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

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

Its 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 . Its 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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