Research on Audio Production of Broadcasting based on Digital Technology -- A case study of FM broadcasting in Wuhan

Although prosumption and the sharing economy are currently at the cutting edge of consumer culture research, little attempt has been made to explore the theoretical relationship between these concepts and approach them with a pluralistic, dynamic, nuanced and ethnographically informed lens moving beyond the dichotomies of capitalism versus anti-capitalism, rhetoric versus reality, exploitation versus empowerment and traditional versus digital consumer culture. This article addresses these gaps by focusing on the phenomenon of pay-per-minute cafes – physical spaces inspired by digital culture and meant to apply its principles in the brick-and-mortar servicescape. Drawing on a multi-site, multi-method case study of the world’s first pay-per-minute cafe franchise, the article shows a multitude of ways in which prosumption and the sharing economy, both shaped by different configurations of organisational culture, physical design, food offer and pricing policy, are conceived, interpreted and experienced by the firms and customers across the franchise and argues that conflicts and contradictions arising from this diversity cannot be reduced to the narrative of consumer exploitation. Finally, while both prosumption and the sharing economy are typically defined by the use of digital platforms, this article makes a case for a post-digital approach to consumer culture research, looking into the cultural impact of digital technology on traditional servicescapes.

Towards a Digital Workerism: Workers’ Inquiry, Methods, and Technologies

NanoEthics ◽

10.1007/s11569-021-00384-w ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jamie Woodcock

Keyword(s):

Digital Technology ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Technology Studies ◽

Call Centres ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Digital Work

AbstractDigital technology is playing an increasingly visible role in the organisation of many people’s work—as well as large parts of their lives more broadly. The concerns of emancipatory technology studies, or other critical accounts of technology, are often focused on finding alternative uses of technology. In many workplace contexts—from call centres to platform work—the imperatives of capital are deeply written into these technologies. Yet at the same time, many capitalist technologies are playing a key role facilitating emerging workers’ struggles. For example, in the case study examined here, Deliveroo drivers rely on communication technologies like WhatsApp to organise against algorithmic management. Drawing on an ongoing workers’ inquiry, this paper seeks to consider what a workerist approach to digital technology can add to these debates. The paper outlines the challenges and opportunities for a “digital workers’ inquiry,” considering how this approach combines research with organising. The argument is divided into two main parts: first, the need for inquiries in digital work and the importance of these and second, how the process of inquiry and co-research (and the methods these involve) can be adapted and refined with digital technology. By starting the critique of technology from the workplace, this paper proposes a workerist account of how technologies can be destroyed or re-appropriated, starting from a reading of workers’ struggle.

Interactive Multi-Sensory Environments for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

10.18662/lumproc/atee2020/39 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Vytautas Zalys

Keyword(s):

General Education ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Case Study Method ◽

The Subject ◽

Hand Coordination ◽

Traditional Approaches ◽

Audio Video ◽

The Impact

The emerging of digital technology not only encourages the development of new tools but also changes traditional approaches to solving emerging problems. The sound, music, art, colors, etc. that prevailed in the 20th-century forms of therapy are being replaced by integrated systems that overcome many of these forms, thanks to digital technology. With the increasing number of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the world, such systems provide new opportunities for the treatment of these disorders. In this research, the creation of such a system has been chosen as the object of work. The article presents an interactive tool for the education of children with ASD created by audio, video, and computer technologies and assesses its potential impact. The experimental research and its results are presented. This study aims to evaluate an interactive instrument developed for the education of such children. Following the objectives of ensuring the interactivity of the process, provoking all the perceptions of the subject, and developing the subject's ability to respond to the environment, a personalized audiovisual environment was created. For interactivity, the virtual program EyeCon, Webcam and camcorders, video projector, and speaker system were used. The study was conducted with one subject and a case study method was used. The impact of the instrument was established based on a survey of the parents of the child and the findings of childcare experts. The results of the study demonstrated the positive benefits for this child such as increased eye-to-hand coordination, concentration duration, improved communication, and emotional expression. The results obtained show that such interactive multi-sensory environments in special and general education schools can be a supplemental tool for traditional methods.

Analysis of Comparison of Islamic Banks with Online Micro In Disbursements of Micro-Financing Based on Requirements, Services Speed and Margin (Case Study of Micro-finance at Bank Mandiri Syariah and Micro Credit Uangteman.com)

Journal of Islamic Economics and Social Science (JIESS) ◽

10.22441/jiess.2020.v1i1.001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Lucky Nugroho ◽

Harnovinsah Harnovinsah ◽

Yananto Mihadi Putra ◽

Prinoti Prinoti

Keyword(s):

Interest Rates ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Business Models ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Financial Sector ◽

Islamic Banks ◽

Financial Technology ◽

Micro Credit

The dynamics of the use of digital technology in the industrial revolution era 4.0 has had an impact on the financial sector. One of them is the development of financial technology (fintech) in the form of online loan services. Furthermore, the flagship product from fintech is lending to micro and small entrepreneurs. Likewise, Islamic banks that have a focus on financing to micro and small entrepreneurs must be able to compete with fintech services in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 that is happening at this time. The purpose of this study is to analyze the different mechanisms of micro-financing distribution between Bank Mandiri Syariah and microcredit UangTeman.com. The method used is qualitative, which is to compare the requirements, mechanisms, and margins imposed on the customers and the information obtained through secondary data, namely standard and operational procedures. Based on the results of the study, the requirements and procedures for granting loans to micro and small entrepreneurs at Bank Mandiri Syariah are longer compared to UangTeman.com. While the fines for late payment in installments and interest rates on UangTeman.com are higher than the fines and margins of Bank Mandiri Syariah micro-financing. Therefore to be able to improve products and services for micro and small entrepreneurs, Bank Mandiri Syariah conducts a review of business models and business

Strategies for Effective Digital Games Development and Implementation

Cases on Digital Game-Based Learning ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2848-9.ch010 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 168-198 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

T. Lim ◽

S. Louchart ◽

N. Suttie ◽

J.M. Ritchie ◽

R.S. Aylett ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Learning Environment ◽

Lifelong Learning ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Development Process ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Digital Games ◽

Strategic Development ◽

Game Mechanics ◽

Games Development

Digital technologies have increased the pace of knowledge creation, sharing, and the way in which learning is being undertaken. This chapter considers how Serious Games (SGs) as a digital technology endeavours to support effective lifelong learning. Three fundamental characteristics of the SG ecosystem, namely, game mechanics, interoperability, and assessment, are considered here as strategic elements that impact upon how SGs are to support learning, how they affect the learning environment, and ultimately, the SG development process. A prospective deconstruction of SGs into its pedagogical elements and its game mechanic nodes is presented to make aware the interoperability modus from which topical (domain) frameworks or architectures can be structured and assessed. To this end, the chapter explores the conceptual underpinnings through a case study on the eAdventure platform and argues that the key elements form the foundation for strategic development and implementation of SGs.

Digital technology and changing roles: a management accountant’s dream or nightmare?

Journal of Management Control ◽

10.1007/s00187-020-00303-2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 209-238

Author(s):

Roy-Ivar Andreassen

Keyword(s):

Digital Technology ◽

Expert Knowledge ◽

Identity Work ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Group Level ◽

Management Accountants ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Changing Roles ◽

The Relationship

Abstract Recent developments in digital technology have revitalized interest in the relationship between technology and management accounting. Yet, few empirical in-depth studies have assessed how digital technologies influence the roles of management accountants. This paper builds on the concept of jurisdiction to illuminate the relationship between management accountants, expert knowledge and digital technology. The study identifies and describes competition over jurisdiction between management accountants and other groups of employees. The study describes a shift for divisional management accountants towards narrower roles in their tasks and expectations, while business-oriented roles at group level are found to entail expanding tasks and expectations. In doing so, management accountants are divided into two divergent categories facing different expectations: divisional and group level management accountants. Through a case study in the technology-oriented finance sector, the paper contributes to the debate on the roles of management accountants in a number of ways. First, it describes how digital technology can contribute to narrower and more specialized roles. Second, it describes how digital technology can contribute to competition between professions. Third, it elucidates how digital technology contributes to changes in the behaviour of decision makers, and in their expectations toward, and the involvement of, management accountants. Fourth, it details how the changes contributed by digital technology in the roles of management accountants can act as mediators in the identity-work of management accountants. Finally, it empirically describes the relationships between digital technology and management accountants’ roles.

Dynamics of Intra-Party Organisation in the Digital Age: A Grassroots Analysis of Digital Adoption

Parliamentary Affairs ◽

10.1093/pa/gsaa007 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Katharine Dommett ◽

Luke Temple ◽

Patrick Seyd

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Digital Age ◽

Labour Party ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Power Structures ◽

Party Organisation ◽

The Uk ◽

Insight Into

Abstract Over recent decades, scholars have explored political parties’ adoption of digital technology. Tracing successive eras of change, scholarship has examined the degree to which digital disrupts or embeds traditional power structures—with many studies finding evidence of ‘controlled-interactivity’. In this article, we revisit debates around the adoption of digital tools from a bottom-up perspective. Moving beyond attempts to categorise elite strategies for digital adoption, we consider practices on the ground to document how, in practice, digital technology is being taken up and used. Using a case study of the UK Labour Party, we categorise a range of different practices, highlighting and theorising the presence of digital adherents, laggards, entrepreneurs, renegades and refuseniks. Discussing the drivers of these practices, we offer new insight into variations in digital adoption and consider the significance of these trends for our understanding of party organisation.

Digital media as a driver of change in political organisation: 2010 and 2015 UK general elections

Media Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0163443720916398 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 42 (7-8) ◽

pp. 1343-1359

Author(s):

Anthony Ridge-Newman

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Digital Media ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Organisational Change ◽

Conservative Party ◽

General Elections ◽

Run Up ◽

The Impact

In Britain, by 2015, Web 2.0 had become a more widely accepted and established mode of civic engagement of which political e-participation became an observable extension. However, in the run-up to 2010, social media were newer, less understood and largely associated with younger generations. These changes present questions about how wider technocultural developments impacted political engagement between the 2010 and 2015 UK general elections. This article aims to go some way in examining this question with a theoretical focus on the role of Facebook as a driver of change in political organisation. Using the British Conservative Party as a case study, the article analyses and compares events, observations and shifting power relations associated with digital technology and organisational change observed over two election cycles spanning from 2005 to 2015. A focal aim is to examine changes in Conservative Party campaigns and organisation in order to contribute to wider debates about the impact of digital technology in changing the organisation and activities of actors, like political parties and political participants, in democratic contexts. The article concludes that a complex combination of internal and external, technological and human, and grassroots and centralised factors played roles in changing the Conservative Party.