Privacy and Accountability of Public Figures

2014 ◽  
pp. 202-218
Author(s):  
Despina A. Tziola
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
New Information ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Yellow Journalism ◽  
The Right

Privacy uses the theory of natural rights and generally responds to new information and communication technologies. In North America, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis wrote that privacy is the “right to be let alone” (Warren & Brandeis, 1890) and focuses on protecting individuals. This citation was a response to recent technological developments, such as photography, and sensationalist journalism, also known as yellow journalism. Warren and Brandeis declared that information which was previously hidden and private could now be “shouted from the rooftops.” But whether the right to privacy may be limited in the case of public figures and whether public figures are accountable for their actions is up for debate. This issue is explored in this chapter through court decisions that occupied the public.

scholarly journals “Reprodução Proibida”: Financiamento público e direitos de cópia privados | Reproduction forbidden: public financing and private copyrights

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge A. S. Machado ◽  
Gisele da Silva Craveiro
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Investments ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Access To Knowledge

Resumo Esse texto apresenta um sumário das pesquisas realizadas pelo Grupo de Políticas Públicas para Acesso à Informação GPOPAI) desde 2006 sobre o financiamento público de conteúdos científicos. Os resultados apontam que, apesar do intenso investimento público no Brasil, o setor privado vem se apropriando e impondo barreiras ao acesso a livros técnico-científicos e artigos científicos – neste caso, em especial, as editoras estrangeiras. No que se refere ao software produzido na academia, os dados apontam para uma completa indiferença da comunidade e à ausência de políticas públicas para o seu acesso. De modo geral, os resultados indicam para a necessidade de uma reforma na lei de direitos autorais, de modo a atualizá-la face as novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação e a atender ao interesse público do acesso ao conhecimento que as tecnologias digitais proporcionam. Palavras-chave acesso ao conhecimento, direitos autorais, financiamento público, ciência Abstract This paper presents a summary of research conducted since 2006 on public funding of scientific contents by the Public Policy Group for Access to Information (GPOPAI). The results suggest that in the case of technical and scientific books and scientific articles, the private sector is creating and imposing barriers to access to knowledge, despite of intensive public investments in Brazil. In relation to software produced by universities, the community is completely indifferent and there is a lack of public policies for its access. Overall, the results indicate the need for a profound reform and update of copyright law regarding new information and communication technologies, considering the public interest in access to knowledge. Keywords access to knowledge, copyright, public investiment, science

scholarly journals Shaping the future e-patient

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-43
Author(s):  
Ulrike Felt ◽  
Lisa Gugglberger ◽  
Astrid Mager
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Future Citizen ◽  
Material Form

This paper investigates how public discourses, as articulated in EU policy and Austrian media documents, take part in the creation and stabilisation of a new patient figure – the e-patient. The documents we analysed act as one material form for enacting, performing and giving meaning to the changes occurring when a new technology enters established networks in the medical realm. Our analysis will show that the public discourses we studied deploy three rather different forms of discursive registers, each of which address and perform a specific relation between currently new information and communication technologies and citizen-patients. From one place, moment or problem-solution package to the next a slightly different hybrid and ‘multiple citizen-patient’ is being shaped, discussed, observed or concealed. The multiplicity we observed reveals crucial tensions and contradicting expectations expressed towards the future citizen-patient, showing the challenges for e-health in the making.

scholarly journals FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT, IN THE CASE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorian Pocovnicu
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Information ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Institutional Communication

Efficient communication is one the most important instruments used for the purpose of generating change inside and outside an organization. It can contribute to adjusting attitudes and the manner of approaching the present and future challenges and to changing behavioral patterns. The mission and the objectives of organizational communication are highly interrelated with organizational change and environment characteristics, in which the organization functions. The communication performed by the public administration institution outside is an institutional communication, extra-organizational, which presents the following purposes: strengthening its image, stimulating an environment of trust and affinity from the citizens (Kotler & Lee, 2007). We are of opinion that the management of communication performed by a public administration institution features three fundamental aspects, relevant for institutional communicators when designing and managing the institutional communication: communication efficiency, communication process and the implications of the new information and communication technologies (ICT) for this process.

scholarly journals Interseccions entre imatge, art i tecnologia per a la construcció de coneixements sensibles.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricard Ramon
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Information ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication

This article analyses the historical connections and repercussions of the photographic image and the growth of new information and communication technologies. It explores the ability of artistic photography to promote thought and knowledge, and to position itself as one of the most important educational media in contemporary culture. It establishes the positions of humanist thinking regarding these technological developments and the role of artistic photography as a trigger of critical thinking, and an alternative to textual discourse. Focusing on this recent groundbreaking evolution, the article also studies the importance of photography in the advancement of technology itself and the possible impact on contemporary culture and on the configuration of thought and collective creativity in the world. Finally, it analyses the importance and the connection that photography, in relation to technology, has with the arts and aesthetics and the role of technology as a driving force behind processes of knowledge creation via images.

Building Capacity for Electronic Governance in Developing Countries

2010 ◽  
pp. 176-190
Author(s):  
Rogers W’O Okot-Uma ◽  
J.K. Ssewanyana
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter presents the essence of critical success factors with focus on building capacity for electronic governance (eGovernance) in a developing country jurisdiction. The results are borne of the authors’ years of experience with regard to national eGovernance implementations in developing member countries of the Commonwealth. Critical success factors (CSFs) denote those aspects of, or associated with, the new information and communication technologies (ICTs), which may be perceived as comprising core, key or critical factors against which the level of capability of National Capacity for ICT or eGovernance may be assessed, measured and/or interpreted. CSFs, perceived to be critical for the success of any eGovernance initiative is best modelled as a three-tier minimalist framework, comprising CSFs at levels described as macro-, meso-, and micro- levels. The nature of any given ICT initiative which is appropriate nationally in central government, locally in local government, or in the public service, in the civil service, or in some selected sector or jurisdiction of the national economy, whether existing or planned, and whether implicit or explicit, must take cognisance of the need for the identification of CSFs at the inception stage of the initiative.

What's New? Perspectives on Freedom of Information and the Internet

2011 ◽  
pp. 235-254
Author(s):  
Sonja Bugdahn
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

Critics of the notion or concept of “information society” have often made claims to put the new ICTs into a more historical and institutional context. As a response, in this chapter, the more than 200-year-old right of access to governmental information is selected as a reference point. A comprehensive review of literature reveals that this right can be analyzed from various perspectives. Examples are the politics, policy, and polity perspective; the market perspective; and the citizenship perspective. Each perspective highlights different aspects of the impacts a right of access to information can possibly have. The citizenship perspective turns out to be particularly interesting, because the traditional, but changeable concept of citizenship, and the right of access to information interact with each other. In a second step, the same perspectives can be utilized for an analysis of documents and literature on new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to determine whether truly new and original elements are added to what has previously been analyzed in terms of access to information rights. The application of the freedom of information perspectives to Internet-based access to information allows for the identification of interesting research questions on the changing concept of citizenship, the future of national and transnational governance and the future of regulation.

La modernización tecnológica de la Administración de Justicia

2012 ◽  
pp. 295-317
Author(s):  
Pere SIMÓN CASTELLANO
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Information ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Decisions

LABURPENA: Espainiako Justizia Administrazioa pausoz pauso egokitzen joan da informazio eta komunikazio teknologia berrien garapenak (IKT) eskatzen duen aldaketa girora. Teknologiak aurrera egin ahala, zabalagoak dira eskura ditugun aukerak. Epaitegien eremuari gagozkiola, teknologien erabilerak gure justiziak pairatzen dituen gaitzetako batzuk konpontzen lagundu dezakete. Lan honetan, Espainian justizia modernizatzeko bidean egon den lege-oinarriaren eta borondate politikoaren bilakaera aztertuko dugu, eta oraindik orain indarrean jarri den 18/2011 Legearen indarguneei erreparatuko diegu —besteak beste, herritarrek Justizia Administrazioarekin harremanak elektronikoki izateko duten eskubidea—, bai eta konpontzeke dauden arazoak ere. Azkenik, Cyberjustice Laboratory zentroak eskaintzen dituen irakasbide nagusien laburpena egingo dugu, zentro hori aitzindaria baita egoitza judizialeko IKTen ikerketan. RESUMEN: La Administración de Justicia española se ha ido adaptando paulatinamente al cambio exigido por el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación (TIC). A mayor avance tecnológico mayores son las posibilidades que estas nos ofrecen; en el ámbito estrictamente judicial, su empleo puede ayudar a paliar algunos de los males endémicos de nuestra justicia. En este trabajo observaremos la evolución del sustrato legal y de la voluntad política por modernizar la justicia en España, apuntando los puntos fuertes de la reciente Ley 18/2011, entre los que sin duda se encuentra el reconocimiento del derecho del ciudadano a relacionarse electrónicamente con la Administración de Justicia, y la cuestiones pendientes. Finalmente, mostraremos un extracto de las principales lecciones a las que ha llegado el Cyberjustice Laboratory, centro pionero en el estudio de las TIC en sede judicial. ABSTRACT: Spanish Justice Administration has been gradually adapting to the change demanded by the development of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The more technological advance, the more chance these offer us. The use of ICTs in judicial context can help us to fix up some of the endemic problems of our justice. In this paper we observe the evolution of the legal substrate and the political decisions to modernize the justice in Spain, pointing out the strengths of the recent Law 18/2011 —the recognition of the right of citizens to interact electronically with the Administration of Justice— and the outstanding issues. Finally, we will show an extract of the main lessons that we could drawn from Cyberjustice Laboratory, pioneer in the study of ICT in Court.

scholarly journals THE COORDINATES AND TYPOLOGY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PUBLIC SYSTEM AND THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF STAKEHOLDERS

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florentina Neamtu ◽  
Luminita Zait
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Public System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

The development of the new information and communication technologies, which favored the modern societies transformation into knowledge-based society, forced a reconsideration of the governance principles based on what Abraham Lincoln said “Governance of citizens by citizens and for citizens''. The knowledge society coordinates raises new challenges for the public system, offering, at the same time, the opportunity to do activities more efficient and to development those approach that brings the citizen closer to public systems. Basically, by reconsidering and by emerging in the public system of concepts such as ethics, social responsibility and sustainable development it has been created the coordinates of oriented citizens implementation framework. Governments around the world are making significant efforts towards e-governance assimilation and implementation. These efforts are not focused only on the digitization process itself, but also target a broader reorganization of the public services process and of the participation processes based on the new information technologies. The article presents, based on a detailed analysis of the literature, different models that capture and define the relationships developed by public institutions with various categories of stakeholders.

scholarly journals Usability Analysis of Andalusian Spas’ Websites

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2307
Author(s):  
Rosa Anaya-Aguilar ◽  
German Gemar ◽  
Carmen Anaya-Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Usability Analysis ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Tourism Websites

Health tourism is booming all over the world, and thermal spa tourism in Spain is a type of tourism aimed at integrating with nature, achieving sustainable development. In general, its facilities are located in areas specially protected by environmental legislation. This tourism sector attracts an increasingly wide market segment that has become more demanding and better informed and that more frequently uses the Internet to gather information. Tourists’ shopping and consumption habits are increasingly influenced by new information and communication technologies (ICTs), making these a topic of interest among academics and professionals. Website development has been shown to be an area of innovation for spa facilities, but evidence has also been found that this sector has experienced difficulty in adopting ICTs. This research sought to analyse spa websites’ usability by conducting an exploratory investigation of different websites’ contents. The results reveal that the use of new web technologies by spas is underdeveloped, although these facilities have achieved good positions in Internet search engines due to the synergistic effect of the official tourism websites. That is why most of them tell their story, detail their nature and the protection of their spaces. In this way, spas turn their websites into communication channels that convey to tourists their commitment to the environment and sustainable development.

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