scholarly journals Four Transcendental Illusions of the Digital World: A Derridean Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-413
Author(s):  
Susanna Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Finite Set

Abstract This article considers the remote meeting technologies that have become the unavoidable framework of (academic) work during the COVID-19 epidemic. I analyze them with the help of Jacques Derrida’s concepts, thus also illustrating the reach of the latter. The article presents four “transcendental illusions” as supporting the digital world and, according to Derrida, experience. The illusion of proximity: digitality relies on a haptocentric illusion but it also reveals the distance at the heart of touching. The illusion of presence: digitality functions under the illusion of presence, but it also reveals the spectrality of digital presence. The illusion of a complete memory: although the Internet appears to be a total memory, it is really an archive, that is, a finite set of traces. The illusion of worldwide community: teletechnologies pretend to constitute a universal place, but they only generate a finite dis-place of common alienation.

Tendencies of development of modern innovative technologies and the digital economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
S. M. Doguchaeva
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The era of digital transformation provides the opportunity for leading companies to change priorities - to begin to take care of the support environment using innovative technologies and become a leading creative platform open for innovation. The successful development of the digital world, the blockchain technology, the Internet of things – the mechanism which will change the financial world. 

The Prehistory of P versus NP

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance Fortnow
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Efficient Computation ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Large Research

This chapter explores two separate paths that led to the P versus NP question. In the end it was Steve Cook in the West and Leonid Levin in the East who would first ask whether P = NP. Science does not happen in a vacuum, and both sides have a long history leading to the work of Cook and Levin. The chapter covers just a small part of those research agendas, the struggle in the West to understand efficient computation and the struggle in the East to understand the necessity of perebor. Both would lead to P versus NP. Today, with most academic work available over the Internet and with generally open travel around the world, there is now one large research community instead of two separate ones.

The Roles of Digital Literacy in Social Life of Youth

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Chrispina S. Lekule ◽  
Yuqi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter contains findings related to social aspects of digital activities of youth. Computers, mobile devices, and the internet are increasingly used in everyday social practices of youth, requiring competencies that are largely still not being taught in schools. To thrive in the digital era, youth need to competently use digital tools and define, access, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information. Being able to develop perceptions of, and respect for, social norms and values for functioning in the digital world, without compromising one's own privacy, safety, or integrity is also important. After addressing the social prospects of information and communication technology (ICT) use among youth, this chapter describes their online behavior through the paradoxical nature of the internet (i.e., providing opportunities for social development vs. introducing risks). Educators and youth services are advised to consider these factors in designing flexible, innovative, and inclusive programs for young people that use ICT.

When Journalism Met the Internet

2019 ◽  
pp. 379-393
Author(s):  
Mike Dillon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital World ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Cast Doubt

American news organizations have long been criticized for failing to anticipate, appreciate and exploit the Internet as it became a fact of daily life in the mid-1990s. This chapter explores and analyzes the lack of planning that stymied the development of journalism on the Web and cast doubt on the viability of traditional public-service journalism with its enduring values of accuracy, fairness and advocacy. Specifically, the essay documents and analyzes the online debuts of two venerable “old media” news outlets (The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times) and two “new media” Web news outlets (Salon and Slate) in the mid-1990s by exploring the claims they made about their aims, purposes and expectations as they introduced themselves to the public via their salutatory editorials. It is a cautionary tale for a digital world that reconfigures itself in ever-quickening cycles.

Traces and Shadows

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Rob Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Continuous Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Store Loyalty ◽  
Smart Systems ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Data Production

This chapter charts the transition from an analogue to a digital world, its effect on data footprints and shadows, and the growth of data brokers and government use of data. The World Wide Web (WWW) started to change things by making information accessible across the Internet through an easy-to-use, intuitive graphical interface. Using the Internet, people started leaving digital traces. In their everyday lives, their digital shadows were also growing through the use of debit, credit, and store loyalty cards, and captured in government databases which were increasingly digital. Running tandem to the creation of digital lifestyles was the datafication of everyday life. This was evident in a paper which examined the various ways in which digital data was being generated and tracked using indexical codes about people, but also objects, transactions, interactions, and territories, and how these data were being used to govern people and manage organizations. Today, people live in a world of continuous data production, since smart systems generate data in real time.

scholarly journals Investigation of the Attitudes Towards Celebrities Endorsed Advertisements – Audience Groups Comparison

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Mihai F. Băcilă ◽  
Raluca Ciornea ◽  
Alexandra M. Drule ◽  
Andreea M. Cohut
Keyword(s):  
Information Transmission ◽  
Consumer Attitudes ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Celebrity Endorsement ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Digital World ◽  
New Type

Abstract The use of celebrities for endorsement activities is a well established part of the marketing communication strategy. Yet, the communication “playground” is changing as we witness significant changes in the channels used for information transmission (as digital dominate the traditional) and in the audience (as generations change, growing up in a digital world). More, removing the communications’ constraints of space and time, the Internet led to the emergence of a new type of celebrity that seems to surpass the traditional ones. In this context, research in the celebrities’ endorsement area is still of significant relevance. Although many studies focused on investigating the effect of celebrity endorsement over consumer attitudes and behaviour, only few examined how audience factors influence these relationships. Hence, the main objective of this paper is to establish the variations in attitudes towards celebrities endorsed advertisements, considering the consumers’ age, gender, income and celebrity-product fit importance. The findings revealed significant differences in attitudes based on consumers’ age, income and product-celebrity fit importance, yet no distinctiveness in case of gender.

scholarly journals A Responsible Internet to Increase Trust in the Digital World

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 882-922
Author(s):  
Cristian Hesselman ◽  
Paola Grosso ◽  
Ralph Holz ◽  
Fernando Kuipers ◽  
Janet Hui Xue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Network Control ◽  
Power Grids ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Data Flows

Abstract Policy makers in regions such as Europe are increasingly concerned about the trustworthiness and sovereignty of the foundations of their digital economy, because it often depends on systems operated or manufactured elsewhere. To help curb this problem, we propose the novel notion of a responsible Internet, which provides higher degrees of trust and sovereignty for critical service providers (e.g., power grids) and all kinds of other users by improving the transparency, accountability, and controllability of the Internet at the network-level. A responsible Internet accomplishes this through two new distributed and decentralized systems. The first is the Network Inspection Plane (NIP), which enables users to request measurement-based descriptions of the chains of network operators (e.g., ISPs and DNS and cloud providers) that handle their data flows or could potentially handle them, including the relationships between them and the properties of these operators. The second is the Network Control Plane (NCP), which allows users to specify how they expect the Internet infrastructure to handle their data (e.g., in terms of the security attributes that they expect chains of network operators to have) based on the insights they gained from the NIP. We discuss research directions and starting points to realize a responsible Internet by combining three currently largely disjoint research areas: large-scale measurements (for the NIP), open source-based programmable networks (for the NCP), and policy making (POL) based on the NIP and driving the NCP. We believe that a responsible Internet is the next stage in the evolution of the Internet and that the concept is useful for clean slate Internet systems as well.

Metaphors, Judicial Frames, and Fundamental Rights in Cyberspace

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Morelli ◽  
Oreste Pollicino
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Degree Of Protection ◽  
Digital World ◽  
European Court ◽  
External Point

Abstract How do legal imagination, metaphors, and the “judicial frame” impact the degree of protection for free expression when the relevant (technological) playground is the world of bits? This Article analyzes the so-called judicial frame, focusing on legal disputes relating to freedom of expression on the Internet. The authors compare the European Court of Human Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court case law from a methodological perspective. The Article shows how the adoption by supreme courts of an internal or external point of view in relation to the Internet affects not only the use of different metaphors to describe the digital world, but also the balance struck between the fundamental rights at stake.

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