scholarly journals Radio Daze

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Henry B. Balfanz
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Sales Staff

Radio has been a part of the American advertising landscape since the 1920s. Many threats to the industry have been thwarted by the strength and effectiveness of the medium. Prior to the deregulation of the industry in the 1990s and the technological change of the 21st century, there were literally hundreds of small entrepreneurs, owning one or two stations, spread across the country. This is the mythical story of Gus Rowekamp, who owns two stations in a midsize Midwestern market. He hangs on as an owner/operator, putting most of his focus on the efforts of his advertising sales staff.

International collaboration for technological change in the 21st century

1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard K. Smith ◽  
Mohi U. Ahmed ◽  
Akihiro Takanashi
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
International Collaboration

scholarly journals Transformation as a type: seeking a flexible housing type for the 21st century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aamna Zaheer
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Housing Type ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Housing Typology ◽  
Over Time

Rapid social and technological change have largely influenced the way in which individuals and families inhabit their dwellings, leading to new functional and formal lifestyle demands within the domestic realm. “The current information society is more closely linked to time than space. Its networks produce systems that are discontinuous in space but continuous in time…the most consistent systems are those capable of distributing their activities homogeneously in time, thus avoiding the generation of another parallel space…specifically for one concrete use.” (Guallart, 2004, p.25) In a time where change and transformation are omnipresent and highly influential, how can we design habitats that respond directly to the changing social order, by transforming into the appropriate space which supports the changing occupants, activities, and functions of a home? This thesis proposes a flexible housing typology, which has the ability to transform and adapt to socio-cultural and technological changes over time.

Online Comments and Journalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Wolfgang
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Constant Growth

Shortly after its emergence as a tool for participatory journalism, online commenting became a popular format for audience public discourse and a subject of controversy for professional journalists. The early 21st century has seen a constant growth in research considering how online comments have influenced journalism by providing new ways to understand the perspective of the audience, by changing the routines and practices of the newsroom, and by encouraging a reconsideration of how content influences readers. News audiences, generally, have been relatively quiet and passive in the past, but online comments have given them the opportunity to speak alongside journalists on professional platforms. This shift in news-mediated public discourse has the potential to reshape the journalist−audience relationship in substantial ways. The research on commenting has provided new evidence on how journalistic practices are changing, how people perceive and process information online, and how journalists negotiate technological change while trying not to upend the profession. However, there is a need for more research that explores critical questions related to comment quality, changing journalistic norms, and the relationship between journalist identity and technology. Online commenting has the potential to help fulfill the journalistic norms of providing a space for public discourse and promoting diverse views from within the community. This potential, however, is reliant upon journalists who uphold the civic function of journalism’s role.

Modern India: A Very Short Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Jeffrey
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
Emerging Powers ◽  
Global Influence

India has become one of the world’s emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom? Does caste still exist in India? How is India’s culture industry responding to technological change? Modern India: A Very Short Introduction looks at the exciting world of change in contemporary India. It provides a recent history of the nation, investigating the contradictions that are plaguing modern India and the manner in which people, especially young people, are actively remaking the country in the 21st century.

Women and Computing Careers in Australia

2011 ◽  
pp. 1223-1229
Author(s):  
Gillian. Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Or Management ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Employment Patterns ◽  
Management Positions

In spite of predictions that the spread of information technology (IT) would help break down the gender segregation that characterized employment in the industrial era, women are under-represented in professional computing occupations throughout the advanced industrialized world, and those who do take up work in the IT sector are most likely to be found in routine and comparatively low paid jobs. The emergence of a “lighter, cleaner, and more sedentary set of occupations than the technologies of iron, oil and steam” (Cockburn, 1985, p.2) has certainly produced new jobs for both women and men, but—as Cockburn argues—gender inequalities have been reshaped rather than eradicated in this process of technological change. The aim of this article is to extend existing knowledge about gendered employment patterns in professional computing with an examination of the situation in Australia in the early 21st century. Drawing on research conducted as part of a project funded by the Australian Research Council (Whitehouse, Hunter, Smith, & Preston, 2002-5), the analysis illustrates the types of computing jobs that women are most likely to enter, and the extent to which women are ascending career ladders to take up senior technical and/or management positions. While this is primarily a descriptive exercise, it produces a more nuanced picture of gender inequalities in IT employment than observations simply about under-representation, and allows some reflection on strategies to enhance opportunities for women.

scholarly journals Transformation as a type: seeking a flexible housing type for the 21st century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aamna Zaheer
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Housing Type ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Housing Typology ◽  
Over Time

Rapid social and technological change have largely influenced the way in which individuals and families inhabit their dwellings, leading to new functional and formal lifestyle demands within the domestic realm. “The current information society is more closely linked to time than space. Its networks produce systems that are discontinuous in space but continuous in time…the most consistent systems are those capable of distributing their activities homogeneously in time, thus avoiding the generation of another parallel space…specifically for one concrete use.” (Guallart, 2004, p.25) In a time where change and transformation are omnipresent and highly influential, how can we design habitats that respond directly to the changing social order, by transforming into the appropriate space which supports the changing occupants, activities, and functions of a home? This thesis proposes a flexible housing typology, which has the ability to transform and adapt to socio-cultural and technological changes over time.

The Economics of Internetization

2018 ◽  
pp. 7980-7994
Author(s):  
Constantine E. Passaris
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Landscape

Internetization is a new word and concept that has gained currency with the advent of the new global economy of the 21st century. Prior to the ascendance of Internetization economists had embraced the term globalization to describe the operational parameters of the new economy. The problem with the word globalization is that it is neither a new concept nor is it an appropriate descriptive for the contemporary transformational change precipitated by the spectacular technological inventions on the international economic landscape. The new word, Internetization, describes more succinctly the transformative powers of the world-wide-web and the electronic information high way on the evolving dynamics of interconnectivity for the new global economy of the 21st century. Indeed, Internetization captures the pervasive influence of technological change and electronic innovations on the global economy and all aspects of human endeavour for our civil society in the 21st century.

Challenging Traditional Media Hegemonic Practices

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Ndirangu Wachanga
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Sole Purpose ◽  
Media Technologies

The top-bottom model espoused by the traditional media structures is being problematized by the emerging technological change in the 21st century. Kenya presents an example of bottom-top model, which is a challenge to the hegemonic potential of top-down model. In the discussion that follows, we will establish how media in Kenya have been operating within a top-bottom model until recently. This top-bottom model has been problematized by the emergence of the new communication technologies (NCTs), which have allowed individuals to challenge dominant voices and myths, alter representation and meaning of symbols and vocabulary, and re-define politico-social structures around which the luminal rituals of the national have been interwoven for the sole purpose of fostering group cohesion. We argue in this discussion that the proliferation of NCTs and communication strategies have dismembered the nation by stimulating exponential multiplication of discursive regimes that may have been impossible previously when media technologies were confined to the control of a central, and oftentimes restrictive authority. It is against this background that we seek to probe the extent to which media technologies are ineffaceably co-opted into designs of the dominant ideology and various other hegemonic structures.

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