Internet Behind Bars

New Technologies ◽

First Century ◽

Normal Contact ◽

The Social ◽

Negative Effect ◽

Harmful Effects

This chapter focuses on the relevance of information and communication technologies (hereinafter, ICTs) as an essential part of the day-to-day life of all societies nowadays. Nevertheless, a means that continue to be behind this reality is the penitentiary area regarding inmates' rights. Introducing ICTs within prison could improve the social reinsertion of persons serving a prison sentence. Deprivation of liberty entails normal contact with the prison subculture and the harmful effects of it, causing in cases of long-term sentences the so-called phenomenon of “prisonization.” This negative effect of imprisonment could be reduced if ICTs were used inside prisons in the different areas where they can have an impact, and which are treated in this research, as (1) access to information and culture, (2) basic and advanced training, (3) employment, (4) communication with the outside world, (5) treatment, or (6) leisure and entertainment. The value that new technologies would add to these areas in prison constitutes a way of humanization of prisons in the twenty-first century.

Political Campaigning in the Information Age - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

Relationship between Social Media and Political Parties

10.4018/978-1-4666-6062-5.ch001 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 1-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Kamil Demirhan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Parties ◽

New Technologies ◽

Social Actors ◽

Media Usage ◽

Communicative Functions ◽

The Social ◽

This chapter analyzes the capacity of social media usage and the social media strategies of political parties that became the members of Turkish Parliament after 2011 election. The social media usage increases in parallel to the improvements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and it becomes an important tool with its communicative functions to realize activities in social, political, and economic fields. In the globalization process, developments in ICTs and changes in the meaning of democracy have been realized parallel to each other. Politics has become more open to interaction and the participation of different actors. ICTs have created new opportunities to interaction and participation of social actors. These improvements require transformations in the role and functions of political parties. They have to arrange their programs and structures according to participative understanding of democracy and new technologies. Social media usage is seen as a requirement for political parties and party leaders for adaptation to these developments, and it is also seen as a device with its potential for realizing participation, communication, and interaction to adapt to the changes in the understanding of politics.

Relationship between Social Media and Political Parties

Social Media and Networking ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8614-4.ch055 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1196-1225 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kamil Demirhan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Parties ◽

New Technologies ◽

Social Actors ◽

Media Usage ◽

Communicative Functions ◽

The Social ◽

TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: TEACHER TRAINING AND THE CHALLENGE OF NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT)

Revista Gênero e Interdisciplinaridade ◽

10.51249/gei02.02.2021.235 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

First Century ◽

New Information ◽

The Face ◽

Teaching Learning ◽

Teaching In Higher Education

In the face of the advance of new technologies that has been occurring and reaching all sectors of society, this article presents a discussion guided by scholars about the changes that are occurring in education. It is important to think of how you can use so many resources available today while providing power changes in the teaching-learning process which until then was seen as something static and conservative. The task of the teacher in the twenty-first century is no longer ready to take the knowledge to the student, but rather has the role of acting as a mediator and facilitator in the process of knowledge construction. The changes that are taking place have led educators to seek knowledge and expertise so that they can perform satisfactorily their role in society.

ICT4D: A Frontier for Higher Education in Developing Nations

African and Asian Studies ◽

10.1163/156920903773004004 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 381-420 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Royal Colle ◽

Raul Roman

Keyword(s):

Community Development ◽

Developing Nations ◽

First Century ◽

Early Twenty ◽

The Social ◽

Low Visibility ◽

Development Movement

AbstractInformation and communication technologies (ICT) have become important features on the social and geographical landscapes of Africa and Asia in the early twenty-first century. This article discusses the various institutions and forces that play roles in applying these technologies to the challenges of community development. Case studies punctuate the text to provide concrete examples of the ideas and potential flowing out of the ICT environment, especially manifested by telecenters. The discussion highlights the low visibility of universities among the major actors and argues that they should build their capacities to be partners in the ICTs for Development movement.

China's Digital Nationalism

10.1093/oso/9780190876791.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Florian Schneider

Keyword(s):

First Century ◽

Digital Information ◽

Digital Networks ◽

Online Networks ◽

Nation States ◽

The Social ◽

Digital China

China’s Digital Nationalism explores online networks and their nationalist discourses in digital China. It asks what happens to national community sentiments when they go digital. Nationalism, in China as much as elsewhere, is today shared through digital information and communication technologies. It is adopted, filtered, transformed, enhanced, and accelerated through digital networks, and it interacts in complicated ways with nationalism ‘on the ground’. Understanding these processes is crucial if we hope to make sense of the social and political complexities that shape the twenty-first century. In China’s Digital Nationalism, Florian Schneider analyses digital China first-hand, by empirically examining what search engines, online encyclopaedias, websites, hyperlink networks, and social media accounts can tell us about the way that different actors construct and manage a crucial topic in contemporary Chinese politics: the protracted historical relationship with neighbouring Japan. Using two cases, the infamous Nanjing Massacre of 1937 and the ongoing disputes over islands in the East China Sea, Schneider shows how various stake-holders in China construct networks and deploy power to shape nationalist discourses for their own ends. These dynamics in an emerging great power, this book argues, provide crucial lessons on how nation states adapt to the shifting terrain of the digital age.

ICT Lifecycle and its major Role in the Development of Strategic Intelligence

Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business ◽

10.37380/jisib.v3i2.70 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Francisco Carlos Paletta ◽

Nilson Dias Vieira Junior

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

Sustainable Growth ◽

Digital Information ◽

Increase Productivity ◽

Short And Long Term

In this article, we focus on the role of Information and Communication Technologies - ICT - to create additional sources of competitive advantage that can help companies to prepare themselves for sustainable growth. First, we discuss the dynamics of ICTs and the ability to generate innovations with a direct impact on business. Then we present the need for greater balance between goals of short and long term on IT projects. In the third part, we discuss how these new technologies have helped to increase the productivity of information professionals as well as to enhance the decision-making process and the satisfaction of the end customer. To conclude, the main challenges that the technology-based companies will have to face in relation to the management of the lifecycle of their technology, is consolidation and simplification of their processes within their computing environments, aiming to increase productivity and develop agile environments that allow the organizations to meet the demands of managing digital information.

INTERMEDIARIES, USERS AND SOCIAL LEARNING IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

International Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1142/s1363919608002035 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 12 (03) ◽

pp. 295-325 ◽

Cited By ~ 132

Author(s):

JAMES STEWART ◽

SAMPSA HYYSALO

Keyword(s):

Social Learning ◽

Technological Innovation ◽

New Technologies ◽

Primary Concern ◽

User Innovation ◽

New Information ◽

The Social ◽

This paper explores the role of intermediaries in the development and appropriation of new technologies. We focus on intermediaries that facilitate user innovation, and the linking of user innovation into supply side activities. We review findings on intermediaries in some of our studies and other available literature to build a framework to explore of how intermediaries work in making innovation happen. We make sense of these processes by taking a long-term view of the dynamics of technology and market development using the social learning in technological innovation (SLTI) framework. Our primary concern is with innovation intermediaries and their core roles of configuring, facilitating and brokering technologies, uses and relationships in uncertain and emerging markets. We show the range of positions and influence they have along the supply-use axis in a number of different innovation contexts, and how they are able to bridge the user-developer innovation domains. Equipped with these insights, we explore in more depth how intermediaries affect the shape of new information and communication technologies and the importance of identifying and nurturing the user-side intermediaries that are crucial to innovation success.

Por uma teoria do ciberfeminismo hoje: da utopia tecnocientífica à crítica situada do ciberespaço

PORTO ARTE Revista de Artes Visuais ◽

10.22456/2179-8001.95974 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (40) ◽

Author(s):

Federica Timeto

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

The Political ◽

Gender And Technology ◽

New Information ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

The Social ◽

Critical Phases

A noção de tecnossocialidade desenvolvida no contexto dos estudos sociais de tecnologia (STS), amplamente debatida no âmbito da reflexão tecnofeminista, traz à tona a construção social de gênero e tecnologia, e a necessidade de considerar conjuntamente as tecnologias de gênero e a criação de tecnologias. Este ensaio analisa a contribuição teórica e prática do ciberfeminismo para o debate, analisando as fases utópica e crítica do ciberfeminismo, para se debruçar sobre o encontro entre o ciberfeminismo, o pensamento pós-colonial e o feminismo transcultural. Voltando à raiz política do pensamento de Donna Haraway sobre o conhecimento ciborgue e situado, o ciberfeminismo situado e transcultural recupera a dimensão encarnada das novas tecnologias e utiliza e analisa novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação considerando seus efeitos materiais e simbólicos em relação à dinâmica de produção e consumo, de colocação e mobilidade, para reivindicar uma ação feminista que brota dos contextos e histórias em que o entrelaçamento de corpos e tecnologias faz a diferença.AbstractThe notion of technosociality elaborated in the sphere of Social Studies of Technology (STS), is widely debated within technofeminist thought, and brings to the fore the social construction of gender and technology, and the necessity of considering the conjunctions of technologies of gender and the engendering of technologies. This essay analyses the theoretical and practical contribution of cyberfeminism to the debate, analysing the utopian and critical phases of cyberfeminism to explore the encounter between cyberfeminism, postcolonial thought and transcultural feminism. Returning to the political roots of Donna Haraway's thought on the cyborg and her situated thoughts, a situated and transcultural cyberfeminism recuperates the dimension embodied by new technologies, and adopts and analyses new information and communication technologies through considering material and symbolic effects in relation to the dynamics of production and consumption, of collocation and mobility, to then revindicate feminist action which emerges from those contexts and stories in which the entwining of bodies and technologies creates difference.

Relations between information and communication technologies and international migration

Stanovnistvo ◽

10.2298/stnv170505004l ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 53-68

Author(s):

Vesna Lukic

Keyword(s):

International Migration ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

New Technologies ◽

Local Population ◽

Migration Process ◽

The Impact

The paper focuses on the topic of the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on the international migration phenomenon According to the discussed literature, there is an impression that ICTs change the essence of migration and monitoring of migration flows. It also suggests that migration and migrants? needs shape the development of ICT services intended to them, but they also shape the content of social media. The impact of new technologies on international migration (before migration, during migration and upon arrival in the country of destination) has been discussed through an overview of empirical research findings in Serbia and other countries. In this context, the ICT users relevant to the migration process (individuals and interest groups) have been more closely determined and discussed, the aspects of the relations between ICTs and migration have been highlighted, as well as their implications for individuals and society. The considered aspects of relations of ICTs and international migration at different stages of the migration process and their severe implications for individuals and society, in our opinion, point to the need for cooperation of users of information and communication technologies relevant to the migration process in different domains ? the spheres of influence of ICTs. We believe that is how the potential of ICTs will be exploited in an adequate way, for benefit of both ? migrants and other relevant interested parties. While widely accepted by individuals, information and communication technologies have just begun to be recognized as important for migration policy in Serbia and generally, in terms of their opportunities and challenges. In Serbia, only recently (as of the 2011 Census) there has been data available on the use of ICTs by certain migrant groups (long-term settled refugees from former Yugoslav republics). Also, the qualitative surveys on the use of ICTs during the migration by transit asylum seekers have recently started. That can also be said for the research, where ICTs serve for gaining knowledge on migrants and attitudes towards immigrants. Although not voluminous, academic literature on the use and implications of ICTs use in the migration process in Serbia points to greater use of ICTs by certain groups of migrants (long-term settled refugees from former Yugoslavia) in relation to the local population. There are also generational and gender differences in the use of ICTs by migrants. When it comes to transit asylum seekers in Serbia, the use of ICTs at various stages of migration and for various purposes (among them are the selection of the country of destination, the route of movement, but also contact with other migrants and smugglers) is observed.

Technologies Disability and Inclusion

EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY ◽

10.3280/ess1-2018oa6064 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tomas Brusell

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Augmented Reality ◽

Future Development ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Modern Technology ◽

The Social ◽

The Disabled ◽

When modern technology permeates every corner of life, there are ignited more and more hopes among the disabled to be compensated for the loss of mobility and participation in normal life, and with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Exoskeleton Technologies and truly hands free technologies (HMI), it's possible for the disabled to be included in the social and pedagogic spheres, especially via computers and smartphones with social media apps and digital instruments for Augmented Reality (AR) .In this paper a nouvel HMI technology is presented with relevance for the inclusion of disabled in every day life with specific focus on the future development of "smart cities" and "smart homes".