Revisiting the Problem of Credibility in the Age of Post-Truth

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Christer Jönsson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
International Negotiations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Signaling Systems ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The One

Abstract This essay raises the question whether citizens in the digital age can learn from how credibility is treated in international negotiations. Negotiators face problems both in attempting to send credible signals and in making credibility assessments of received signals. Several studies, starting with Schelling’s seminal analysis of commitments, indicate that credible signals are those that are somehow costly to the sender. Contributions to our understanding of how recipients make credibility assessments include Jervis’s distinction between signals (with no inherent credibility) and indices (believed to be untainted by deception). The most general conclusion emerging from existing research is that there is no definitive, infallible solution to the problem of credibility, insofar as deception and misperception are intrinsic to all signaling systems. Today’s unfortunate combination of limited awareness of credibility problems, on the one hand, and technological advances facilitating deception, on the other, calls for intensified education as well as multidisciplinary research.

scholarly journals Content and stylistic peculiarities of non-canonical Orthodox Internet Sermon in modern Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Konstantin S. Sharov
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Technical Professions

The paper is concerned with a study of the changing content and style of non-canonical Christian religious preaching in the digital age. Special attention is paid to the analysis of modern rhetoric Christian preachers practice in their Internet channels, forums and blogs. It is shown that the content of the Internet sermon is largely determined by the Internet users themselves and the topics of their appeals. The fundamental characteristics of the content of the Internet sermon are: 1) focus on the individual, their private goals and objectives, not just on theological problems; 2) rethinking the phenomenon of the neighbour; 3) a shift from the Hesychast tradition of preaching the importance of inner spiritual concentration to the preaching of religious interactivity. The observed stylistic features of the digital preaching can be summarised as follows: 1) moving away from simple answers to the rhetoric of new questions addressed to the audience; 2) empathy, co-participation with a person in his/her life conflicts and experiences; 3) desire to share religious information, not to impose it; 4) resorting to various rhetorical techniques to reach different audiences; 5) a tendency to use slang, sometimes even irrespective of the audience’s language preferences and expectations. It should be pointed out that the Orthodox Internet sermon in the Russian Internet space has a dual and contradictory nature. On the one hand, this phenomenon can be regarded as positive for the Orthodox preaching in general, since it is a means of spreading Christian ideas in the social groups that do not constitute a core of parishioners of Orthodox churches, for example, schoolchildren, students, representatives of technical professions, etc. On the other hand, the effectiveness of such preaching is still unclear. Lack of reliable statistics as well as the results of the survey related to the Orthodox Internet preaching gives us no opportunity to judge about effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the phenomenon at this stage of its development.

scholarly journals EDUCAR NO PRESENTE EFÊMERO PARA UM FUTURO INCERTO

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 145-167
Author(s):  
José Lauro Martins
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
School Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Educational Debate

A crítica de alguns autores quanto ao papel da escola na nova realidade educativa perante as possibilidades de interação e informação, chega a extremos. Há autores que consideram que a escola, diante dos avanços tecnológicos capazes de distribuir com eficiência a informação, perde a razão de existir (PERELMAN, 1992). Embora entenda que este seja um posicionamento reducionista e obtuso, uma vez que o papel da escola não é ou não pode ser apenas o de informar. No contexto deste artigo propomos um viés para o debate educacional para a educação no século XXI: por um lado as tecnologias digitais de comunicação e informação que abalam as estruturas centenárias da educação e por outro a autonomia que esta tecnologia possibilita contrasta com o modelo de escola e da educação oficial que temos.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Tecnologias digitais; autonomia, educação.     ABSTRACT The critique of some authors regarding the role of the school in the new educational reality towards the possibilities of interaction and information, reaches to extremes. There are authors who consider that the school, given the technological advances capable of efficiently distributing information, loses its existence reason  (Perelman, 1992). Although understands that this is a reductionist and obtuse position, since the role of the school is not or cannot be just to inform. In the context of this article we propose a bias towards the educational debate for education in the 21st century: on the one side the digital technologies of communication and information that undermine the centennial structures of education and on the other the autonomy that this technology allows contrasts with the school model and the official education we have.   KEYWORDS: Digital technologies; autonomy, education.   RESUMEN La crítica de algunos autores respecto al rol de la escuela en la nueva realidad educativa delante de las posibilidades de interacción e información, llega a extremos. Hay autores que consideran que la escuela, frente a los avances tecnológicos capaces de repartir con eficiencia la información, pierde la razón de existir (PERELMAN, 1992). No obstante entienda que este sea un posicionamiento reduccionista y obtuso, una vez que el rol de la escuela no es o no puede ser solamente el de informar. En el contexto de este artículo proponemos un sesgo para el debate educacional hacia la educación en el siglo XXI: por un lado las tecnologías digitales de comunicación e información que tiemblan las estructuras centenarias de la educación y por otro la autonomía que esta tecnología posibilita y contrasta con el modelo de escuela y de educación oficial que tenemos.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Tecnologías digitales; autonomía, educación.

scholarly journals Revisiting the global hydrological cycle: is it intensifying?

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 3899-3932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Dynamics ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Ice Dynamics ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Visible Effect ◽  
Global Hydrological Cycle ◽  
The One ◽  
Over Exploitation

Abstract. As a result of technological advances in monitoring atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and biosphere, as well as in data management and processing, several databases have become freely available. These can be exploited in revisiting the global hydrological cycle with the aim, on the one hand, to better quantify it and, on the other hand, to test the established climatological hypotheses according to which the hydrological cycle should be intensifying because of global warming. By processing the information from gridded ground observations, satellite data and reanalyses, it turns out that the established hypotheses are not confirmed. Instead of monotonic trends, there appear fluctuations from intensification to deintensification, and vice versa, with deintensification prevailing in the 21st century. The water balance on land and in the sea appears to be lower than the standard figures of literature, but with greater variability on climatic timescales, which is in accordance with Hurst–Kolmogorov stochastic dynamics. The most obvious anthropogenic signal in the hydrological cycle appears to be the over-exploitation of groundwater, which has a visible effect on the rise in sea level. Melting of glaciers has an equal effect, but in this case it is not known which part is anthropogenic, as studies on polar regions attribute mass loss mostly to ice dynamics.

scholarly journals LITERACY EDUCATION URGENCY FOR CENTENNIAL GENERATION IN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Muhamad Yusuf ◽  
Mira Zuzana ◽  
Doli Witro
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Working Age ◽  
The One ◽  
Training Background

When talking about children’s abilities, they indeed cannot be separated from their educational or training background. Moreover, he has entered the working age that must have productivity in his work, especially at this time, where the era has entered the industrial revolution 4.0. The industrial revolution 4.0 is marked by the development of digitalization in various lines of life. On the one hand, the industrial revolution 4.0 had many positive impacts. However, on the other hand, as the McKinsey Global Institute states that as a result of the 4.0 industrial revolution in the next five years, there will be 52.6 million jobs that will decline and even disappear. This certainly will be a challenge for the centennial generation (children born from 1996-2011) at this time, which they have to survive with the existing conditions and situations. This paper will discuss several factors that describe and address issues such as what is meant by the centennial generation, literacy, and the urgency of literacy education for the centennial generation in the digital age. According to authors, thi is essential to discuss, given the increasingly rapid development and technological progress resulting in the loss of much work.

Convergence and de-convergence of Chinese journalistic practice in the digital age

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1380-1396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Li
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Convergence Model ◽  
Journalistic Practice

The existing literature broadly suggests that newsrooms are adapting to the media convergence world at the cost of traditional quality journalism. However, based on my ethnographic study of the Beijing News, I propose a convergence and de-convergence model of journalistic practice. The model explains how one Chinese newspaper preserves the legacy of critical journalism, on the one hand, while negotiating the challenges of adapting to the converging trends on the other. I argue that a well-established organizational culture and a working routine are crucial in the newspaper’s transformation, which makes it impossible to redesign the newsroom and redefine journalism with technology alone. Moreover, the article calls for a more nuanced understanding of the transformation of legacy media in the digital age, especially considering a non-Western context. I argue that the Chinese newspaper’s response to technological and economic impacts brought by the Internet is in fact mediated by political concerns.

scholarly journals Revisiting global hydrological cycle: Is it intensifying?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Dynamics ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
Ice Dynamics ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Visible Effect ◽  
Global Hydrological Cycle ◽  
The One

Abstract. As a result of technological advances in monitoring atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and biosphere, as well as in data management and processing, several data bases have become freely available. These can be exploited in revisiting the global hydrological cycle with the aim, on the one hand, to better quantify it and, on the other hand, to test the established climatological hypotheses, according to which the hydrological cycle should be intensifying because of global warming. By processing the information from gridded ground observations, satellite data and reanalyses, it turns out that the established hypotheses are not confirmed. Instead of monotonic trends, there appear fluctuations from intensification to deintensification and vice versa, with deintensification prevailing in the 21st century. The water balance on land and sea appears to be lower than the standard figures of literature, but with greater variability on climatic time scales, which is in accordance with Hurst-Kolmogorov stochastic dynamics. The most obvious anthropogenic signal in the hydrological cycle appears to be the overexploitation of groundwater, which has a visible effect on sea level rise. Melting of glaciers has an equal effect, but in this case it in not known which part is anthropogenic, as studies on polar regions attribute mass loss mostly to ice dynamics.

scholarly journals The Artificial Conscience of Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Marketing Ruse or Reality?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Noto La Diega
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
The Third ◽  
Compelling Argument ◽  
Autonomous Weapons ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Nuclear Arms

There are two interwoven trends in cyber-counterterrorism. On the one hand, countries such as Israel and Russia announce the deployment of lethal autonomous weapons. Such weapons constitute the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms. On the other hand, researchers try and embed ethics into the design of these weapons (so-called artificial conscience or "ethics by design"). The contention of this paper is that artificial conscience is a mere marketing ruse aimed at making the deployment of lethal autonomous weapons and other autonomous robots acceptable in society. Whereas there are strong reasons to object to this trend, some solutions to the pitfalls of ethics by design have been presented. However, they do not seem viable in a military context. In particular, the so-called customised-ethics approach is applicable only to commercial and civil machines. When deciding whether to kill 600 civilians in order to hit 14 al-Qaeda leaders, which set of values should be implemented? This is a compelling argument for banning lethal autonomous weapons altogether. PLEASE CITE AS Guido Noto La Diega, ‘The artificial conscience of lethal autonomous weapons: marketing ruse or reality?’ (2018) 1 Law and the Digital Age 1-17

scholarly journals Education in Theoretical Interpretations of Scientific Disciplines: Subject Construction Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Viktorovna Vikhman
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theoretical Construction ◽  
The One ◽  
Conceptual Logic

The relevance of the research is determined, on the one hand, by the fact that education, being the object of multidisciplinary research, is comprehended through the prism of subject practices of its theoretical construction, on the other hand, such subject determinism determines the specifics and nature of subject design practices within the «educationally oriented» scientific disciplines, sets the logic of relevant research programs and suggests that the construction of subject disciplinary theorizations of the phenomenon of education has a common conceptual logic. Objective: to identify the specifics and key theoretical constructs of the subject design practices formed in the «educationally oriented» scientific disciplines by understanding the multidisciplinary theoretical interpretations of education.

scholarly journals PANDANGAN AL-QUR’AN TERHADAP REALITAS HOAX

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sella Afrilia ◽  
RUMBA TRIANA ◽  
Syaiful Rokim
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wrong Thing ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Two Sides

AbstractGlobalization in the digital age and the rapid development of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) make information andcommunication easier and faster and bigger. With the development oftechnology today, it has two sides like a blade, on the one hand can be positivewhen used for the right thing, but not denied on the other hand can be negativeif used for the wrong thing. Among the downside is the massive disseminationof information but not based on the fact that it is hoaxed. the meaning of hoaxas mentioned by the Tafseer, especially in the letter of An-Nūr verses 11-19 is aslander or accusation, hoax is also a conspiracy to defeat the enemy oropponent, and also the nature of the hoax itself is news that is rapidlyspreading and able to influence.AbstrakGlobalisasi di era digital dan perkembangan TIK (Teknologi Informasi danKomunikasi) yang begitu pesat menjadikan informasi dan komunikasi semakinmudah dilakukan dan terus berkembang dalam skala yang sangat cepat danbesar. Dengan semakin berkembangnya teknologi saat ini, maka hal tersebutmemiliki dua sisi layaknya mata pisau, di satu sisi bisa bersifat positif ketikadigunakan untuk suatu hal yang benar, namun tidak dinafikan di sisi lain dapatbersifat negatif jika digunakan untuk hal yang salah. Diantara sisi negatifnyaadalah penyebaran informasi yang secara masif namun tidak didasari denganfakta yang disebuk dengan istilah hoax. makna hoax sebagaimana yang telahdisebutkan oleh Ahli Tafsir khususnya dalam surat An-Nūr ayat 11-19 adalahsuatu fitnah atau tuduhan, hoax juga merupakan konspirasi untuk mengalahkanlawan atau musuh, dan juga sifat dari hoax sendiri adalah berita yang cepatmenyebar dan mampu mempengaruhi.Keywords: Hoax, QS. An-Nuur: 11-19

scholarly journals Indonesian Cyber Law Formulation in The Development Of National Laws In 4.0 Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Rama Halim Nur Azmi
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
New World ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cyber Law ◽  
The One

The digital age has made the loss of boundaries for interaction and communication which then creates a new world of cyberspace. The cyberspace entity on the one hand provides advantages and on the other hand also causes losses if there is no protection in the cyberspace. Protection of cyberspace in Indonesia is still far from good and tends to be bad. Even President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been a victim of the weak protection of the cyberspace. These weaknesses are the implications of the existence of norms that are legal norms which are the basis of the implementation of cyberspace protection in Indonesia. In this paper ,we will discuss  about the problems of  cyberspace in Indonesia and how legal norms should be present as a means of social control and engineering. Especially the cyberspace in order to realize order and security in the cyberspace. The method used in this study is the normative juridical method with the legislation approach and case approach.

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