New Information Practices and Audiences in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Pascal Ricaud
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Information Practices ◽  
New Information

scholarly journals Stranger in a strange land; enabling information resilience in resettlement landscapes

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 1029-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annemaree Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Information Practices ◽  
New Information ◽  
Concept Of Information

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce and explore the concept of information resilience. Design/methodology/approach – The concept of information resilience emerges from a qualitative study that explored the health information experience and information practices of resettling refugees. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were employed and the data collected were analysed using an grounded theory approach. Findings – The present study describes information resilience as an outcome of information literacy practice. As an emerging concept information resilience has the potential to focus research attention towards the critical role that information and information practices such as information literacy have in supporting people whose knowledge bases, social networks and information landscapes have become disrupted during transition. Practical implications – Public libraries role in support the development of information resilience is considered. Social implications – The paper draws from a study of the health information experiences of refugees during resettlement (Lloyd, 2014). The concept of information resilience emerges as an outcome of information literacy practice, for people whose knowledge base has become disrupted; and, who because of this disruption, must engage with new information environments and construct new information landscapes to rebuild social capital and bridge the transition into a new community. Originality/value – Introduces the concept of information resilience as a focal point for investigating transition from an information studies perspective.

scholarly journals Linguistic Mediation in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Ildikó Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

AbstractTechnological advances have had an impact not only on the translation but also on the interpretation market. Furthermore, with the advent and widespread use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the field of language mediation, the professions traditionally called “translation” and “interpreting” have been transformed by the digital revolution. In times of upheaval, profound changes can be felt in the market, the working environment, the conditions and processes as well as in the way language mediators work, the tasks they carry out, and the roles they play in the translation process. In the present article, we shall focus on these major changes and highlight the latest developments first in the field of translation and then in interpreting.

scholarly journals Premodern Island-Southeast-Asian History in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 175 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-57
Author(s):  
Derek Heng
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Keyword Search ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Southeast Asian Studies ◽  
Textual Databases ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Two Bodies

Abstract Premodern Southeast Asian history has primarily been predicated upon the exploitation of Chinese written documents. Reliance has been placed on several texts that detail Southeast Asian polities, products, and their respective societies. As indigenously generated sources of data have become available, primarily through archaeology, the trend has been to seek convergence between these two bodies of information. The availability of searchable digital databases has rendered Chinese documents to be open to the discoveries of new information previously unknown to historians of premodern Southeast Asia. This unutilized information has the potential of throwing new light on previously held conclusions. This article seeks to make an argument for the exploitation and potential of digitized Chinese textual databases, through keyword search methodologies, in expanding our understanding of Southeast Asia’s past, as well as the potential challenges that need to be addressed so that this new source base can be made sufficiently utilizable for Southeast Asian studies.

scholarly journals Forum: Militarization 2.0: Communication and the Normalization of Political Violence in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan T Jackson ◽  
Rhys Crilley ◽  
Ilan Manor ◽  
Catherine Baker ◽  
Modupe Oshikoya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Video Game ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Military Force ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Military

Abstract Scholars of international relations frequently explore how states normalize the use of military force through processes of militarization, yet few have analyzed how new information and communication technologies impact on these processes. The essays in this forum address this gap, and consider the political significance of new technologies, new actors, and new practices that shape “Militarization 2.0” and normalize political violence in the digital age. The authors in this forum rely, to varying degrees, on common militarized tropes and dichotomies (such as authenticity, belonging, and (de)humanizing framings) that are key to militarization, including those devices that rest on gender, race/ethnicity, and heteronormativity. Moving beyond a military-centered approach to militarization, the authors’ questions cover ministries of foreign affairs; the embodied performances of celebrity leaders and insurgency groups; arms producers, the military video game industry, and private military and security companies; and violence entrepreneurs. The forum closes with reflections from Cynthia Enloe.

scholarly journals Digitalization of tax administration communication under the effect of global megatrends of the digital age

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 02022
Author(s):  
Denisa Ihnatišinová
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Tax Administration ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Impact

Research background: Digitalization of tax administration communication means the creation of paperless communication between the tax subject and the tax administration. Artificial intelligence technology creates new digital communication channels and contribute to more efficient paperless tax administration. The global trend of the digital age are digital assistants, chatbots, voicebots, respectively process automation. The growing investments in new information technologies is mainly due to the simplification of tax registration and payment, an automation of data analysis and the improvement of communication between tax subjects and tax administrations. Purpose of the article: The aim of the article is to evaluate the impact of global megatrends of the digital age, specifically the automation of processes on changes in the communication channels of tax administration. Methods: As a research method, it is used a mix of methods combining quantitative and qualitative analysis. Specifically, the analysis of the development and current state of digital communication strategies implemented within OECD countries, comparison of digital communication methods in Slovakia and the OECD and analysis of the use artificial intelligence as a new information technology in the tax administration communication environment. Findings & Value added: The main findings have allowed us to highlight the global trends in terms of automation as well as new practical directions of using digital interaction in real time. The recommendation for Slovakia is the transformation to new digital technologies in communication in the tax administration, it is investing in modern technologies, especially artificial intelligence, and at the same time challenging the development of digital skills of tax administration employees in this area.

scholarly journals A disseminação da tradição e a preservação da memória coletiva na era digital │ The dissemination of tradition and the preservation of collective memory in the digital age

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Kraus Luvizotto
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

RESUMO Este artigo situa a disseminação de tradições e a preservação da memória coletiva diante do contexto teórico mais amplo trazido pelos estudos da cibercultura e das novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação, à luz da modernidade tardia. Nesse contexto, a internet e, em especial, as ferramentas da web 2.0, considerando as suas especificidades e limitações, podem aproximar atores sociais com a mesma vinculação identitária; proporcionar um ambiente para a disseminação e ensino de uma tradição e preservar a memória coletiva de um povo.Palavras-chave: Tradição; Memória Coletiva; Cibercultura; Era Digital; Modernidade Tardia. ABSTRACT This article addresses the dissemination of traditions and the preservation of collective memory in the broader theoretical context brought by cyberculture studies and new information and communication technologies in the light of late modernity. In this context, the internet and especially web 2.0 tools , considering their specificities and limitations, can approximate social actors with the same binding identity, provide an environment for dissemination and teaching of tradition and preserve the collective memory of a people.Keywords: Tradition; Collective Memory; Cyberculture; Digital Age; Late Modernity.

Lattice Imaging of Twin, Lath and α/Martensite Boundaries in Duplex Low Carbon Steels

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 118-119
Author(s):  
J. Y. Koo ◽  
G. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽  
Ferrite Matrix ◽  
Carbon Steels ◽  
Bright Field Image ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Lattice Imaging ◽  
Bright Field ◽  
Lattice Image ◽  
New Information ◽  
Resolution Electron

High resolution electron microscopy has been shown to give new information on defects(1) and phase transformations in solids (2,3). In a continuing program of lattice fringe imaging of alloys, we have applied this technique to the martensitic transformation in steels in order to characterize the atomic environments near twin, lath and αmartensite boundaries. This paper describes current progress in this program.Figures A and B show lattice image and conventional bright field image of the same area of a duplex Fe/2Si/0.1C steel described elsewhere(4). The microstructure consists of internally twinned martensite (M) embedded in a ferrite matrix (F). Use of the 2-beam tilted illumination technique incorporating a twin reflection produced {110} fringes across the microtwins.

Stereo Electron Microscopy Applied to High Resolution Freeze-Etch Replicas

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 306-307
Author(s):  
L. Andrew Staehelin
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Smooth Surfaces ◽  
Small Particles ◽  
Membrane Surfaces ◽  
Wide Acceptance ◽  
New Information ◽  
Number Of Particles ◽  
Small Holes

Freeze-etched membranes usually appear as relatively smooth surfaces covered with numerous small particles and a few small holes (Fig. 1). In 1966 Branton (1“) suggested that these surfaces represent split inner mem¬brane faces and not true external membrane surfaces. His theory has now gained wide acceptance partly due to new information obtained from double replicas of freeze-cleaved specimens (2,3) and from freeze-etch experi¬ments with surface labeled membranes (4). While theses studies have fur¬ther substantiated the basic idea of membrane splitting and have shown clearly which membrane faces are complementary to each other, they have left the question open, why the replicated membrane faces usually exhibit con¬siderably fewer holes than particles. According to Branton's theory the number of holes should on the average equal the number of particles. The absence of these holes can be explained in either of two ways: a) it is possible that no holes are formed during the cleaving process e.g. due to plastic deformation (5); b) holes may arise during the cleaving process but remain undetected because of inadequate replication and microscope techniques.

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