scholarly journals Registering the Impact of Words in Spoken Political and Journalistic Texts

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-48
Author(s):  
Christina K. Alexandris
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
International News ◽  
Current State ◽  
International Audience ◽  
News Networks ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Spoken Interaction ◽  
The Impact

Words in spoken political and journalistic texts may inspire, infuriate or even become mottos. Often, the entire spoken interaction may be forgotten, yet individual words may remain associated with the Speaker and/or the group represented by the Speaker or even the individual word or words themselves obtain a dynamic of their own, outshining the original Speaker. In the current-state-of affairs, connected with the impact of international news networks and social media, the impact of words in spoken political and journalistic texts is directly linked to its impact to a diverse international audience. The impact or controversy of a word and related topic may be registered by the reaction it generates. Special focus is placed in the registration and evaluation of words and their related topics in spoken political and journalistic discussions and interviews. Although as text types, spoken political and journalistic texts pose challenges for their evaluation, processing and translation, the presented approaches allow the registration of complex and implied information, indications of Speakers attitude and intentions and can contribute to evaluating the behaviour of Speakers-Participants. This registration also allows the identification of words generating positive, negative or diverse reactions, their relation to Cognitive Bias and their impact to a national and international audience within a context of international news networks and social media.

E-Government and Social Media: The Impact on Accessibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-191
Author(s):  
Christian Sonnenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Section 508 ◽  
Usable Information ◽  
Current State ◽  
Accessibility Issues ◽  
The Government ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Impact

Social media is a valuable tool, providing a means of instruction, communication, and collaboration to many organizations including the government institutions that citizens rely upon. However, while important for distributing information, social media has not historically prioritized accessibility. The federal government has a duty to provide fair and usable information access for those with disabilities, but the delineation between where this responsibility lies becomes blurred when third-party platforms like social media are utilized. The extent to which social media pervades government sites and causes accessibility issues is one that is not well understood. This article presents an overview of the current state of affairs for Section 508, the implications it has for social media, and a study to evaluate the potential impact it has on all users.

A Normative Framework for Sharing Information Online

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Sullivan ◽  
Mark Alfano
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Current State ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Share Information

People have always shared information through chains and networks of testimony. It is arguably part of what makes us human and enables us to live in cooperative communities with populations greater than 150 or so. The invention of the internet and the rise of social media have turbocharged our ability to share information. This chapter develops a normative epistemic framework for sharing information online. This framework takes into account both ethical and epistemic considerations that are intertwined in typical cases of online testimony. The authors argue that, while the current state of affairs is not entirely novel, recent technological developments call for a rethinking of the norms of testimony, as well as the articulation of a set of virtuous dispositions that people would do well to cultivate in their capacity as conduits (not just sources or receivers) of information.

Self-Management of Arthritis

2017 ◽  
pp. 171-196
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Brooks ◽  
Kanako Iwanaga ◽  
Fong Chan
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Arthritis is ranked among the top causes of disability in the United States and worldwide. Despite recent improvements in medications and medical treatment, there is no known cure for arthritis. Providing evidence-based psychoeducation and counseling services to people with arthritis lessens the impact of pain-related symptoms and disability on the individual and society. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the most common arthritic conditions, co-occurring physical conditions, and psychosocial factors associated with arthritis. Barriers to self-management and existing self-management programs are also discussed along with the current state of scientific evidence. The chapter concludes with some questions for future research.

scholarly journals Personalization as a promise: Can Big Data change the practice of insurance?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395172093514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Barry ◽  
Arthur Charpentier
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Big Data Technologies ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Homogeneity Hypothesis ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this article is to assess the impact of Big Data technologies for insurance ratemaking, with a special focus on motor products.The first part shows how statistics and insurance mechanisms adopted the same aggregate viewpoint. It made visible regularities that were invisible at the individual level, further supporting the classificatory approach of insurance and the assumption that all members of a class are identical risks. The second part focuses on the reversal of perspective currently occurring in data analysis with predictive analytics, and how this conceptually contradicts the collective basis of insurance. The tremendous volume of data and the personalization promise through accurate individual prediction indeed deeply shakes the homogeneity hypothesis behind pooling. The third part attempts to assess the extent of this shift in motor insurance. Onboard devices that collect continuous driving behavioural data could import this new paradigm into these products. An examination of the current state of research on models with telematics data shows however that the epistemological leap, for now, has not happened.

Social Media to Social Media Analytics

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vikas Kumar ◽  
Pooja Nanda
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Media Analytics ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media Data

With the amplification of social media platforms, the importance of social media analytics has exponentially increased for many brands and organizations across the world. Tracking and analyzing the social media data has been contributing as a success parameter for such organizations, however, the data is being poorly harnessed. Therefore, the ethical implications of social media analytics need to be identified and explored for both the organizations and targeted users of social media data. The present work is an exploratory study to identify the various techno-ethical concerns of social media engagement, as well as social media analytics. The impact of these concerns on the individuals, organizations, and society as a whole are discussed. Ethical engagement for the most common social media platforms has been outlined with a number of specific examples to understand the prominent techno-ethical concerns. Both the individual and organizational perspectives have been taken into account to identify the implications of social media analytics.

Four Questions on the Digital Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Василий Свистунов ◽  
Vasiliy Svistunov ◽  
Виталий Лобачев ◽  
Vitaliy Lobachyev
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Current State ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
National Economies ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to the analysis of the main modern trends of digitalization of the economies of the leading world powers. Particular attention is paid to the state of Affairs with the practice of information and communication technologies in the Russian Federation. The analysis of trends in the participation of the digital economy in the formation of GDP of a number of countries, including Russia. The impact of digitalization processes on the current state and further development of various spheres of management is assessed. The practice of development of strategic programs for the development of national economies, which determine the targets for the development and implementation of modern information technologies in various industries and activities to improve the efficiency of national socio-economic systems. The author’s position in determining the main features of the current state of the digital economy of Russia is based on the generalization of the results of studies conducted by a number of international companies, and is of practical importance in the study of the problem of the ongoing transformation of social and labor relations in the context of digitalization.

scholarly journals An analysis of the fundamental shift in Catholic secondary religious education during the long sixties, 1955-1973

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 28-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Major Change ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
Church Tradition

This paper examines the fundamental shift in Catholic secondary religious education in North America during the long sixties, 1955-1973. Special focus is given to the Canadian province of Ontario. This paper argues that this fundamental shift involved a major change in orientation as the strict Neo-Thomism was abandoned after Vatican II along with the traditional teacher-led pedagogy of rote-memorization. It was replaced with a more subjective approach, emphasizing the developmental nature of Church tradition and the inner transformation of the individual. Teaching methods also changed with more student-centred strategies adopted. This paper also examines the causes and consequences of this fundamental shift, concentrating on the impact of the cultural changes of the long sixties and Vatican II. This paper argues that this shift was a needed one, but that it was too extreme leading to a period of considerable confusion in Catholic secondary religious education.

Modelling Nitrogen Deposition on a Local Scale—A Review of the Current State of the Art

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Hertel ◽  
Carsten Ambelas Skjøth ◽  
Per Løfstrøm ◽  
Camilla Geels ◽  
Lise Marie Frohn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Deposition ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
N Deposition ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Ammonia Emissions ◽  
High Nitrogen ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Local ammonia emissions from agricultural activities are often associated with high nitrogen deposition in the close vicinity of the sources. High nitrogen (N) inputs may significantly affect the local ecosystems. Over a longer term, high loads may change the composition of the ecosystems, leading to a general decrease in local biodiversity. In Europe there is currently a significant focus on the impact of atmospheric N load on local ecosystems among environmental managers and policy makers. Model tools designed for application in N deposition assessment and aimed for use in the regulation of anthropogenic nitrogen emissions are, therefore, under development in many European countries. The aim of this paper is to present a review of the current understanding and modelling parameterizations of atmospheric N deposition. A special focus is on the development of operational tools for use in environmental assessment and regulation related to agricultural ammonia emissions. For the often large number of environmental impact assessments needed to be carried out by local environmental managers there is, furthermore, a need for simple and fast model systems. These systems must capture the most important aspects of dispersion and deposition of N in the nearby environment of farms with animal production. The paper includes a discussion on the demands on the models applied in environmental assessment and regulation and how these demands are fulfilled in current state-of-the-art models.

scholarly journals Rethinking French identity through literature : the case of four 21st century novels.

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Virginie Bleneau
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Current State ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
Second World

Reading French newspapers or watching TV broadcasts in the mid-teens of the twenty-first century, it is hard to deny or to ignore that France is currently (or still) undergoing an identity crisis. This crisis is of course not exactly a new phenomenon; many would indeed argue that the malaise originates from the waves of immigration that followed the Second World War and the dismantling of the colonial empire, leading second-generation immigrants to demonstrate, sometimes violently, against the unjust social realities of France in the 1980's and 1990's. In this dissertation, I argue that immigration has become the scapegoat for an identity crisis that is, in fact, Franco-French. I analyze four novels - JMG Le Clezio's Revolutions (2003), Alexis Jenni's L'Art francais de la guerre (2011), Azouz Begag's Le Marteau piquecoeur (2004), and Eliette Abecassis's Sepharade (2009) - that show that the current state of affairs stems from France's post-Revolutionary interpretation of the ideal of equality, rather than immigration alone. It is France's very notion of equality as sameness that prevents its citizens from adapting to the changes brought by the dissolution of the colonial empire. My postcolonial reading of these texts will reveal the complicated interaction between the individual and the forces that participate in the construction of individual and group identities.

scholarly journals Spain in a Multidimensional Crisis: a Social Projection of Demographic Trends

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
Eleonora Ermolieva ◽  
◽  
Nadezhda Kudeyarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Current State ◽  
Dynamics Of Population ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
The Impact

The socio-economic situation in modern Spain is complex in many aspects, which makes it possible to characterize the current state of affairs as a multidimensional crisis. The Spanish case shows the interconnection of demographic processes with structurally complicated social phenomena. An overview of the demographic decline and birth rate drop is examined, as well as the plight of young Spaniards as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is given. The article also explores the problems of elder generation going through difficult times. On the basis of statistical data, the authors analyze the medium term prospects in the dynamics of population panorama, examine the impact of the migration factor, and show how the changing age structure and its attendant consequences pose an ever-wider range of issues for society, concerning both the younger generation and other age groups. From the perspective of demographic transformations, the article observes the situation in the pension sector, in light of the fact that Spain is one of the rapidly aging countries. The methodological approach used by the authors for a comprehensive analysis of demographic and socio-economic problems makes it possible to identify a range of interrelationships between the most important pillars of the Spanish social model.

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