Language and Publics in a Global Digital World. What Is Linguistic Citizenship in the 21st Century?

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Britta Schneider
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
National Language ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Language Policing ◽  
Linguistic Citizenship ◽  
Print Literacy

"In this article, I discuss language from a linguistic anthropological perspective, where the existence of standardised languages is understood as an outcome of socio-political discourses in the age of nationalism, in which the technologies of print literacy enabled national public spaces – and with it, national language standards – to emerge. What happens to language standards and public spaces in the era of digital technologies and transnational interaction? I introduce some examples and develop ideas on language policing in settings where monolingual national ideals exist besides other emerging linguistic authorities. Keywords: languages, nationalism, public spaces, standardization, late modernity "

Music in the Digital World

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Musical Aesthetics ◽  
Video Game Music ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Fluid Network ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Widespread Access

Digital technologies have impacted and reshaped almost every aspect of 21st-century life, from communication and commerce, to work and leisure, to education and politics. This bibliography represents a collection of scholarship that seeks to detail how varied and ubiquitous digital technologies have reshaped music, and how music has in turn shaped the digital world. Since the first years of the 21st century, widespread access to digital technologies, including social media, smartphones, and Web 2.0 have fundamentally transformed musical aesthetics, creation, performance, consumption, and reception on a global scale. As of October 2020, there are around 4.66 billion active internet users around the globe, nearly all of whom interact with music in one way or another. This bibliography addresses how this “digital world” is implicated in 21st-century digital regimes, and in the global flows and local assemblages of music’s production, circulation, and consumption. Like the technologies themselves, scholarship on music in the digital world is a rapidly shifting field. Readers are encouraged to understand this bibliography as a fluid network of related topics, with substantial thematic overlap between sections. Except when a subject touches on topics unique to this bibliography, the authors have omitted topics covered extensively in other Oxford Bibliographies, including “Film Music,” “Video Game Music,” “Electronic and Computer Music Instruments,” and “Music Technology.”

THE EDUCATION OF THE 21ST-CENTURY PROFESSIONAL INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ISSUE, VNU JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Herrera Jorge
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
The Core ◽  
Digital World

Since the inception of computational technologies in the 1940s, astonishing digitaltechnological progress is transforming everything. Society has experienced a revolution inthe acquisition, processing, and communication of digital information. Technologicalimprovements have transformed early large machines into compact devices that enable,mediate, support, and organize our lives. The Internet and the web, new multi-modal, mobileconnecting devices, and the cloud, in combination, are having a far greater impact andadoption speed than any previous technology; and these digital technologies will continue toaccelerate.This paper highlights the importance of combining liberal arts skills with digital fluency inthe education of the 21st-century professional. This is the single most important aspect thatwill identify a person as “literate” in the century of information. The transformativeexperience of the liberal arts has traditionally led to successes across many different fieldsand it stands to make an even greater impact in the information economy. The core practicesthat have made liberal arts education so successful over the centuries cannot be replaced bytechnology. Instead, liberal arts education will interlock perfectly and reciprocally withcontinued technological advancements. This is the essence of what we are trying toaccomplish at Keuka College. In this paper, we present a brief summary of technologyevolution and its implications for the labor market, and introduce Keuka College’s initiativefor educating professionals in the globally connected digital world of the 21st century.

The beginning of phygital world

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Evgeny Soloviov ◽  
Alexander Danilov
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Aviation Education ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
Smart Data

The Phygital word itself is the combination pf physical and digital technology application.This paper will highlight the detail of phygital world and its importance, also we will discuss why its matter in the world of technology along with advantages and disadvantages.It is the concept and technology is the bridge between physical and digital world which bring unique experience to the users by providing purpose of phygital world. It is the technology used in 21st century to bring smart data as opposed to big data and mix into the broader address of array of learning styles. It can bring new experience to every sector almost like, retail, medical, aviation, education etc. to maintain some reality in today’s world which is developing technology day to day. It is a general reboot which can keep economy moving and guarantee the wellbeing of future in terms of both online and offline.

TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION AND DIGITALIZATION OF HOTEL BUSINESS: OPPORTUNITIES AND PERSPECTIVES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iliya Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Digital Generation ◽  
Scientific Report ◽  
The Way

At the advent of the 21st century, digital technologies have changed the way that hotel industry brings value to tourists around the world. The aim of this scientific report is to present the opportunities and perspectives for hotel business for digital transformation, as a crucial instrument for the growth of the industry and for meeting the needs of the new digital generation of consumers. With its potential, digital transformation is reshaping the industry, giving strategic advantages to companies focused on digital transformation of the business.

scholarly journals New Typologies of Contemporary Shopping Malls in Egypt

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-122
Author(s):  
Karim Wagih Fawzi Youssef
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Corporate Websites ◽  
New Public ◽  
Globalized Economy ◽  
The City

Contemporary shopping malls in Egypt have created new public spaces for lifestyle and leisure, which complement the commercial logic of consumer behavior. Mega malls in Egypt are simultaneously merging shopping, leisure, and entertainment, creating an ambivalence. They are representations of the globalized economy, but also manifest a certain uniqueness through their typology, their mode of insertion in the urban fabric and the type of public spaces created in them. This paper traces four new typologies in the design of six mega shopping malls in Egypt, constructed since 2010, as they integrate new public gathering spaces for leisure, recreation, and entertainment. Data on the new malls in Egypt was collected from corporate websites and promotional brochures, Google Maps and Street View, TripAdvisor, social media websites, visitor comments and news articles. A key finding is the trend of integration of large outdoor recreational spaces such as courtyards and plazas in mall design, the inclusion of a water element for attraction as well as the transition in function from simply offering goods and services to one that offers experiences and events to encourage recurring visits to the mall. The transformation of the mall parallels changes in conceptualizing the city of the 20th century as a large marketplace, an emporium of consumption, to conceptualizing the city of the 21st century as a large theatre and a festive place.

scholarly journals Legacy Digital Transformation: TCO and ROI Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Ravi Kiran Mallidi ◽  
Manmohan Sharma ◽  
Jagjit Singh
Keyword(s):  
Return On Investment ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital World ◽  
New Business ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Business Needs ◽  
Security Organizations

Legacy Digital Transformation is modernizing or migrating systems from non-digital or older digital technology to newer digital technologies. Digitalization is essential for information reading, processing, transforming, and storing. Social media, Cloud, and analytics are the major technologies in today's digital world. Digitalization (business process) and Digital Transformation (the effect) are the core elements of newer global policies and processes. Recent COVID pandemic situation, Organizations are willing to digitalize their environment without losing business. Digital technologies help to improve their capabilities to transform processes that intern promote new business models. Applications cannot remain static and should modernize to meet the evolving business and technology needs. Business needs time to market, Agility, and reduce technical debt. Technology needs consist of APIs, better Security, Portability, Scalability, Cloud support, Deployment, Automation, and Integration. This paper elaborates different transformation/modernization approaches for Legacy systems written in very long or End of Life (EOL) systems to newer digital technologies to serve the business needs. EOL impacts application production, supportability, compliance, and security. Organizations spend money and resources on Digital Transformation for considering Investment versus Return on Investment, Agility of the System, and improved business processes. Migration and Modernization are critical for any Legacy Digital Transformation. Management takes decisions to proceed with Digital Transformation for considering Total Cost Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI) of the program. The paper also includes a TCO-ROI calculator for Transformation from Legacy / Monolithic to new architectures like Microservices.

Information Technologies for Adolescents

2014 ◽  
pp. 202-216
Author(s):  
Lesley Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Access To Technology

Adolescents live in a technology-enhanced world. However, significant subpopulations lack physical and intellectual access to digital technologies. Content and communications providers format and disseminate information in a variety of ways. In response, teens who use technology tend to employ a variety of platforms, choosing the tool to match the content and purpose. Social media has been the technology of choice for teenagers, leveraging their social and creative needs. Educators of teens need to incorporate technology into their practices, providing access and opportunities for teens to optimize their technology use. Today's adolescents, ages 12 to 18, are often characterized as digital natives because many of them have grown up in a digital world. Most of them have some kind of access to technology, although the digital divide still exists. The technologies teens access and use are described in this chapter.

Transforming K-12 Classrooms With Digital Technology

2017 ◽  
pp. 1506-1530
Author(s):  
Robert J. Leneway
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Data Systems ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
K 12

Powerful emerging technologies, data systems, and communications have converged to change how we play, work, communicate, learn, and even what we think. It is fundamentally changing our institutions and support systems, especially our schools and their classrooms. Thus, the teachers that use these classrooms need to also change. If schools and classroom designed for a 20th century industrial age are to survive, then how do they need to be transformed to respond to the rapidly changing needs of today's 21st century students? There is currently much “hype” on what technology can do for students and their classrooms. This chapter explores what the research says works regarding the integration of digital technologies for schools, teachers, and most importantly the 21st century students that today's classrooms are intended to serve. However, with most emerging technologies, the research has not kept pace with the ever increasing advance, so this chapter also highlights some of the promising new technology devices, programs, and educational practices in need of quality evaluative research. By exploring how today's students and their learning needs are being changed by current and emerging promising digital technologies, a personal vision for the reader should begin to emerge on how schools might transform their 20th century teachers and classrooms into spaces, including virtual spaces, that better serve today's 21st century students.

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