scholarly journals Documenting Indigenous Identity in the Internet Era: Lessons from the Composition of Narrawong Town Social Profile in Victoria, Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 00002
Author(s):  
Annisa Istighfari
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Mainstream Media

Together with the process of globalization, the advancement of the Internet has created an easy access for researchers to conduct document analysis, which is a low-cost and time-efficient way to gain information about a certain topic. Nevertheless, the resources available on mainstream media mostly come from the Western world, especially the United States. Meanwhile, there are also other sources of knowledge that are inherited within indigenous communities. Reflecting on the experience of composing the community profile of Narrawong, a small town in regional Victoria, Australia, which traditionally belongs to the Gunditjmara people, the author found it challenging to prevent the bias of “modern” information. This bias is due to the limitations in studying the town’s indigenous identity using document analysis as a single method. Coming from this experience, the author explored and analyzed alternative ways in which indigenous knowledge can be documented, such as through interactive maps and public use of traditional language. The author also identified barriers to implementing similar efforts, namely the social structure within indigenous communities and different worldviews held by researchers and communities they work with. The author concludes that in doing documentation process, indigenous communities have to be involved in fruitful dialogues so that both the extraction of knowledge and empowerment of indigenous communities can be achieved. This paper is an important resource for those aiming to work on indigenous knowledge documentation.

Sources of Information About Gestational Weight Gain, Diet, and Exercise Among Brazilian Immigrant Women Living in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina Lindsay ◽  
Qun Le ◽  
Denise Lima Nogueira ◽  
Márcia Maria Tavares Machado ◽  
Mary L. Greaney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Diet And Exercise ◽  
First Time

BACKGROUND Background: Gestational weight gain (GWG) has been identified as one of the most important modifiable risk factors associated with short- and long-term health outcomes for both a woman and her newborn. Adoption of healthy lifestyles (e.g., diet, physical activity, etc.) during pregnancy has the potential to prevent excess GWG and reduce adverse health risks in pregnancy and beyond. Pregnant women’s access to accurate and evidence-based information about GWG, diet, and physical activity is key to promoting healthy GWG. Conclusions: To our knowledge currently no mHealth interventions are available in the United States for pregnant Brazilian immigrant women. The fact that women in our study were actively seeking information about GWG, diet, and exercise in the Internet suggests the potential for mHealth interventions to deliver linguistic and culturally tailored evidence-based information incorporating behavioral change practices through a low-cost, easy access method to this growing immigrant population in the United States. OBJECTIVE Objective: This study sought to assess sources used by first-time pregnant Brazilian women to seek information about GWG, diet, and exercise during pregnancy. METHODS Methods: Cross-sectional survey of first-time pregnant Brazilian women living in Massachusetts, United States. RESULTS Results: Eighty-six women participated in the study. The majority of the women were born in Brazil (96.5%; n = 83) and had lived in the United States for an average of 10.7 years (SD = 7.3). All women reported Portuguese as their primary language and 67.4% (n = 58) were classified as having low acculturation levels. The mean gestation was 27.5 weeks (SD = 5.6; range 14 – 38 weeks) and 25.6% (n = 22) self-reported being overweight pre-pregnancy. Overall, about two-thirds of the women had actively sought information about GWG (72.1%, n = 62), diet (79.1%, n = 68), and exercise (74.4%, n = 64) on the Internet during pregnancy. Adjusting for age, women who were classified as having low acculturation levels were more likely to seek information about GWG on the Internet (OR = 5.35 [CI: 1.08 – 26.50]; p = 0.04) compared to women who were classified as having high acculturation levels. Moreover, approximately 67% (n = 59), 71% (n = 61), and 52% (n = 45) of the women reported actively seeking information about GWG, diet, and exercise from family and friends, respectively. Women who self-reported being overweight pre-pregnancy were more likely to report seeking information about GWG (OR=2.94 [CI:1.07–8.06], p = 0.04) and less likely to report seeking information about diet (OR=0.27 [0.09–0.75], p = 0.01) and exercise (OR=0.30 [CI: 0.11–0.86], p = 0.02) from family and friends compared to women who self-reported normal weight pre-pregnancy. CONCLUSIONS Conclusions: To our knowledge currently no mHealth interventions are available in the United States for pregnant Brazilian immigrant women. The fact that women in our study were actively seeking information about GWG, diet, and exercise on the Internet suggests the potential for mHealth interventions to deliver linguistic and culturally tailored evidence-based information incorporating behavioral change practices through a low-cost, easy access method to this growing immigrant population in the United States.

scholarly journals Internet addiction among engineering students in Belagavi city: cross sectional study

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1488
Author(s):  
Ravikiran Kamate ◽  
Sulakshna Baliga ◽  
M. D. Mallapur
Keyword(s):  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background: Internet addiction is not clinical diagnosis, but a potentially pathological behavioral pattern with symptoms: a loss of control over the behavior, preoccupation with the Internet, using the Internet to modify mood, and withdrawal symptoms. Easy access and low cost of Internet packs- are main cause of development of increased internet use in India. Internet addiction – factors like gender, environmental factors, socioeconomic status, etc. have effect on internet use.Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted during January 2016 to February 2016. Data was collected among 500 engineering students of four engineering colleges of Belagavi city using young's questionnaire. Analysis was performed using SPS 20. Chi-square applied as statistical test of significance for the association between age, sex, residence, SES and schooling. P<0.01 was considered to be statistically significant.Results: The present study revealed that 16.2 and 6.2% of participants had moderate and severe form of internet addiction respectively. With increase in age prevalence of addiction increased. Internet addiction was more among Males when compared to females. Addiction was seen more in students whose both parents were working.Conclusions: Internet addiction is an emerging form of addiction among students with males more than females mostly among engineering students who are dependent on internet for their work, carrier and completion of course Hence it's time to develop comprehensive intervention approach to promote healthy and safe internet use from family, college and peers.

scholarly journals Geopolitical Discrimination of Some Countries as Exemplified by Ukraine: Difficulties and Perspectives

2018 ◽  
pp. 666-670
Author(s):  
Olha Bohomolets
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western World ◽  
Collective Security ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
International Power ◽  
Post War

The article studies the history and the current stage of Russia’s aggression to-wards countries with lower military potential. The collapse of the post-war system of international relations and collective security has become apparent: the aggression of Russia against Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine has testified to the fact that there are no longer any tools to protect countries subjected to discrimination from super powers. Today discrimination affects not only people or social groups, but also some countries. Such countries are not capable of pursuing an independent policy as to major centres of international power they have to deal with. Peculiar to these countries are uncompetitive economy, low quality of life and undeveloped civil society, they hence become a target for “vital interests”, namely bidding by so-called super powers. “Giants” are attracted by the geographical location of a possible “victim”, access to the sea, transit facilities, natural resources, especially energy, low-cost labour, etc. It is often that “discriminated” countries become grounds for ignition of burning or frozen conflicts provoked by powerful neighbours’ influence, or are exposed to open aggression and become subject to occupation or hybrid war. This has all started after the Second World War, when super powers of the USSR and China, on the one hand, and the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and others, on the other, have made Korea fall into two states. In addition, there was subsequently a division of Germany, the Caribbean crisis…However, such conflicts then were not that wide-ranging, since the post-war collective security system was quite effective. Things, though, have changed dramatically in recent decades. One of the largest global players − Russia – has decisively begun to create around itself a buffer zone formed of countries, where it fuels frozen conflicts and in such a way keeps them under the radar and hinders their integration into the Western world. Initially, Russia ignited a conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, supporting Armenia and assisting it to invade a considerable part of the territory in Azerbaijan, and then initiated the war in Transnistria by virtually occupying part of Moldova’s territory and asserting itself there on the pretext of deploying a peacekeeping mission. Later, there was a war in Abkhazia and then − in South Ossetia aiming to detach part of Georgia’s territory. And lastly, the turn of Ukraine has come… Regrettably, Ukraine is a typical and another example of a country that has fallen victim of multifaceted interests of the leading global players − Russia, the United States and the EU, and has faced all possible forms of discrimination. Keywords: war in eastern Ukraine, military aggression, geopolitics, conflicts, buffer zones.

Indigenous Journalisms

Reckoning ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 160-199
Author(s):  
Candis Callison ◽  
Mary Lynn Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethical Consideration ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
And Gender

Chapter 6 draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Indigenous journalists in Canada and the United States who have been addressing colonialism, race, and gender in their journalism all along. Indigenous journalists articulate the challenges of working in and among mainstream media that has largely erased and misrepresented Indigenous voices, communities, and concerns on a range of issues. They undertake a differentiated set of approaches that draw on journalism ideals and get at deeper problems structurally such that transformation within journalism as profession, identity, and method might be possible. As a result, Indigenous journalists are using digital media to transform journalism methods, decolonizing journalism ideals like “fairness and balance” by drawing from Indigenous knowledge, histories, and relational frameworks. This chapter provides a bookend to Chapter 1 by offering a pathway into discussing not only new bases for ethical consideration but also provides examples of some of the multiple journalisms available through digital media.

scholarly journals MANAJEMEN OPERASI BERBASIS WEB

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faris Mahdi
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Real Time Information

The explosion in the use of the Internet/Intranet and its accessibility to individuals, and enterprises has dramatically changed the way organizations conduct business with its customers and partners. The Internet/Intranet with inherent features like easy access, real-time information, and low cost, is a natural driver for business operations solution. Further, related to Internet/Intranet, the Web is very critical component. Web makes the application easy to use and provides an intuitive way for users to interact.Web offers tremendous time and cost savings for corporate operations. Web based operations management is operating businesses in the Internet world. It is about using the power of digital information to understand the needs and preferences of customers and partners, to customize products and services for them, and then deliver the products and services as quickly as possible. Automated services offer businesses the potential to increase revenues, lower costs, and establish and strengthen customers and partner relationships. To achieve these benefits, many enterprises engage in electronic commerce for business operations. In the future, Web will be common tool in any activities for both individual and enterprises.

scholarly journals Igorots in the Blogosphere: Claiming Spaces, Re-constructing Identities

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liezel C. Longboan
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Media

Indigenous peoples in the Philippines have rarely been covered by the mainstream media, despite comprising 20 percent of the country’s total population. Lacking access to the media due to various constraints, they have had limited opportunities to create content themselves. But the emergence of the Internet, particularly blogs, is now providing members of indigenous communities with the much-needed space for self-expression. More particularly, several indigenous groups in North Luzon, collectively known as Igorots, are using blogs more extensively to re-construct and re-present their ethnic identity in cyberspace. For this paper, I shall describe how a group of Igorot bloggers protested about a controversial Igorot statue and how this eventually led to its removal.

The Expanded Market for Fiction in American Periodicals, 1865–1914

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Johanningsmeier
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
News Stories

During the years between 1865 and 1914, the United States became a nation of periodical readers as a greatly expanded number of newspapers and magazines—many of which contained fictional sketches, short stories, and novels—became cheaper and much more easily accessible to readers almost everywhere in the country. Many factors contributed to this tremendous expansion. For one thing, various technological innovations, including those related to typesetting, printing, and even paper making, made it possible to greatly increase periodical production while simultaneously lowering production costs. In addition, the rapid and extensive growth of the nation’s railroads, public libraries, and postal service made it much easier for periodicals to reach readers in markets that before the Civil War had not been well served. The overall result was that after the Civil War, many periodicals began to address particular market niches, although there was also a good deal of overlap. Story papers, genteel monthly magazines, women’s magazines, children’s periodicals, regional magazines, religious publications, magazines focused on particular ethnic and racial groups, and a small number of avant-garde magazines had their own distinct viewpoints and published particular types of fiction. The periodicals that reached the greatest number of markets and covered them most thoroughly, however, were local newspapers. By the 1880s, in hopes of attracting women readers to their advertising, many individual papers had begun to regularly publish fiction among their news stories and other features. In mid-decade, S. S. McClure and Irving Bacheller founded their respective newspaper syndicates and began selling fiction to multiple newspapers, in widely scattered markets, for simultaneous publication, thereby exposing a highly heterogeneous national audience of readers to high-quality fiction by prominent authors. Building on this model, a number of low-cost, mass-market monthly magazines, all of which prominently featured fiction by well-known writers, were founded in the 1890s to address this same national readership. The significantly expanded production and distribution of periodicals featuring fiction during the late 19th and early 20th centuries benefited many people but possibly none more so than fiction authors and readers. There were undoubtedly drawbacks for some authors and readers in the development of this new periodical industry and its extensive market reach, but in general the new system aided members of both groups. The higher number of periodicals being produced required a substantial increase in the supply of fiction, which allowed many more people to make their living writing such material. In addition, more readers than ever before could now afford (and have easy access to) a wider selection of the types of fiction they desired.

Resource provision and access to indigenous knowledge in public libraries in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-287
Author(s):  
Maned Mhlongo ◽  
Patrick Ngulube
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Multiple Case

This paper is part of a larger qualitative multiple case study that sought to explore the integration of indigenous knowledge in public libraries in South Africa. The paper draws from semi-structured interviews with selected heads of provincial library services in South Africa to determine the extent to which public libraries provide targeted resources to enhance access to IK. Results reveal that that there are no targeted resources to facilitate access to IK. Concerted efforts to facilitate access by increasing the number of libraries were noted. Notwithstanding these efforts, there seems to be a paucity of IK, which has implication for inclusive services. It is recommended that libraries look beyond enabling access to the Internet but also explore how they can further optimise ICT usage as a way of facilitating access to IK through capturing, organising and disseminating knowledge of indigenous communities.

Experiment to Test RTK GPS with Satellite “Internet to Tractor” for Precision Agriculture

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey D. Lyle
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Single Frequency ◽  
The Internet ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Machine Control ◽  
Rtk Gps

This experiment tests the ability to provide Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System corrections via a real time network (RTK GPSRTN) by utilizing a satellite Internet connections in the field to multiple tractors for precision agriculture. Precision agriculture technology improves sustainable production by providing more farmers with the ability to obtain highly accurate machine control in rough or varied terrain. This experiment tests the use of low cost single frequency L1-band RTK GPS in a RTN covering a wide area. Wired Internet is not available in the field for many farmers so cellular internet such as 3G/4G must be relied on for connectivity. Where 3G/4G have limited coverage, satellite Internet could be used. A mobile satellite Internet antenna can be placed on a support vehicle and moved to a site where multiple tractors are harvesting or planting. The Internet is then shared with precision agriculture farming equipment nearby. Having better logistical and fiscal access to machine control and the Internet could assist the farmer and the United States Department of Agriculture in efforts to sustain adequate crop yields, project future agriculture needs, and better protect crops from pests and diseases. This experiment provides information on how to configure “Internet to Tractor” for RTK GPS RTN concept with a discussion of the limitations and future product development.

scholarly journals Ruinous Competition in News, the Postal Internet, and the Three Laws of Techno- Legal Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsi Woodcock
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Exclusive Right ◽  
Legal Barriers

------&gt;Policymakers’ current approach to the problem of online misinformation, which revolves around defining the circumstances under which content platforms like Twitter and Facebook may be held liable for the speech of their users, fails to get at the root cause of the problem: the low cost of communication. The theory of monopolistic competition teaches that businesses respond to low-cost entry into their markets, and the cutthroat competition it creates, by differentiating their products, sometimes in legitimate ways, but sometimes through deceit. Misinformation on the Internet has the same source: speakers using deceit to compete for attention in a highly competitive speech market. The solution, as in all cases of ruinous competition, is to replace the falling technological barriers to market entry that have given rise to the excessive competition with new legal barriers to entry.------&gt;The way to create legal barriers to online speech is not to license speech, an approach that would violate the First Amendment, but rather to treat the Internet like a brick-and-mortar postal system. In the United States, the Postal Service enjoys a “letter-box monopoly:” the exclusive right to place mail in mailboxes. This exclusivity gives the Postal Service the power to charge a price—postage—for each communication delivered to an American mailbox. The U.S. Congress—or the Postal Service itself through reinterpretation of existing law—should give the Postal Service a letter-box monopoly on social media posting: the exclusive right to charge a fee for every Tweet, Facebook post, or other social media missive delivered in America. That would greatly increase the cost of being heard on the Internet, for as the number of a poster’s followers increases, the total cost of social media “postage” would increase as well, reducing competition and the incentive to misinform. Because the letter-box monopoly has survived constitutional scrutiny for two centuries, this approach would necessarily survive First Amendment scrutiny as well.

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