Technologies Disability and Inclusion

New Technologies ◽

Social Actors ◽

Media Usage ◽

Communicative Functions ◽

The Social ◽

This chapter analyzes the capacity of social media usage and the social media strategies of political parties that became the members of Turkish Parliament after 2011 election. The social media usage increases in parallel to the improvements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and it becomes an important tool with its communicative functions to realize activities in social, political, and economic fields. In the globalization process, developments in ICTs and changes in the meaning of democracy have been realized parallel to each other. Politics has become more open to interaction and the participation of different actors. ICTs have created new opportunities to interaction and participation of social actors. These improvements require transformations in the role and functions of political parties. They have to arrange their programs and structures according to participative understanding of democracy and new technologies. Social media usage is seen as a requirement for political parties and party leaders for adaptation to these developments, and it is also seen as a device with its potential for realizing participation, communication, and interaction to adapt to the changes in the understanding of politics.

Relationship between Social Media and Political Parties

Social Media and Networking ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8614-4.ch055 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1196-1225 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kamil Demirhan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Parties ◽

New Technologies ◽

Social Actors ◽

Media Usage ◽

Communicative Functions ◽

The Social ◽

This chapter analyzes the capacity of social media usage and the social media strategies of political parties that became the members of Turkish Parliament after 2011 election. The social media usage increases in parallel to the improvements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and it becomes an important tool with its communicative functions to realize activities in social, political, and economic fields. In the globalization process, developments in ICTs and changes in the meaning of democracy have been realized parallel to each other. Politics has become more open to interaction and the participation of different actors. ICTs have created new opportunities to interaction and participation of social actors. These improvements require transformations in the role and functions of political parties. They have to arrange their programs and structures according to participative understanding of democracy and new technologies. Social media usage is seen as a requirement for political parties and party leaders for adaptation to these developments, and it is also seen as a device with its potential for realizing participation, communication, and interaction to adapt to the changes in the understanding of politics.

Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities - Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements ◽

Social Media Support for the Occupation of Public Schools in São Paulo, Brazil

10.4018/978-1-5225-2495-3.ch003 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 67-88

Author(s):

Cynthia H. W. Corrêa

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Public Schools ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

São Paulo ◽

The Social ◽

Networked social movements have amplified the emancipation of protesters everywhere. In Brazil, a conflict arose after the São Paulo State Secretariat for Education announced the closing of 94 public schools, impacting 311,000 people. In response, about 30 students organized the occupation of the State School Fernão Dias Paes. Subsequently, the occupation spread to other schools. Based on a case study of the first school occupied in the city of São Paulo, this research aims to identify the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media tools in generating and sustaining the successful occupation protest of public schools in São Paulo. This chapter covers theories on demonstrations initiated online, on the social panorama in Latin America and educational issues in Brazil. It also addresses and analyzes the occupation process at this school, which reached visibility and support at national and international levels using ICTs and social media, confirming the steps of occupy movements around the world.

Usage of Social Media in City Marketing: A Research on 30 Metropolitan Municipalities in Turkey

EMAJ Emerging Markets Journal ◽

10.5195/emaj.2016.114 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 30-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Niyazi Gümüş

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

City Marketing ◽

The Social ◽

Twitter Account ◽

Marketing Activities ◽

Media Channels ◽

Metropolitan Municipalities

Rapid changes in information and communication technologies cause serious developments in marketing field similar to every sector. In parallel with these developments, the social media channels which appear as Web 2.0 applications have a number of advantages in comparison with traditional media channels. Social media gained a place in marketing activities because of its advantages. Social media is added on instruments in line with these developments that countries benefit in marketing activities for attracting more tourists, investment and becoming prominent against the other cities. Cities intensively benefit from social media because of social media’s properties like reaching the large masses, low marketing cost, interaction, receiving feedbacks rapidly, etc. Within this context, the purpose of this research is to determine the use statuses of social media by metropolitan municipalities as part of city marketing. In accordance with this purpose, official social media accounts of 30 metropolitan municipalities are investigated between the dates of 01/09/2016 and 30/09/2016, then their shares in social media channels are investigated in the context of city marketing.It is observed that two metropolitan municipalities do not have official Facebook accounts, four metropolitan municipalities do not have an official Twitter account as well. Again, it is found that 19 metropolitan municipalities do not have an official Instagram account and 17 metropolitan municipalities do not have official YouTube account. In consequence, it is observed that, our metropolitan municipalities do not benefit from social media effectively for city marketing activities.

Transparent Farmers: how farmers are using technology for new ways of selling and communicating with consumers

10.29007/fmhh ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jorge Luis Zapico ◽

Maja Söderberg

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Food Production ◽

Crop Production ◽

Added Value ◽

Community Supported Agriculture ◽

Direct Sales ◽

The Social ◽

There is a growing number of farmers embracing information and communication technologies (ICT) as a way of enabling direct sales to consumers and creating added value through involving the consumers and making food production more transparent. This article presents the case of Nybrukarna, a community supported agriculture (CSA) cooperative in the south of Sweden, and explores how social media is used in their operation. The social media posts during a growing season were analyzed and used to identify different cases. Three main themes were identified: (1) practical communication and feedback from customers; (2) increasing transparency of crop production and values; (3) marketing and direct sales. These results were combined with information from a survey with feedback of the CSA customers, and a survey with growers in similar context, for identifying and discussing challenges, drivers, and opportunities for future development and research.

APPLICATION OF AUGMENTED REALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Applied Researches in Technics Technologies and Education ◽

10.15547/artte.2018.01.001 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Krum Videnov ◽

Vanya Stoykova ◽

Zlatina Kazlacheva

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Augmented Reality ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Modern Technology ◽

Educational Content ◽

Training Materials ◽

Digital Generation ◽

The stormy development of technologies today gives its influence in the field of education. In the high and higher education the technology connected students of the digital generation are ready and wait the information and communication technologies to be included not only in their everyday life but in the process of education too. The article analyzes the Augmented Reality (AR) and its possibilities about development of training materials and its implementation in the higher education. The technological aspects in developing interactive educational content with added reality and different uses of this modern technology are studied. The development of training materials which correspond to the visually kinetic style of learning of students from the digital generation is the main aim of the use of AR in thee higher education. The paper presents specific possibilities for apply of AR in education in the fields of Mechanical and Fashion Engineering in the Faculty of Technics and Technologies.

Protocolo y TIC: Twitter como herramienta docente | Protocol and ICT: Twitter as a learning tool

REVISTA ESTUDIOS INSTITUCIONALES ◽

10.5944/eeii.vol.6.n.11.2019.25038 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (11) ◽

pp. 95

Author(s):

Daniel Delmás Martín

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Learning Process ◽

Teaching Material ◽

Personal Learning ◽

Personal Learning Environment ◽

The Social ◽

La Red

La docencia en el s. XXI va a cambiar radicalmente. A finales del siglo pasado, con el nacimiento de internet, surgen las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) que cambian completamente la vida de las personas. Dichas tecnologías han de entrar en las aulas. Este trabajo es fruto del esfuerzo por introducir las TIC en las aulas y ayudar a los alumnos en la creación de sus Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje (PLE), con el objetivo de mejorar el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje para los estudiantes de protocolo.Los pasados enero-marzo de 2018 en la clase de protocolo y organización de eventos de la Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, se convirtió la red social Twitter en una herramienta docente con el fin mejorar el aprendizaje de los alumnos de los conceptos de esta materia. Este trabajo presenta el método empleado y los resultados obtenidos._______________________Teaching in the 21th century is going to change radically. At the end of last century, with the Internet’s birth, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) arise to change people’s lives. These technologies must enter the classrooms. This paper is the outcome of the effort to introduce ICT in the classroom and to help the students to create their own Personal Learning Environment (PLE) to improve their understanding and learning of protocol concepts.Last January-March 2018 in the events organizing and protocol subject at Jaume’s I University in Castellón, we converted the social media Twitter into teaching material in order to improve the learning process of the students in this theme. This paper presents the method and the results used.

Embodied AI-Driven Operation of Smart Cities: A Concise Review

10.36227/techrxiv.16370823 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

FARZAN SHENAVARMASOULEH ◽

Farid Ghareh Mohammadi ◽

M. Hadi Amini ◽

Hamid R. Arabnia

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Autonomous Driving ◽

Future Research ◽

Intelligent Network ◽

Concise Review ◽

Cloud Technologies

<div>A smart city can be seen as a framework, comprised of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). An intelligent network of connected devices that collect data with their sensors and transmit them using wireless and cloud technologies in order to communicate with other assets in the ecosystem plays a pivotal role in this framework. Maximizing the quality of life of citizens, making better use of available resources, cutting costs, and improving sustainability are the ultimate goals that a smart city is after. Hence, data collected from these connected devices will continuously get thoroughly analyzed to gain better insights into the services that are being offered across the city; with this goal in mind that they can be used to make the whole system more efficient.</div><div>Robots and physical machines are inseparable parts of a smart city. Embodied AI is the field of study that takes a deeper look into these and explores how they can fit into real-world environments. It focuses on learning through interaction with the surrounding environment, as opposed to Internet AI which tries to learn from static datasets. Embodied AI aims to train an agent that can See (Computer Vision), Talk (NLP), Navigate and Interact with its environment (Reinforcement Learning), and Reason (General Intelligence), all at the same time. Autonomous driving cars and personal companions are some of the examples that benefit from Embodied AI nowadays.</div><div>In this paper, we attempt to do a concise review of this field. We will go through its definitions, its characteristics, and its current achievements along with different algorithms, approaches, and solutions that are being used in different components of it (e.g. Vision, NLP, RL). We will then explore all the available simulators and 3D interactable databases that will make the research in this area feasible. Finally, we will address its challenges and identify its potentials for future research.</div>

The social consumption of information and communication technologies (ICTs): insights from research on the appropriation and consumption of new ICTs in the domestic environment

Cognition Technology & Work ◽

10.1007/s10111-002-0111-x ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 4-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

James Stewart

Keyword(s):

Domestic Environment ◽

The Social ◽

Next Generation Information-Based Infrastructures

Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and Resilience in the ICT Sector ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2964-6.ch015 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 304-317

Author(s):

Eric Luiijf

Keyword(s):

Cyber Security ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Road Transport ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

Next Generation ◽

Tightly Coupled ◽

Ict Security

Advancements of information and communication technologies (ICT) cause infrastructure owners to augment current infrastructures with such ICT. The creation of more efficient and effective end-user services provides economical benefits and increases customer satisfaction. Concurrently, ICT advancements allow governmental and industrial sectors to develop complete new infrastructures and infrastructure services, the so called Next Generation Infrastructures (NGI). NGI will offer new services to society, end-users and the supply-chain of organisations and linked, dependent infrastructural services. For over fifty years, the introduction of new ICT-based services and infrastructures has been tightly coupled with failures in ICT-security. This chapter on NGI discusses the root causes of these security failures. Based on historical experiences, this chapter predicts threats and cyber security failures alike for the envisioned NGI such as smart (energy) grids, smart road transport infrastructure, smart cities, and e-health. This prediction will become reality unless fundamental changes in the approach to security of ICT-based and ICT-controlled infrastructures are taken.