National Metabolism and Communications Technology Development in the United States, 1790-2000

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rogers Tilley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communications Technology

scholarly journals Interrogating Privacy in the digital society: media narratives after 2 cases

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Caroline Rizza ◽  
Paula Curvelo ◽  
Inês Crespo ◽  
Michel Chiaramello ◽  
Alessia Ghezzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
The Eu

The introduction of information technology (IT) in the society and its pervasiveness in every aspect of citizens’ daily life highlight societal stakes related to the goals regarding the uses IT, such as social networks. This paper examines two cases that lack a straightforward link with privacy as addressed and protected by existing law in Europe (EU) and the United-States (USA), but whose characteristics, we believe fall on other privacy function and properties. In Western societies, individuals rely on normative discourses, such as the legal one, in order to ensure protection. Hence, the paper argues that other functions of privacy need either further framing into legislation or they need to constitute in themselves normative commitments of an ethical nature for technology development and use. Some initiatives at the EU level recall such commitments, namely by developing a normative discourse based on ethics and human values. We argue that we need to interrogate society about those normative discourses because the values we once cherished in a non-digital society are seriously being questioned.

Evaluating Distance Education and E-Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 654-663
Author(s):  
Som Naidu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
National Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
E Learning

The number of distance education and e-learning programs has been on the rise for some time now (Hannan & Silver, 2000). In the United States, the National Survey of Information Technology in Higher Education, as part of its Campus Computing Project, carries out regular surveys of the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in higher education (USA-DOE, 2000).

Women and STEM

2014 ◽  
pp. 703-713
Author(s):  
Marianne Robin Russo ◽  
Kristin Brittain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Biological Functions ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Great Odds

While battling great odds in terms of discrimination and bias, women within the United States have made valuable contributions to the workforce. Now that the second decade of the 21st century is upon us, women have come into all facets of the workforce, finding a niche in Internet Communications Technology (ICT) as well as within Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), which should allow women more of an opportunity to pursue occupations. However, it seems that women are lagging in this part of the workforce within the constructs of science, technology, education, and mathematics also known as STEM. This glass ceiling, or gender barrier, may make matters worse in terms of reporting these kinds of women's issues because these reports are often written by men. In addition, the ideas and perceptions of masculinity and femininity have been scrutinized and analyzed in this chapter, and it is not difficult to realize the differences in gender based on biological functions.

scholarly journals Information and Communications Technology as a General-Purpose Technology: Evidence from US Industry Data

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanto Basu ◽  
John Fernald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Organizational Capital ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
General Purpose Technology ◽  
Capital Growth

Abstract Many people point to information and communications technology (ICT) as the key for understanding the acceleration in productivity in the United States since the mid-1990s. Stories of ICT as a ‘general-purpose technology’ suggest that measured total factor productivity (TFP) should rise in ICT-using sectors (reflecting either unobserved accumulation of intangible organizational capital; spillovers; or both), but with a long lag. Contemporaneously, however, investments in ICT may be associated with lower TFP as resources are diverted to reorganization and learning. We find that US industry results are consistent with general-purpose technology (GPT) stories: the acceleration after the mid-1990s was broad-based - located primarily in ICT-using industries rather than ICT-producing industries. Furthermore, industry TFP accelerations in the 2000s are positively correlated with (appropriately weighted) industry ICT capital growth in the 1990s. Indeed, as GPT stories would suggest, after controlling for past ICT investment, industry TFP accelerations are negatively correlated with increases in ICT usage in the 2000s.

U.S. Diasporas and Their Impacts on Homeland Technological and Socioeconomic Development: How Does Sub-Sahara Africa Compare?

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubin Patterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Brain Circulation ◽  
Group Experiences ◽  
The One ◽  
Development Agendas

AbstractMore science and technology talented nationals emigrate to the United States from a few Asian countries, by far, than from all of Africa, yet only the latter suffers a "brain drain" whereas the former group experiences net gains as a result of "brain circulation." Brain drain is the one-way flow of talent out of countries where it is most needed in absolute terms (south) to locations where it is most needed in productive terms (the West). The paper finds that, unlike African nations, a number of Asian nations have a brain circulation or technical talent continuously cycling out of the homeland into the United States where the talent is amplified and wealth is generated as the homeland state encourages redirection of some of each to the homeland economy. In these instances, the homeland state and the US-based diaspora work collaboratively in the interest of both. African nations experience little of this brain circulation, partially as a result of weak diaspora—homeland collaborative development agendas. The principal proposition clarified in this comparative analytic project is that developing nations with ongoing collaborative technology development agendas between the homeland state and its US-based diaspora have a huge comparative advantage over those developing nations that do not.

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