To Extend Vision Beyond the Horizon, to See the Unseen: Industrial Television in the Post-War Era

2019 ◽  
pp. 62-92
Author(s):  
Kit Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
Information Networks ◽  
Closed Circuit ◽  
Physical Demands ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
Networked Computing ◽  
Post War ◽  
Working Bodies ◽  
Industrial Television

“Industrial television” (closed-circuit television referred to as ITV) was the first initiative to recognize the potential of television tailored specifically to the needs of industry. This chapter shows how ITV was positioned as a mechanism to extend bodies, adapting workers to match increased physical demands of post-war (1940s–1950s) industrial and informational architectures. ITV as prosthesis made working bodies stronger, bigger, and more tightly bound into automated information systems. Faster than a speeding assembly line, more powerful than a six-story furnace, able to retrieve dispersed data with a single command, these supermen appealed to industries seeking production and workforce efficiencies. In the mediated office, television transformed humans into nodes within complex human-machine hybrid information networks that anticipated networked computing. This chapter (keyword: flow) contributes to studies of how “work systems” produce people, socializing them to the conditions and expectations of capitalism.

The Emulation of Peace Mediation Practices: Beware of the Jurisgenerative Train

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Emmanuel De Groof
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Epistemic Community ◽  
Information Networks ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Constitution Building ◽  
Post War

This chapter discusses the deontology of peacemakers and mediators. It outlines the notion of epistemic communities and the reproduction of value systems, asking whether any form of emulation influences the evolution of international law in relation to transitional governance (‘TG’). The re-occurrence of TG can be attributed phenomena such as the ‘migration of constitutional ideas’, ‘constitutional borrowing’, ‘transnational information networks’, acculturation in contact groups, and the use of templates for peace building. The community of practitioners engaged in post-war countries and constitution building is relatively small. As a result, the epistemic community dealing with these issues creates a habitat favourable to the reproduction of professional practices by emulation. The question then becomes whether such reproduction is jurisgenerative, namely whether it expresses emerging law through custom creation or otherwise.

‘no human shape’: Unformed Life in The Unnamable

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Byron Heffer
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Closed Circuit ◽  
The Third ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
Moral Critique ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Post War

This chapter argues that Beckett’s antipathy to normative ideas of bodily and aesthetic form derives from his resistance to the Nazi politics of art. It utilises theories from disability studies and the work of Michel Foucault and Roberto Esposito to reconsider Beckett’s post-war aesthetic of deformation, framing it as a response to the inextricable connection between biopolitics and aesthetic form in the Third Reich. It offers a reading of The Unnamable that deviates from critical accounts that cast Beckett’s text as a redemptive moral critique of Nazi biopolitics. Beckett denies the reassuring conflation of degenerate artistry with passive, nonviolent exposure to Nazi violence. The degenerate artist, as figured in The Unnamable, is both victim and perpetrator in a closed circuit of biopolitical violence and aesthetic (de)formation.

Distributed land information networks: database management issues

CISM journal ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.C. Lee ◽  
J.D. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Distributed Database ◽  
Information Networks ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Distributed Database Management ◽  
Management Issues ◽  
Land Information Systems

This paper explores the major database management issues related to distributed land information networks. Recent developments in distributed database management are first reviewed; then special problems unique to the handling of spatial data are addressed. Lastly, this paper speculates on the future of distributed land information systems.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Sistem Informasi Industri Jasa Menjahit Online Berbasis Web Menggunakan Metode Waterfall

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Elsa Oktavia ◽  
Yulindon Yulindon ◽  
Rahmat Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Service Information ◽  
Drastic Increase

Information systems are currently increasing very rapidly, but it is unfortunate if the utilization is not yet optimal. Reviewing the data from literature studies and observations that have been made, many people need sewing services. The drastic increase in demand makes competition in the convection industry. Most of the work systems in the convection industry are done manually and are not economical. Product development also lacks creativity. Therefore, this researcher will use IT as marketing and design work, this can make processing time shorter and more optimal. Thus, customers will be facilitated in ordering ready-made clothes or clothes that match the customer's wishes by using a web application that only sends data on the size of the clothes or clothing model that the customer wants. This web-based application system can make it easier for customers to transact with the owner and transactions do not have to meet face to face. In addition, clothing sales and large-scale orders can be neatly organized and financial reports can be well structured and organized clearly. The results of this research will be in the form of research reports and web-based online sewing service information systems using the waterfall method. 

Structures in Complex Bipartite Networks

2009 ◽  
pp. 176-189
Author(s):  
Sune Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Network Science ◽  
Large Datasets ◽  
Information Networks ◽  
Important Class ◽  
Bipartite Networks ◽  
Overlapping Communities ◽  
Network Communities ◽  
The Future

A network structure of nodes and links is an informative way to study information systems. The network representation is valuable because it encodes the structure of the data. This chapter reviews recent advances in the field of network science with an emphasis on describing the structure of information networks. The author argues that bipartite networks constitute an important class of networks, and describes a method for detecting overlapping communities in bipartite networks. The author discusses the relevance of network communities to the future of organizing and understanding large datasets.

Metahuman systems = humans + machines that learn

2020 ◽  
pp. 026839622091591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalle Lyytinen ◽  
Jeffrey V Nickerson ◽  
John L King
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Organization Design ◽  
Human Learning ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
New Research

Metahuman systems are new, emergent, sociotechnical systems where machines that learn join human learning and create original systemic capabilities. Metahuman systems will change many facets of the way we think about organizations and work. They will push information systems research in new directions that may involve a revision of the field’s research goals, methods and theorizing. Information systems researchers can look beyond the capabilities and constraints of human learning toward hybrid human/machine learning systems that exhibit major differences in scale, scope and speed. We review how these changes influence organization design and goals. We identify four organizational level generic functions critical to organize metahuman systems properly: delegating, monitoring, cultivating, and reflecting. We show how each function raises new research questions for the field. We conclude by noting that improved understanding of metahuman systems will primarily come from learning-by-doing as information systems scholars try out new forms of hybrid learning in multiple settings to generate novel, generalizable, impactful designs. Such trials will result in improved understanding of metahuman systems. This need for large-scale experimentation will push many scholars out from their comfort zone, because it calls for the revitalization of action research programs that informed the first wave of socio-technical research at the dawn of automating work systems.

The Rationalization and Logistics Management Origins in Bata Company

2014 ◽  
Vol 708 ◽  
pp. 318-323
Author(s):  
Marek Tomaštík ◽  
Martin Hart ◽  
Jan Strohmandl
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Subsequent Formation ◽  
Line Production ◽  
Footwear Industry ◽  
Post War ◽  
Production Plans

The successful rationalization of production and the subsequent formation of assembly-line production in the footwear industry has evolved from its deepest post-war economic crisis. People who needed to produce the best quality shoes at a reasonable price demanded changes in the system of production and sales. Rationalization introduced in the manufacture of footwear used modern machines that were scientifically and optimally distributed in manufacturing processes. Proceedings of the race was comprehensively carried out according to the production plans from raw material to the sale of final products in stores. The whole system was characterized by a struggle against all losses and defects, against wasting time, energy and material either of an individual or a team work.

scholarly journals Analysis Evaluation Management Information System Audit Internal Quality

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Dewa Ayu Putri Wulandari ◽  
Made Dona Wahyu Aristana
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Management Information System ◽  
Internal Quality ◽  
Quality Assurance System ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
Assurance System ◽  
Internal Quality Assurance

Information systems are very important in this globalization era. Information systems generally can be used as a reference for decision making or to monitor the progress of an activity process. In high education, information systems are no less important than information systems within the company. Higher education is an institution that uses information systems to monitor work systems to improve quality. Higher Education Institute STMIK STIKOM Indonesia has implemented an internal quality assurance system (SPMI). An example of its application is by carrying out an internal quality audit (AMI). To ensure the quality of the application meets the standards and needs of the user, it can be done by performing software testing based on the ISO 25010 standard.  

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