Is a New Worldwide Web Possible? An Explorative Comparison of the Use of ICTs by Two South African Social Movements

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
New Media ◽  
South African ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Treatment Action ◽  
Treatment Action Campaign ◽  
Worldwide Web ◽  
Information And Communication

Abstract:In this article the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially new media technologies such as e-mail and the Internet, by postapartheid South African social movements is explored. Following a discussion of the use of these technologies by activist groupings in international contexts, a typology suggested by Rheingold (2003) is used as a framework for comparing two South African social movements: the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the Anti-Privatization Forum (APF).

scholarly journals RIGHT-WING POPULISM, INFORMATION, AND KNOWLEDGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-54
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Day
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication

‘New media’ information technologies were recently thought to be so intrinsically different from ‘old,’ mass media, technologies that fascism would no longer be possible. Through new media information and communication technologies, the political ‘mass’ was supposedly replaced by the ‘crowd’ or the ‘swarm,’ and an old mass media replaced by a new media serving individual ‘information needs.’ However, extreme right-wing political populism and encroaching fascism today are world-wide phenomena in developed countries, not only despite new media, but partly because of it. How is this possible?

FACT-CHECKING. FROM TERM AND CONCEPT TO WORD USAGE

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Maxim S. Kronev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Word Usage ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Source Studies ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Dictionary Definitions

With modern realities in the development of new media and the information and communication technologies (ICT), the skills of checking information for the reliability of sources – fact-checking (or fact-check) is extremely important. The article briefly considers the term fact-checking and gives the definitions and also related concepts. The author’s understanding of approaches to and tools of the fact-checking in the context of the concept “Source Studies 2.0” is offered. English dictionary definitions are analyzed and translated into Russian, an overview of the Russian-language interpretations is given, as well as links to key publications on the topic.

Arts, Media, Cultures: Histories of Hybridisation

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
Ryszard W. Kluszczynski
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Multi Media

Nowadays we are faced with an enormous development of digital, information and communication technologies. Together with numerous phenomena, which are the products of activities that belong to the biotechnosphere, these technologies build a complex corpus called cyberculture. In this context art has an important, critical role to play. In particular (multi)media art can serve as an experimental laboratory, not only for new technologies but, especially, for studies of the new social relation(ship)s created or fuelled by those technologies. Media and multimedia information and communication technologies generate new promises, problems, and threats; and artists undertake efforts to examine this emerging area that has been repeatedly considered as a ‘post-biological syndrome’. In other words, artists do not only use media technologies, but also scrutinise and challenge them. In this sense the new (multi)media art could be deemed a successor of the avant-garde movement.

Deconstructing the South African Government's ICT for Development Discourse

2011 ◽  
pp. 283-290
Author(s):  
S. Moodley
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The South ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict For Development

The post-apartheid South African government has placed ICTs at the centre of the national agenda for social and economic development (Mbeki, 1996, 2002b; Presidential National Commission on the Information Society and Development (PNC on ISAD), 2003a). The question of whether the application of technologies to improve information and communication access can increase the capabilities of disadvantaged and poor people is central to whether the new ICTs (particularly the Internet) will support or undermine real development. Technology appears in the South African government’s ICT for development discourse as a politically neutral force with the power to develop, and without which people are classified as information-poor. As Wajcman (2002) cogently argues, “governments everywhere legitimate much of their policy in terms of a technological imperative” (p. 348). One effect of this discourse is to render poor people passive and dependent, as objects to be developed, rather than as active agents of development. Failure to address these assumptions may lead social scientists to become complacent in distracting attention away from the very real global economic, social, and cultural inequalities, to virtual inequalities, which merely hide an unwillingness to address the core failings of the development paradigm. The paper attempts to meet the challenge put forth by Robert Wade (2002): The current campaign to promote the uptake of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries and to get aid donors to redirect their aid budgets needs devil’s advocates to challenge what John Stuart Mill once called ‘the deep slumber of a decided opinion.’ (p. 443)

scholarly journals Modernization of Agriculture and Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Farmers in Coastal Yogyakarta

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Subejo Subejo ◽  
Dyah Woro Untari ◽  
Ratih Ineke Wati ◽  
Gagar Mewasdinta
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Telecommunication Network ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Information And Communication

In the development process, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which also commonly referred to as electronic media or cyber media have been acknowledged as a new instrument that could facilitate the need of new information and innovation for rural people or farmers. However, several studies reported that extension and communication based-electronic media in developing countries encounter more problems rather than in developed countries. This research aims to investigate the ownership, access, utilization or functions of ICTs for obtaining information supporting the daily life of farmers and for promoting various farming activities in the coastal area of Kulon Progo Regency Yogyakarta. The research method of the study was a descriptive method that has been conducted by a mixed method. The study found that in line with modernization in agriculture, farmers have been using conventional and new electronic media including television, radio and mobile phone with function for getting new information. Conventional electronic media are still dominant while the use of new electronic media has been gradually increasing. Information gathered from ICTs includes social, cultural, economic, health and environmental issues. The use of new electronic media particularly the internet via smartphone has newly started to be utilized among farmers in the coastal farming area who intensively engaged in horticulture crops cultivation mainly for getting and exchange the market information. Information on technological innovation is still dominant among farmers. Better infrastructure and mobility access, improvement of telecommunication network and development of content and format of information provided by new media will be prospective in the future

scholarly journals From Pebble to Avalanche: How Information and Communications Technologies Empowered Underprivileged Actors Through Ages

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Konieczny
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
International Social

Accompanied by growing literacy, information and communication technologies (ICT) have empowered states, organizations, but also – and perhaps most crucially – individuals, creating a more liberal and democratic environment. While also used as tools of social control, those technologies have often been used by revolutionaries and other agents of social change, aiding not only the surveillance state and for-profit organizations, but also individuals and non-state social actors, like social movements. In this paper I review literature on literacy and ICT, and, backed up by the results of a recent survey of international social movements, I conclude that at this pattern of empowerment, traceable throughout the human history, is continuing with the most recent information revolution.

scholarly journals Cross media technologies and local lore bibliography

2017 ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Elena Protopopova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Multimedia Cloud ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject

Application of cross media technologies in library local lore is discussed with the example of the subject www-site «400 Outstanding Novokuznetsk Residents». Indicated how new technologies (multimedia, cloud services, cross media) drastically change the formats of local lore information presentation, promotion and use. The skills and tools modern bibliographer needs to obtain to design interactive materials are listed. Cross media local lore is defined as the process of integrating information and communication technologies into the single information resource. Functional options of the www-site «400 Outstanding Novokuznetsk Residents» as a library local lore media product of a new type are demonstrated.

New Media and Politics: A Synopsis of Theories, Issues, and Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Wei ◽  
Larry Zhiming Xu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
International Setting ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Media Systems

The ongoing revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has fundamentally transformed the landscape of democracy and the way people engage in politics. From the configuration of media systems to the decision-making of the voting public, the changes have permeated through almost every level of society, affecting political institutions, political actors, citizen groups, and mass media. For each aspect, a synopsis of classical and emergent political communication theories, contemporary and contentious political issues, and cutting-edge research adds to the discussion of new media. The discussion is unfolded with an account of research of new media effects on politics in international setting and cross-cultural contexts with insights of how Western theories and research apply (or fail to) in international contexts.

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