scholarly journals Information and Communication Technologies in Education:

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 541-550
Author(s):  
Marcus Henrique Linhares Ponte Filho
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Phd Thesis ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City

This article is a product of the author's PhD Thesis, which investigated what teachers in the early years of elementary school think (and do) about the use of Information and Communication Technologies - ICT in the educational context. The research was conducted in a public school in the city of Fortaleza, Ceara State, and the data collected consists of discussions held in focus groups, with teachers and managers of the institution. The analyses were made from theoretical references of Educommunication, a field of research in expansion in Brazil, which defends the idea that educating must necessarily be a democratic and participatory act. The prevalence among educators of a discourse of fear and control over the use of ICT in school was verified through the promotion of a centralizing and authoritarian use of ICT during classes.

Theoretical Notions of Control—A Mobile Tug-of-War

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keri K. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Organizational Control ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Process Perspective ◽  
Concertive Control ◽  
And Control ◽  
Access Data

Communication, information, and organizational control are tightly entwined; this chapter explores the theoretical literature that elaborates on these concepts. The early years of car phones and cell phones were a time when people used their devices to reach others. But that changed as smartphones—those with Internet access—started diffusing into organizations and throughout society. Now, people with those same devices could access data and share information in addition to communicating. This chapter focuses on a process perspective on organizational control and links the data from Chapters 1 and 2 to the concepts of agentic, hierarchical, and concertive control. Longitudinal data help illustrate how control is fluid and how these changes resemble a tug-of-war. Control is related to power, so it also discusses different types of power. Often organizations control resources, like mobile information and communication technologies, so power and control might work together in mobile communication.

scholarly journals Coworking, the Sharing Economy, and the City: Which Role for the ‘Coworking Entrepreneur’?

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Durante ◽  
Margherita Turvani
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
Coworking Spaces ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City

Sharing economy platforms enabled by information and communication technologies (ICTs) are facilitating the diffusion of collaborative workplaces. Coworking spaces are emerging as a distinctive phenomenon in this context, not only fostering knowledge transfer and facilitating innovation, but also affecting the urban and socio-economic fabric contributing to urban regeneration processes at both the local scale and the city scale. Although the positive impacts of coworking on the urban environment are documented, there is still little or no evidence of the economic viability of coworking businesses, and a “coworking bubble” has been evoked. Given the lack of data, a national survey was set up of Italian coworking businesses, aimed at assessing the relevance of internal organizational factors (size, occupancy, profitability, services provided) for the sustainability of coworking businesses. By presenting the results of the survey, we argue that the sustainability and viability of the coworking model is highly dependent on internal factors, strictly related to the entrepreneurial action of coworking managers.

Marketing the mCity

2011 ◽  
pp. 295-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anette Hallin
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Dialogic Process ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Receiver Model ◽  
Marketing Material ◽  
The City

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) cannot only be used practically in marketing efforts, but also as symbols, due to the images and associations they provoke of for example modernity and speed. The marketing of a city through the use of ICT-images however, also involve risks, as ICTs among certain people also bring about negative associations. Therefore, marketers need to be aware of what happens with the marketing material after it has been developed and sent out. The main argument of this chapter is that sense making emerges through a dialogic process. By analyzing semiotically a marketing leaflet for the Stockholm-based ICT-project mCity, and two ads for Nokia phones that appeared in Europe at about the same time as mCity, this chapter challenges the traditional cybernetic sender-receiver model of communication, and proposes that when the sender has sent the message, the message becomes a speaker on its own, interacting with the listener through a dialogic process set in the mind of the lis ener. When understanding this, marketers should benchmark the use of ICTs in other contemporary media in order to ensure the success aimed for with the city marketing material using ICT-imager.

City Boosterism through Internet Marketing

2011 ◽  
pp. 130-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Isabel Huerta-Carvajal ◽  
Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
The City

Local governments around the world are becoming aware of the importance of identifying and marketing their local assets to promote economic competitiveness. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have proven useful in supporting marketing activities in the private sector, but there is still little exploration on their use in the public sector. However, ICT effectiveness is constrained by institutional arrangements and the coordination of the marketing efforts with other government processes such as urban planning and strategy development. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the strategic scaffolding for ICT as a key component of a city’s marketing strategy using as an example the city of Puebla in Mexico. Although city marketing efforts and ICT use are still at its initial stages in the city, lessons from current efforts in Puebla are related to the key role of stakeholder networks, ICT interoperability, Geographic Information Systems, and government program continuity.

Building Sound Foundations for Smart City Government

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Jochen Scholl ◽  
Marlen Jurisch ◽  
Helmut Krcmar ◽  
Margit C. Scholl
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
City Government ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Institutional Architecture ◽  
The City

City governments around the world have increasingly engaged in “smart city” initiatives. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are at the core of these initiatives. City governments appear to play important roles in making the urban spaces, in which they are embedded, more attractive, more competitive, more livable, and smarter. The authors interviewed City officials in Munich, Germany, and asked for the definitions of “smart city,” which they then compared to Munich's smart city-related program. While the practitioners' definitions differed in part from those in the academic literature, the smart city overhaul program at Munich city government had a direct relationship to the practitioners' understanding of smartness. The authors portray and discuss the City of Munich institutional architecture overhaul and its expected and realized benefits, and compare the results to those of an earlier study on the City of Seattle. Both city governments evidently pursue different approaches, the effectiveness of which can more readily be assessed only at a future point of the smart city evolution.

scholarly journals Managing Large Amounts of Data Generated by a Smart City Internet of Things Deployment

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Lanza ◽  
Pablo Sotres ◽  
Luis Sánchez ◽  
Jose Antonio Galache ◽  
Juan Ramón Santana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

The Smart City concept is being developed from a lot of different axes encompassing multiple areas of social and technical sciences. However, something that is common to all these approaches is the central role that the capacity of sharing information has. Hence, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are seen as key enablers for the transformation of urban regions into Smart Cities. Two of these technologies, namely Internet of Things and Big Data, have a predominant position among them. The capacity to “sense the city” and access all this information and provide added-value services based on knowledge derived from it are critical to achieving the Smart City vision. This paper reports on the specification and implementation of a software platform enabling the management and exposure of the large amount of information that is continuously generated by the IoT deployment in the city of Santander.

Techno-capital: Theorizing media and information literacy through information technology capabilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482092580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaewon Royce Choi ◽  
Joseph Straubhaar ◽  
Maria Skouras ◽  
Soyoung Park ◽  
Melissa Santillana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Technological Capabilities ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels

The increasing presence of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) across various fields of our lives has elevated the significance of individuals’ capability to utilize these ICTs substantially. Although scholars have underscored the importance of understanding such capabilities in terms of skills that are multidimensional, few empirical investigations are connected to sound theoretical backgrounds. Analyzing a survey administered to a random sample of adults in the City of Austin, this study empirically examines multiplicities of technological capabilities. Building on the literatures of Bourdieu’s theory of capital, digital literacy, field, and participatory culture, this study finds three sets of technological capabilities that constitute individuals’ “techno-capital.” Furthermore, we analyze the influences of cultural and economic/financial capital reflected by key socioeconomic predictors on the different levels of techno-capital. We find that acquiring basic technological capabilities is a key factor explaining advanced techno-capital, while effects of gender, race, education, and income also persist.

Design of an Intelligent Remote Monitoring and Control of Bangladesh Railway Transport System Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Abdullah Al Harun Khan Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Control

In Bangladesh, transport sectors are developing rapidly to meet the increasing demand for transporting passengers and freight inside and outside the country. But there is not such development in railway transport system. The Bangladesh Railway transport system is still using an old technology to monitor and control signalling, scheduling, operations etc. This paper describes various problems in the existing systems and also solutions have been provided considering the existing railway transport systems of Bangladesh. A new system has been developed to control and monitor the total railway transport system from remote locations. While designing the system, various sensors and actuators have been introduced and also Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been applied in the field of railway transport. So a Machatronics aspect of system has been designed to ensure a collision free, safe and efficient operation and management of railway transport system. This system is not only for monitoring and controlling of railway transport but also ensures efficient asset management. As a result face-to-face accidents, cross-road accidents and accidents due to railway line displacements or breakage can be avoided and there will be no loss of assets and valuable human lives.

Improving the Culture of the Teacher in the Sphere of Using Multimedia Means in the Educational Process of the Elementary School

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
И. Мерзликина ◽  
I. Merzlikina
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Effective Use

The article deals with the problem of improving the teacher’s culture necessary to create a new educational environment, including the design of the process of teaching younger schoolchildren with the use of multimedia tools. The interrelation between the functions of teaching aids and the content of education is traced, the characteristics of the competencies that the primary school teacher should have for the effective use of information and communication technologies are given.

Unemployment in the Conditions of Digitization of the Regional Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-27
Author(s):  
Б. Гриднева ◽  
B. Gridneva
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The City

Modern trends in the digitalization of the national economy are rapidly moving from the service sector to manufacturing and further to simpler enterprises in terms of technology. The introduction of information and communication technologies leads to significant changes in the labor market. Some professions are in increasing demand, while others are almost dying out, replaced by new ones. Many jobs, according to analysts, will be lost in the process of digitalization, and disappeared jobs are not always replaced by new ones. Tyumen region is a pilot region included in the national project “Digital economy”. In addition, the city of Tyumen is a pilot site of the program of the Ministry of construction of the Russian Federation “Smart city”. The article analyzes the statistical indicators characterizing the current trends of unemployment in the regional labor market of the Tyumen region.

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