scholarly journals Linguistic Mediation in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Ildikó Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

AbstractTechnological advances have had an impact not only on the translation but also on the interpretation market. Furthermore, with the advent and widespread use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the field of language mediation, the professions traditionally called “translation” and “interpreting” have been transformed by the digital revolution. In times of upheaval, profound changes can be felt in the market, the working environment, the conditions and processes as well as in the way language mediators work, the tasks they carry out, and the roles they play in the translation process. In the present article, we shall focus on these major changes and highlight the latest developments first in the field of translation and then in interpreting.

Digital revolution and party innovations: An analysis of the Spanish case

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-253
Author(s):  
Francesco Raniolo ◽  
Valeria Tarditi
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
Party Change ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

AbstractThe literature on party change has shown how the advent of the digital revolution and the diffusion of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the democracies of the 21st century have influenced the way political parties communicate and perform their functions. Less investigated, however, is the organizational reaction of political parties to the challenges posed by the transformation of the communications environment. The aim of this paper is to scrutinize whether parties evince a transformative tendency towards virtual models in which new digital ICTs are used as ‘functional equivalents’ of the old organizational infrastructures. To this end, the paper focuses on the Spanish democracy – a paradigmatic case of the political transformations that European democracies have undergone since the 2008 economic crisis – comparing the organizational models of the main political parties: the Partido Socialista Obrero Español, the Partido Popular, Podemos and Ciudadanos. Particularly the analysis – through the use of parties' documents – focuses on whether and how digital tools are used by the Spanish parties in three dimensions: the participants in the organization, the organizational configuration and the decision-making process. The main conclusions are: new challenger parties make a more intense and radical use of new ICTs introducing ‘disrupting innovations’ in their organization, while old and mainstream parties gradually adapt their organization to the new digital environment introducing ‘sustaining innovations’; parties on the left make greater use of ICTs in order to foster greater internal democracy when compared to their corresponding parties on the centre-right.

scholarly journals Kellenek-e archívumok a digitális korban?

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Iván Székely
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Archival History ◽  
Fundamental Information ◽  
Information And Communication

Az archívumi elmélet és gyakorlat jelentős kihívásokkal szembesül, amiben kiemelt szerepe van az információs és kommunikációs technológiák gyors fejlődésének és elterjedésének. A mai “digitális forradalom” közegében az információs szuperhatalmak és a techno-optimista vizionáriusok jóslatai szerint minden információ rögzítésre és megőrzésre kerül, és bárhol, bármikor elérhető lesz. Az egymást követő archívumi paradigmák domináns információs műveleteinek elemzése azt mutatja, hogy a mai internetalapú szolgáltatások az archívumi intézmények összes fő funkcióját tömeges méretekben replikálják, legalábbis az alapvető információs műveletek szintjén. Mindezen fejlemények ellenére a szerző úgy érvel, hogy a digitális korban az archívumokat nem fenyegeti a megszüntetés vagy a funkcióvesztés veszélye, és nem csupán az intézményi tradíciók miatt, hanem a kontextus megőrzésében és a fizikai példányok őrzésében betöltött szerepük, továbbá intézményi felelősségük miatt, ami a jövőben is fontos társadalmi, jogi és igazgatási igény marad. --- Do we need archives in the digital age? Archival theory and practice are facing significant challenges due to the rapid development and application of information and communication technologies. Today, in the “digital revolution” the information superpowers and the techno-optimistic visionaries prognosticate that all information will be recorded and preserved forever, and made available anywhere, any time. The analysis of the dominant information operators of the archival institutions in the respective paradigms of archival history shows that today’s internet-based services can replicate all the main functions of the archival institutions, at least at the level of the fundamental information operators, on a mass scale. Despite these developments, the author argues that archives are under no direct threat of being closed down or of losing their function in the digital age, not only because of institutional inertia and traditions, but also because their role in preserving context and preserving physical copies, and their institutional responsibility will continue to be an important social, legal and administrative requirement in the future, too.

scholarly journals Educational Leaders As Change Agents Towards the Information Literate School

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Noemi M. Moncada
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
School Heads

Over the last decade, the development of new information and communication Technologies (ICT) has provided a variety of opportunities for people all over the world. But still, the vast majority of society remains untouched by the digital revolution, creating real disparities between and within countries and socioeconomic groups. Undoubtedly, ICT plays a vital role in the future of our societies especially in Education. School heads, decision makers, local authorities and school librarians have significant role to play in the development of information literacy in schools. School principals trained in ICT should initiate information literacy in their schools and should provide support to secure cooperative deals and development aid. In the Philippine Educational System, schools located in affluent cities especially those schools in the capital are fully equipped with information infrastructure but too many schools in secondary cities and remote provinces are deprived of the tools to access information.

scholarly journals A disseminação da tradição e a preservação da memória coletiva na era digital │ The dissemination of tradition and the preservation of collective memory in the digital age

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Kraus Luvizotto
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

RESUMO Este artigo situa a disseminação de tradições e a preservação da memória coletiva diante do contexto teórico mais amplo trazido pelos estudos da cibercultura e das novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação, à luz da modernidade tardia. Nesse contexto, a internet e, em especial, as ferramentas da web 2.0, considerando as suas especificidades e limitações, podem aproximar atores sociais com a mesma vinculação identitária; proporcionar um ambiente para a disseminação e ensino de uma tradição e preservar a memória coletiva de um povo.Palavras-chave: Tradição; Memória Coletiva; Cibercultura; Era Digital; Modernidade Tardia. ABSTRACT This article addresses the dissemination of traditions and the preservation of collective memory in the broader theoretical context brought by cyberculture studies and new information and communication technologies in the light of late modernity. In this context, the internet and especially web 2.0 tools , considering their specificities and limitations, can approximate social actors with the same binding identity, provide an environment for dissemination and teaching of tradition and preserve the collective memory of a people.Keywords: Tradition; Collective Memory; Cyberculture; Digital Age; Late Modernity.

Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Communicative Practice ◽  
Political Contention ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Everyday Resistance

Over the past decades, waves of political contention involving the use of information and communication technologies have swept across the globe. The phenomenon stimulates the scholarship on digital communication technologies and contentious collective action to thrive as an exciting, relevant, but highly fragmentary and contested field with disciplinary boundaries. To advance the interdisciplinary understanding, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age outlines a communication-centered framework that articulates the intricate relationship between technology, communication, and contention. It further prods us to engage more critically with existing theories from communication, sociology, and political science on digital technologies and political movements. Given the theoretical endeavor, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age systematically explores, for the first time, the influence of mobile technology on political contention in China, the country with the world’s largest number of mobile and Internet users. Using first-hand in-depth interview and fieldwork data, it tracks the strategic choice of mobile phones as repertoires of contention, illustrates the effective mobilization of mobile communication on the basis of its strong and reciprocal social ties, and identifies the communicative practice of forwarding officially alleged “rumors” as a form of everyday resistance. Through this ground-breaking study, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age presents a nuanced portrayal of an emerging dynamics of contention—both its strengths and limitations—through the embedding of mobile communication into Chinese society and politics.

scholarly journals Usability Analysis of Andalusian Spas’ Websites

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2307
Author(s):  
Rosa Anaya-Aguilar ◽  
German Gemar ◽  
Carmen Anaya-Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Usability Analysis ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Tourism Websites

Health tourism is booming all over the world, and thermal spa tourism in Spain is a type of tourism aimed at integrating with nature, achieving sustainable development. In general, its facilities are located in areas specially protected by environmental legislation. This tourism sector attracts an increasingly wide market segment that has become more demanding and better informed and that more frequently uses the Internet to gather information. Tourists’ shopping and consumption habits are increasingly influenced by new information and communication technologies (ICTs), making these a topic of interest among academics and professionals. Website development has been shown to be an area of innovation for spa facilities, but evidence has also been found that this sector has experienced difficulty in adopting ICTs. This research sought to analyse spa websites’ usability by conducting an exploratory investigation of different websites’ contents. The results reveal that the use of new web technologies by spas is underdeveloped, although these facilities have achieved good positions in Internet search engines due to the synergistic effect of the official tourism websites. That is why most of them tell their story, detail their nature and the protection of their spaces. In this way, spas turn their websites into communication channels that convey to tourists their commitment to the environment and sustainable development.

scholarly journals Value-driven engineering of E-maintenance platforms

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Macchi ◽  
Adolfo Crespo Márquez ◽  
Maria Holgado ◽  
Luca Fumagalli ◽  
Luis Barberá Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
A Value ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for the engineering of E-maintenance platforms that is based on a value-driven approach. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology assumes that a value-driven engineering approach would help foster technological innovation for maintenance management. Indeed, value-driven engineering could be easily adopted at the business level, with subsequent positive effects on the industrial applications of new information and communication technologies solutions. Findings – The methodology combines a value-driven approach with the engineering in the maintenance scope. The methodology is tested in a manufacturing case to prove its potential to support the engineering of E-maintenance solutions. In particular, the case study concerns the investment in E-maintenance solutions developed in the framework of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system originally implemented for production purposes. Originality/value – Based on literature research, the paper presents a methodology that is implemented considering three different approaches (business theories, value-driven engineering and maintenance management). The combination of these approaches is novel and overcomes the traditional view of maintenance as an issue evaluated from a cost-benefit perspective.

THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Vol XIII (XIII) ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
L.D. KRIVYKH ◽  
◽  
O.B. BAGRINTSEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

The article deals with the application of new technologies in teaching foreign languages. Substantiates the importance of the development of other forms and methods of teaching English to students of information technology disciplines. As well as drawing attention to the use of new information and communication technologies of the Internet. The article includes examples of the use of podcasts in the development of listening skills. The article is written for foreign language teachers, all interested in the methodology of teaching foreign languages, based on new technologies.

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