Language and Literacy: what writing does to Language and Mind

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Effects ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
The West ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Different Cultures

With the ascendance of new information technologies, the significance of writing has, it seems, slipped from view, in spite of the fact that the conceptual and cognitive implications of the newer technologies is a matter of enthusiastic speculation rather that serious research. On the other hand, it is now reasonably well established that the invention of the first “information” technology, namely writing, has had a profound effect on the ways in which we think about language, the mind, and the world, effects which have taken millenia to unfold. “Effects” is perhaps too strong a term as it is less a matter of how technology affects people than a matter of the ways in which people in different cultures have used and applied the technology and the ways they have altered the technology to suit their purposes. In the West, some of these uses have involved institutional change; thus, to make use of a technology such as writing requires the development of monasteries, schools, and other institutions. Indeed, some of the cognitive effects we usually attribute to schooling are better thought of as consequences or implications of literacy.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Deformation of the Value-Semantic Matrix of the Life of the World Community in the Conditions of a Postmodern Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-295
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Bekh ◽  
Viktor Vashkevych ◽  
Olena Postol ◽  
Bogdan Kalinichenko ◽  
Mykola Lipin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
World Community ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Impact

The range of research on value issues is quite wide today. The transition from understanding values as a philosophical category to a psychological interpretation of the nature of values has led to the emergence of many trends and psychological concepts of value problems. In this study, we will reveal the main modern views of researchers on the essence of the value-semantic matrix of both an individual and the entire world community. The modern socio-economic situation in the world is characterized by an almost permanent crisis state both in the social, and in the spiritual, cultural sphere, which is due to the existence of the consequences of the epidemic situation in the world. Based on this, the problem of teaching the dynamics of the value-semantic matrix, its development and changes under the influence of personality crises of various origins, both external ones caused by the social situation in the country, the impact of new information technologies, and internal ones, caused by growing up, growth, psychological development personality in time and space. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to conduct a theoretical study of the value-semantic sphere as a system that undergoes changes during the crisis periods of a person's life and to investigate the main deformations that have taken place in the Mind of existence of today's post-pandemic reality.

Descending into the Indeterminate State between the Determinate

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Megumi Yama
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
The West ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Folk Tale ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures

Abstract When Jung received the manuscript of the Taoist-alchemical treatise entitled The Secret of the Golden Flower from Richard Wilhelm he realized what his drawings of mandalas meant and received confirmation of his theories about the Self. At the same time, Jung realized that he had encountered ‘the East’ within, as he was digging into the depths of his own psyche. Today, thanks to the publication of The Red Book (RB) and Memories, Dreams, Reflections (MDR), we can understand that through that process, Jung held dialogues with the dead. This is considered to mean that he had contact with the world of death to reach another culture—the East. Yama argues that the indeterminate state between the determinate culture and another is chaotic and uncertain, a space which may possibly lead to the world of death. Nowadays, amongst rapid globalization, many people from diverse backgrounds have opportunities to encounter different cultures for various reasons, sometimes out of interest and sometimes out of necessity. In some cases, but not all, individuals simply step across into the other culture without the experience of ‘descending into the depth,’ as Jung had. Yama explores Jung’s inner journey and his childhood memories from the view of what was taking place while he was moving symbolically from the West to the East. For further exploration of the life of someone who is destined to live between different cultures, Yama introduces a Japanese old folk tale and presents clinical material, as well as her personal experience as one who spent her adolescence outside of her native culture.

scholarly journals Laws and Emerging Technologies

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Esther Salmerón-Manzano
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Way

New technologies and so-called communication and information technologies are transforming our society, the way in which we relate to each other, and the way we understand the world. By a wider extension, they are also influencing the world of law. That is why technologies will have a huge impact on society in the coming years and will bring new challenges and legal challenges to the legal sector worldwide. On the other hand, the new communications era also brings many new legal issues such as those derived from e-commerce and payment services, intellectual property, or the problems derived from the use of new technologies by young people. This will undoubtedly affect the development, evolution, and understanding of law. This Special Issue has become this window into the new challenges of law in relation to new technologies.

Feminist Occidentalist Discourse in ‘Shehrazad Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems’ by Fatima Mernissi

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-46
Author(s):  
Bitari Wissam
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Fatima Mernissi ◽  
Democratic Discourse ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

Occidental discourses tend to revise orientalist images about the orient. Many authors have taken the responsibility of giving a new voice to the occident and among those is Fatima Mernissi. In this regard, this paper aims at discussing the shift that has marked the writings of Fatima Mernissi with a particular focus on her book, ‘Shehrazad Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems’. It is undeniable that Fatima Mernissi‘s thoughts have known a radical change in terms of ideology and discourse. ‘Shehrazad Goes West’ seems to promote an Occidentalist discourse that isn’t based on appropriating orientalist rhetorical images of the orient but rather on revising/ reconsidering the tropes of essentialism, dehumanization and fixity that Orientalist texts usually opt for. From an auto-orientalist discourse that Mernissi advocated in her narrative Dreams of Trespass, we move to another discourse that manifests itself in ‘Shehrazad Goes West’, which is Occidentalism. In this article, based on a postcolonial feminist approach, I argue that Fatima Mernissi uses another approach of occidentalism in her construction of Western gender relations and the space of Western Harem. Instead of constructing a counter-hegemonic discourse to orientalism that based on misrepresenting the “other” and denying their voices, Eastern representation of the West in ‘Shehrazad Goes West’ does not keep with the same rhetoric of orientalism; rather it dismantles that logic which victimized people of the East and replaces it with a humane vocabulary. Moreover, the Occidentalist approach appropriated in the book does not only target the occident but also the orient resulting on what Abdelkbir Khatibi calls “double critiques”. The significance of this paper lies in highlighting such a potentially inclusive and democratic discourse that would counterbalance the politics of othering inherent in the discourse of orientalism.

DEVELOPMENT OF AN APPLICATION WITH AN AUGMENTED REALITY FUNCTION TO SPEED UP PASSENGER SERVICE ON THE EXAMPLE OF PULKOVO AIRPORT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (28) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
A. E. Evtushenko ◽  
◽  
M. A. Kropaneva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
The World ◽  
Speed Up

This article offers a prototype of an application for smartphones, aimed at improving services and increasing the speed of passenger service on the example of Pulkovo Airport. The software helps to improve the information and multimedia and technical support of the airport. The existing information technologies and the experience of their application in various airports of the world are considered. Key words: air transport, airport, passenger service, air passenger transport, St. Petersburg, application, information technology.

THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Otabek Allayarov ◽  
◽  
Hasan Yarbaev
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Of Information

The articledescribes thatit is impossible the development of society without the development of science, in this senseour state pay attention to in the field of science in the context of science and social-political reform, spiritual renewalasin all countries of the world. Scientifically and practically defined the role of information technology in the development of science and technology, as well as the creation of effective mechanisms for stimulating research and innovation, the introduction of science and innovation achievements. Moreover, the role and significance of information technology in the development of scientific research in the field of technologywas stated

Curriculum and Evaluation in Outcome-Based Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 5620-5625
Author(s):  
Dr. Gurudutta P Japee, Dr. Preeti Oza
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Outcome Based Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Democratic Knowledge

The “Outcome-Based Education” (OBE) model is being adopted at a fast pace in education institutions. it's considered an enormous breakthrough to enhance education across the world . Outcome-based education (OBE) may be a student-centered instruction model that focuses on measuring student performance through outcomes. Outcomes include knowledge, skills, and attitudes. there's a hidden contradiction within the projection and implementation of the OBE. One results in Multidisiciplinarity and therefore the other results in OBE. At first, we expect freedom and in other structured progress is predicted . One results in democratic knowledge and therefore the other results in capitalist knowledge management. Our education is sort of a lady with over ornaments who is unable to steer simply because of the load she carries of the ornaments. Technology silences the mind and not questioning a mind and thus this information society or knowledge society is ignorant and this may come whenever and wherever we mention mass education and not class education. This paper discusses the necessity and importance of curriculum formation and enhancing evaluation within the Outcome Bases education –OBE

Globalization, Citizenship and New Information Technologies

2008 ◽  
pp. 2379-2395
Author(s):  
Peter J. Smith ◽  
Elizabeth Smythe
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Multilateral Agreement On Investment

This chapter examines how information technologies have been used by non-governmental organizations to contest economic globalization. The chapter uses as case studies the failed attempt to negotiate the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (1995-1998) and the failed effort to launch a new round of trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization ministerial meetings in Seattle 1999. We do not take the simplistic view that non-governmental organizations were solely responsible for defeating the MAI, or stopping further trade negotiations, but rather use these cases to examine how Internet technology contributed to the capacity of groups to communicate, to quickly mobilize and widely disseminate critical information, outside the control of national elites.

An Introduction to Information Technology and Business Intelligence

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Stephan Kudyba ◽  
Richard Hoptroff
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
The World ◽  
Industry Sectors

The world of commerce has undergone a transformation since the early 1990s, which has increasingly included the utilization of information technologies by firms across industry sectors in order to achieve greater productivity and profitability. In other words, through use of such technologies as mainframes, PCs, telecommunications, state-of-the-art software applications and the Internet, corporations seek to utilize productive resources in a way that augment the efficiency with which they provide the most appropriate mix of goods and services to their ultimate consumer. This process has provided the backbone to the evolution of the information economy which has included increased investment in information technology (IT), the demand for IT labor and the initiation of such new paradigms as e-commerce.

Adopting IT

2011 ◽  
pp. 209-224
Author(s):  
John M. Anderson ◽  
William H. Gwinn
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Child Care Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
It Implementation ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost

Small companies are often reluctant to try innovative approaches to information management because of the cost of the hardware and software, the potential disruption of processes already dependent on overstressed resources and the lack of in-house expertise. This case looks at the experience with information technology (IT) implementation of one small nonprofit company that provides administrative services for child care providers. Like many companies of all sizes, the focal company realized it must adopt new information technologies in order to survive. The company fit the profile for small companies just entering the world of IT. It experienced the expected internal problems associated with change. And then it discovered that its size and its relationship to government oversight agencies, themselves struggling to implement IT, posed special threats to its survival.

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