scholarly journals Live-streaming at international academic conferences: Technical and organizational options for single- and multiple-location formats

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Parncutt ◽  
Nils Meyer-Kahlen ◽  
Sabrina Sattmann
Keyword(s):  
Music Cognition ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Multiple Location ◽  
Academic Conference ◽  
Single Location ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
Academic Conferences

Internet-based communication technologies can reduce both carbon emissions and financial costs of academic conferences for individual participants—especially those from non-rich countries. We consider currently available technological solutions and logistic formats. In July 2018, we organized the leading international conference on music cognition (ICMPC15/ESCOM10) as a multiple-location, semi-virtual event with hubs on four continents (Europe, North America, South America, Australia) and 600 active participants. Every talk was live-streamed to YouTube (unlisted with URLs accessible only to registered participants) and seen by two audiences (local, remote). Remote presentations were either real-time or delayed. Discussions were two-way audiovisual (Zoom). Student assistants managed the technology. The 24-hour program ran for five days, with normal working hours at each hub. Most (61%) participants approved of the semi-virtual format. Greenhouse-gas emissions per participant were reduced by 60–70% relative to an equivalent single-location conference. No talk was delayed or canceled for technical reasons. A semi-virtual, multiple-location approach improves the globality, cultural diversity, and accessibility of academic conferences. That in turn improves the relevance and long-term quality of academic content. In future, emissions and international time-difference problems can be further reduced by increasing the number of hubs. Every academic conference, regardless of size, discipline, or country, can benefit from live-streaming some or all presentations. Conference participants and organizers can contribute to global mitigation efforts while at the same time promoting their academic disciplines by taking advantage of modern internet communication technologies. Video recordings of talks contribute to documentation and dissemination.

scholarly journals Validating the technology-assisted supplemental work scale (TASW)

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-481
Author(s):  
Kajal Kotecha ◽  
Wilfred Isioma Ukpere ◽  
Madelyn Geldenhuys
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Impact

The traditional advantage of using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to enhance work flexibility also has a drawback of enabling academics to continue working even after regular working hours. This phenomenon has been referred to as technology-assisted supplemental work (TASW). Although TASW enhances academics’ work productively, they also have a negative impact on their family-life. The impact TASW has on academics and on higher education institutions can be understood by measuring the phenomenon properly by using a reliable and valid scale. The aim of this study is too validate a newly developed TASW scale by Fenner and Renn (2010). This study adopted a quantitative research approach and used an online survey to gather data. The sample included academic from a higher education in South Africa (n = 216). The results indicate that the TASW is a valid and reliable measure of technology among the sample of South African academics.

scholarly journals Timing approaches toward scientific organization of webinars in libraries

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Sokolova ◽  
P. A. Kolchin
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Scientific Organization ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Technological Processes ◽  
Information And Communication

Due to advancing information and communication technologies webinars have become a means of continuing education which demands methodological support and standardization. The authors analyze the methods of labor rating, in particular, timing of technological and organizational processes. The factors of time input for webinar organization are defined: i. e. number of lecturers, including those remote ones, various formats and number of demonstrated materials (presentations, video, audio, texts, links), scenario multitasking (for example, polling, displaying related materials, linking, etc.), simultaneous broadcasting to another videohosting  (i.e YouTube). The list of technological processes for webinar organization is presented along with the findings of labor rating as exemplified by the NPLS&T’s experience. The calculations of real time consumed are obtained through the judgment-based method as well as through the continuous timing method. The authors conclude on the rate between real-life and typical timing of webinar organization and the proportion of this time within working hours in NPLS&T.

Design of Laterally Loaded Plating—Concentrated Loads

1983 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 252-264
Author(s):  
Owen Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Load Parameter ◽  
Uniform Pressure ◽  
Concentrated Loads ◽  
Rigid Plastic ◽  
Concentrated Load ◽  
Load Effect ◽  
Permanent Set ◽  
Multiple Location ◽  
Single Location

In the design of plating subject to lateral loading, the principal load effect to be considered is the amount of permanent set, that is, the maximum permanent deflection in the center of each panel of plating bounded by the stiffeners and the crossbeams. The present paper is complementary to a previous paper [1]2 which dealt with uniform pressure loads. It first shows that for design purposes there are two types of concentrated loads, depending on the number of different locations in which they can occur; single location or multiple location. The hypothesis is then made that for multiple-location loads the eventual and stationary pattern of plasticity which is developed in the plating is very similar to that for uniform pressure loads, and hence the value of permanent set may be obtained by using the same formula as for uniform pressure loads, with a load parameter Q that is some multiple r of the load parameter for the concentrated load: 0 = rQP. The value of r is a function of the degree of concentration of the load and is almost independent of plate slenderness and aspect ratio. The general mathematical character of this function is established from first principles and from an analysis of the permanent set caused by a multiple-location point load acting on a long plate. The results of this theoretical analysis provide good support for the hypothesis, as do also the relatively limited experimental data which are available. The theory and the experimental data are combined to obtain a simple mathematical expression for r. A more precise expression can be obtained after further experiments have been performed with more highly concentrated loads. Single-location loads produce a different pattern of plasticity and require a different approach. A suitable design formula is developed herein by performing regression analysis on the data from a set of experiments performed with such loads. Both methods presented herein, one for multiple-location loads and the other for single-location loads, are valid for small and moderate values of permanent set and can be used for all static and quasistatic loads. Dynamic loads and applications involving large amounts of permanent set require formulas based on rigid-plastic theory. Such formulas are available for uniform pressure loads and were quoted in reference [1]. A formula for single-location loads has recently been derived by Kling [4] and is quoted herein.

scholarly journals INTERNET MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS OF TRADE ENTERPRISES IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Tetiana Dubovyk
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Prestige Goods ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
High Social Status

It's necessary to make an accent that at the present stage of economic growth, the essential changes take place in the consciousness of the customer – customer became another one, his “market consciousness” increased. They have the higher level of goods and services quality expectations, strive for more convenient arrangement and working hours, better service, lower prices. Such situations were caused by the modern society development tends, changes in the way and style of people's life. Also, the part of innovators, who endeavor to get goods, in which new ideas and technologies were embodied. It is also stipulated by the modern development temps and by implementation of information-communication technologies, and by the psychological factors.Consumption of such goods becomes a symbol along with the buying of prestige goods; it demonstrates the high social status, shows progressiveness and contemporaneity of the customer. As the world experience shows the velocity of reaction on market changes is characteristic for small and midsize business, which are rather flexible to changes and opportunities of variable market conditions.

Public Opinion in Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Luedtke
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Common Finding ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
Push And Pull

Ethnicity, nationalism, and migration are popular topics in many academic disciplines, but research on public opinion in these areas has suffered from a lack of good data, disciplinary fragmentation, and a dearth of studies that engage one another. This is evident in the case of public opinion survey research undertaken in the world’s hotspots of ethnic conflict. As a result, ethnic conflict scholars have had to rely on proxy measures or indirect studies to test “opinion” towards ethnicity and nationalism in the developing world. In the developed world, however, there is more to work with in terms of opinion measurements. A prominent example is the European Union’s “Eurobarometer” surveys, which gauge attachment to and identification with “Europe” and the individual nation. Research on national identity and ethnic conflict has often been the starting point for theories of public opinion regarding immigration. A common finding is that there is a weak connection (if any) between opinion and policy on the immigration issue. Several areas need to be addressed as far as research is concerned. For example, the picture of xenophobic hostility in rich countries must be understood in a context of general changes in word migration patterns, with some emerging economies also experiencing high levels of immigration, and concurrent anti-immigrant public opinion. Two shortcomings of the literature also deserve closer attention: a focus on developing-to-developed country migration; and a lack of analyses that combine push and pull factors, to measure their relative causal weight in terms of bilateral immigration flows.

scholarly journals Report on the 10th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus17)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 205920431774171
Author(s):  
Emma Allingham ◽  
Christopher Corcoran
Keyword(s):  
International Student ◽  
Music Cognition ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Systematic Musicology

The 10th annual International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus) took place on September 13–15, 2017, at Queen Mary University of London (UoL). The SysMus series has established itself as an international, student-run conference series aimed at introducing graduate students to networking and discussing their work in an academic conference environment. The term “Systematic Musicology,” first coined by Guido Adler (1885), nowadays covers a wide range of systematic or empirical approaches to theoretical, psychological, neuroscientific, ethnographic, and computational methodologies in music research. Presentations for SysMus17 focused on three central topics in relation to music: cognition and neuroscience, computation, and health and well-being. Each of these topics was the subject of workshops as well as keynotes by Prof. Lauren Stewart (Goldsmiths University of London and Music in the Brain Centre, Aarhus University), Prof. Elaine Chew and Dr. Marcus Pearce (both Queen Mary UoL), Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen (Goldsmiths UoL), and Prof. Aaron Williamon (Royal College of Music). Further presentations addressed issues relating to harmony and rhythm, musicians and performance, music and emotion, and sociology of music. This year’s conference brought together early-career researchers from the fields of musicology, psychology, and medicine, allowing them to socialize, share their work, and gain insight into interdisciplinary approaches to their subjects. SysMus17 was organized by students at Queen Mary’s Music Cognition Lab and was particularly marked by the series’ 10th anniversary, the live streaming of all presentations via social media, and a carbon-offsetting Green Initiative. The proceedings of SysMus17 will be available on demand from the conference website ( www.sysmus17.qmul.ac.uk ) and the videos will be made available for public access.

scholarly journals Online distant witnessing and live-streaming activism: Emerging differences in the activation of networked publics

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 4035-4055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Martini
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Nonviolent Resistance ◽  
User Activity ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
Networked Publics

Since its formal approval, the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) project raised public concern about environmental sustainability and security. Thanks to the systematic use of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs), the nonviolent resistance organized by the Sioux tribes of Standing Rock Reservation to oppose the planned construction rapidly attracted public attention. In view of their strategic use of online video-sharing for documentation and counter-surveillance purposes, this study aims at describing how diverse modes of user activity are triggered by two different forms of distant witnessing: online video and live streaming. To this aim, this study analyzes the user activity which took place on the Digital Smoke Signals Facebook page, one of the most widely followed information outlets of the NO DAPL movement. Findings suggest that online video and live streaming trigger different forms of connective activity. The highlighted differences reflect the ways in which synchronous and asynchronous forms of online audio-visual communication impact users’ everyday life.

scholarly journals Labour status of digital workers: Experience of European countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 407-432
Author(s):  
Mario Reljanović ◽  
Jovana Misailović
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Labour Rights ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Information And Communication

The use of information and communication technologies in the work process introduced significant innovations, as well as the emergence of new occupations and professions. This digitalisation of work affects the increase of efficiency and easier performance of a number of jobs, but also the precarisation of labour and shifting the focus of employers from employment to other, atypical forms of labour relations. At the same time, employed digital workers exercise some of their labour rights in a specific way. In most cases, digital work implies physical separation from the employer, which raises a number of questions: how to organise working hours, how to supervise the work of digital workers, how they can exercise their collective rights, how the employer can arrange a safe working environment outside its premises, and similar. On the other hand, workers who work outside the employment relationship, among which platform self-employed workers and freelancers stand out, are in a significantly more difficult position when it comes to exercising basic labour rights. The emergence of false self-employment, which is expanding along with the growth of the use of ICT in the work process in various occupations, as well as the virtually unresolved status of the" freelancers" working exclusively in short-term employment for multiple employers simultaneously or successively, are some of the most pressing problems in modern labour law. The research is focused on the analysis of all these issues; it does not largely deal with the basic clarification of the concepts and development of certain categories of employment - these issues are treated only superficially - but it rather indicates the upgrade of the initial tendencies of changes in the understanding of labour and employment, with particular emphasis on returning to classical form of labour relation, which has been refined and modernised with new elements resulting from the digitalisation of work.

FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF FORMATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE OF FUTURE TEACHERS AT UNIVERSITY AND IN COLLEGE

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
I. Ya. Hazanov
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communication Competence ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Information And Communication

Modern Federal State Educational Standards of pedagogical specialties for which training is conducted in institutions of secondary and higher professional education, and the Professional Standard of a Teacher require to create conditions in the educational process for forming information and communication competence of future teachers. Main components of information and communication competence of a teacher are described in the article, modern approaches to determining the structure and content of this concept are highlighted, current features of the functioning of information and communication technologies in education system are revealed, the diverse methodological experience of organizing students’ training on information and communication technologies is summarized, principles and conditions for using information and communication technology tools in the process of teaching academic disciplines “Information technologies in professional activities” at university and “Pedagogy” in teacher training college are substantiated.

scholarly journals Live streaming at international academic conferences: Ethical considerations

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Parncutt ◽  
Annemarie Seither-Preisler
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
Climate Action

Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and the long tradition of political failures to address it have created an unprecedented global crisis. Individual carbon footprints are higher in industrialized countries; in that context, academics contribute substantially by flying to conferences. How and why should the global academic community respond to this situation? We evaluate the seriousness and urgency of AGW, consider relevant ethical theory, and compare possible academic strategies, focusing on communication technologies in conference culture. We argue that academic privilege facilitates climate action. Academics are well placed to understand and explain complex material including relevant ethical theory. Academics are extensively networked with local, regional, and international students and colleagues. Academics can significantly reduce their greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by avoiding flying to conferences and developing low-GHG conference formats. Academic leadership is needed to courageously address the moral issues and take advantage of modern internet-based communication technologies. Social equity issues are also relevant. International conferences that include live streams are more global and accessible (independent of each participant’s finances), and hence more culturally diverse. Video recordings complement existing academic documentation, communication, and dissemination. Individuals can reduce their carbon footprint by focusing on regional conferences, contributing remote presentations to distant events, and by contributing to political discussions—putting pressure on governments, institutions, and corporations to change. By combining individual action with social leadership, academic climate action may significantly reduce future the environmental damage and human impact of AGW.

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