Caught in the Web

2013 ◽  
pp. 1294-1314
Author(s):  
Keith A. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality ◽  
Medical Privacy ◽  
The Web

The social consequences of the internet are profound. Evidence of this can easily be found in the enormous body of literature discussing its impact on democracy, globalization, social networking, and education. The implications of the internet for medicine have likewise received a great deal of attention from policy makers, clinicians and technology theorists. Medical privacy, in particular, has garnered the lion’s share of attention. Nevertheless, research in this area has been lacking because it either fails to unpack the conceptual and ethical complexities of privacy or overestimates the power of technology and policy to protect our medical privacy. The aims of this chapter are twofold. The first is to provide a nuanced explication of the concept of privacy, and, second, to argue that e-medicine and the policies supposedly designed to protect the privacy and confidentiality of personal health information fail to do so and in some instances make their violations easier to commit.

Caught in the Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 179-199
Author(s):  
Keith A. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality ◽  
Medical Privacy ◽  
The Web

The social consequences of the internet are profound. Evidence of this can easily be found in the enormous body of literature discussing its impact on democracy, globalization, social networking, and education. The implications of the internet for medicine have likewise received a great deal of attention from policy makers, clinicians and technology theorists. Medical privacy, in particular, has garnered the lion’s share of attention. Nevertheless, research in this area has been lacking because it either fails to unpack the conceptual and ethical complexities of privacy or overestimates the power of technology and policy to protect our medical privacy. The aims of this chapter are twofold. The first is to provide a nuanced explication of the concept of privacy, and, second, to argue that e-medicine and the policies supposedly designed to protect the privacy and confidentiality of personal health information fail to do so and in some instances make their violations easier to commit.

Caught in the Web

2012 ◽  
pp. 1252-1272
Author(s):  
Keith A. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality ◽  
Medical Privacy ◽  
The Web

The social consequences of the internet are profound. Evidence of this can easily be found in the enormous body of literature discussing its impact on democracy, globalization, social networking, and education. The implications of the internet for medicine have likewise received a great deal of attention from policy makers, clinicians and technology theorists. Medical privacy, in particular, has garnered the lion’s share of attention. Nevertheless, research in this area has been lacking because it either fails to unpack the conceptual and ethical complexities of privacy or overestimates the power of technology and policy to protect our medical privacy. The aims of this chapter are twofold. The first is to provide a nuanced explication of the concept of privacy, and, second, to argue that e-medicine and the policies supposedly designed to protect the privacy and confidentiality of personal health information fail to do so and in some instances make their violations easier to commit.

scholarly journals KONSEKUENSI SOSIAL PEMANFAATAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-85
Author(s):  
Pandu Bimantara
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
Keywords Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Internet Learning ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Use Of The Internet

  The phenomenon of the use of the internet as a learning media at the Al-Ihya (Unisa) Islamic University of Kuningan is increasingly passionate about the existence of hotspot facilities, so students can access the internet anywhere and anytime as long as they are active on the Unisa Kuningan campus. This interesting phenomenon is investigated because every new use of information and communication technology will have social consequences for the Unisa Kuningan academic community. The results of the study show that there are accessibility, frequency, and duration of internet usage by students who are quite high among students in accessing the internet. The social consequences that arise have not shown the existence of negative trends such as internet addiction and social alienation.   Keywords: Internet, learning media, social consequences.  

Imagining the Web: the social construction of the Internet in Italy

Modern Italy ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Francesca Pasquali
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Internet Advertising ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Possible World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Web

SummaryThe article analyses social discourses about the Internet in Italy from the mid-1990s onwards, taking its examples from advertising. Beyond the individual campaigns and their subjects there have been two distinct trends in Internet advertising. The first has made an effort to build the Internet as a cognitive object, the second has presented the Internet as a ‘possible world'. The article aims to account for the ways in which the Web has been thematized in Italy: its fields of reference, and how its possible social and personal uses have been anticipated.

scholarly journals Neutrollization: Industrialized trolling as a pro-Kremlin strategy of desecuritization

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 345-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xymena Kurowska ◽  
Anatoly Reshetnikov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
The Social ◽  
Internet Activism

This article considers the significance of trolling for security processes through a contextual analysis of industrialized pro-Kremlin trolling in the Russian blogosphere. The publicity surrounding Russia’s hacking activities in international politics conceals the significance of the domestic trolling culture in Russia and its role in the ‘trolling turn’ in Russia’s foreign policy. We contextually identify the practice of ‘neutrollization’ – a type of localized desecuritization where the regime adopts trolling to prevent being cast as a societal security threat by civil society. Neutrollization relies on counterfeit internet activism, ostensibly originating from the citizenry, that produces political disengagement by breeding radical doubt in a manner that is non-securitizing. Rather than advocating a distinct political agenda, and in contrast to conventional understandings of the operations of propaganda, neutrollization precludes the very possibility of meaning, obviating the need to block the internet in an openly authoritarian manner. It operates by preventing perlocution – that is, the social consequences of the security speech act. This prevention is achieved through the breaking or disrupting of the context in which acts of securitization could possibly materialize, and is made possible by a condition of ‘politics without telos’ that is different from the varieties of depoliticization more familiar in Western societies.

scholarly journals Feminisms on the web: lines and forms of action in contemporary feminist debate*

Cadernos Pagu ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 199-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Branco de Castro Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Strategies ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Web

The present article seeks to understand the uses of the internet as a space for action and reflection among feminist groups in the Brazilian scene. It takes as its focus the relationships between new feminist generations and esthetics and the social space of the internet. Several feminist groups have emphasized the use of the internet and social networks as relevant platforms for organization, news and political expression. I thus take as my object of analysis one of the most important blogs in the Brazilian context: Blogueiras Feministas (Feminist Bloggers - BF), seeking to use this as an ethnographic resource in order to understand the set of actors and collectives working within this feminist scenario, as well as the spaces and social, political and cultural strategies that appear within it.

scholarly journals The evolution of the Web and implications for eResearch

2008 ◽  
Vol 367 (1890) ◽  
pp. 991-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Hall ◽  
David De Roure ◽  
Nigel Shadbolt
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Web Science ◽  
Global Information Systems ◽  
The Web

The hypertext visionaries foresaw the potential of richly interlinked global information systems for advancing human knowledge. The Web provided the infrastructure to enable those ideas to become a reality, and it quickly became a platform for collaborative research and data sharing. As the Web has evolved, new ways of using it for eResearch have emerged, such as the social networking facilities enabled by Web 2.0 technologies. The next generation of the Web—the so-called Semantic Web—is now on the horizon, which will again enable new types of collaborative research to emerge. If we are to understand and anticipate these new modes of collaboration, we need a discipline that studies the Web as a whole. Web science is this discipline.

scholarly journals Web-Based Health Information Seeking Among Students at Kuwait University: Cross-Sectional Survey Study

10.2196/14327 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. e14327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Ashkanani ◽  
Rabab Asery ◽  
Fajer Bokubar ◽  
Noor AlAli ◽  
Shahad Mubarak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Health Information Seeking ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Kuwait University ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Web

Background Owing to the revolution in technology, the internet has become an important aspect of people’s lives. Modern technology is enabling people from diverse educational backgrounds to use the internet for several purposes, one of which is health information seeking. Recently, Web-based health information has become more popular among patients all over the world and among the general public. Objective This study aimed to investigate the use of Web-based health resources among undergraduate students from different faculties at Kuwait University. Methods The study employed a cross-sectional design with students selected from 8 faculties of Kuwait University, 4 faculties of Literature and 4 faculties of Science. Data were collected using structured questionnaires, and analysis was done using a chi-square test and binary logistic regression to determine the factors associated with seeking health information on the Web. Results The sample size obtained was 1132 with a response rate of 90.27% (1132/1254). Overall, the prevalence of students seeking Web-based health information was 92.66%. (1049/1132) The most significant factors associated with seeking health information on the Web were age, gender, faculty, year of study, primary source of internet, and level of experience with internet use. In total, 90.0% (325/361) of students who were aged older than 21 years used Web-based health information compared with 82.8% (275/332) of those who were aged 18 years. In addition, female students showed a higher prevalence (829/934, 88.8%) of Web-based health information seeking than males (210/270, 77.8%). Students who majored in faculties of Science were more likely to seek health information than those who majored in faculties of Literature. All the differences found in the study were statistically significant (P<.05). Conclusions The study concluded that many people use the internet for seeking health information. Sociodemographic factors have a significant association with Web-based health information seeking. Therefore, doctors must educate the public about the health information websites that can be trusted.

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