INTERMEDIARIES, USERS AND SOCIAL LEARNING IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 295-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES STEWART ◽  
SAMPSA HYYSALO
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
User Innovation ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication

This paper explores the role of intermediaries in the development and appropriation of new technologies. We focus on intermediaries that facilitate user innovation, and the linking of user innovation into supply side activities. We review findings on intermediaries in some of our studies and other available literature to build a framework to explore of how intermediaries work in making innovation happen. We make sense of these processes by taking a long-term view of the dynamics of technology and market development using the social learning in technological innovation (SLTI) framework. Our primary concern is with innovation intermediaries and their core roles of configuring, facilitating and brokering technologies, uses and relationships in uncertain and emerging markets. We show the range of positions and influence they have along the supply-use axis in a number of different innovation contexts, and how they are able to bridge the user-developer innovation domains. Equipped with these insights, we explore in more depth how intermediaries affect the shape of new information and communication technologies and the importance of identifying and nurturing the user-side intermediaries that are crucial to innovation success.

scholarly journals Por uma teoria do ciberfeminismo hoje: da utopia tecnocientífica à crítica situada do ciberespaço

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Timeto
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
New Information ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Critical Phases

A noção de tecnossocialidade desenvolvida no contexto dos estudos sociais de tecnologia (STS), amplamente debatida no âmbito da reflexão tecnofeminista, traz à tona a construção social de gênero e tecnologia, e a necessidade de considerar conjuntamente as tecnologias de gênero e a criação de tecnologias. Este ensaio analisa a contribuição teórica e prática do ciberfeminismo para o debate, analisando as fases utópica e crítica do ciberfeminismo, para se debruçar sobre o encontro entre o ciberfeminismo, o pensamento pós-colonial e o feminismo transcultural. Voltando à raiz política do pensamento de Donna Haraway sobre o conhecimento ciborgue e situado, o ciberfeminismo situado e transcultural recupera a dimensão encarnada das novas tecnologias e utiliza e analisa novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação considerando seus efeitos materiais e simbólicos em relação à dinâmica de produção e consumo, de colocação e mobilidade, para reivindicar uma ação feminista que brota dos contextos e histórias em que o entrelaçamento de corpos e tecnologias faz a diferença.AbstractThe notion of technosociality elaborated in the sphere of Social Studies of Technology (STS), is widely debated within technofeminist thought, and brings to the fore the social construction of gender and technology, and the necessity of considering the conjunctions of technologies of gender and the engendering of technologies. This essay analyses the theoretical and practical contribution of cyberfeminism to the debate, analysing the utopian and critical phases of cyberfeminism to explore the encounter between cyberfeminism, postcolonial thought and transcultural feminism. Returning to the political roots of Donna Haraway's thought on the cyborg and her situated thoughts, a situated and transcultural cyberfeminism recuperates the dimension embodied by new technologies, and adopts and analyses new information and communication technologies through considering material and symbolic effects in relation to the dynamics of production and consumption, of collocation and mobility, to then revindicate feminist action which emerges from those contexts and stories in which the entwining of bodies and technologies creates difference.

THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Vol XIII (XIII) ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
L.D. KRIVYKH ◽  
◽  
O.B. BAGRINTSEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

The article deals with the application of new technologies in teaching foreign languages. Substantiates the importance of the development of other forms and methods of teaching English to students of information technology disciplines. As well as drawing attention to the use of new information and communication technologies of the Internet. The article includes examples of the use of podcasts in the development of listening skills. The article is written for foreign language teachers, all interested in the methodology of teaching foreign languages, based on new technologies.

Relationship between Social Media and Political Parties

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamil Demirhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter analyzes the capacity of social media usage and the social media strategies of political parties that became the members of Turkish Parliament after 2011 election. The social media usage increases in parallel to the improvements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and it becomes an important tool with its communicative functions to realize activities in social, political, and economic fields. In the globalization process, developments in ICTs and changes in the meaning of democracy have been realized parallel to each other. Politics has become more open to interaction and the participation of different actors. ICTs have created new opportunities to interaction and participation of social actors. These improvements require transformations in the role and functions of political parties. They have to arrange their programs and structures according to participative understanding of democracy and new technologies. Social media usage is seen as a requirement for political parties and party leaders for adaptation to these developments, and it is also seen as a device with its potential for realizing participation, communication, and interaction to adapt to the changes in the understanding of politics.

Relationship between Social Media and Political Parties

2015 ◽  
pp. 1196-1225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamil Demirhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter analyzes the capacity of social media usage and the social media strategies of political parties that became the members of Turkish Parliament after 2011 election. The social media usage increases in parallel to the improvements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and it becomes an important tool with its communicative functions to realize activities in social, political, and economic fields. In the globalization process, developments in ICTs and changes in the meaning of democracy have been realized parallel to each other. Politics has become more open to interaction and the participation of different actors. ICTs have created new opportunities to interaction and participation of social actors. These improvements require transformations in the role and functions of political parties. They have to arrange their programs and structures according to participative understanding of democracy and new technologies. Social media usage is seen as a requirement for political parties and party leaders for adaptation to these developments, and it is also seen as a device with its potential for realizing participation, communication, and interaction to adapt to the changes in the understanding of politics.

The Use of Electronic Banking and New Technologies in Cash Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 3914-3920
Author(s):  
Leire San Jose Ruiz de Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Cash Management ◽  
Unit Costs ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

The use of new information and communication technologies (ICT) as a business tool has increased rapidly for the past 10 years (Bonsón, Coffin, & Watson, 2000; Claessens, Glaessner, & Klingebiel, 2000; Vasarhelyi & Greenstein, 2003). More specifically, financial software, e-banking, and the Internet, as core aspects of the various technologies used, have become driving forces behind the expansion of firms and the development of cash management. New technologies are considered as one of the most attractive ways for businesses to increase revenue and achieve economies of scale that can reduce unit costs (Ballantine & Stray, 1998; Barajas & Villanueva, 2001; Daniel, 1999; Daniel & Storey, 1997; Deyoung, 2001; Downes & Muy, 1998; Faulder, 2001; Jayawardhena & Foley, 2000). There are different studies about the use of ICT in the management of the enterprise that explain the obtaining of enterprise performance. Brynjolfsson and Hitt (2000) and Nájera (2005) have done a review of these works and a classification of these types of researches. Unfortunately, there are not specific works or empirical researches about the use of e-banking in cash management; consequently, this work is focused in this. The rest of the chapter is structured as follows. The theoretical foundation on which the study is based is explained in Section 2. Section 3 presents the data and the analysis procedure used to conduct the empirical study. The main results of the investigation are shown in Section 4, and Section 5 presents conclusions. The chapter ends with a list of bibliographical references.

scholarly journals Design of attitude scales for teaching training in new technologies

Comunicar ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Hinojo-Lucena ◽  
Francisco Fernández-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
New Information ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Attitude Scales

In this paper, the authors present a scale elaborated in order to find out towards training and continuum improvement in NICT (new information and communication technologies) of education professionals, since this attitude is negative to them. This may be En este artículo se presenta una escala elaborada con el fin de conocer las actitudes sobre la formación y perfeccionamiento en las nuevas tecnologías de la información (NTIC) de los profesionales de la educación ya que muchos no han desarrollado aún una actitud favorable hacia ellas. Ésta puede ser una de las razones por las que no las utilicen en el aula, lo que conlleva una falta de aprovechamiento de los beneficios que pueden aportar tanto a su trabajo como al aprendizaje de sus alumnos. Para ello, después se teoriza sobre las actitudes y la formación y perfeccionamiento en NTIC, finalizando con la construcción de una Escala Likert.

New ICTs for Conflict Prevention and Management

2008 ◽  
pp. 3784-3803
Author(s):  
Ángela-Jo Medina
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Related Application ◽  
The Impact

This chapter introduces the impact of new information and communication technologies (nICTs), specifically the Internet, on national and international conflict prevention and management. This analysis provides case studies of the use and examples of the prospective use of nICTs to counteract conflict as it undermines social and economic structures and hinders regional development. This study reviews the specific application of nICT-related initiatives at the different phases of the conflict cycle: from addressing the root causes of conflict as a tool for prevention and management, through the reconciliation and reconstruction phase. The author intends this analysis to illustrate and contribute to the discussion of how the social and development-related application of nICTs can compliment existing conflict prevention and management reduction strategies.

Designing and Implementing E-Government Projects for Democracy and Social Change in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 437-468
Author(s):  
Shefali Virkar
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The Given

Attracted by the new Information and Communication Technologies, actors across the world have adopted computer-based systems for use in government as a means of reforming inefficiencies in public administration and public service provision. This book chapter, through the study of an electronic property tax collection system in Bangalore, India, seeks to unravel the social dynamics shaping similar e-government initiatives. The research upon which this chapter is based analyses prevailing actor behaviour, motivations, and interactions; examining not only the interplay of local contingencies and external influences acting upon the project's implementation and transformation, but also the disjunctions in these relationships which inhibit the effective exploitation of ICTs in the given context.

scholarly journals New technologies and the education of information professionals

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hare
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Records Management ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
The University

Using the example of the Masters in Records Management by Distance Learning at the University of Nortumbria at Newcastle in the United Kingdom, the article will explore the potentials of the new information and communication technologies and the implications for using them as a means of delivery for education for information professionals.The key challenge is to ensure that the education instils not only an awareness of the technologies and skills in their use but also the capacity to understand and evaluate their potential since they are the prime tools of trade for information professionals today. An effective approach is to study the technologies through using the technologies but success can only be achieved if the wider systems of processes and approaches, based on teamwork, are developed to recognise specialisms and divisions of labour. 

scholarly journals TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: TEACHER TRAINING AND THE CHALLENGE OF NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT)

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Face ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

In the face of the advance of new technologies that has been occurring and reaching all sectors of society, this article presents a discussion guided by scholars about the changes that are occurring in education. It is important to think of how you can use so many resources available today while providing power changes in the teaching-learning process which until then was seen as something static and conservative. The task of the teacher in the twenty-first century is no longer ready to take the knowledge to the student, but rather has the role of acting as a mediator and facilitator in the process of knowledge construction. The changes that are taking place have led educators to seek knowledge and expertise so that they can perform satisfactorily their role in society.

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