Building Smarter Organizations

2014 ◽  
pp. 139-182
Author(s):  
Gordon Vala-Webb
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Control Culture ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Power Shifts ◽  
Global Power ◽  
And Control ◽  
Roll Out ◽  
Business Structure

Being a “smart” organization—to learn quickly and apply that learning to making changes—is essential for survival in this age of hyper-competition, global power shifts, and technological change. In “dumb” organizations, the flows of knowledge and idea into and through the organization are limited and slow. Those flows are restricted by the organization’s command-and-control culture, the maze-like organizational and business structure, and limitations imposed by closed communication technology. There are three matching and inter-linked solutions to improve flows: reducing unnecessary complexity, moving to a collaborative culture, and using an Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) technology. The focus of this chapter is a step-by-step approach to justify, design, measure, and roll out an ESN suite.

Selected Major Issues in Instructional/Communication Technology

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-325
Author(s):  
Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Technology ◽  
Fiber Optics ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Instructional Communication ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
Powerful Learning ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Physical Limitations

Instructional/Communication Technology has come to mean, in a narrowsense, media hardware or a set of tools enabling human beings toovercome their physical limitations. Etymologically, it means one or moretechniques, both concrete and abstract, that help human beings solveproblems. By extension, instructional technology (IT) means all tools atour disposal for facilitating learning. Tickton (1971) defines the purporeof IT as making "education more productive and more individual, to giveinstruction a more scientific base, and to make instruction more powerful,learning more immediate, and access more equal." While the technologyitself might be neutral as a medium and as a means of instructional communication,it is the natw of its use, in terms of timely and appropriatemessages, that is the key to understanding its consequences. It is this finalfactor upon which society needs to focus.The tecent combination of computer, video, fiber optics, satellite television,and other state-of-the-art technologies has enabled a small groupto control the lives of billions. Instructional technology has also Meritedits own share of this instantaneous global power. As a result traditionalboundaries between IT and mass media communication have blurred somuch that IT sounds like a misnomer.It has now become a platitude to say that the nation that controlledthe sealanes in the nineteenth century, or that controlled the airways inthe twentieth century, controlled the whole world. In the twenty-first century,it appears that whoever controls the airwaves will control the worldand whatever is beyond it. Thus the most explosive confluence of ...

scholarly journals Tool to Retrieve Less-Filtered Information from the Internet

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Yuta Nemoto ◽  
Vitaly Klyuev
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Social Networking Services ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Metasearch Engine ◽  
Filter Bubble

While users benefit greatly from the latest communication technology, with popular platforms such as social networking services including Facebook or search engines such as Google, scientists warn of the effects of a filter bubble at this time. A solution to escape from filtered information is urgently needed. We implement an approach based on the mechanism of a metasearch engine to present less-filtered information to users. We develop a practical application named MosaicSearch to select search results from diversified categories of sources collected from multiple search engines. To determine the power of MosaicSearch, we conduct an evaluation to assess retrieval quality. According to the results, MosaicSearch is more intelligent compared to other general-purpose search engines: it generates a smaller number of links while providing users with almost the same amount of objective information. Our approach contributes to transparent information retrieval. This application helps users play a main role in choosing the information they consume.

scholarly journals Archives and identity in the context of social media and algorithmic analytics: Towards an understanding of iArchive and predictive retention

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 3304-3322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Pötzsch
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The Political ◽  
Archival Theory ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
And Control

This article reconceptualizes the archive in the context of digital media ecologies. Drawing upon archival theory and critical approaches to the political economy of the Internet, I account for new dynamics and implications afforded by digital archives. Operating at both a user-controlled explicit and a state- and corporate-owned implicit level, the digital archive at once facilitates empowerment and enables unprecedented forms of management and control. Connecting the politics and economy of digital media with issues of identity formation and curation on social networking sites, I coin the terms iArchive and predictive retention to highlight how recent technological advances both provide new means for self-expression, mobilization and resistance and afford an almost ubiquitous tracking, profiling and, indeed, moulding of emergent subjectivities.

scholarly journals The Commodification of Body Positivity: Constructing a Neoliberal Fat Citizenship

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhiannon Sian Downey
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Social Resistance ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
Body Positive ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Content

From inspirational messages to celebrated pictures of cellulite and belly rolls, body positive content has become increasingly popular on social media platforms, particularly on image-based networking sites. With the rapid growth of communication technology, it is not surprising that social networking sites, such as Instagram, have become one of the most dominant and influential mediates to cultivating awareness, foster community, and advocate for social change. Instagram’s transition to an advertising platform, however, has introduced a consumerist structure to user activity for corporations to better direct advertisements at target audiences. A once social movement advocating for the rejection of thin beauty ideals in favour of a more inclusive and positive conception of body image has felt the impact of commoditization on its message and advocates. Through Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, this research study seeks to analyze the impact of Instagram’s transition to a commercialization platform on the self-representation of body positive advocates to better understand the influence of neoliberal and capitalist structures on social resistance movements and strategies.

scholarly journals Logged In: Portuguese Transnational Families and Communication Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Lisa Rodan
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Uk

Up to 110,000 Portuguese a year left their homeland in the period following the implementation of Troika austerity measures. The UK was the most popular destination, with a third of arrivals now holding degrees- the highest proportion in Europe and double what it was 10 years earlier. This paper focuses on how the latest generation of transnational families use communication technology and digital networking at a time of swiftly evolving social and technological change. Drawing on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork with university-educated Portuguese migrants in London aged 23-40, and with their families in Portugal, I will explore how communication technology has shaped their experiences. Employing anthropological concepts of relatedness and personhood, I will focus specifically on the changing nature of transnational living in an increasingly polarised, neoliberal world and what it means to be a Portuguese transnational family in Europe in 2017.

scholarly journals Social Networking for Botnet Command and Control

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Singh ◽  
Annie H. Toderici ◽  
Kevin Ross ◽  
Mark Stamp
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
And Control

Disaster and Digital Libraries in Developing Countries

2016 ◽  
pp. 534-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goodluck Ifijeh ◽  
Jerome Idiegbeyan-Ose ◽  
Chidi D. Isiakpona ◽  
Julie Ilogho
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Information Generation ◽  
And Control ◽  
And Storage

Digital libraries have become a modern day phenomenon. Their roles in information generation,organization, dissemination and storage cannot be overemphasized. This chapter articulates the importance of digital libraries and the need to preserve them from disasters. It highlights the causes and effects of disasters in digital libraries. Prevention and management of disasters were also discussed. Issues and challenges around information and communication technology (ICT), that has direct bearings on digital libraries and disaster management in developing countries were raised. In addition, recommendations were made on how to improve on disaster prevention and control.

Social Networking and Knowledge Transfer in Collaborative Product Development

2009 ◽  
pp. 2037-2051
Author(s):  
Katariina Ala-Rämi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Information And Communication

Software product development requires connecting of specialized information and knowhow. Therefore, planning and production are widely done in networked projects. This chapter studies inter-firm collaboration to explore the role of face-to-face meetings and information and communication technology in knowledge transfer in product development by using case studies of software companies in Oulu, Finland. Clusters are important in forming trust and mutual understanding. Thus, a compact city region and effective social networks are beneficial for inter-firm collaboration. However, information and communication technology is very valuable for routine communication and documentation, but also in distance collaboration. Geographical distance affects inter-firm collaboration in terms of practical arrangements, such as working hours, yet cultural differences bring additional challenges. This chapter considers and scrutinizes social networking in collaborative product development, and the role of clusters and information and communication technology in such development, as among the key success factors.

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