scholarly journals The Downside of the Digital Age

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Distel
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Collateral Damage ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Invasion Of Privacy ◽  
The World ◽  
Permanent Memory ◽  
Online Deception

The digital revolution has advanced human society in undeniably profound ways. But not all the changes have been improvements. The collateral damage acknowledged as consequences of the Digital Age includes the emboldened threat of invasion of privacy, the development and proliferation of online deception, and the tragedies of cyberbullying and perpetual harassment, among others. And while sexting converts hormonal teenagers into self-pornographers, the world wide web’s permanent memory banks rob young and old users of the chance to erase the scarlet letters of their digital pasts. As for human memory, it has eroded as its technological supplements have become its substitutes.

6. The world wide web of American culture

2018 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Eric Avila
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
World Wide ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Impact

If the sixties radicalized the content of American culture, the nineties revolutionized its form. The digital revolution began in California and enveloped the entire world, creating unprecedented opportunities for instantaneous communication and self-expression. “The world wide web of American culture” first describes the impact on American culture of 1970s counterculture; the music genres of disco, pop, and hip hop; the AIDS crisis; and the excesses of 1980s culture. It then explains how the rise of the Internet fostered a new plurality in American society. American culture continues to unite diverse and disparate segments of the population, even as it remains a battleground, fraught with the very tensions and conflicts that define the nation’s history and identity.

Heuristically Evaluating Web-Based ODL

2011 ◽  
pp. 992-997
Author(s):  
Athanasis Karoulis ◽  
Andreas Pombortsis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
Associative Organization ◽  
The Web

The rapid establishment of third-generation distance learning environments, the so-called Web-based or tele-teaching environments, is nowadays a fact. The main means for the delivery of this new educational approach is the World Wide Web, and there are some good reasons for its use, such as its easy accessibility by many groups of learners. It also supports multiple representations of educational material and various ways of storing and structuring this information, as well as being powerful and easy to use as a publishing medium. Additionally, it has been widely accepted that the hyper-medial structure of the Web can support learning. Some researchers characterize the Web as an active learning environment that supports creativity. In addition to this, the Web encourages the exploration of knowledge and browsing, behaviors strongly related to learning. The associative organization of information in the Web is similar to that of human memory, and the process of information retrieval from the Web presents similarities to human cognitive activities (Tselios, Avouris, Dimitracopoulou, & Daskalaki, 2001).

scholarly journals What the Web Has Wrought

Informatics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Antony Bryant
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Universal Accessibility ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed the development of ‘a large hypertext database with typed links’, which eventually became The World Wide Web. It was rightly heralded at the time as a significant development and a boon for one-and-all as the digital age flourished both in terms of universal accessibility and affordability. The general anticipation was that this could herald an era of universal friendship and knowledge-sharing, ushering in global cooperation and mutual regard. In November 2019, marking 30 years of the Web, Berners-Lee lamented that its initial promise was being largely undermined, and that we were in danger of heading towards a ‘digital dystopia’: What happened?

Heuristically Evaluating Web-Based ODL

2011 ◽  
pp. 1066-1071
Author(s):  
Athanasis Karoulis ◽  
Andreas Pombortsis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
Associative Organization ◽  
The Web

The rapid establishment of third-generation distance learning environments, the so-called Web-based or tele-teaching environments, is nowadays a fact. The main means for the delivery of this new educational approach is the World Wide Web, and there are some good reasons for its use, such as its easy accessibility by many groups of learners. It also supports multiple representations of educational material and various ways of storing and structuring this information, as well as being powerful and easy to use as a publishing medium. Additionally, it has been widely accepted that the hyper-medial structure of the Web can support learning. Some researchers characterize the Web as an active learning environment that supports creativity. In addition to this, the Web encourages the exploration of knowledge and browsing, behaviors strongly related to learning. The associative organization of information in the Web is similar to that of human memory, and the process of information retrieval from the Web presents similarities to human cognitive activities (Tselios, Avouris, Dimitracopoulou, & Daskalaki, 2001).

Digital Demands Convergence of Strategies, Media, and Messages

2018 ◽  
pp. 137-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Harvey ◽  
Luis Manuel Pazos Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Organic Content ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Mobile Marketing ◽  
Integrated Marketing ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The World ◽  
Inbound Marketing

Even before the world wide web, integrated marketing communications (IMC) was gaining acceptance across all fields of business and industry. However, the explosion of online and mobile marketing has caused a convergence of marketing strategies at the same time that all forms of media are converging onto digital platforms. This has become more than just a “Digital Age.” For marketers it is the age of multimedia, the age of coordinated omnichannel communications with an increasing emphasis on mobile, the age of personalization, and an age that blends free and friendly inbound marketing with paid advertising that looks more and more like the organic content that surrounds it. This chapter explores the ongoing impact of the convergence of media, strategies and technologies on the 4 P's of the traditional marketing mix.

scholarly journals The Importance of Liberal Arts in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
The World ◽  
User Friendly

Liberal arts are vulnerable to the challenge that they are useless in the digital age. “Uselessness is a kind of usefulness” — that is, although liberal arts fail to mold the practical skills, for example, the skills that enable people to earn much money in markets, they are useful in other senses, which is a common and seemingly philosophical answer to the question about the function of liberal arts. Such an answer, however, seems insufficient and abstract. In this article, the author intends to demonstrate with examples and statistics that liberal arts play an irreplaceable role in nursing people’s critical thinking, expanding their imagination and understanding of the differences of the world. Moreover, technology is essentially related to the understanding of human society. User-friendly technology is the combination of empathy and the understanding of humanity.

Rotational Characteristics of the Green Solar Corona: 1947-1991

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Solar Corona ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Rotation Period ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronal Emission Line ◽  
Homogeneous Data

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.

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