Slowing Down to Listen in the Digital Age: How New Technology Is Changing Oral History Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Sheftel ◽  
Stacey Zembrzycki
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Slowing Down

scholarly journals The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Orben
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Academic Factors ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Current Concerns ◽  
Research Investments

NOW PUBLISHED: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620919372. Widespread concerns about new technologies – whether they be novels, radios or smartphones – are repeatedly found throughout history. While past panics are often met with amusement today, current concerns routinely engender large research investments and policy debate. What we learn from studying past technological panics, however, is that these investments are often inefficient and ineffective. What causes technological panics to repeatedly reincarnate? And why does research routinely fail to address them? To answer such questions, this article examines the network of political, population and academic factors driving the Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics. In this cycle, psychologists are encouraged to spend time investigating new technologies, and how they affect children and young people, to calm a worried population. Their endeavour is however rendered ineffective due to a lacking theoretical baseline; researchers cannot build on what has been learnt researching past technologies of concern. Thus academic study seemingly restarts for each new technology of interest, slowing down the policy interventions necessary to ensure technologies are benefitting society. This article highlights how the Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics stymies psychology’s positive role in steering technological change, and highlights the pervasive need for improved research and policy approaches to new technologies.

The Nursery of Life

2030 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rutger van Santen ◽  
Djan Khoe ◽  
Bram Vermeer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Cost Of Health Care ◽  
Precise Diagnosis ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Prompt Diagnosis

Human beings are much more complex than any technology we could devise today. How many machines are good for 80 or 90 years of service? Our immune system—set up at birth—is able to repel diseases that don’t even exist yet. Most viruses that proliferate 50 years after we were born can be defeated just as easily as maladies that have been dogging humans for generations. Effective health care means that—in most regions of the planet—we are living longer and longer. All the same, human beings are not perfect: We get sick and we wear out over time. In the wealthier regions, we spend a great deal of money trying to get as close as possible to a 100-year span. Our greatest task is to bring a long and healthy life within the reach of as many people as possible. New technology is required to hold down the cost of health care, to nip outbreaks of disease in the bud, and to ease discomfort in our old age. Scientists believe that substantial benefits can be gained by identifying abnormalities earlier. A cancerous growth measuring just a few millimeters is still relatively harmless, and an infection caught in its early stages won’t leave any scars. Although techniques for accurately diagnosing incipient abnormalities can often be very expensive, prompt diagnosis generally means that treatment will be easier, cheaper, and more likely to succeed. Thus, we can end up saving money despite the need for expensive equipment. To adequately fight the outbreak of diseases in the future, our technology must be able to respond more rapidly. This could pose a particular challenge because there is also a trend at present toward superspecialization, which is fragmenting medical knowledge and slowing down responses. Take the science of ophthalmology in which the various specializations focus on extremely specific parts of the eye. This is fine once a precise diagnosis has been made, but it could be a significant problem if the patient consults the wrong doctor at the outset. The way we currently approach diagnosis needs to change.

Message from Editor's Desk

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subodh Kesharwani
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
School Students ◽  
Digital Electronics ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
Almost All

The increasing convergence of the physical and virtual worlds offers unlimited opportunities in almost all areas of society. Digitalisation, as sound it nowadays, is all-encompassing crossways every aspect of our day-to-day lives in all thinkable ways. The influence of digital technologies is predominant in each range of our lives and subsequently the current epoch is also labelled as the "digital age". The procedure of digitalisation started some five decades back with the arrival of computing technologies and digital electronics. Currently digitalisation can be perceived as an instrument of transformation which extends afar our lifestyle to the method we implement, interrelate and demeanour business. Corporate world is using Digitalisation academia in a big way like the teacher decided to use digitalization for all homework assignments during this semester to teach her elementary school students about new technology that has been introduced in the school.

The Protection of Diplomatic Correspondence in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricio Grané Labat ◽  
Naomi Burke
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
International Courts ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court ◽  
State Actors ◽  
International Tribunals ◽  
The Impact

This chapter considers the impact of new technology on compliance with obligations under the VCDR. It focuses on the provisions of the VCDR that establish the inviolability of diplomatic archives and correspondence and considers the challenges posed by technology that was not available at the time of the drafting of that treaty but which is now commonplace. It evaluates the ever-present risk of unauthorized digital access to diplomatic correspondence and archives, including by non-State actors (eg WikiLeaks), and examines whether the framework of the VCDR is still adequate to deal with those challenges. The chapter also addresses the submission of protected information obtained in violation of the VCDR as evidence in proceedings before international tribunals, including the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The chapter analyses the admissibility of that evidence and offers answers on how international courts should deal with that information.

An Exploratory Look at the Growth and Success of Crowdfunding in the Public Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-196
Author(s):  
Martin Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way

The digital age has changed the way we consume information and left organizations struggling to adapt to new technologies and information exchange mechanisms. Civic crowdfunding is one such new technology that has the potential to redefine what local government means from an individual and administrative perspective, but there remains little knowledge about what it is and where it fits in the public space. This research attempts to unravel these questions by providing an overview of the field of civic crowdfunding and explaining what types of projects are undertaken, what projects are successfully funded, and what factors lead to successful projects.

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