Social Challenges of the Digital Economy: Russia in a Global Context

In today’s digital economy and the extended enterprise paradigm, mobility is on the rise. It is important to perceive mobility as an opportunity, rather than a threat. Although m-commerce is still at its infancy, it serves as an extension to e-commerce sites—it has been regarded as a value-added service. However, there are many issues and challenges while reaping full benefits of mobile computing solutions for m-commerce. This is because mobility and mobile computing is replete with many challenges on the business front, technical challenges as well as social challenges. This chapter undertakes discussion on understanding mobility and categories of mobile user types, understanding the meaning of m-commerce. Typical applications that support the m-commerce paradigm are illustrated through case studies. The chapter ends with a discussion on legal implications of mobile technology, and future directions for mobile commerce and mobile computing. The key message is that mobility is not just about connectivity—it is about function it provides and the way organizations work in today’s digital economy.

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The technical and the social: challenges in the conservation of earthen vernacular architecture in a changing world (Jujuy, Argentina)

Built Heritage ◽

10.1186/s43238-021-00034-w ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jorge Tomasi ◽

Julieta Barada

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

Vernacular Architecture ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Social Challenges ◽

Global Context ◽

Social Nature ◽

The Social ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

Earthen Architecture ◽

Institutional Actors

AbstractVernacular earthen architecture presents a series of relevant conservation challenges that involve designing solutions for different kinds of alterations and degradations. Other challenges of a social nature simultaneously arise and are related, among other factors, to the participation of local communities and the actions of different institutional actors. Understanding these phenomena has generally been approached from perspectives that take technical considerations and social dynamics as separate fields. The current global context has resulted in an acceleration of changes in these dynamics, in terms of both techniques and management models, giving rise to the need to develop comprehensive conceptual and methodological approaches through which these challenges should be addressed jointly by recombining the technical and the social.This paper will analyse the main problems affecting vernacular architectures in three communities in northern Argentina, where earthen techniques have been very relevant. We will reflect on various potentially useful theoretical frameworks, incorporating concepts from the anthropology of technology and methodological approaches from an ethnography of conservation as a way to work with multiple ontologies.

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The University And Its Role in the Process of European Integrations

Politeja ◽

10.12797/politeja.16.2019.63.05 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (6(63)) ◽

pp. 81-93

Author(s):

Isidora Jaric

Keyword(s):

Social Environment ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Social Role ◽

Bologna Process ◽

Local Context ◽

Social Challenges ◽

Global Context ◽

Fundamental Value ◽

The One ◽

The University

The University And Its Role in the Process of European Integrations. The Dystopian Fairy Tale of Serbian University The paper discusses the contemporary social role of the university in the three referent contexts: (a) the wider global context, (b) the regional context of European integrations, and (c) the local context of Serbian Society. The analysis discusses challenges of global context and university transformation, initial ideas of the Bologna process and the main directions of its implementation, and contemporary political and social challenges with the relationship between the university and its referent social environment and the value concepts shaping that relation. The latest tendencies of the abandonment of the university from its civil mission (Ćulum and Ledić, 2011) as one of the fundamental value concepts of modern universities has led to new escapist strategy that breaks the links between the university and the social environment in an almost artificial way. The paper discuss this tendency on the example of Serbian society and its university system, showing that the Serbian project of European integration has reached the point where it is necessary to articulate future directions of development so that they do not spontaneously take on malignant forms. On the one hand, breaking the link between the university and community jeopardizes the survivalof the university as we know it, and on the other hand, it eliminates serioussocial dialogue on the directions of future development.

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Social challenges based on the digital transformation of high-tech enterprises

Voprosy regionalnoj ekonomiki ◽

10.21499/2078-4023-2019-39-2-29-35 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 29-35

Author(s):

S. V. Koblov

Keyword(s):

Digital Economy ◽

Digital Transformation ◽

High Tech ◽

Social Character ◽

Social State ◽

Social Challenges ◽

The Social ◽

Potential Risks

The article presents the essence of the digital transformation of enterprises, shows the potential social challenges that accompany the introduction of the digital economy. For enterprises of high-tech industries, due to their high intellectual intensity, foreseeing the potential risks of social character is the most important. The necessity of developing a mechanism for managing the social state of a collective in the process of digital transformation of enterprises is substantiated.

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Digitalization of Education During the Pandemic Period: Social Challenges and Risks

Logos et Praxis ◽

10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2021.1.2 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 15-22

Author(s):

Natalia Pluzhnikova

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

High Speed ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Digital Economy ◽

Social Challenges ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Subject ◽

Human Thinking ◽

The Impact

The article analyses the digitalization process of education during the pandemic. Thepandemic has accelerated the digitalization process of education and has shown both positive and negative aspects. The key digitalization strategies of education are noted, the specifics of the digitalization model of education are considered. For a more complete consideration of the digitalization process of education, the author uses the analysis of its socio-economic context, represented by the digital economy. The author considers the digitalization of education as the result of a natural process of the digital economy development, where the key factor is not the subject, but digital services. The digital economy is a complex super-system formed by network interactions and feedbacks of its constituent elements. The key characteristic of the development of this super-system is the formal elimination of the subject as an active participant in real economic relations, which leads to alienated forms of human existence. The author examines the manifestation of these alienated forms on the example of distance learning during the pandemic, as well as the impact of information and communication technologies on human thinking and behaviour. The result of this process is a socio-anthropological crisis, which actualizes the social challenges and risks of education digitalization. The author highlights the wide access to educational services, flexibility and high speed of human adaptation to information and communication technologies as positive aspects of the digitalization process of education. The negative side of the digitalization of education is, according to the author, excessive formalization of the educational and training process, which significantly affects the content of educational material, as well as motivational factors for learning and teaching. Based on the results of the study, the author gives forecasts for the future development of the digitalization of education. Key words: education, digitalization, digital economy, pandemic, human.

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European Union Law in a Global Context

10.1017/cbo9781139171359 ◽

2004 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Trevor C. Hartley

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

European Union Law ◽

Global Context

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Prime Proportion Affects Masked Priming of Fixed and Free-Choice Responses

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000043 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 57 (5) ◽

pp. 360-366 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Glen E. Bodner ◽

Rehman Mulji

Keyword(s):

Decision Process ◽

Free Choice ◽

Masked Priming ◽

Local Context ◽

Previous Trial ◽

Target Response ◽

Global Context ◽

Sequential Trial

Left/right “fixed” responses to arrow targets are influenced by whether a masked arrow prime is congruent or incongruent with the required target response. Left/right “free-choice” responses on trials with ambiguous targets that are mixed among fixed trials are also influenced by masked arrow primes. We show that the magnitude of masked priming of both fixed and free-choice responses is greater when the proportion of fixed trials with congruent primes is .8 rather than .2. Unconscious manipulation of context can thus influence both fixed and free choices. Sequential trial analyses revealed that these effects of the overall prime context on fixed and free-choice priming can be modulated by the local context (i.e., the nature of the previous trial). Our results support accounts of masked priming that posit a memory-recruitment, activation, or decision process that is sensitive to aspects of both the local and global context.

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