The A-Group and 4th Millennium BCE Nubia

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Maria Carmela Gatto
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Economic Complexity ◽  
Organizational Differences ◽  
And Control ◽  
Alliance Building ◽  
Predynastic Egypt

This chapter discusses the 4th millennium bce in Nubia, which was characterized by a further advance in the process of socio-economic complexity already underway during the previous Neolithic phase, undoubtedly enhanced by interaction with Predynastic Egypt. This ultimately produced the emergence of the A-Group, an indigenous complex polity that appeared at the end of the millennium and reached its climax about the time of the Egyptian unification, ca. 3100 bce. The A-Group was characterized by a fluid economic pattern that included more than one subsistence activity, with herding retaining a distinctive social value within the society; and by organizational differences resulting from mobile and flexible politics, which gave rise to a regional polity based on trade and control over its logistics, social networking and alliance building, and a distinct form of distributed authority.

scholarly journals Archives and identity in the context of social media and algorithmic analytics: Towards an understanding of iArchive and predictive retention

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 3304-3322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Pötzsch
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The Political ◽  
Archival Theory ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
And Control

This article reconceptualizes the archive in the context of digital media ecologies. Drawing upon archival theory and critical approaches to the political economy of the Internet, I account for new dynamics and implications afforded by digital archives. Operating at both a user-controlled explicit and a state- and corporate-owned implicit level, the digital archive at once facilitates empowerment and enables unprecedented forms of management and control. Connecting the politics and economy of digital media with issues of identity formation and curation on social networking sites, I coin the terms iArchive and predictive retention to highlight how recent technological advances both provide new means for self-expression, mobilization and resistance and afford an almost ubiquitous tracking, profiling and, indeed, moulding of emergent subjectivities.

scholarly journals Social Networking for Botnet Command and Control

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Singh ◽  
Annie H. Toderici ◽  
Kevin Ross ◽  
Mark Stamp
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
And Control

Building Smarter Organizations

2014 ◽  
pp. 139-182
Author(s):  
Gordon Vala-Webb
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Control Culture ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Power Shifts ◽  
Global Power ◽  
And Control ◽  
Roll Out ◽  
Business Structure

Being a “smart” organization—to learn quickly and apply that learning to making changes—is essential for survival in this age of hyper-competition, global power shifts, and technological change. In “dumb” organizations, the flows of knowledge and idea into and through the organization are limited and slow. Those flows are restricted by the organization’s command-and-control culture, the maze-like organizational and business structure, and limitations imposed by closed communication technology. There are three matching and inter-linked solutions to improve flows: reducing unnecessary complexity, moving to a collaborative culture, and using an Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) technology. The focus of this chapter is a step-by-step approach to justify, design, measure, and roll out an ESN suite.

scholarly journals Managing Procrastination on Social Networking Sites: The D-Crastinate Method

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 577
Author(s):  
Abdulaziz Alblwi ◽  
Dena Al-Thani ◽  
John McAlaney ◽  
Raian Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
And Control ◽  
Method Approach

Procrastination refers to the voluntary avoidance or postponement of action that needs to be taken, that results in negative consequences such as low academic performance, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Previous work has demonstrated the role of social networking site (SNS) design in users’ procrastination and revealed several types of procrastination on SNS. In this work, we propose a method to combat procrastination on SNS (D-Crastinate). We present the theories and approaches that informed the design of D-Crastinate method and its stages. The method is meant to help users to identify the type of procrastination they experience and the SNS features that contribute to that procrastination. Then, based on the results of this phase, a set of customised countermeasures are suggested for each user with guidelines on how to apply them. To evaluate our D-Crastinate method, we utilised a mixed-method approach that included a focus group, diary study and survey. We evaluate the method in terms of its clarity, coverage, efficiency, acceptance and whether it helps to increase users’ consciousness and management of their own procrastination. The evaluation study involved participants who self-declared that they frequently procrastinate on SNS. The results showed a positive impact of D-Crastinate in increasing participants’ awareness and control over their procrastination and, hence, enhancing their digital wellbeing.

Ethical Tensions Emerging from the Application of the Collective Intelligence Concept in Academic Social Networking

2013 ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Craig Deed ◽  
Anthony Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
And Control

This chapter examines the ethical questions and actions emerging from academic social networking. Academics have always been involved in rigorous discourse across multiple contexts, involving generation, exploration, analysis, evaluation, and application of ideas through a process of thought, research, peer validation, and publication. The argument is that the concept of collective intelligence is changing the traditional hierarchical “rules” associated with academic dialogue. Collective intelligence is defined as a mix of formal and informal conversational contexts, and the storing and sharing of ideas and information through multiple public online contexts. The meta-concept of collective intelligence presents a number of ethical dilemmas and questions related to privacy, and ownership and control of net-generated data, ideas, and information. The purpose of this chapter is to identify and describe these ethical issues and actions in relation to academic social networking.

Smart families and community

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
John Bynner ◽  
Walter R. Heinz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Family Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Youth Population ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Control ◽  
Opening Up

The subject matter here turns directly to the digital society and its effect on family life and family members of different ages and intergenerational relations, based on the idea of 6 Smart families. Such a family comprises active users of the internet and social media intergenerationally, leading on to the issue of ‘opportunities’ versus ‘risks’ in social networking and parents’ approach to it. Opportunities include the opening up of unlimited knowledge and data to family users individually and jointly. Set against this attraction is the world of fake news and the interpersonal damage that the uncontrolled internet through social networking can do. The discussion finishes with the pros and cons of media education and control. The unresolved and most challenging feature of family digitalisation, as the CONVID-19 virus pandemic revealed, is the lack of access to educational and technical resources, largely through poverty of a substantial minority of the youth population.

Mourning and Memorialization on Social Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 466-484
Author(s):  
Elaine Kasket
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Continuing Bonds ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
The Dead ◽  
And Control ◽  
Opening Up

Mourning and memorialization on social media are prominent features of modern bereavement and are common on Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site. On Facebook, profiles of deceased users are memorialized by default, continuing to be present and accessible on the network and opening up new possibilities for the ongoing role and influence of the physically dead. Paradoxically, Facebook and other aspects of digital legacy have potential to both facilitate and disrupt continuing bonds, a term that describes the connection we experience with our dead. The psychological and sociological impact of the dead online is only beginning to be understood; in the meantime, it is argued that designers and operators of social networking platforms have a moral imperative to consider how to better facilitate individual choice and control over both our own digital legacies and our interaction with the digital legacies of those we have loved and lost.

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