The mythology of electronic money in the culture of the information society

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Nikitin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Electronic Money ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the study is to define the specific features of the mythology of electronic money in the culture of the information society. There are determined three main aspects of the problem. First, the mythology of money includes a number of misconceptions in the field of economic knowledge. The main misconception is the idea that electronic money is primarily a material carrier of information about the number of monetary units in an account. In this misconception, information and the form of its presentation are an inseparable whole. Second, the modern mythology of money is represented by irrational ideas about how money can be acquired. In particular, it is idea that electronic money appears as a result of the game of chance, as a consequence of luck, as a «miracle». Third, the mythology of money is a secondary semiotic system, it is a set of additional meanings that reflect the impact of the world of finance on man and society. Features of the mythology of electronic money as a secondary semiotic system are a mystification of money, the interpretation of money as a magical force that is beyond the control of people, but affects them. The mystification trend is directly related to the peculiarities of electronic money itself: it is not a thing and has no significance.

The Impact of the Knowledge Economy on Leadership in Organisations

2003 ◽  
pp. 238-258
Author(s):  
Manon Van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Information Society ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Management Organisation

The world economy is in transition. It is moving from the industrial age to a new set of rules — that of the “Information Society” or knowledge economy. This will change everybody’s work, affecting the flow of new ideas into enterprises, their management, organisation and procedures. These changes have major impacts on the roles leaders need to play, and on the skills they need. The focus of a leader has shifted towards more intangible issues, being a visionary, a storyteller and a change agent. Leaders need to change and to keep reinventing themselves, they have to be ready to adapt, to move, to forget yesterday, to forgive, and to structure new roles and new relationships for themselves, their teams and their ever-shifting portfolio of partners, and they need to have the capacity to employ more than one style of leadership. The chapter reviews the literature on the skills and abilities leaders need to be successful in the knowledge economy, and describes the way in which they need to manage their organisations by managing the organisation’s business model, creating a risk-encouraging culture and by playing different roles.

A Slap in the Face of American Taste: Transporting He Who Gets Slapped to American Audiences

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick H. White
Keyword(s):  
External Action ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

This chapter discusses the impact of Leonid Andreev’s 1915 play He Who Gets Slapped on the U.S., where it was adapted into three genres: film, novel, and opera. Andreev’s play represents an example of his invented genre of panpsyche theater, in which the external action is driven by inner, psychological struggle, in this case of a clown who runs from a failed marriage and tries to find solace in the world of the circus. Victor Sjöström’s 1924 film of the play, the first MGM production, emphasized motifs of romance and revenge rather than Andreev’s focus on psychological development. Later, the play was adapted into a novel by George Carlin (1925) and a 1956 opera by Robert Ward and Bernard Stambler. The semiotic system of the circus allowed this play to be transported successfully to American audiences.

scholarly journals THE PHENOMENON OF NETWORK WARS: TO THE PROBLEM OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (50) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg Gennadievich Danilyan ◽  
Оlexander Petrovich Dzoban
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Network Communications ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Intensive Development ◽  
Current Stage

The article substantiates that the modern social system, the dynamism and specificity of which are due to the intensive development of information technology and network communications, has dramatically changed the nature of conflict resolution and warfare. It is shown that, in essence, network warfare is reduced to a special form of conflict, when their participants use network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy and technology that are best adapted to the current stage of development of the information society. It turns out that one of the goals of the impact of network wars on society is the destruction of the meaning unity of the world and man, in connection with which the basic values ​​of the people and the state, national, religious and cultural identity are destroyed. The dialectical interrelation of network wars with information and information-psychological wars is shown.

scholarly journals The Role of Modern Information and Communication Environment in Shaping the Identity and Image of the World of Modern Teenagers

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.M. Bogdanovskaya ◽  
G.U. Ikonnikova ◽  
N.N. Korolyova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The Impact

We describe the various methodological approaches to the measurement of today's global information and communication environment. It is shown that the image of the world of adolescents is influenced by diverse and divergent information flows, which are the source of communicative and cognitive needs, finding the ways of social and psychological adaptation, compensation, personal difficulties. This process creates special risks for adolescent socialization, adaptation, personal development. Based on the analysis of current research, we reveal the positive and negative aspects of the impact of modern information and communication technologies on the formation of adolescent identity. Online distribution of large volumes of information creates uncontrolled "cultural chaos" and blurs cultural identity, but also promotes the development of skills to design a virtual identity that can be seen as an integral part of the formation of the person in the new information society. We substantiate the direction of psycho-pedagogical support of socialization in the information society.

scholarly journals Information Ethics for and from Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Rafael Capurro
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
World Summit ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Role Of Information

This paper deals in the first part with some initiatives concerning the role of information ethics for Africa such as NEPAD, UN ICT and AISI particularly since the World Summit on the Information Society. Information Ethics from Africa is a young academic field. Not much has been published so far on the impact of ICT on African societies and cultures from a philosophical perspective. The second part of the paper analyses some recent research on this matter particularly with regard to the concept of ubuntu. Finally the paper addresses some issues of the African Conference on Information Ethics held in Pretoria, 3-5 February 2007

scholarly journals Challenges and Threats of the Global Information Society

2015 ◽  
pp. 116-127
Author(s):  
E. Zinovieva
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Information Society ◽  
International Security ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Information Society ◽  
Theory Of Information ◽  
The Impact

The article investigates the challenges and risks to international security arising from the development of the global information society. The basic trends of the global information society development are analyzed, as well as theoretical approaches to the theory of information society. The author also assesses the impact of the global information society development on the world politics. The paper examines the main challenges, risks and threats arising from the development of the global information society, as well as the prospects for international cooperation in the field of international information security.

Harmonising Computer Crime Laws in Europe

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Walden
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Child Pornography ◽  
Computer Crime ◽  
Communications Networks ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAs the ‘Information Society’ emerges, the European economy and its citizens have become dependent on computers and communication networks. However, with the ravages of the viruses MyDoom and MS Blaster still being felt around the world, the vulnerability of computer systems and networks to criminal crime, as well as potentially terrorist activity, is still fresh in our minds. There is no agreed definition of what constitutes a ‘computer crime’. A computer may constitute the instrument of the crime, such as in murder and fraud; the object of the crime, such as the theft of processor chips; or the subject of the crime, such as ‘hacking’ or ‘cracking’. The involvement of computers may challenge traditional criminal concepts, such as fraud, as well as facilitating particular types of crime, such as child pornography. This article is concerned with the computer as the subject of the crime and with laws that have been established to specifically address activities that attack the integrity of computer and communications networks, such as the distribution of computer viruses. This article examines various initiatives to harmonise substantive criminal law to address the threat of computer integrity crimes, focusing specifically on a draft Council Framework Decision on ‘attacks against information systems’. Consideration is given to the impact the Decision may have when transposed into UK law, through an amendment of existing legislation, the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

Exploring the World Trade Organisation's Trade and Environment/Public Health Jurisprudence as a Model for Incorporating a Trade–Labour Linkage into the Organisation's Multilateral Trade Regime: Should African Countries Accept a Policy Shift?

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Tapiwa V. Warikandwa ◽  
Patrick C. Osode
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Trade ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Trade Regime ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
Appellate Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
The Impact

The incorporation of a trade-labour (standards) linkage into the multilateral trade regime of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been persistently opposed by developing countries, including those in Africa, on the grounds that it has the potential to weaken their competitive advantage. For that reason, low levels of compliance with core labour standards have been viewed as acceptable by African countries. However, with the impact of WTO agreements growing increasingly broader and deeper for the weaker and vulnerable economies of developing countries, the jurisprudence developed by the WTO Panels and Appellate Body regarding a trade-environment/public health linkage has the potential to address the concerns of developing countries regarding the potential negative effects of a trade-labour linkage. This article argues that the pertinent WTO Panel and Appellate Body decisions could advance the prospects of establishing a linkage of global trade participation to labour standards without any harm befalling developing countries.

Modernism, Empiricism, and Rationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Squires
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Irish Poetry ◽  
Dimensional Spectrum ◽  
Culture History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rule Out

Modernism is usually defined historically as the composite movement at the beginning of the twentieth century which led to a radical break with what had gone before in literature and the other arts. Given the problems of the continuing use of the concept to cover subsequent writing, this essay proposes an alternative, philosophical perspective which explores the impact of rationalism (what we bring to the world) on the prevailing empiricism (what we take from the world) of modern poetry, which leads to a concern with consciousness rather than experience. This in turn involves a re-conceptualisation of the lyric or narrative I, of language itself as a phenomenon, and of other poetic themes such as nature, culture, history, and art. Against the background of the dominant empiricism of modern Irish poetry as presented in Crotty's anthology, the essay explores these ideas in terms of a small number of poets who may be considered modernist in various ways. This does not rule out modernist elements in some other poets and the initial distinction between a poetics of experience and one of consciousness is better seen as a multi-dimensional spectrum that requires further, more detailed analysis than is possible here.

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