Variations on a Theme

Author(s):  
Shehzad Nadeem

This chapter considers how place-bound practices, policies, and identities are being reconfigured by cross-border processes. Globalization has been accused of decreasing the significance of place. Through the diffusion of communication technologies, our experiences of place are transformed and the turnover time of capital is truncated. The chapter first explains how place is being altered by global capitalism before discussing the basic characteristics of global outsourcing and the historical and institutional context in which it takes place. It then examines the production of space in India, focusing in particular on how the country became the “world's back office.” It also looks at the emergence of consumer-oriented mimicry as an integral component of class and personal identity. The chapter argues that globalization does not substitute the dynamism of modernity for the complacent solidity of tradition nor the Occident for Orient. Its genius and mystery lay in the balancing of diametric modes.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (10) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Anna НLAZOVA ◽  
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The development of scientific and technological progress causes the rapid spread of information and communication technologies, which in the post-industrial period are implemented in all spheres of economic life. Digitization at this stage of socio-economic development is a global trend in the world economy. Taking into account the latest trends, the article presents the basic characteristics of digitalization, as well as the peculiarities of its spread in developed countries and Ukraine, which shows the divergence in concepts. The article identifies the features of the digital economy and analyzes the innovation degree of economies and the level of technology development in Ukraine and the world. In particular, the problems of digitalization of the real sector of the economy of Ukraine are highlighted and the need to reconsider approaches to the implementation of the concept of digitalization in the socio-economic system of Ukraine is substantiated.


Monitor ISH ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Tadej Praprotnik

The article presents the phenomenon of new communication technologies. Focusing on the role of the social media (Web 2.0), it sketches certain global trends in the field of the new media and explains the role of software as an important ‘generator’ of everyday life. The basic characteristics of the traditional one-way mass communication and consumption of media products are contrasted with the interactive nature of the new media and a recent resulting phenomenon – user-generated media contents. The article goes on to present an important element of the new media cultures – interactivity, discussing its transforming effect on such traditional media categories as the ‘audience’, and introducing categories typical of the new media, such as ‘produser’ and ‘prosumer’. Technology is discussed as an elaborate and fluid apparatus dependent on society: an apparatus which reinforces the new and previously ignored cultural relations. The process of multimedia production is presented through different types of inclusion as promised by the technological forms. The article further investigates the World Wide Web as a multimedia form which has absorbed many other media types. The multimedia production of web pages and other cultural products has been a major channel for the democratisation of cultural production, as well as a field for the expression of individuals. The final topic to be addressed is the question of creativity, which is an important promise of the new media production.


2022 ◽  
pp. 92-110
Author(s):  
Slavica V. Boštjančič Rakas

This chapter presents the development of the Energy Internet throughout the history as an evolutionary solution based on modern technological development and needs, with the respect of its architecture, key features, and key concepts, such as energy router, prosumer, and virtual power plant. The architecture of modern IT support for the electric power sector is considered, including its basic characteristics, the integration of contemporary information and communication technologies, such as cloud and fog computing, as well as the security and quality of service issues that arise with the application of these technologies. This chapter provides an overview of recent research related to the concept of Energy Internet and identifies gaps and directions for further research.


Author(s):  
Slavica V. Boštjančič Rakas

This chapter presents the development of the Energy Internet throughout the history as an evolutionary solution based on modern technological development and needs, with the respect of its architecture, key features, and key concepts, such as energy router, prosumer, and virtual power plant. The architecture of modern IT support for the electric power sector is considered, including its basic characteristics, the integration of contemporary information and communication technologies, such as cloud and fog computing, as well as the security and quality of service issues that arise with the application of these technologies. This chapter provides an overview of recent research related to the concept of Energy Internet and identifies gaps and directions for further research.


Author(s):  
Zhang Lei ◽  
Wenling Liu ◽  
Peter Oosterveer

The growth of consumption is one of the most impressive social changes in contemporary China. This transformation is driven and shaped by the forces of globalization, economic growth, political modernization, the emerging middle class, industrialization/urbanization, advances in information and communication technologies, and sustainability challenges. Given China’s unique historical, cultural, and institutional context, it is highly interesting to assess the relevance of the concept of political consumerism in China. This chapter analyzes how institutional changes are shaping consumer politics and how political consumerism affects the development of governance in China. Two important consumption domains, food and energy, are used to explore what occurred in the particular context of rapidly transforming China. The conclusion discusses the question of whether the increased buying power of Chinese consumers will actually be used to address environmental and safety concerns.


2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Lacity ◽  
Leslie P. Willcocks ◽  
Joseph W. Rottman

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Anne Greice Soares La Regina

Resumo: O presente artigo, trabalho de pesquisa bibliográfica com viés qualitativo, empreende um recorte histórico das discussões em torno da metaficção historiográfica e da metabiografia num período que compreende o final do século XX. Esta investigação busca demonstrar o modo pelo qual estas narrativas se configuraram como respostas da arte e da cultura a fenômenos complexos, determinados pela crise do regime modernista de historicidade que encontrou ressonância também nas concepções pós-modernistas que, por sua vez, retomaram as discussões acerca das contradições do próprio modernismo e recuperaram o debate acerca da dicotomia entre altas artes e cultura de massa. A conjuntura pós-modernista se afigura ainda hoje também como espaço no qual se instauram debates sobre questões que emergem de uma sociedade fortemente marcada pelo capitalismo global e pelas tecnologias da comunicação que, produzindo uma sobrecarga de informações, gera a necessidade premente de frear este desgaste do tempo, organizar e apreender o passado, de onde surgem os discursos sobre a memória e todas as interpretações do tempo. Este apelo à releitura acaba por produzir uma poética da [re]criação que se alimenta dos resíduos culturais do passado. Como lastros teóricos das análises propostas sobre a metaficção, privilegia-se, sobretudo, o pensamento de Linda Hutcheon sobre as poéticas pós-modernistas em conjunção com o conceito de historiofagia de Walter Moser, bem como com as transformações no pensamento historiográfico promovido por Les Annales e desenvolvido pelo micro-história.Palavras-chave: metaficção historiográfica; metabiografia; poéticas pós-modernistas; Les Annales; micro-história.Abstract: This article is a bibliographic research with a qualitative bias on historiographical metafiction and metabiography in the last two decades of the 20th century, aiming to explain how these narratives arose as responses of art and culture to complex phenomena, determined by a crisis of the modernist regime of historicity that meets resonance also in the postmodernist conceptions that resume discussions about the contradictions of modernism itself and recover the debate about the dichotomy between high arts and mass culture. The postmodernist conjuncture also appears as a space in which debates on issues that emerge from a society strongly marked by global capitalism and communication technologies are established and, producing an information overload, generate the need to organize and apprehend the past, from where the speeches about memory and all interpretations of time arise. This appeal to re-reading ends up producing a poetics of [re]creation that feeds on the cultural residues of the past. As theoretical backbones of the proposed analyses of metafiction, Linda Hutcheon’s work about postmodernist poetics in conjunction with Walter Moser’s concept of historiography is privileged, as well as with the transformations in the historiographic thought promoted by Les Annales and developed by microhistory.Keywords: historiographical metafiction; metabiography; postmodernist poetics; Les Annales; microhistory.


Author(s):  
N. Mori ◽  
T. Oikawa ◽  
Y. Harada ◽  
J. Miyahara ◽  
T. Matsuo

The Imaging Plate (IP) is a new type imaging device, which was developed for diagnostic x ray imaging. We have reported that usage of the IP for a TEM has many merits; those are high sensitivity, wide dynamic range, and good linearity. However in the previous report the reading system was prototype drum-type-scanner, and IP was also experimentally made, which phosphor layer was 50μm thick with no protective layer. So special care was needed to handle them, and they were used only to make sure the basic characteristics. In this article we report the result of newly developed reading, printing system and high resolution IP for practical use. We mainly discuss the characteristics of the IP here. (Precise performance concerned with the reader and other system are reported in the other article.)Fig.1 shows the schematic cross section of the IP. The IP consists of three parts; protective layer, phosphor layer and support.


2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Sennott ◽  
Adam Bowker

People with ASD often need to access AAC in situations where a tabletop digital device is not practical. Recent advancements have made more powerful, portable, and affordable communication technologies available to these individuals. Proloquo2Go is a new portable augmentative and alternative communication system that runs on an iPhone or iPod touch and can be used to meet the diverse needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who are ambulatory and have difficulty using speech to meet their full daily communication needs. This article examines Proloquo2Go in light of the best practices in AAC for individuals with ASD such as symbols, visual supports, voice output, and inclusion.


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