scholarly journals The Experience of VaccinarSinToscana Website and the Role of New Media in Promoting Vaccination

Vaccines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 644
Author(s):  
Sara Boccalini ◽  
Paolo Bonanni ◽  
Fabrizio Chiesi ◽  
Giulia Di Pisa ◽  
Federica Furlan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
General Population ◽  
New Media ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Future ◽  
University Of Florence

The Department of Health Sciences (University of Florence) developed a regional website “VaccinarSinToscana” in order to provide information on vaccines and communicate with the general population, as well as the healthcare community, at a regional and local level. The aim of this paper is to present the VaccinarSinToscana website framework and analyze the three-year activity of the website and the related social network account on Facebook in terms of dissemination and visibility. In the first three years since its launch, the VaccinarSinToscana portal has increased its visibility: the number of single users, visits and single web pages has grown exponentially. Our results also demonstrate how the Facebook account launch contributed enormously to the increase in the visibility of the website. The objective for the future of the VaccinarSinToscana portal is to grow further, in order to reach out to an even wider audience.

Stories from Ultrasonographic Abyss

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matylda Szewczyk
Keyword(s):  
Prenatal Care ◽  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Prenatal Ultrasound ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Medical Imagery ◽  
The Future ◽  
Different Cultures

The article presents a reflection on the experience of prenatal ultrasound and on the nature of cultural beings, it creates. It exploits chosen ethnographic and cultural descriptions of prenatal ultrasounds in different cultures, as well as documentary and artistic reflections on medical imagery and new media technologies. It discusses different ways of defining the role of ultrasound in prenatal care and the cultural contexts build around it. Although the prenatal ultrasounds often function in the space of enormous tensions (although they are also supposed to give pleasure), it seems they will accompany us further in the future. It is worthwhile to find some new ways of describing them and to invent new cultural practices to deal with them.

USING SOCIAL NETWORK PARADIGM FOR DEVELOPING A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IN CRM

2011 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Mohammad Javad Mosadegh ◽  
Mehdi Behboudi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
New Media ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Customer Relationship Management ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Analysis Tools

This study develops a conceptual framework for applying social networks in usual CRM models. Recent changing in customer relationship theme and putting new media and network-based paradigm into practice makes it imperative to find how social networks affect CRMs. Accordingly, this study explains the role of social networks in customer relationship management by using its analysis, tools and aspects of this concepts based on CRM models. We have provided a SCRM framework that is based on usual CRM models and incorporates Social networks and its tools, methods and analysis. The framework is combination of Social networks concept and traditional CRM concepts.

scholarly journals Attitude to ICT and Self-Evaluation of Fluency in Using New Digital Devices, Websites and Software among Pre-Service Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (19) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Łukasz Tomczyk
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Minor

The objective of the research was to obtain data on the attitudes of the future generation of teachers towards using new media in their didactic and educational activities. Additionally, the text presents the level of their self-evaluation regarding the use of new ICT-based devices. Indicators of both variables are compared. The research was conducted in the biggest Polish pedagogical university, in the sample of 450 students. The technique used was the diagnostic survey. The data were collected in the first half of 2019 as part of the international project SELI. Based on the data obtained, it was noticed that pre-service teachers do not form a homogeneous group, which means there are individuals presenting a very positive attitudes towards introduction of new media as well as people who are careful when it comes to using ICT in teaching. Most respondents emphasize that using ICT in education is necessary and this trend is irreversible. There is a minor group of the future teachers who do not know websites and software to support learning and teaching (about 10%). Almost half of the respondents present divided views regarding the role of ICT in stimulating engagement, motivation and interest among the students. However, it should also be noted that almost half of the interviewees states that using smartphones at school should be banned. Positive attitude to new technologies in one area coincides with high opinion about ICT in other areas. Self-evaluation of own competencies is also internally coherent. It means that students who declared that they have no problems with using, for example, new devices, have no problems with using new websites or software.

scholarly journals The Arrival of Prosumers and Produsers: Transformations of User Practices in the New Media

Monitor ISH ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Tadej Praprotnik
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Multimedia Production ◽  
Interactive Nature ◽  
Basic Characteristics

The article presents the phenomenon of new communication technologies. Focusing on the role of the social media (Web 2.0), it sketches certain global trends in the field of the new media and explains the role of software as an important ‘generator’ of everyday life. The basic characteristics of the traditional one-way mass communication and consumption of media products are contrasted with the interactive nature of the new media and a recent resulting phenomenon – user-generated media contents. The article goes on to present an important element of the new media cultures – interactivity, discussing its transforming effect on such traditional media categories as the ‘audience’, and introducing categories typical of the new media, such as ‘produser’ and ‘prosumer’. Technology is discussed as an elaborate and fluid apparatus dependent on society: an apparatus which reinforces the new and previously ignored cultural relations. The process of multimedia production is presented through different types of inclusion as promised by the technological forms. The article further investigates the World Wide Web as a multimedia form which has absorbed many other media types. The multimedia production of web pages and other cultural products has been a major channel for the democratisation of cultural production, as well as a field for the expression of individuals. The final topic to be addressed is the question of creativity, which is an important promise of the new media production.

Managing the Virtual Corporation Using IT

2011 ◽  
pp. 143-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reuven R. Levary ◽  
Fred Niederman
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
The Future

Virtual organizations are characterized and various types of virtual organizations are described. Factors contributing to the success of virtual organizations are identified. Various technologies for intra-organizational coordination are described and concerns regarding the reliance on technology in virtual organizations are elaborated upon. Issues regarding multilingual Web pages are identified. Finally, the role of the semantic Web in the future of virtual organizations is described.

scholarly journals Community participation in the planning of local destination management

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Marko Koščak ◽  
Tony O’Rourke ◽  
Dinko Bilić
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
The Future

In this paper we suggest that modern tourism planning of a destination should include participation from all levels of the community (direct stakeholders, local residents and differing age groups) if the participatory process is to be extensive and universal within the community. We see participatory planning as a critical success factor in seeking to satisfy the requirements of the modern paradigm of sustainability and responsibility in tourism. A community-based approach to tourism development is a prerequisite to sustainability. This focuses on community involvement in the planning and development process, and developing the types of tourism, which generate real social and economic benefits to local communities. Representing the interests and fulfilling the needs of various users is one reason for enabling their participation. Interestingly, children & youth are often overlooked in this regard even though adults may not adequately represent their needs. An important outcome of participatory planning is the process of collective learning that takes place through the underlying process of dialogue. We will refer in the paper to parallel research conducted with colleagues in Slovenia focusing in detail on the role of children & youth in the participatory process of developing sustainable tourism at a local level. This includes a view that planning for sustainable tourism development is an effort to shape the future. Among stakeholders and community participants, children & youth have a significant voice in the future and to a strong degree should have the right to engage in development. The paper seeks to assess the role of participatory structures in planning and development and in the role of children & youth as stakeholders in the planning of local destination management.

Questions of Digital Power and the Re-animation of Critical Theory: An Interview with David Berry

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 323-328
Author(s):  
David Beer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Contemporary Media

Questions of power can sometimes be sidelined in contemporary work on new media forms. David Berry’s book Critical Theory and the Digital, which tackles such questions as power and capitalism, has recently been published by Bloomsbury. The following interview uses the book as a starting point for exploring questions of power in the context of digital media. It explores the potential role of critical theory for understanding contemporary media developments. The exchange explores some of the key themes and ideas from Berry’s book whilst also focusing on how this project might develop in the future. As such, this is an interview that is concerned with questions of digital power and the possibility of re-animating critical theory.

scholarly journals Controlling singularity: The role of online communication for young visual artists’ identity management

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Hansson
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Royal Institute ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Media And Identity

This paper contributes to the literature on art, new media and identity by investigating the role online communication plays for young visual artists’ identity management. Drawing from comprehensive sources on the Internet such as blogs, Web pages, networking sites and digital magazines, as well as interview data from art students at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, this article describes how artists deal with convergent contexts online, while addressing an exclusive public of cultural producers and simultaneously reaching for a broad cultural significance.

scholarly journals The tenth Janet Doe Lecture, a forty-year perspective: still relevant after all these years

2020 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne J. Peay ◽  
Helen-Ann Brown Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
The State ◽  
Academic Health ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
The Future ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Distinguished Member

Erich Meyerhoff was an academic health sciences librarian and a distinguished member of the Medical Library Association when he was invited to present the Janet Doe Lecture in 1977. His lecture on the state of the association is considered one of the finest Doe lectures and is still relevant more than forty years later, not only from an historical perspective, but also for his projections for the future and his prescient comments about the future of hospital librarianship and the important role of women in the association. Key 1977 Doe lecture topics are reviewed and updated in the context of the current health sciences library environment.

scholarly journals The future role of the Department of Health

BMJ ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 335 (7609) ◽  
pp. 2-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Klein
Keyword(s):  
Future Role ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Future
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