. Even though some people don’t feel that piracy is a crime that affects anybody, it really does. The growth of piracy is actually dangerous that can cause great harm to people. It was also said that piracy is actually killing the film industry. It has been very common everywhere in the world and has always been affecting the film industry in such a negative way.  Pirating is stealing, making money off others products, and financially harming not just the actors, producers, and directors, but all of the professions involved in the making of a movie, from your musical score composer to the make-up artists and film crew are being devalued. Music and films are meant to be bought to be enjoyed by the general public, not to be stolen and used for a profit illegally.

In this modern world technologies and internet is already applicable in any kinds of works or many people are using this. But we can't control if there are still people who can't afford to buy technologies or even smart phones, they struggle everyday because they can't communicate to other people from a far. Digital divide was already a nature to us because lot of filipino can't buy gadgets because of poverty. Specially now that we are having a pandemic, a lot of students are struggling to their modules because they can't join a online class because they haven't enough gadget to used. Digital divide mostly experience at school.Yet the filipino people still strive for the better education for their children they tend to sacrifice themselfes in order for them to get the quality education they need and that is why how filipino people are brave enough to withstood such problems in life and they give it with a humble smile in life.

Digital divide here in our country is evident since we are a third world country and still developing. Digital divide is a factor that can hinder our advancement towards development. Filipinos have obstacles in digital divide that they need to overcome and they cannot do this alone without the help of the government. If some of us continue to struggle it would result to being left behind in this modern age of ours today. If we Filipinos, our country are unable to address this and time does not stop for no one this digital gap would only get wider and would be a vital issue for our country.Even some parts of the Philippines could not manage the technology right now in this era but it is introduced in some ways that could help educate the unfortunate,like the people on rural areas or far away from the city proper.

As we live in this world we cannot avoid innovations which aims to aid us and make our lives much easier. One of these said innovations is our technology. Which is created to support, develop, and mainly make things easier for us especially when it comes to communication and information. An example of such technology is our computers that are often dubbed as the key and guide into a more high-tech future. Although some people say that, we cannot ignore the fact that not all people are capable of using these computers and other digital devices that are popular among privileged people. And these said underprivileged people may not be capable of competing with others who are able to utilize both technology and information to their desire. This is what we call as digital divide, which basically means a ‘gap’ in individuals or a large group of people for this matter as they have different social classes, business, countries, economy statuses, culture, and social upbringings. These which are highly influencing their capability to use or access both information and its sources, communication devices, and other technologies. 

Technology nowadays has made our world smaller, connecting people from opposite sides of the world in a single tap of a finger. However, it cannot be denied that not everyone is as technologically up to date as the others as not everyone can afford it. An example that shows a digital divide is the online class, because of the situation of the world right now the only way to resume the classes is through online class, but a lot of students can't afford online class because they don't have the right devices to do so. They don't have phones, laptops and any devices that will allow them to effectively join the online class and that left them with no other choice but to go with the module and learn by themselves. While there are students who are lucky enough to have the devices and a stable internet connection to join the online class and learn.

Technology has been the reliable source of Information Technology nowadays. Schools and Universities are now using modern technology as their way of accessing Textbooks and Other Academic purposes. Some students also dosent have modern gadgets to be able to access from the internet to browse for academic related on it. Nowadays, modern technology were the ones we can rely on because of the pandemic that has been happening right now. In our school we have been using gadgets and internet connection as our tool to continue our school year. Students are behind and some are finding their way to learn through first hand books in the library.  Digital divide as the disparities in access to telephones, personal computers, and the internet across certain demographic groups. Different segments have varying levels of access to digital developments due to a number of factors. This can include but are not limited to, race, gender, age, employment, income, location, and religion.Digital divide is where some people can access to internet and computers where they belong in developed world while some people are in underdeveloped world while they don't have access to internet and other information and this is the time where people in developed world started to bully those people who don't have a access on what they have especially in schools.  Social media sometimes leads us to toxicity wherein we encounter the negativity of a social online community ,which we can read inappropriate posts such as cyberbullying, trolling and many more.

We are living in this what we called " Modernized World", we are living in a community wherein new technologies and methods are being used as a tool for our daily lives. This new generation brought big changes to each of our communities including economic and methods and because this new methods of life in this generation not all individuals are capable of coping up with it specially our elders wherein they are born way back before that has no new technologies to aid the methods of their lives so it is expected that they will have difficulties on using this new technologies, another reason is they are old enough on engaging this kind of trends wherein they don't really know how these works but for us new Generation of human we are obviously tasked to help our elders on coping up with the new world we are building. Digital Divide doesn't generally mean that one can't use certain technology but it means that the there is a difference between the technology they are using.

In the late 1990s, the term had become widely known by many interested parties, along with scholars, policymakers as well as advocacy organizations. The notion of a "digital divide" relates to the increasing disparity between economically disadvantaged people in society, specifically the impoverished, suburbs, empowerment of persons with disabilities, who may not provide exposure to networked computers. In the Modern era, there are gaps between people who use computers and the internet, and for those who do not because this is due to those years when people in the late centuries that modern technology was not invented and those years that nowadays people experience digital devices which make their lives easier. The existence of the “Digital Divide” affects society in which not all people have access to the internet, there is also a lack of skills in terms of computer literacy and lack of knowledge about the internet. Digital Divide, in this era where people must learn to adapt the internet in their lives whether they like it or not.

In this internet age, accessibility to the internet and technology is more possible, but certain ages or generations of consumers have only limited knowledge of these things. Some don't know that there are better versions than the gadget they had right now and instead they stick to their old devices. Thus this creates a digital divide as some are outdated with the current trend of technology. Another one is when a certain institution is mostly outdated to their devices, that they are finding it difficult to produce their product resulting in it to look cheap and classic. This scenario creates a digital divide with other fellow producers. We can also make the Philippines as an example, Philippines is rich in nature but is quite outdated with the current technology, our government officials are still having difficulty in manipulating the internet that they are too slow to track down some criminals through it, our film productions are also not good with animations, international animators are still better than our animators, and it was because the lack of knowledge and technologies for animating. There are still many factors that are evident for us to say that our country is digitally divided with other certain countries.

As a student, teaching them won't be enough as according to Alvseike and Brønnick (2012) that cognitive deficits and low self-efficacy associated with older age significantly reduced participants' ability to use technology. Teaching them is a difficult idea , so as the future workers of our generation, we are being encouraged to learn and adapt technology and internet, studying them will be a better idea in bridging the gap of the digital divide of our country. With the help of the government's better budget of finances and a group of technology inclined people, bridging the digital divide is possible. If we have the opportunity to help people that are affected by digital divide. We will create a Students group page created to spread information related to the areas or people who have been affected by the digital divide. We will gather information and search, find the certain areas. Once we have our research we will post it to the page and boost it to quickly spread and reach many people especially people working in the government.

The digital divide or the digital split is a social issue referring to the different amount of information between those people who can access the internet and those people who cannot access. Simple it is described as a gap found between individual people like their social classes, businesses, and even countries with different socioeconomic backgrounds. Usually, the digital divide is being observed nowadays generation to online learning due to the pandemic. The digital divide arises today because many students cannot access online learning due to the lack of technology, that’s why they only using modular second learning. With the rise of new technology like high tech gadgets and mobile smartphones worldwide, this inequality has now become about having more or less cannot access the internet like our grandmother and grandfather. They become part of the digital divide because they don’t have the internet technology skill to know how to utilize it.