Citizenship and Cyber Politics in Iran

2018 ◽  
pp. 217-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gholam Khiabany
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Slow Development ◽  
New Information ◽  
Internet Development ◽  
The Relationship

All developments in relation to the Internet and cyberspace in Iran have occurred in a highly politicized post-revolutionary environment. Yet the central issue is not the obvious and crude divide between a ‘traditional’ and ‘religious’ state and ‘modern’ technology, since that very state has adopted new information technologies. There are two more subtle lines of tension running through Internet development and digital activism in Iran.  The first is the centralizing state’s desire to control expression in a ‘new technology’ environment that is highly conducive to widespread and popular participation. The second is the centralizing state’s desire to orchestrate and manage the slow development of the private sector and the inhibitions placed on entrepreneurial ICT activity in a field that has made net millionaires in other parts of the world. This chapter examines the relationship between the internet and politics in Iran. It engages with the possible lessons of digital activism, examines various organizational and media strategies, and factors in broader internal and external issues that help or hinder the growth or success of rebellion against regressive and repressive state and policies, and then moves on to explore the expansion of the Internet in the country in its wider social context.

Private Label Sales through Catalogs with Augmented Reality

2016 ◽  
pp. 275-305
Author(s):  
Gerardo Reyes Ruiz ◽  
Samuel Olmos Peña ◽  
Marisol Hernández Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Private Label ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
New Information

New technologies have changed the way today's own label products are being offered. Today the Internet and even more the so-called social networks have played key roles in dispersing any particular product in a more efficient and dynamic sense. Also, having a smartphone and a wireless high-speed network are no longer a luxury or a temporary fad, but rather a necessity for the new generations. These technological advances and new marketing trends have not gone unnoticed by the medium and large stores. The augmented reality applied to interactive catalogs is a new technology that supports the adding of virtual reality to a real environment which in turn makes it a tool for discovering new uses, forms, and in this case, spending habits. The challenge for companies with their private labels in achieving their business objectives, is providing customers with products and services of the highest quality, thus promoting the efficient and streamlined use of all resources that are accounted for and at the same time promoting the use of new information technologies as a strategic competitive.

Private Label Sales through Catalogs With Augmented Reality

2018 ◽  
pp. 1500-1531
Author(s):  
Gerardo Reyes Ruiz ◽  
Samuel Olmos Peña ◽  
Marisol Hernández Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Private Label ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
New Information

New technologies have changed the way today's own label products are being offered. Today the Internet and even more the so-called social networks have played key roles in dispersing any particular product in a more efficient and dynamic sense. Also, having a smartphone and a wireless high-speed network are no longer a luxury or a temporary fad, but rather a necessity for the new generations. These technological advances and new marketing trends have not gone unnoticed by the medium and large stores. The augmented reality applied to interactive catalogs is a new technology that supports the adding of virtual reality to a real environment which in turn makes it a tool for discovering new uses, forms, and in this case, spending habits. The challenge for companies with their private labels in achieving their business objectives, is providing customers with products and services of the highest quality, thus promoting the efficient and streamlined use of all resources that are accounted for and at the same time promoting the use of new information technologies as a strategic competitive.

Exploring the Influences of Service Characteristics on Individuals’Use Intention of Mobile Health Services (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Liu ◽  
Pengkun Wu ◽  
Xitong Guo
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Health Care Research ◽  
Privacy Concern ◽  
Service Adoption ◽  
Service Characteristics ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Relationship

BACKGROUND Service characteristic factors are verified as the determinants for influencing people’s use intention of mHealth. Exploration of the interactions among the service characteristics of users can play an important role in improving service adoption rate. mHealth service appears to be an emerging new technology that presents a new pattern of healthcare service; however, users have concerns that their personal information might be disclosed and used without permission. This concern hinders people’s adoption behavior of mHealth services. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to explore how service characteristics (service relevance and service accuracy) interact to influence individuals’ use intention of mHealth services. This study also investigates the moderating roles of innovativeness and privacy concern. METHODS To meet these objectives, six hypotheses thus developed were empirically validated using a survey to test the effects of service characteristics and personal traits on use intention of mHealth. RESULTS We confirm that service relevance and service accuracy positively and directly influence individuals’ use intention of mHealth services. In addition, innovativeness positively affects the relationship between service relevance and use intention. Privacy concern negatively influences the relationship between service relevance and use intention, but positively influences the relationship between service accuracy and use intention. CONCLUSIONS The present study provides new insights into the influencing factors of individuals’ usage behaviour toward mHealth services. Such insight could provide further understanding of how individuals adopt new information service or technologies, which contribute to both information system and health care research areas in a very promising way.

scholarly journals Educational Opportunities for New Information Technologies in Teaching Foreign Language in High School

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-451
Author(s):  
L. Aripzhanova ◽  
M. Mukhitdinova
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Information ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The article deals with the use of the Internet in teaching a foreign language. With the advent of the information age, both the scheme of knowledge transfer and the model of the learning process are changing sharply, which requires the improvement of professional training from the position of activation of cognitive processes.

Technology as Competitive Advantage in Intelligence and Facilitator of Security Cooperation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Iulian Marius COMAN
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Export Controls ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Global Access

Technology has become the Intelligence Community’s new reliability, as well as its new challenge. The new transnational adversaries – international terrorists foremost among them – the flood of new information technologies, the easing of export controls on encryption technology and global access to the Internet, has led the security agencies to charting new directions in identifying, gaining access to and successfully exploiting target communications, through cooperation with all related bodies.

Do the Social Web 2.0 Media Foster Democratization?

2016 ◽  
pp. 314-330
Author(s):  
Rasoul Namazi
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Political Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Impacts

This chapter studies the influence of the Internet and new Web 2.0 technologies on the process of democratization in authoritarian regimes. The objective is to show that the new information technologies are not necessarily helpful to dissident movements and have even some negative impacts on the process of democratization. The author questions the capacity of Internet to transmit political information discusses how the new technologies contribute to the depoliticization of societies by creating passive citizens in authoritarian regimes. This chapter also shows how authoritarian regimes use new information technologies as instruments of control and repression and questions the effectiveness of the new cyber-activism by explaining the structure of the Internet and discussing the capacity of the new technologies in creating political community.

scholarly journals Can Accessing the Internet while Travelling Encourage Commuters to Use Public Transport Regardless of Their Attitude?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3281
Author(s):  
Jinhyun Hong ◽  
David Philip McArthur ◽  
Mark Livingston
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Potential Effectiveness ◽  
Commuting Mode ◽  
The Relationship

Due to advances in technology (in particular the Internet), people have become less restricted by space and time, and can use travel time more productively by using their Internet-connected mobile devices on the move. Some operators provided Internet access on public transport to increase ridership. This has been shown to increase ridership, however it is not clear if it can induce people who prefer private cars to public transport to consider using public transport. In this paper, we examine the relationship between the frequency of using the Internet while commuting or travelling, and commuting mode choice, and how this relationship varies for people who have different attitudes toward public transport. Our results show that commuters who use the Internet frequently on the move tend to use public transport more. In addition, this association is significant for those who prefer private cars to public transport, showing the potential effectiveness of new technology in generating new riders.

Empirical Analysis of Political Spaces on the Internet

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Calderaro
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Instant Messaging ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Mailing Lists ◽  
New Information ◽  
Peer To Peer Networks ◽  
On Line ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The Internet has largely been greeted as a technology able to create new spaces of political debate. In order to investigate the issue, scholars have paid attention to how transnational social movements use new information technologies. This has been done mainly exploring the use of the World Wide Web (WWW). However, new political spaces do not take place just on the WWW, and by consequence, research in this field cannot solely carry out Web analysis to explore the role played by the Internet in creating political debate. In looking at other areas of the Internet to understand the creation of new political space, other analytical approaches need to be adopted. The Internet also includes tools other than the WWW, such as E-Mailing Lists, collaborative on-line software, Peer-to-Peer Networks, Instant Messaging tools, and so forth. This paper explores the role that E-Mailing Lists play in creating new political spaces. To explore if and how this happens, I illustrate this crucial point with an analysis of the use of E-Mailing Lists by social movements. The case I will use is that of the organization of the protest during the G8 Summit held in Genoa in July 2001.

Ethical Dilemma of the Digital Divide in the Threshold of Social Inequalities in Africa

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Essien Essien
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
The Web

Despite the ubiquitous nature of the internet in our daily lives today, the digital divide discourse in Africa highlights the inequitable social distribution of ICT access. The failure to have equitable social access to ICT tools, or a lack of skills to operate them, clearly depicts a technological predicament and a metaphor that questions the social gaps between humans that can access and use the web, and those that cannot. Relying on content analysis of extensive literature on the digital divide, this paper explores the notion of digital divide social inequalities in Africa, especially as it concerns how it should be understood, valued and managed. Findings, reveals that though the new information technologies are rapidly changing lives of a small but growing number of people across Africa, decisions on content, knowledge and participation excludes Africans. The digital divide therefore, has the potential to create, perpetuate and exacerbate morally objectionable conditions that can replicate poverty, construct exclusion and foregrounds social inequality in many African societies.

The Macroeconomic Benefits of Intelligent Enterprise

2011 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Siems
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Durable Goods ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Competitive Markets ◽  
New Information ◽  
Demand Volatility ◽  
Internet Business ◽  
The U.S

New information technologies, including e-commerce and the Internet, have brought fundamental changes to 21s t century businesses by making more and better information available quickly and inexpensively. Intelligent enterprises are those firms that make the most from new information technologies and Internet business solutions to increase revenue and productivity, hold down costs, and expand markets and opportunities. In this chapter, the macroeconomic benefits that intelligent enterprises can have on the U.S. economy are explored. We find that the U.S. economy has become less volatile, with demand volatility nearly matching sales volatility, particularly in the durable goods sector. Evidence also suggests that firms are utilizing new information technologies to lower inventory levels relative to sales, leading to higher productivity growth, lower prices, and more competitive markets.

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