Informing Consent: Ethics and Immigrant Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Author(s):  
Alexander Carson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Foreign Nationals ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
Immigrant Studies ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Global World

In an increasingly global world, immigrants find themselves taking on a prominent role in the discourse and social change impacting both developing and industrialized nations. The character and profile of immigrants and migrants has diversified considerably over the last several decades, with refugees and immigrants seeking economic opportunity being joined by foreign nationals, medical tourists, and others who have chosen or have been forced to live outside of their nation of origin. Mobile populations rely extensively on communicative technology, and many depend on the growing presence of the Internet in the daily lives of people around the world. For immigrants as much as anyone else, and particularly those immigrating to and from industrialized nations, the Internet serves as equal parts tool, medium of expression, and a link back home.

Collective Intentional Action in Virtual Communities

2005 ◽  
pp. 451-456
Author(s):  
Richard P. Bagozzi ◽  
Utpal M. Dholakia
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Intentional Action ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The World ◽  
Sense Of Reality ◽  
Maximum Grip

The Internet is an important innovation in information science and technology and profoundly affects people in their daily lives. To date, these effects have been construed in overly individualistic ways and often all too negatively. For example, the Internet is seen by many as an individual means for obtaining or sending information flexibly and efficiently (e.g., Dreyfus, 2001). Some researchers also claim that participation on the Internet often leads to feelings of isolation and depression and even negatively affects relationships with one’s family members and friends (Kraut et al., 1998; cf. Kraut et al., 2002; UCLA Internet Report, 2003). Likewise, Dreyfus (2001) takes a generally pessimistic tone with regard to Internet usage and worries that when we engage the Internet, it “diminishes one’s sense of reality and of the meaning in one’s life” and “…we might…lose some of our crucial capacities: our ability to make sense of things so as to distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant, our sense of the seriousness of success and failure that is necessary for learning, and our need to get a maximum grip on the world that gives us our sense of the reality of things.”

The Political Impact of Chilean New Song in Exile

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Patrice McSherry
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Foreign Nationals ◽  
Nueva Cancion ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Popular Movements ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Nueva Canción

The musical movement known as Chilean New Song became a key mobilizing force in politics in the 1960s and early 1970s in Chile, inspiring, uniting, and motivating people in a common cause and articulating the dreams and hopes of masses of people for progressive social change. Similarly, the New Song movement in exile, after the 1973 coup, helped to generate and sustain the support and solidarity of Chilean exiles and foreign nationals around the world, speaking about the repression in Chile, communicating the ideals of the popular movements, and inspiring and strengthening solidarity movements in many countries. El movimiento musical conocido como la Nueva Canción Chilena fue una fuerza movilizadora clave en las luchas políticas de los años 60 y principios de los 70 en Chile. Sirvió como fuente de inspiración para unir a la gente en una causa común y para articular los sueños y las esperanzas de un cambio social progresista de las masas del pueblo. De igual manera, en el exilio, después del golpe de 1973, el movimiento ayudó a generar y sostener el apoyo y la solidaridad de los exiliados chilenos y de los extranjeros alrededor del mundo, ofreciendo testimonio sobre la represión en Chile, dándole voz a los ideales de los movimientos populares y fortaleciendo los movimientos de solidaridad en muchos países.

scholarly journals Book Review: Social Changes in a Global World by Ulrike Schuerkens

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ligia E Toutant
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
Global World

Walden University’s social change approach is an essential part of its vision and is transmitted through the academic work and knowledge of its graduates, who are trained to find solutions to critical societal challenges in pursuit of advancing the greater global good. Schuerkens’ <em>Social Changes in a Global World</em> can serve as a compendium for the Walden family and others interested in this topic. The author examines how social transformations and changes are connected to issues of power and political influence; how transformations and changes have been influenced by concepts of modernity, progress, and rationalization; how transformations and changes differ in various contexts and geographical areas. The author explores globalization through both anthropological and sociological lenses along with the distinct journeys of humanity in developing and industrialized nations that are now seemingly merging and sharing commercial and cultural interests. The audience for this book may include academics, higher education practitioners, individuals concerned with global civil society, and political activists.

Causality and Filling the Ignorance Gap

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara E. Gorman ◽  
Jack M. Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Particle Physics ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intravenous Drugs ◽  
The World ◽  
Full Capacity ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Two Bodies

There is an old adage: “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.” In the science denial arena, however, this adage seems to have been recrafted to something like: “What you don’t know is an invitation to make up fake science.” Before it was dis¬covered that tuberculosis is caused by a rather large bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis it was widely believed to be the result of poor moral character. Similarly, AIDS was attributed to “deviant” lifestyles, like being gay or using intravenous drugs. When we don’t know what causes something, we are pummeled by “experts” telling us what to believe. Vaccines cause autism. ECT causes brain damage. GMOs cause cancer. Interestingly, the leap by the public to latch onto extreme theories does not extend to all branches of science. Physicists are not certain how the force of gravity is actually conveyed between two bodies. The theoretical solutions offered to address this question involve mind-boggling mathematics and seemingly weird ideas like 12 dimensional strings buzzing around the universe. But we don’t see denialist theories about gravity all over the Internet. Maybe this is simply because the answer to the question does not seem to affect our daily lives one way or the other. But it is also the case that even though particle physics is no more or less complex than molecular genetics, we all believe the former is above our heads but the latter is within our purview. Nonphysicists rarely venture an opinion on whether or not dark matter exists, but lots of nonbiologists will tell you exactly what the immune system can and cannot tolerate. Even when scientific matters become a little more frightening, when they occur in some branches of science, they register rather mild atten¬tion. Some people decided that the supercollider in Switzerland called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might be capable of producing black holes that would suck in all of Earth. Right before the LHC was scheduled to be tested at full capacity, there were a few lawsuits filed around the world trying to stop it on the grounds that it might induce the end of the world.

‘You have to come into the world’: Transition, Emotion and Being in Narratives of Life with the Internet

Somatechnics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-271
Author(s):  
Mark Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Gain Access

This paper explores the relation between internet technologies and social change with reference to the narratives of ordinary internet-users living in Melbourne, Australia. The argument developed here draws attention to the interviewee's imaginaries of being-in-the-world under internet-related change; imaginaries which are, at times, marked by a language of emotional and bodily transition. This framing of life with the internet suggests that its technologies are not merely the means by which people gain access to information, advice, services and social interaction; they appear to mobilise questions of being and at the same time offer themselves as the means for establishing ‘beingness’, to borrow a term from Valerie Walkerdine (2010) . This emphasis on being in accounts of internet-related change also suggests the exercise of narrative subjectification through internet technologies or, in other terms, the internet-related ‘technologisation’ of narrative practices.

scholarly journals Up to 206 Million People Reached and Over 5.4 Million Trained in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Worldwide: The 2019 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation World Restart a Heart Initiative

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd W. Böttiger ◽  
Andrew Lockey ◽  
Richard Aickin ◽  
Maria Carmona ◽  
Pascal Cassan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Media Impact ◽  
Liaison Committee ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Global World

Abstract Sudden out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of death in industrialized nations. Many of these lives could be saved if bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates were better. “All citizens of the world can save a life—CHECK—CALL—COMPRESS.” With these words, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation launched the 2019 global “World Restart a Heart” initiative to increase public awareness and improve the rates of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and overall survival for millions of victims of cardiac arrest globally. All participating organizations were asked to train and to report the numbers of people trained and reached. Overall, social media impact and awareness reached up to 206 million people, and >5.4 million people were trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation worldwide in 2019. Tool kits and information packs were circulated to 194 countries worldwide. Our simple and unified global message, “CHECK—CALL—COMPRESS,” will save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide and will further enable many policy makers around the world to take immediate and sustainable action in this most important healthcare issue and initiative.

scholarly journals Facebook as a monastic place? The new use of internet by Catholic monks

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 99-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Jonveaux
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The World ◽  
Monastic Life ◽  
Monastic Communities ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
Use Of Internet

Although Catholic monasteries are theoretically out of the world, monks and nuns more and more use the internet, both for religious and non-religious reasons. While society at large often takes it for granted that monks are out of modernity, monastic communities have been adopted media from relatively early on, and we cannot say that they have come late to its use. The internet can offer monasteries a lot of advantages because it allows monks to be in the world without going out of the cloister. Nevertheless, the introduction of this new media in monasteries also raises a lot of questions about the potential contradictions it poses with other aspects of monastic life. The paper seeks to research the use of the medium by monks and nuns even in their daily lives, and  attempts especially to investigate the potential changes it brings to monastic life.

scholarly journals How Internet of Things responds to the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e776
Author(s):  
Taher A. Ghaleb ◽  
Rasha A. Bin-Thalab ◽  
Ghadir AbdulhakimAbdo Abdullah Alselwi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Safety Guidelines

The cornovirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had a severe impact on our daily lives. As a result, there has been an increasing demand for technological solutions to overcome such challenges. The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently emerged to improve many aspects of human’s day-to-day activities and routines. IoT makes it easier to follow the safety guidelines and precautions provided by the World Health Organization (WHO). Prior reports have shown that the world nowadays may need more IoT facilities than ever before. However, little is known about the reaction of the IoT community towards defeating the COVID-19 pandemic, technologies being used, solutions being provided, and how our societies perceive the IoT means available to them. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study to investigate the IoT response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we study the characteristics of the IoT solutions hosted on a large online IoT community (i.e., Hackster.io) throughout the year of 2020. The study: (a) explores the proportion, types, and nations of IoT solutions/engineers that contributed to defeating COVID-19, (b) characterizes the complexity of COVID-19 IoT solutions, and (c) identifies how IoT solutions are perceived by the surrounding community. Our results indicate that IoT engineers have been actively working towards providing solutions to help their societies, especially in the most affected nations. Our findings (i) provide insights into the aspects IoT practitioners need to pay more attention to when developing IoT solutions for COVID-19 and to (ii) outlines the common IoT solutions and technologies available to humans to deal with the current challenges.

The Spread of E-Commerce in Middle East Compared with the Global World

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
Muzhir Shaban Al-Ani
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Prosperity ◽  
Global World

E-commerce has changed the way you buy and sell online. The Internet offers a quick and easy way for people to buy things without having to visit a real store. High-performance Internet in the world and the adaptation of advanced technologies, which have led to great prosperity in the e-business environment. Obviously, we cannot separate the regional isolation world from the rest of the world because of international globalization that deals with trade and commerce as its interventions and commitments around the world. There is no doubt that for anyone developed countries have taken the lead in this area and these countries for their physical and technical support to develop this work. As for the world of the Middle East, the situation is different when it is said that a large part of the community does not rely on the treatment of the electronic environment.

Aware Consumers Are Active Citizens Too

2017 ◽  
pp. 123-150
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Small Animals ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Basic Step ◽  
The World ◽  
School Yard ◽  
Global World

Learning to pick up tools and data and use them according to our real needs, aware that we are all producers of information, it is the basic step to an active citizenship in the global world. From the example of the children setting up their “Virtual Museum of Small animals”, from the school yard to the Internet, the author argues about how also average people, thanks to the spread of technology, can develop shared models of production in the cultural and more in general third sector of the economy. But important innovations and changes of perspective can be applied also to agriculture and industry, above all sharing more and more the knowledge, that is maybe a possible response to many problems of the world today, for a sustainable development in the planet and the peace among the groups and nations.

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