HyperReality

2011 ◽  
pp. 368-374
Author(s):  
Nobuyoshi Terashima
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
As If

On the Internet, a cyberspace is created where people communicate together usually by using textual messages. Therefore, they cannot see together in the cyberspace. Whenever they communicate, it is desirable for them to see together as if they were gathered at the same place. To achieve this, various kinds of concepts have been proposed such as a collaborative environment, tele-immersion, and telepresence (Sherman & Craig, 2003).

HyperReality

2009 ◽  
pp. 631-640
Author(s):  
Nobuyoshi Terashima
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Virtual Human ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Real ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
Communication Paradigm ◽  
As If

On the Internet, a cyberspace is created where people communicate together, usually by using textual messages. Therefore, they cannot see each other in cyberspace. Whenever they communicate, it is desirable for them to see each other as if they were gathered at the same place. To achieve this, various kinds of concepts have been proposed, such as a collaborative environment, Tele-Immersion, and tele-presence (Sherman & Craig, 2003). In this article, HyperReality (HR) is introduced. HR is a communication paradigm between the real and the virtual (Terashima, 1995, 2002; Terashima & Tiffin, 2002; Terashima, Tiffin, & Ashworth, in press). The real means a real inhabitant, such as a real human or a real animal. The virtual means a virtual inhabitant, a virtual human, or a virtual animal. HR provides a communication environment where inhabitants, real or virtual, that are at different locations, meet and do cooperative work together as if they were gathered at the same place. HR can be developed based on virtual reality (VR) and telecommunications technologies.

Little Chicken Duck by T. Beiser

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Deakin
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Bald Eagle ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
School Librarian ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Education Faculty ◽  
Primary School Student ◽  
As If

Beiser.Tim. Little Chicken Duck. Illus. Bill Slavin. Toronto, ON: Tundra Books, 2013. Print. When a duckling refuses a frog’s invitation to jump into the water and paddle, the frog introduces her to the other birds and asks them to reassure her. One by one they confess the fears they faced when they were young. The owl mistook fireflies for goblins’ eyes, the lark was afraid to sing, and the robin hated getting wet. Each bird they meet tells a tale of overcoming their fears until the duckling is playing happily in the water. But what, the duckling wonders, made the frog afraid when he was a pollywog? The frog admits it was ducks.Little Chicken Duck is an amusing introduction to facing one’s fears. The rhymes are strong and designed to allow young voices to join in while an adult reads aloud, and Bill Slavin’s illustrations are, as always, bold, brightly coloured and inviting. The animals’ fears are portrayed with character and humour. My favourite, an American bald eagle, dramatically pronounces his fear of thunderstorms as if he were holding forth on centre stage: with his beak powerfully declaiming, his wing thrust out for emphasis and with pointed claws. A child may not catch all of what Slavin is portraying, but then something must be left to trigger an adult’s sense of humour as they read.Recommended stars: 3 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Andrea DeakinAndrea has been involved with books since she was class librarian in Primary School, Student Librarian in Grammar School, student librarian for the Education Faculty when she was a student, and school librarian in schools both in England and in Canada, except for the first two years in Canada where she arrived in 1959. When she retired from teaching ( English and History) she was invited to review in February 1971, and continued to review for press, radio, and finally on the Internet (Deakin Newsletter from Okanagan College) until she retired in 2011. Forty years seemed sufficient- although she still cannot keep her nose out of good children's and YA fare.

scholarly journals Decentralization: An Incomplete Ambition

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Decentralized Systems ◽  
Technical Term ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Social Arrangements ◽  
High Standards ◽  
As If

Decentralization is a term widely used in a variety of contexts, particularly in political science and discourses surrounding the Internet. It is popular today among advocates of blockchain technology. While frequently employed as if it were a technical term, decentralization more reliably appears to operate as a rhetorical strategy that directs attention toward some aspects of a proposed social order and away from others. It is called for far more than it is theorized or consistently defined. This non-specificity has served to draw diverse participants into common political and technological projects. Yet even the most apparently decentralized systems have shown the capacity to produce economically and structurally centralized outcomes. The rhetoric of decentralization thus obscures other aspects of the re-ordering it claims to describe. It steers attention from where concentrations of power are operating, deferring worthwhile debate about how such power should operate. For decentralization to be a reliable concept in formulating future social arrangements and related technologies, it should come with high standards of specificity. It also cannot substitute for anticipating centralization with appropriate mechanisms of accountability.

Online Life and Online Bodies

2011 ◽  
pp. 946-951
Author(s):  
Jonathan Marshall
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
Body Metaphor ◽  
As If

Bodies are often claimed to be irrelevant to online activity. Online space, or activity, is frequently described as if disembodied, and often this absence of visible bodies is said to contribute to freedom from social pressures around gender, race, and body type (Reid, 1996). However, without bodies, people could not access the Internet, and online there are continual references, directly and indirectly, to bodies, so the term disembodied references a particular type of “ghost” body. Therefore, rather than accepting ideas that naturalise dislocating life online from bodies, it is necessary to explore the situations in which this occurs. Another commonly used body metaphor is the cyborg: the melding of human with machine. In both cases, the body is usually taken as underlying what is happening and as a referent for authenticity.

scholarly journals THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Rizkia Annisa Fitri
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Science ◽  
The Media ◽  
As If

The death of expertise is an attack on the already established knowledge and adverse effects of half-half information in the community from the presence of Google, Wikipedia and blogs, many laymen who tend to degrade intellectually and advice from Experts. So feel quite satisfied with the information obtained from the media without the want to prove the truth and do not want to learn to find out. As if throwing science, damaging practices, and not willing to develop new science. Again the citizens were reluctant and felt already had enough information to make a decision. The death of expertise is not only the rejection of the already established knowledge, but the rejection of science and and the impartial rationality that is the basis of modern civilization. Most of the responses were shown against the presence of the Internet as a biang. Too simple, or lest this is just an anxiety among professional circles that occurs whenever there is a social or technological change. Without being denied, it is also possible that the death of expertise is a sign of progress.

Labor on tap: Putting the internet crowd to work

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-145
Author(s):  
Nora S. Stampfl
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Internet ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
As If ◽  
Working Processes

In the era of connectivity, companies find fundamentally new ways of accessing workforce: On the internet a standby labor force is at their disposal allowing to source labor on demand - just like electricity from the socket. It seems as if the masses of people willingly offering their skills, time and energy to crowdsourcing platforms can be considered a state-of-the-art manifestation of standing-reserve as Martin Heidegger described with regard to nature. His concept of standing-reserve denotes the fact that something exists just to be ready for use and functions merely as a source of profit. The fact that companies today have labor available on tap also results in new forms of working, which are determined by peculiarities and specific ways of how the platforms organize working processes and deal with the crowd. To ensure performance and to deliver a consistent service the platforms must incessantly exert force in order to turn a scattered pool of individuals into a purposeful whole. The standby labor force can be seen as an extreme instance of how algorithmically infused processes shape the contours of labor today.

scholarly journals Google Flu Trends y los datos masivos: ¿extrapolable al ébola? / Google Flu Trendsand Mass Data: Extrapolated to Ebola?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-163
Author(s):  
Pilar Jose Lopez Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Google Trends ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mass Data ◽  
Data Journalism ◽  
Google Search ◽  
As If

ABSTRACTMillions of people surf the Internet through the Google search engine. This company leveraging in-training your users  Google  Flu  Trends  developed  in  2008. This tool was  created  with  the  aim  of  collecting  data  for  the  incidence  of  influenza in a country with high precision. This application records queries that netizens through its search engine Google and the data obtained their own conclusions, as if from a study of epidemiology is involved. Three years later the development of this  tool, in 2011, the information  you  offer data did not resemble reality. What had happened? The Data Journalism was failing. Many users who did not have the flu seeking information on the Internet and Google Flu Trends counted them how sick. With this paper is to analyze this tool andcompare their progress and results with Ebola disease.RESUMENMillones de personas navegan en Internet a través del buscador de Google. Esta compañía aprovechando la información de sus usuarios desarrolló Google Flu Trends en 2008. Esta herramienta nace con el objetivo de  recabar datos para obtener la incidencia de la gripe en un país determinado con una gran precisión.  Esta aplicación registra las consultas  que hacen los cibernautas a través de su buscador Google y con esos datos  obtiene sus propias conclusiones, como si de un estudio de epidemiología se tratara. Tres años más tarde del desarrollo de esta herramienta, en  2011,  la información que ofrecían los datos no se asemejaban a la realidad. ¿Qué había pasado? El Periodismo de datos estaba fallando. Muchos usuarios que no padecían la gripe buscaban información en Internet y Google Trends Flu los contaba cómo enfermos. Con este paper se pretende analizar esta herramienta y comparar su evolución y resultados con la enfermedad del ébola.

India’s iGen : Growing Up with Nomophobia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Eastern State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
As If

Sometime in the middle of May in 2017—at the height of summer in India—a grainy mobile phone video began to make its way across the country. The recording rocketed from phone to phone, first in the eastern state of Jharkhand and then nationally, circulating among groups on WhatsApp. The video was shot in portrait, showing a man beaten and bloodied, crumpled up on a patch of barren earth. His white undershirt was rolled up to his chest and drenched in blood. Encircling him was a small mob of men armed with cane sticks. Several appeared to be filming the proceedings on their phones. “You son of a bitch,” someone screamed. “Motherfucker! We’ll kill you!” A cacophony of abuse was under way. The man was pleading for his life, but his cries were drowned out by a rising tide of expletives and fury. The mob continued to beat the man. The video cut to black. The subject, Sheikh Haleem, was killed. He was only twenty-eight. Six others were killed as well, across two separate vigilante attacks. It was as if a cloud of rage had suddenly descended on a small part of Jharkhand, propelling village men to embark on extrajudicial murder sprees. It turned out that a rumor had spread that a group of strangers was abducting children from nearby villages. The rumor made its way onto WhatsApp; the rumor morphed into “news”; the news, circulating from phone to phone, villager to villager, was weaponized; a group of locals decided to act. The rest happened very quickly. A mob was formed. Strangers were produced, beaten up, and murdered. Justice was delivered. The recordings of the killings were duly sent back out into the ether of WhatsApp, completing the cycle of horror. Jharkhand’s police were befuddled. There had been no reported cases of child abductions. The rumor was completely unfounded. “Rumors have always flourished in India,” says Pratik Sinha, the founder of a myth-busting website, AltNews.in. “But it’s become exponentially dangerous because of the internet.”

scholarly journals Metaverse : The Next Big Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Sarswati .
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Real ◽  
Broad Term ◽  
Digital Spaces ◽  
As If

In this study, we are discussing about the Metaverse. It is the latest and hot buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination. Metaverse is a broad term. It is generally 'refers' to shared 3D virtural word environment which people can access via internet. Metaverse is where the real world meets the virtual world. It focuses will be to bring the Metaverse to life and help people connect, find communication and grow businesses. According to CEO Mark Zukerberg : The Metaverse, which he sees as the next generation of the internet, as a virtual environment that will allow people to be present with each other in digital spaces. It brings together their apps/technologies under new company brand. Faacebook’s, I mean, Meta’s, recent rebrand and investments triggered a new wage of interest in the metaverse. It’s all over headlines, corporate news, memes, gaming platforms, and social media. The word’s increased ubiquity is creating an impending sense of doom, as if, at any moment, our physical lives will be engulfed in corporate pixels and paywalled interactions.

The Rhetoric and Realities of Internet Technologies on Trade Union Marketing

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Peter John Stokes ◽  
Brian Jones ◽  
Howard Kline
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Web ◽  
As If

The internet and the many technologies it has generated (for example, social media) create varying impacts in specific sectors. Trades unions (TUs) are a case in point and are significant longstanding institutions which have developed over a number of centuries in many different national contexts. While the internet has been adopted by TUs, they have also generally been cast in an idealised light as if the web should automatically be expected to radically transform and improve processes, communities, and relations. The paper challenges this zeitgeist and suggests that the predominant ‘utopian'-style idealistic presentation of TU and the web is the product of technological determinism. This has important implications for TUs ‘lived experiences' and realpolitik. There is a risk that technologies will continue to operate at a macro, rather than a micro individual level, and be more dominated by managerial and commercial motives which encroach on legitimate TU representation and resistance rather than TU interests.

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