Designing Eco Cities With the Understanding of Digital Nomads

Abstract Coronavirus is the first global crisis of a digital age and the divergence in policy responses reflects the challenge of navigating an unprecedented global situation under conditions of enormous uncertainty. We ask what lessons can be learned from this experience and identify two, both of which push against mainstream interpretations of recent events. First, and contrary to the view that the crisis exposed social media and Big Tech as a source of dangerous misinformation that needs to be regulated more strictly, the paper argues that the less mediated spaces of the Internet—social media and Twitter, in particular—played an essential role in triggering a more effective policy response based around social distancing, lockdown, and containment. Second, and contrary to the view that things will go back to normal once the worst of the crisis has passed, the paper argues that, as a direct result of lockdown, the status quo has been shifted across multiple sectors of the economy. Three examples of this shift are introduced, notably the forced experimentation with digital technologies in education and health, the increased use of remote work in many companies, and a reduction in environmentally harmful behavior and decrease in pollution levels. The long-term effects of this ‘reset’ are impossible to predict, but a quick return to the ‘old normal’ seems unlikely. The paper concludes with the suggestion that this reset has created a unique historical opportunity for the reappraisal of regulatory approaches across multiple domains and exposed the need for regulatory models better aligned to a less mediated, more decentralized world. COVID-19 is a global tragedy, but—given that it has happened—it should be used as a learning experience to re-imagine a better, more socially, and environmentally responsible future.

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Business Literacy Education in the Digital Age

Research Anthology on Business and Technical Education in the Information Era ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-5345-9.ch036 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 649-664

Author(s):

Ozlem Geylani

Keyword(s):

Financial Literacy ◽

Cell Phones ◽

Digital Age ◽

Learning Activities ◽

Learning Tools ◽

Time Saving ◽

Internet Connection ◽

Digital World ◽

Industrial Age ◽

Knowledge Age

The digital world currently presents many learning tools and knowledge sources about business literacy. Considering today's learners, digital improvements suggest time-saving learning tools and processes for individual or mass learning activities. Since the industrial age and through the knowledge age, we still use and improve network elements in the digital age. Computers, tablets, televisions, cell phones are instantly becoming the distributors of knowledge in or out of spaces. However, learners in the digital age by the freedom of internet connection points may easily reach to videos, podcasts, or especially, to games that are based on individual learning activities. In respect to the aim of this chapter, an overview is targeted about the understanding of business literacy in the digital age, and it also mentions financial literacy as a supporting literature review. The research finally proposes a realization on the dilemma of the abundance of the knowledge in business and financial literacy leaving out the scarcity of digital tools and sources.

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Evolution of Aesthetic Ideas in the Art of Sound Recording

Observatory of Culture ◽

10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-4-116-122 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 116-122

Author(s):

Vasiliy N. Sibiryakov

Keyword(s):

Digital Age ◽

Practical Implementation ◽

Aesthetic Perception ◽

Sound Recording ◽

Music Culture ◽

Modern Period ◽

Aesthetic Ideas ◽

Technical Solutions ◽

The Way

The article deals with the way of sound records creation as a special interaction between a man and a technology in music culture, beginning from the technical and aesthetic ideas of the Modern Period up to their complete practical implementation by sound engineers of the Digital Age. The author describes the dynamics of aesthetic perception of technical solutions in the sound recording, which have subsequently determined the contemporary musical art.

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Business Literacy Education in the Digital Age

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts - Handbook of Research on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Literacy in the Digital Age ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1534-1.ch006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 88-104

Author(s):

Ozlem Geylani

Keyword(s):

Financial Literacy ◽

Cell Phones ◽

Digital Age ◽

Learning Activities ◽

Learning Tools ◽

Time Saving ◽

Internet Connection ◽

Digital World ◽

Industrial Age ◽

Knowledge Age

The digital world currently presents many learning tools and knowledge sources about business literacy. Considering today's learners, digital improvements suggest time-saving learning tools and processes for individual or mass learning activities. Since the industrial age and through the knowledge age, we still use and improve network elements in the digital age. Computers, tablets, televisions, cell phones are instantly becoming the distributors of knowledge in or out of spaces. However, learners in the digital age by the freedom of internet connection points may easily reach to videos, podcasts, or especially, to games that are based on individual learning activities. In respect to the aim of this chapter, an overview is targeted about the understanding of business literacy in the digital age, and it also mentions financial literacy as a supporting literature review. The research finally proposes a realization on the dilemma of the abundance of the knowledge in business and financial literacy leaving out the scarcity of digital tools and sources.

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Regimes de verdade e poder: dos tempos modernos à era digital | Regimes of truth and power: from modern times to the digital age

Liinc em Revista ◽

10.18617/liinc.v13i2.4073 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Arthur Coelho Bezerra ◽

Rafael Capurro ◽

Marco Schneider

Keyword(s):

Digital Age ◽

Human Being ◽

Human History ◽

Modern Times ◽

Modern Period

RESUMO A partir de uma reflexão sobre a recente popularidade do termo “pós-verdade”, pretendemos discutir algumas noções de verdade que encontraram morada na história humana dos últimos séculos, com destaque para dois “regimes de verdade”: a concepção positivista de verdade que caracteriza o período moderno, sugerindo o encerramento epistemológico da era medieval; e a interpretação de verdade segundo a ótica do materialismo dialético. Acreditamos que os temas e problemas abordados são de suma importância para pensarmos a liberdade (ou o ser humano, entendendo “ser” como verbo ativo) no contexto de hiperinformação e desinformação que se desvela na atual era digital. Palavras-chave: Verdade; Pós-Verdade; Regimes de Verdade; Informação; Era Digital.ABSTRACT From a reflection on the recent popularity of the term “post-truth”, we discuss some notions of truth that have been consolidated in human history over the last centuries, highlighting two “regimes of truth”: the positivist conception of truth that characterizes the modern period, suggesting the epistemological closure of the medieval era, and the interpretation of truth according to the dialectical materialist view. We believe that the themes and problems addressed here are of paramount importance in thinking about freedom (or the human being, understanding “being” as an active verb, not as an essence) in the context of hyperinformation and disinformation that is revealed in the current digital age.Keywords: Truth; Post-Truth; Regimes of Truth; Information; Digital Age.

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‘A new god will walk’: Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and the birth of the posthuman in Westworld

Cahiers Élisabéthains A Journal of English Renaissance Studies ◽

10.1177/0184767819864361 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 100 (1) ◽

pp. 6-23

Author(s):

Katarzyna Burzyńska

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

New World ◽

Early Modern Period ◽

Digital Age ◽

Modern Period ◽

Works Of Art ◽

Brave New World ◽

New Race ◽

Canonical Texts

Westworld, a highly acclaimed TV series by HBO, can boast a whole wealth of references to canonical texts, famous works of art and cultural icons. I would argue that the series alludes to numerous Renaissance works in order to address the crises of humanity in the digital age. The aim of this article is to investigate the parallels between the ‘brave new world’ of the early modern period and the postmodern period, both from which the series draws inspiration. I wish to discuss the functions of Shakespearean and other early modern references in the context of a dystopian vision of the fall of man and the emergence of a new race.

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Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300044508 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 62-79

Author(s):

W.J. Boot

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

Foreign Relations ◽

East Asian ◽

Modern Period ◽

Cultural Sphere ◽

Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

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