scholarly journals SKETCHES FOR THE COGNITIVE PORTRAIT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
EKATERINA V. PETROVA
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
The People

Colossus, Codebreaking, and the Digital Age

Colossus ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Budiansky
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

The paths that took men and women from their ordinary lives and deposited them on the doorstep of the odd profession of cryptanalysis were always tortuous, accidental, and unpredictable. The full story of the Colossus, the pioneering electronic device developed by the Government Code and Cypher School (GC & CS) to break German teleprinter ciphers in the Second World War, is fundamentally a story of several of these accidental paths converging at a remarkable moment in the history of electronics—and of the wartime urgency that set these men and women on these odd paths. Were it not for the wartime necessity of codebreaking, and were it not for particular statistical and logical properties of the teleprinter ciphers that were so eminently suited to electronic analysis, the history of computing might have taken a very different course. The fact that Britain’s codebreakers cracked the high-level teleprinter ciphers of the German Army and Luftwaffe high command during the Second World War has been public knowledge since the 1970s. But the recent declassification of new documents about Colossus and the teleprinter ciphers, and the willingness of key participants to discuss their roles more fully, has laid bare as never before the technical challenges they faced—not to mention the intense pressures, the false steps, and the extraordinary risks and leaps of faith along the way. It has also clarified the true role that the Colossus machines played in the advent of the digital age. Though they were neither general-purpose nor stored-program computers themselves, the Colossi sparked the imaginations of many scientists, among them Alan Turing and Max Newman, who would go on to help launch the post-war revolution that ushered in the age of the digital, general-purpose, stored-program electronic computer. Yet the story of Colossus really begins not with electronics at all, but with codebreaking; and to understand how and why the Colossi were developed and to properly place their capabilities in historical context, it is necessary to understand the problem they were built to solve, and the people who were given the job of solving it.

scholarly journals THE AFFECTIVE BODY: PLATFORMED PRESENCE AND VIRTUAL EMBODIMENT IN THE POPULIST POLITICS OF NARENDRA MODI

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laboni Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
The People ◽  
Divided Society ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Cult Of Personality ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Media Narratives

Political theory agrees that the charismatic leader’s cult of personality is a cornerstone of populist politics, with an increasingly distrustful, contentious, and internally divided society seeing the leader as the embodiment of the popular will more viscerally than the electoral process allows (Laclau 2005). The power of the hypermasculine leader persists in the digital age where populists exert authoritarian control over media narratives and infrastructures, as feminist critiques of the iconography of statesmen like Putin, Erdogan and Duterte demonstrate (Chavez and Pacheo 2020). Yet this brand of strongman politics is discursively co-produced by the leader’s physical presence; my presentation argues in contrast that Indian PM Narendra’s Modi’s affective body is animated by its persistent digitization, virtualization, and absence of liveness. Modi’s populism is driven by his appeal as a technocrat, a man accessible to the people via hologram, Twitter, exclusive apps, 3D modelled YouTube videos, and other digitally enabled forms of disembodied representation which create a “fantasy of unmediated access” (Govil and Baishya 2018). When Modi appears in public to perform yoga or lay a silver brick in the foundations of a temple, his corporeal form is one iteration of his virtualized, mediated persona. Modi’s independence from the demands of embodiment is made possible by his substantive digital presence. The experiential intensity and interactivity of social media creates what I term “platform affect”, which mobilizes affective discourses like nationalism to material effect, such as drawing large crowds galvanized by a sense of intimacy with Modi’s virtual and physical person.

scholarly journals Privacy Risks and Security Practices in Digital Technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 7459-7462
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Know How ◽  
The People ◽  
Private Data ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Privacy Risks

Digital Technologies are getting worldwide popular. People are bounded with emerging technologies to make their life faster and smarter. Business organizations over the world taking this as an opportunity to launch more digital products to cover people. Users not aware of the importance of their private data. But the others know how to make use of it in favor of them. People need to be conscious and tailored to life in the digital age. This paper reveals the technical loop holes in variety of current digital applications that are familiar among the people. The aim is to create awareness among the people on security practices to safeguard from digital attacks.

How to Read Cultural Literacy Globally in Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 331-347
Author(s):  
Can Ceylan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Cultural Literacy ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Cultural Relativity ◽  
The People ◽  
Short Time

Cultural literacy is what one should need to know to be able to understand, join, and participate properly in a certain culture. This may work temporarily for a short-time contact with a culture against some fatal failures. However, cultural literacy is also what one should and maybe must know not to fall into the blindness of ethnocentrism. Since this blindness is inevitable in any place and any period of time, we, as the people of contemporary times, should be aware of the function of cultural literacy. The function of cultural literacy is based on cultural relativity, which seems to be disappearing under globalization and cultural imperialism.

Infographics

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waralak V. Siricharoen
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Information Need ◽  
The People

Infographics were used to support the work of journalism back in 1980s. It may be used to accommodate newsletters, newspapers, magazines, and reports. Now the infographics have been applied for telling the story. Additionally, the changing lifestyle in digital age, data and information need to be quicker and easier processed. People scan for the headlines and graphics (usually in pictures, graphs, charts) that draw their interest. They spend less time to consider whether it is worth further reading. Interactive, Multimedia and Video infographics can be created in 3D to make it more appreciative than regular illustrative pictures and text, especially for the difficult and complicated contents. For the people who need to communicate quickly; the spoken or printed account is sometimes too difficult for understanding. With infographics can escalate the growth of e-entrepreneurship, they will be very useful as the well-organized, easy-to-understand, eye-catchy, and shareability marketing tools. The suggestive guidelines of infographics creation are also addressed. This paper also includes the history, importance, and benefit of infographics in general and introduces the tools for making infographics professionally.

scholarly journals Media education in the digital age

Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Gutiérrez-Martín
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Media Education ◽  
The People ◽  
Key Aspects

Changes taking place in the current media scenery will affect the television as mass media decisively. Maybe students and the rest of the people should be educated not only as critical viewers, but also as creators and producers of audiovisual messages, as users of interactive media, as part of audiovisual experiences in cyberspace. In this paper the author revises the key aspects of media education (including television, of course), explores to what extent they are still valid nowadays and what new changes are required in the digital age Los cambios que se están produciendo en el panorama comunicativo actual van a afectar decisivamente a la televisión como medio de comunicación de masas. Tal vez la mirada que tengamos que educar no sea sólo la del receptor, sino también la del creador de mensajes audiovisuales, la del usuario de un medio interactivo, la de partícipe de una experiencia audiovisual en el ciberespacio. En la comunicación que proponemos pretendemos referirnos a los aspectos clave de de la educación para la televisión y los medios en general. Se tratará de ver hasta qué punto siguen siendo válidos hoy día y qué modificaciones requieren en la era digital

Can realism save us from populism? Rousseau in the digital age

2020 ◽  
pp. 147488512090692
Author(s):  
Ilaria Cozzaglio
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Political Realism ◽  
Ideology Critique ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Public Sphere

In 2016, the Five Stars Movement (5SM), one of the parties currently in power in Italy, launched the ‘Rousseau platform’. This is a platform meant to enhance direct democracy, transparency and the real participation of the people in the making of laws, policies and political proposals. Although ennobled with the name of Rousseau, the 5SM’s redemptive promise has been strongly criticised in the public sphere for being irresponsible and ideological. Political realism, I will argue, can perform both a diagnostic and a corrective task, by providing some tools to unveil populist distortions and by offering more solid grounds for political opponents’ critique. Three aspects of realism, in particular, will be pointed out as remedies against populist drifts. First, anti-moralism, complemented by anti-utopianism and contextualism, criticises the populists’ moralistic picture of politics, its anti-pluralistic attitude and its rejection of the role of experts in politics. Second, the Weberian ethic of responsibility offers standards to assess politicians’ actions, instead of embracing the populist aversion towards any professional politician; besides, it contrasts the populist image of politics as a derogatory activity. Finally, realism as ideology critique unveils the distorting narratives underlying populist propaganda and fostering uncritical support.

Governance in a Digital Age and Wuhan’s Fight against the Coronavirus

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Weihua He
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
New Normal ◽  
The People ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels

Shortly after hosting the Seventh CISM Military World Games, the city of Wuhan was hit by Covid-19, and thus became a centre of global attention. To protect the life and health of the people in Wuhan, China declared an all-out war to contain the virus. Using drastic measures that exacted high socio-economic costs, Wuhan was gradually restored to peace, vitality, and prosperity. In a city under lockdown, coordination, management, and governance at different levels were facilitated by information and communication technologies. This article examines the enhanced capabilities of individuals and institutions in a digital age to respond to crises, and the debates and ideological entanglements relating to the virus. It concludes with an anticipation of the ‘New Normal’ after the pandemic by responding to Giorgio Agamben’s views on the ‘state of exception’.

scholarly journals Government and Digital Engagement Technologies: The Elusive Search for Consensus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey E. Lobo-Pulo ◽  
José J. F. Ribas Fernandes ◽  
Annette Hester ◽  
Ryan J. Hum
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The People ◽  
Meaningful Engagement ◽  
Digital Engagement ◽  
We The People

As new digital platforms emerge and governments look at new ways to engage with citizens, there is an increasing awareness of the role these platforms play in shaping public participation and democracy. We examine three case studies on digital engagement (vTaiwan, We the People, and social media), and discuss key considerations for effective public engagement in the digital age: Empowerment, time to deliberate, transparency, useful data, consensus, and dynamic engagement. We hope that these serve as a basis for constructing meaningful engagement.

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