scholarly journals The Information Laboratory

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-107
Author(s):  
Julie E. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Information Infrastructures

The emergence of the platform-based, massively intermediated information environment upends settled ways of understanding the nature and social function of media technologies. For several hundred years, political philosophers and legal theorists have argued that access to information and to the means of communication promotes reason, self-determination, and democratic self-government. Contemporary, platform-based information infrastructures and ecosystems, however, are being optimized to appeal to motivation and emotion on a subconscious level in ways that undercut the exercise of informed reason. This chapter explores the patterns of information flow in the platform-based, massively intermediated information environment and maps the ongoing construction of legal immunities designed to shelter them. Powerful information-economy actors have mobilized new logics of innovative and expressive immunity to stave off protective regulation and deflect accountability for both old and new kinds of harm.

Control in Flexible Working Arrangements

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Gerdenitsch ◽  
Bettina Kubicek ◽  
Christian Korunka
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Similar Extent ◽  
Decision Latitude ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

Supported by media technologies, today’s employees can increasingly decide when and where to work. The present study examines positive and negative aspects of this temporal and spatial flexibility, and the perceptions of control in these situations based on propositions of self-determination theory. Using an exploratory approach we conducted semi-structured interviews with 45 working digital natives. Participants described positive and negative situations separately for temporal and spatial flexibility, and rated the extent to which they felt autonomous and externally controlled. Situations appraised positively were best described by decision latitude, while negatively evaluated ones were best described by work–nonwork conflict. Positive situations were perceived as autonomous rather than externally controlled; negative situations were rated as autonomously and externally controlled to a similar extent.

Outrage and Satire as Responses and Antidotes

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ideological Bias ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Media Technologies

This chapter illustrates how conservative outrage programming and liberal satire were articulated as reactions to perceived problematic aspects of the political information environment in the 1990s. Both genres were fueled by the political polarization and media distrust that had exploded in the last third of the twentieth century. And both genres were made possible by new media technologies of the late 1990s. In the face of political polarization and a reduction of trust in journalism, conservative talk radio’s Rush Limbaugh and Fox News’s Roger Ailes created programming to deconstruct the ideological bias they perceived in mainstream news. Meanwhile, comedians worked to deconstruct the bias that they saw in the profit-driven news of that era; not an ideological bias but a bias in favor of strategy, spin, and partisan jargon.

Construction and Sharing of Library Digital Resources in China and Southeast Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 936 ◽  
pp. 2298-2301
Author(s):  
Do Thi Thanh Thuy
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Resources Sharing

Resources development & sharing has become an important subject of widespread concern in the world and it is the inevitable demand of information society development. Sharing is not only a useful way to save money, reduce duplication of investment, improve resource utilization and realize resources complement, but also an important way to greatly improve the information flow and information services support capabilities, and promote society access to information in general. This paper introduces the importance of resources sharing between the libraries of China and Southeast Asian and it refers to the cooperation ways of digital resources sharing.

scholarly journals Active Processes in the Syntax of Modern Russian Speech in the Aspect of Linguo-Semiotic and Linguo-Cognitive Interpretation

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
T. B. Radbil
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Active Processes ◽  
National Corpus

The paper examines the ways of implementation and syntactic organization of the discourse of the Russian segment of the Internet as a syncretic phenomenon that organically combines the principles of actualizing oral and written forms of communication. The methods of linguosemiotic and linguo-cognitive analysis of discourse as an information flow, based on the ideas of Yu. S. Stepanov, V. Z. Demyankov, U. Chafe and others are applied in the work. The research material is text data extracted from the Russian National Corpus and obtained by the method of continuous sampling based on the results of the author’s own Internet monitoring. The study shows that the syntax of Internet speech is not reduced to the process of hybridization of traditionally existing oral and written forms of language existence. In the usus of the information environment of the informal Internet, their own norms are developed, which are organic for the conditions of communication offered in this environment. The specific role of syntactic models of parcelling, segmentation, stringing techniques, graphic abbreviations, and other paraverbal means in informal Internet communication is analyzed. Also, special attention is paid to the originality of the punctuation design of speech on the Internet, the emergence of new punctuation norms. The author came at a conclusion that the Internet discourse is a new equal third form of language existence, along with the traditionally distinguished oral and written forms.

The Influence of Social Networking and Library 2.0 as a Gateway for Information Access and Knowledge Sharing in Africa

2014 ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Manir Abdullahi Kamba
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy

The chapter tries to highlight the influence of social networking and library 2.0 in providing access to information and knowledge sharing in Africa. It further discusses the panorama at which the information environment is changing from traditional to electronic, where access to information and knowledge stands to benefit all. The chapter, however, exhibits that in most developing worlds today the electronic information environment is gradually spreading and obviously will take time to be fully integrated into the systems, especially in Africa. The chapter provides a highlight on the value, usefulness, access to information, and knowledge sharing, which has become a necessary component for human existence and development. The premise is that librarians’ role is to facilitate this effective management and promote access to information and knowledge sharing through the influence of social networking and library 2.0; this in turn will strengthen and empower the African people to be among global players in the knowledge-based economy. The emergence of Web 2.0 principles and technologies that has given rise to social networking and library 2.0 offer libraries and information centers many opportunities for sharing information and knowledge among people regardless of distance or geographical areas. This reaches out beyond the walls of the library and Websites of any library or institutions. These developments make it possible for people to share knowledge and information online, borrow locally, and buy or sell on a global scale as appropriate to their needs and circumstances.

‘It is not good for the person to be alone’: The capabilities approach and the right to communicate

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110225
Author(s):  
Amit M Schejter
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Information Privacy ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Human Capability ◽  
Good For ◽  
Right To Communicate ◽  
The Right

For decades, attempts have been made to define a ‘right to communicate’. The rise of media technologies, which are characterized by abundance of channels and information, interactivity, mobility, and multimediated messaging, has allowed to rethink this right in a context converging traditional media and telecommunications and referring to communicating as an essential human capability. Applying Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach to communications, we argue that communicating is a capability required to realize such functionings as participating in political, cultural, social, educational, and commercial life and is essential to promote belonging to a collective. The ‘negative’ right to free speech should be replaced by a positive right to communicate, which should include free speech, access to information, privacy, and utilization of communications in order to belong to a community.

scholarly journals Knowing More from Less: How the Information Environment Increases Knowledge of Party Positions

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Banducci ◽  
Heiko Giebler ◽  
Sylvia Kritzinger
Keyword(s):  
Asymmetric Information ◽  
News Media ◽  
Political Party ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Policy Performance ◽  
Party Positions ◽  
Informed Citizenry

Access to information is a hallmark of democracy, and democracy demands an informed citizenry. Knowledge of party positions is necessary for voters so that electoral choices reflect preferences, allowing voters to hold elected officials accountable for policy performance. Whereas most vote choice models assume that parties perfectly transmit positions, citizens in fact obtain political information via the news media, and this news coverage can be biased in terms of salience – which leads to asymmetric information. This study examines how information asymmetries in news coverage of parties influence knowledge about political party positions. It finds that the availability of information in the news media about a party increases knowledge about its position, and that party information in non-quality news reduces the knowledge gap more than information in quality news.

scholarly journals Using a software as a service program in sales-marketing: a case study on Odoo

2021 ◽  
Vol 342 ◽  
pp. 08001
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Mihaela Iordache ◽  
Cezar Octavian Mihalcescu ◽  
Beatrice Sion
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Software As A Service ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Service Program ◽  
Marketing Department ◽  
Sales Team ◽  
Marketing Process ◽  
The Right

With the development of technology, implicitly of the fast and easy access to information, the requirements and exigencies of the customers have changed. The customer asks for much more information about a product before deciding to buy it, and a prompt response from the sales team will tip the balance decisively in favor of the seller. The success of an efficient sales team is represented by addressing to the right customers at the right time and in the right way. In the paper we analyzed how the Odoo program can be implemented within the sales-marketing department. Using specific modules, we followed the information flow of the marketing process, from market prospecting and to the registration in accounting of the invoices resulting from the orders made. We also presented the way in which marketing campaigns can be carried out, depending on the target group to which it is addressed.

Creative Works Exploring Our Information Ecosystem: 1970–1979

Leonardo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 571-577
Author(s):  
Richard Lowenberg
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Electromagnetic Spectrum ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Emerging Media

In the 1970s, Richard Lowenberg embarked upon the first in a series of experimental artworks that were conceptualized as part of a lifelong body of works addressing aspects of our information environment as ecosystem. Creative works during this period were influenced by information theory and cybernetics, the electromagnetic spectrum, the nature of signal, feedback, sensing-communicating, language and emerging media technologies. Artistic milestones included video-audio synthesis, NASA arts collaborations, interactions with Koko the gorilla, creation of sequences for the Secret Life of Plants film and EEG-EMGEKG biotelemetric performances (“Bio-Dis-Plays”). Real life offered a number of unexpected opportunities and distractions that enriched this work and helped set a course for development and realization of subsequent projects along an intended ecocultural path.

Balancing protection of public health and freedom of information in times of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Andrei Richter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Political Response ◽  
Geographical Scale ◽  
Areas Of Concern

International and (generally) national law provides for a fundamental human right to freedom of expression, which includes freedom to seek, receive and impart information through any media of one’s choice. The exercise of this right, however, may be subject to restrictions, including for the protection of public health. The specificity of the COVID-19 crisis lies in its global geographical scale and the generally concerted political response to it, which included limitations on freedom of information. Current limitations differ from those triggered by past public health concerns. Taking European countries as case studies, the author singles out and analyses in detail three areas of concern: restraints on access to information; bans on disinformation; and monopolization of the information flow, the latter potentially contributing to establishing a ‘monopoly on truth’.

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