Use of digital technologies in bridging the gap between face-to-face and remote engineering programs

We live in a society in which mobile and digital technologies are increasingly present in our daily lives and we cannot limit ourselves to knowing how to use them. It is important to know how to adapt them, personalize them and program them, if necessary, to solve our problems. Computational thinking is understood as the human ability to teach, humans or machines, to solve problems with the fundamentals of computing. Its development has gained space in education, formal and non-formal, through face-to-face practices. With the pandemic, the challenge arises to develop this skill with young people from high school in a public educational institution through online practices. In this article, we discuss the didactic design, based on the principles of online education, created for the development of computational thinking with online practices. The preliminary results indicate the feasibility of developing computational thinking from the perspective of online education.

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Sexual Interaction in Digital Contexts and Its Implications for Sexual Health: A Conceptual Analysis

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769732 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Nicola Döring ◽

Nicole Krämer ◽

Veronika Mikhailova ◽

Matthias Brand ◽

Tillmann H. C. Krüger ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sexual Health ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Conceptual Analysis ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Future Research ◽

Sexual Interaction ◽

Face To Face ◽

Conceptual Clarity ◽

Sexual Encounters

Based on its prevalence, there is an urgent need to better understand the mechanisms, opportunities and risks of sexual interaction in digital contexts (SIDC) that are related with sexual arousal. While there is a growing body of literature on SIDC, there is also a lack of conceptual clarity and classification. Therefore, based on a conceptual analysis, we propose to distinguish between sexual interaction (1) through, (2) via, and (3) with digital technologies. (1) Sexual interactions through digital technologies are face-to-face sexual interactions that (a) have been started digitally (e.g., people initiating face-to-face sexual encounters through adult dating apps) or (b) are accompanied by digital technology (e.g., couples augmenting their face-to-face sexual encounters through filming themselves during the act and publishing the amateur pornography online). (2) Sexual interactions via digital technology are technology-mediated interpersonal sexual interactions (e.g., via text chat: cybersex; via smartphone: sexting; via webcam: webcam sex/camming). (3) Sexual interactions with digital technology occur when the technology itself has the role of an interaction partner (e.g., sexual interaction with a sex robot or with a media persona in pornography). The three types of SIDC and their respective subtypes are explained and backed up with empirical studies that are grouped according to two major mediators: consent and commerce. Regarding the causes and consequences of the three types of SIDC we suggest a classification that entails biological, psychological, social, economic, and technological factors. Regarding implications of SIDC we suggest to focus on both opportunities and risks for sexual health. The proposed conceptual framework of SIDC is meant to inform future research.

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The Future of Price: Communicative Infrastructures and the Financialization of Indian Tea

Cultural Anthropology ◽

10.14506/ca31.1.02 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 4-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Sarah Besky

Keyword(s):

Futures Markets ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Northeast India ◽

Futures Contracts ◽

Face To Face ◽

Tea Industry ◽

Open Outcry ◽

The Government ◽

Derivatives Markets ◽

Indian Tea

For more than 150 years, most tea grown on plantations in northeast India has been sold in open-outcry auctions in Kolkata. In this essay, I describe how, in 2009, the Tea Board of India, the government regulator of the tea trade, began to convert auctioning from a face-to-face outcry process to a face-to-computer digital one. The Tea Board hoped that with the implementation of digital technologies, trade would soon revolve around the buying and selling of futures contracts, not individual lots of tea. Despite these efforts, the tea industry has thus far resisted all attempts at financialization. That so prominent a commodity as tea has yet to be financialized provides a unique opportunity to examine the how of financialization—the governmental and technical steps that precede futures and other kinds of derivatives markets. Futures markets rely on a standardized notion of price and of the material things being priced. The story of Indian tea’s resistance to financialization shows how such standardization requires not just a disentangling of commodities at the level of productive infrastructure (that is, the separation of individual trader and thing being traded) but also a reworking of the communicative infrastructure of trading. In this essay, I analyze this reworking by examining the effort to reform how tea is priced at auction. Specifically, I describe a transition in tea valuation from socially embedded price stories to standardized price scenarios.

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Engineers in the Distance

Mechanical Engineering ◽

10.1115/1.2014-apr-2 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 136 (04) ◽

pp. 38-43

Author(s):

Tom Gibson

Keyword(s):

North Dakota ◽

The United States ◽

Petroleum Engineering ◽

Engineering Programs ◽

University Of North Dakota ◽

Bachelor Of Science ◽

Face To Face ◽

Learning Programs ◽

The Face ◽

The University

This article presents views of Todd Torrence on introduction of online learning programs that can open paths from technical to technological. The University of North Dakota, which offers the only accredited online BSME program in the United States, is in a state where hydraulic fracturing has sharply increased oil production. The university has applied for accreditation of an online program offering a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering. The UND online BSME program covers the same material as its on-campus counterpart. North Carolina State has a 2+2 program where a student can go to a partnering university at the east and west ends of the state for the first two years of their undergraduate work. The University of North Dakota online BSME program covers the same material as its on-campus counterpart. Part of the accreditation process is assuring that the online degree is equivalent to the face-to-face degree. The challenge with undergrad online engineering programs is their sheer size and the time it takes to complete them, as compared with graduate programs.

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Network infrastructure in the present-day realities

проект байкал ◽

10.51461/projectbaikal.70.1893 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 78-83

Author(s):

Olga Zheleznyak

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Modern Society ◽

Personal Space ◽

Network Systems ◽

Modern Life ◽

Face To Face ◽

Network Culture ◽

The Face ◽

Basic Infrastructure

The development of digital technologies, the transformation of the Internet into a “communication medium” leads to the formation of a network society with the large-scale development of network culture and the invasion of network business and network forms of education. Replacement of the face-to-face contact by the network communication, destruction of personal space, openness of personal life, its “inclusion in the network”, simultaneous possibility of anonymity, protection and irresponsibility of users become a reality of modern life. Network systems are becoming the basic infrastructure of modern society.

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USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN VOTING AT THE GENERAL MEETING OF PARTICIPANTS (SHAREHOLDERS’) BUSINESS ENTITY

Courier of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University ◽

10.17803/2311-5998.2020.71.7.060-067 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 53-59

Author(s):

E. V. Elnikova

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

New Technologies ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

General Meeting ◽

Evidence Base ◽

Electronic Voting ◽

Face To Face ◽

Voting Procedures ◽

The Right ◽

Corporate Legislation

The article deals with issues related to the exercise of the right to participate in the General meeting of participants (shareholders) of economic companies through the use of digital technologies. The Russian corporate legislation provides for the possibility of voting at the General meeting using electronic means. The conclusion is made that it is necessary to expand the dispositive regulation, which provides corporations with more opportunities to determine the directions necessary for them to implement new technologies. The advantages of using electronic voting forms in joint-stock companies with a large number of shareholders are considered. The risks associated with the use of digital technologies when voting at the General meeting are highlighted. Attention is drawn to the need to develop ways to ensure the evidence base for the Commission member of the Corporation’s actions by voting in electronic form. It was suggested that the introduction of digital technologies in the voting procedures at the General meeting of participants (shareholders) leads to a gradual leveling of the differences between decision-making in face-to-face and absentee voting.

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Let’s go steady: a digital communication tool for loving couples

10.32920/ryerson.14649183 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Layden Stevenson

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Mobile Application ◽

Digital Communication ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Design Solution ◽

Communication Tool ◽

Face To Face

As progressive societies increasingly rely on digital technologies, our methods of communicating with each other continue to evolve. While this opens up many possibilities for the formation of new relationships, it also has repercussions with regard to our ability to maintain the relationships that matter most. This paper and project aims to identify challenges experienced by couples in loving relationships typically caused by or worsened by over-reliance on smartphones and social media. I have proposed a design solution in the form of a mobile application made specifically for committed partners, tentatively called Steady. The goal of the app is to encourage compassion, understanding and healthy communication; helping couples be more engaged in face-to-face interaction and avoid being distracted by their devices while spending time together.

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Audiens Framing : Peluang Baru dalam Penelitian Audiens

Jurnal ASPIKOM ◽

10.24329/aspikom.v1i6.54 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (6) ◽

pp. 485

Author(s):

Twediana Budi Hapsari

Keyword(s):

Social Environment ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Technology Use ◽

Reference Group ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Personal Knowledge ◽

Audience Studies ◽

Face To Face ◽

The Media ◽

The Individual

The study of the audience is one of the key studies in communication science. Audience studies are growing along with the development of communication technology itself, from face to face communication to the use of digital technologies in communications. The audience can not be separated from its context as a member of society and social environment. Therefore it can be understood that many factors influence the process of framing the audience (frames) an issue of the media, not only from personal knowledge and experience possessed by individual audience itself, but also other factors of the environment such as the opinion of a reference group in which the individual also be part of technology use in accessing the media. The process of forming a frame issue in the minds of the audience referred to as the process of framing by the audience (audience framing).

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Giving It All Away: Blues Harmonica Education in the Digital Age

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660363.003.0011 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 227-251

Author(s):

Adam Gussow

Keyword(s):

Ethical Dilemmas ◽

Martin Luther ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Digital Age ◽

Trade Secrets ◽

Face To Face ◽

Mentoring Relationship ◽

The World ◽

Martin Luther King ◽

The Way

In 2007, the author uploaded his first video to YouTube, a badly-lit and amateurish blues harmonica tutorial. Within a decade, his Dirty-South Blues Harp Channel had accumulated 500 videos, 20 million views, and 70,000 subscribers, and his website, ModernBluesHarmonica.com was enjoying 750,000 annual page views from 192 countries around the world. This chapter seeks to understand the way in which insurgent digital technologies have impacted the pedagogy of blues harmonica, a coterie pursuit whose trade secrets and professional practices had previously been communicated through face-to-face teaching between masters and apprentices. Acknowledging the ethical dilemmas provoked by a white blues musician who makes the harmonica’s esoteric technique available to a global audience, the author also describes the way YouTube’s “comments” section brought him together with Brandon Bailey, a young Black harmonica player from Memphis. The mentoring relationship they formed helped Bailey win a “Star Search” competition and benefited both men’s careers in unanticipated ways, suggesting that contemporary blues culture, although troubled, is also, if unevenly, a transracial brotherhood—an “inescapable network of mutuality,” in Martin Luther King Jr.’s words.

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The Skype paradox

Pragmatics ◽

10.1075/prag.27.3.06har ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 447-474 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Richard H. Harper ◽

Rod Watson ◽

Jill Palzkill Woelfer

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Family Relations ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Communications Technology ◽

Communications Media ◽

Face To Face ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

Social Disconnection ◽

Using Data

Abstract Digital technologies are likely to be appropriated by the homeless just as they are by other segments of society. However, these appropriations will reflect the particularities of their circumstances. What are these appropriations? Are they beneficial or effective? Can Skype, as a case in point, assuage the social disconnection that must be, for many, the experience of being homeless? This paper analyses some evidence about these questions and, in particular, the ways communications media are selected, oriented to and accounted for by the homeless young. Using data from a small corpus of interviews, it examines the specific ways in which choice of communication (face-to-face, social media, or video, etc.), are described by these individuals as elected for tactical and strategic reasons having to do with managing their family relations. These relations are massively important both in terms of how communications media are deployed, and in terms of being one of the sources of the homeless state the young find themselves in. The paper examines some of the methodical ways these issues are articulated and the type of ‘causal facticity’ thereby constituted in interview talk. The paper also remarks on the paradoxical problem that technologies like Skype provide: at once allowing people in the general to communicate but in ways that the homeless young want to resist in the particular. The consequences of this for the shaping of communications technology in the future are remarked upon.

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