scholarly journals Science and the Internet: be fruitful and multiply?

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. C01
Author(s):  
Sveva Avveduto
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Side ◽  
The Web

What role and citizenship has the scientific thought on the web, or rather on the social side of the web? Does it benefit from the debate between peers and with the general public, or else does it only risk to become a monologue? How to deal with the number of instruments the Internet is able to provide in making, discussing and disseminating research? These are some of the questions tackled by the reflections from scholars and experts which were the basis for our debate.

Methods and Issues for Research in Virtual Communities

2009 ◽  
pp. 912-920
Author(s):  
Stefano Pace
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Social Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Social Side ◽  
The Web

The Internet has developed from an informative medium to a social environment where people meet together, exchange messages and emotions, and establish friendships and social relationships. While the Internet was originally conceived as a commercial marketspace (Rayport & Sviokla, 1994), nowadays the social side of the Web is a central phenomenon to truly understand the Internet. Social gratification is among the most relevant motivations to go online (Bagozzi & Dholakia, 2006; Stafford & Stafford, 2001). People socialise through the Internet, adding a third motivation to their online activity, other that the pleasure of surfing in itself (the “flow experience” described by Hoffman & Novak, 1996) and the usefulness of finding information. Virtual communities are springing up both as spontaneous aggregation (like the Usenet newsgroups) or forums promoted and organised by Web sites. The topics of a community range from support for a disease to passion for a given product or brand (Muñiz & O’Guinn, 2001). The intensity and relevance of the virtual sociality cannot be discarded. Companies can receive useful and actionable knowledge around their own offer studying the communities devoted to their brand. Hence social research should adopt refined tools to study the communities in order to achieve reliable results. The aim of this article is to illustrate the main research methods viable for virtual communities, examining their pros and cons.

Methods of Research in Virtual Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 585-592
Author(s):  
Stefano Pace
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Flow Experience ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Side ◽  
The Web ◽  
Social Gratification

The Internet has developed from an informative medium to a social environment where people meet together, exchanging messages and emotions and establishing friendships and social relationships. While the Internet was originally conceived as a commercial marketspace (Rayport & Sviokla, 1994) with new opportunities for both firms and customers (Alba, Lynch, Weitz, Janiszevski, Lutz, Sawyer, & Wood, 1997), nowadays the social side of the Web is a central phenomenon to truly understand the Internet. Social gratification is among the most relevant motivations to go online (Stafford & Stafford, 2001). People socialise through the Internet, adding a third motivation to their online activity, other that the pleasure of surfing in itself (the “flow experience” described by Hoffman and Novak, 1996) and the usefulness of finding information.

Caught in the Web

2013 ◽  
pp. 1294-1314
Author(s):  
Keith A. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality ◽  
Medical Privacy ◽  
The Web

The social consequences of the internet are profound. Evidence of this can easily be found in the enormous body of literature discussing its impact on democracy, globalization, social networking, and education. The implications of the internet for medicine have likewise received a great deal of attention from policy makers, clinicians and technology theorists. Medical privacy, in particular, has garnered the lion’s share of attention. Nevertheless, research in this area has been lacking because it either fails to unpack the conceptual and ethical complexities of privacy or overestimates the power of technology and policy to protect our medical privacy. The aims of this chapter are twofold. The first is to provide a nuanced explication of the concept of privacy, and, second, to argue that e-medicine and the policies supposedly designed to protect the privacy and confidentiality of personal health information fail to do so and in some instances make their violations easier to commit.

Caught in the Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 179-199
Author(s):  
Keith A. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality ◽  
Medical Privacy ◽  
The Web

The social consequences of the internet are profound. Evidence of this can easily be found in the enormous body of literature discussing its impact on democracy, globalization, social networking, and education. The implications of the internet for medicine have likewise received a great deal of attention from policy makers, clinicians and technology theorists. Medical privacy, in particular, has garnered the lion’s share of attention. Nevertheless, research in this area has been lacking because it either fails to unpack the conceptual and ethical complexities of privacy or overestimates the power of technology and policy to protect our medical privacy. The aims of this chapter are twofold. The first is to provide a nuanced explication of the concept of privacy, and, second, to argue that e-medicine and the policies supposedly designed to protect the privacy and confidentiality of personal health information fail to do so and in some instances make their violations easier to commit.

Imagining the Web: the social construction of the Internet in Italy

Modern Italy ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Francesca Pasquali
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Internet Advertising ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Possible World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Web

SummaryThe article analyses social discourses about the Internet in Italy from the mid-1990s onwards, taking its examples from advertising. Beyond the individual campaigns and their subjects there have been two distinct trends in Internet advertising. The first has made an effort to build the Internet as a cognitive object, the second has presented the Internet as a ‘possible world'. The article aims to account for the ways in which the Web has been thematized in Italy: its fields of reference, and how its possible social and personal uses have been anticipated.

scholarly journals Feminisms on the web: lines and forms of action in contemporary feminist debate*

Cadernos Pagu ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 199-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Branco de Castro Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Strategies ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Web

The present article seeks to understand the uses of the internet as a space for action and reflection among feminist groups in the Brazilian scene. It takes as its focus the relationships between new feminist generations and esthetics and the social space of the internet. Several feminist groups have emphasized the use of the internet and social networks as relevant platforms for organization, news and political expression. I thus take as my object of analysis one of the most important blogs in the Brazilian context: Blogueiras Feministas (Feminist Bloggers - BF), seeking to use this as an ethnographic resource in order to understand the set of actors and collectives working within this feminist scenario, as well as the spaces and social, political and cultural strategies that appear within it.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Effects on Students’ Teaching and Learning Perspectives in Malaysian Varsities

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 2729-2748
Author(s):  
Zambri Harun ◽  
Firdaus Mohamad Hamzah ◽  
Shuhaimi Mansor ◽  
Abdus Samad Mahmud ◽  
Hashimah Hashim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Recovery Period ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ripple Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
Social Side ◽  
As Stress

The COVID-19 pandemic has had dramatic effects on the socio-economic and well beings of Malaysians. The objective of the study is to find the effects of the pandemic on university students both on the technical side, such as the sufficiency of infrastructure and the internet to support online teaching and learning (T&L), as well as on the social side, such as stress level and focus on the study. The nationwide study on the effect of the pandemic on Malaysian varsities students was conducted at the end of 2020. There are many important issues uncovered in this study ranging from the technical side, such as internet-ready programs, socio-economic side, to the psychological perspectives. It shall provide invaluable insights to the related ministries while preparing appropriate reactions during the recovery period. The survey revealed that almost 74% of students highlighted that internet coverage and connectivity was the main issue in online T&L. Although statistics show that 90% of Malaysian households have access to the internet, 49% of students reported that their internet connections were poor. The effects of the pandemic are far-reaching, students belonging to the most vulnerable category find themselves in the most non-conducive place to learn, and they are disturbed by siblings. The socio-economics impacts brought about by the pandemic cause ripple effects onto their families. The government distribution of relief aids has lessened the burden of many people, including students; nevertheless, much improvement could be made, especially in the internet facility and coverage.

scholarly journals Trash Stream: Social Conditioning of Criminalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 202-210
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Gracheva ◽  
S. V. Malikov
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Conditioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Live Broadcast ◽  
The Web

The social network as one of the digital technologies has not only creates a platform for communications, especially relevant during a pandemic, but also provokes the emergence of various types of deviant behavior, primarily due to the fact that many communicate on the Internet under fictitious names; it liberates a person, creates a feeling of impunity, control over the situation, etc. Recently, trash streams have become popular on the Web, but not funny and silly, but associated with violence, insult, humiliation of human dignity, causing a feeling of disgust and contrary to public morality. In December 2020, during such a live broadcast, another victim died, which launched a process in society to discuss the need to introduce criminal liability for such acts. The paper assesses the draft criminal law, as well as initiatives to supplement the list of aggravating circumstances and some corpus delicti with an appropriate qualifying feature, and formulates the author’s draft criminal law on responsibility for organizing, conducting, facilitating and participating in direct air in trash streams.

Ethical Dilemma of the Digital Divide in the Threshold of Social Inequalities in Africa

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Essien Essien
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
The Web

Despite the ubiquitous nature of the internet in our daily lives today, the digital divide discourse in Africa highlights the inequitable social distribution of ICT access. The failure to have equitable social access to ICT tools, or a lack of skills to operate them, clearly depicts a technological predicament and a metaphor that questions the social gaps between humans that can access and use the web, and those that cannot. Relying on content analysis of extensive literature on the digital divide, this paper explores the notion of digital divide social inequalities in Africa, especially as it concerns how it should be understood, valued and managed. Findings, reveals that though the new information technologies are rapidly changing lives of a small but growing number of people across Africa, decisions on content, knowledge and participation excludes Africans. The digital divide therefore, has the potential to create, perpetuate and exacerbate morally objectionable conditions that can replicate poverty, construct exclusion and foregrounds social inequality in many African societies.

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