Democracy, Planning, and Big Data

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Kees Van der Pijl
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Communication Networks

Starting in the late 1960s, the development of the productive forces of society entered a new stage: the Information Revolution, an era focused on the application of information theories such as cybernetics combined with advances in computer technology and digital communication networks, culminating in the Internet. Under capitalist conditions, this has already resulted in a knowledge economy, but the social, auto-regulatory possibilities it opens up are bound to be incompatible with the private appropriation characteristic of capitalism.

Whose data? Problematizing the ‘gift’ of social labour

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Kalantzis-Cope
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Predictive Analysis ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Digital Communication Networks

Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, and Jared Cohen, Founder and Director of Google Ideas, contend that ‘for governments and companies’, the user-generated content that constitutes big data is ‘a gift, enabling them to better respond to citizen and customer concerns, and, within the emergent field of predictive analysis, to predict what the future will hold’. In this article, I interrogate what it means for data from our social lives to be interpreted as a ‘gift’ by private enterprises such as Google. Who is giving what to whom? What is the nature of the transaction? Whose property is this data? By putting into conversation Schmidt and Cohen’s gift thesis with an analysis of the ‘value’ of participation in digital communication networks, this article seeks to uncover an intellectual property conundrum that legitimizes the rise of new kinds of labour vulnerabilities in the digital age; intensifying the extension of the logic of privatization into our digital social lives; and, in doing so, the importance of intellectual property as a language of critique and resistance.

From cities to networks: Power rules

2021 ◽  
pp. 1468795X2110220
Author(s):  
Manuel Castells
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Digital Communication Networks

Power relations are the source of social organization and institutions. This has been observed and theorized by the author in relation to various realms of social life, such as the formation of spatial structures and the networking of human activities around digital communication networks.

Political Networks and Computational Social Science

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lazer ◽  
Stefan Wojcik
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Inflection Point ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computational Approaches ◽  
Political Networks ◽  
The Social

The last half century has witnessed the digitization of human life, with a sharp inflection point being the widespread adoption of the Internet. In the wake of this digitization the phrase “big data” has been coined. Because many big data are explicitly or implicitly relational, this digitization of humanity has been critical in the increase in the study of networks. Further, since this digitization process continues not only forward but backward (e.g., through the scanning of millions of books and news periodicals going back for centuries), it is likely that the social sciences will be recentered over the next generation around computational approaches to data emphasizing (1) the relational aspects of human behavior, (2) phenomena that exist on societal scales rather than just individual ones, and (3) the dynamics of human behavior. This chapter discusses, in particular, the potential transformation of political science in these directions.

scholarly journals Research on the involvement of residents and tourists in protecting the local brand as a sustainable destination

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 01017
Author(s):  
Mădălina Serban ◽  
Maria Magdalena Turek Rahoveanu ◽  
Gheorghe Adrian Zugravu ◽  
Cornel Băniţă
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Digital Communication Networks

Research background. Specialists show a decrease in awareness of the issues of sustainability of tourism activities among various stakeholders [1], followed by arguments [2], and irresponsible practices of visitors. Local key actors could be the main interdependent factors in solving [3] these issues that characterize sustainable tourism through the emergence of the phenomenon of digitalization and high popularization of social networks. Digital communication networks have left their mark on the impact that brand tourism - considered as local tourist destinations, has on the behavior of residents and tourists [5], [6]. In this research we aim to evaluate the various advantages that sustainable tourism can have due to digital media in the Pietroasele area, Buzau County, Romania. Purpose of the article. In this research we aim to evaluate the various advantages that sustainable tourism can have due to digital media in the Pietroasele area, Buzau County, Romania. Methods. Digital communication networks have left their mark on the impact that brand tourism - considered as local tourist destinations, has on the behavior of residents and tourists [7],[8], Findings & Value added. The aim of this study is to evaluate the perceptions about the local brand as a way to attract entrepreneurs, tourists and business development in the wine area Pietroasele, Buzau, Romania based on the following specific research objectives: 1. Knowledge of the role of the local brand in the management of local businesses and authorities. 2. Monitoring the application of mechanisms used by specialists to develop local branding, including collaboration with local partners. 3. Evaluation of the perspectives arising from the development of the analyse brand.

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