Evolving Information Ecologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Hanne Westh Nicolajsen ◽  
Jørgen P. Bansler
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Information Ecologies

This chapter examines how people in organizations appropriate new computer-based media, that is, how they adopt, recon?gure, and integrate advanced communication technologies such as groupware or desktop conferencing systems into their work practice. The chapter presents and analyzes ?ndings from an in-depth ?eld study of the adoption and use of a Web-based groupware application—a “virtual workspace”—in a large multinational ?rm. The analysis focuses, in particular, on the fact that people in modern organizations have plenty of media at their disposal and often combine old and new media to accomplish their work tasks. Furthermore, it highlights the crucial role of organizational communication genres in shaping how people adopt and use new media. The authors argue that understanding and facilitating the process of appropriation is the key to the successful introduction of new media in organizations.

Evolving Information Ecologies

2009 ◽  
pp. 751-769
Author(s):  
Hanne Westh Nicolajsen ◽  
Jorgen P. Bansler
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Information Ecologies

This chapter examines how people in organizations appropriate new computer-based media, that is, how they adopt, recon?gure, and integrate advanced communication technologies such as groupware or desktop conferencing systems into their work practice. The chapter presents and analyzes ?ndings from an in-depth ?eld study of the adoption and use of a Web-based groupware application—a “virtual workspace”—in a large multinational ?rm. The analysis focuses, in particular, on the fact that people in modern organizations have plenty of media at their disposal and often combine old and new media to accomplish their work tasks. Furthermore, it highlights the crucial role of organizational communication genres in shaping how people adopt and use new media. The authors argue that understanding and facilitating the process of appropriation is the key to the successful introduction of new media in organizations.

Evolving Information Ecologies

2009 ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Hanne Westh Nicolajsen ◽  
Jorgen P. Bansler
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Multinational Firm ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Information Ecologies

This chapter examines how people in organizations appropriate new computer-based media, that is, how they adopt, reconfigure, and integrate advanced communication technologies such as groupware or desktop conferencing systems into their work practice. The chapter presents and analyzes findings from an in-depth field study of the adoption and use of a Web-based groupware application—a “virtual workspace”—in a large multinational firm. The analysis focuses, in particular, on the fact that people in modern organizations have plenty of media at their disposal and often combine old and new media to accomplish their work tasks. Furthermore, it highlights the crucial role of organizational communication genres in shaping how people adopt and use new media. The authors argue that understanding and facilitating the process of appropriation is the key to the successful introduction of new media in organizations.

The Role of Digital Application Literacy in Online Assessment

2021 ◽  
pp. 004723952110526
Author(s):  
LeAnne J. Schmidt ◽  
Michael DeSchryver
Keyword(s):  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Return To School ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Academic Consequences

As educators and administrators look to countless mobile apps, software programs, and web-based learning tools to meet the demands of students in remote, virtual, and hybrid settings, risks and assumptions of online platforms and assessments must be considered. With the urgency of the COVID-response closure of many schools and the unusual methods employed during the return to school in Fall 2020, there is no better time to examine the digital application literacy which is necessary for students to effectively transition to online learning and assessment. “Digital application literacy” (DAppLit), a specific form of media literacy, involves the nimble use of an app (web-based) or application (computer-based) for education, including assessment. Learners with impaired DAppLit face academic consequences, when insufficient literacy in the platform is the culprit. This paper first explores various skills and strategies from both traditional and digital assessments that digital application literacy requires. Then, it presents the value of low-stakes assessment experiences with applications to introduce navigation techniques and troubleshoot barriers users may face before undertaking weighted assessments. The importance of skills instruction and practice of DAppLit methods is presented. A four-step process is introduced to: 1) set learning goals; 2) guide learners through the application with explicit instructions before use; 3) provide low-stakes explorations; and 4) debrief to address any issues which could represent a failing of application literacy and not content knowledge in an assessment.

Cultural Acceptance of ICTs

2011 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Jasmine M. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Information Ecologies

The emergence of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has generated much debate both in and out of academia in relation to theories ranging from economic advancement to imperialism. In the context of the ‘low-income’ economies, a dominant discourse associated with ICTs persists. The discourse of development predicts that nations which have joined the global market will use ICTs to harness global knowledge that will enable them to be competitive and therefore attain development. This has led to change in policy from international to local as ICTs are embraced as the next big development tool. Recently however, there have been reports of more failures of ICTs initiatives than success as professionals in the industry complain about unsustainability of the systems. A genuine issue is that so far analysis of this discourse has tended to be economically or technically deterministic, with little attention paid to social and cultural perspectives. In order to understand how the role of norms, practices and politics of people in particular communities play in this discourse in ‘low income’ economies, over 1000 semi-qualitative questionnaires were analysed from five geographical locations in The Gambia. A key conclusion that has emerged from the research is that there are different attitudes towards the ICTs in the different locations, which vary from full acceptance to rejection of ICTs. Such diverse reactions are underpinned by the religion and information ecologies in which gender plays a critical part. This result challenges the ICT4D agenda, and might be applied to reports of unsustainable ICT initiatives, especially in Africa.

scholarly journals Learning analytics to improve writing skills for young children – an holistic approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Steinhauer ◽  
Michael Gros ◽  
Martin Ebner ◽  
Markus Ebner ◽  
Anneliese Huppertz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Write Text

Purpose Due to the important role of orthography in society, the project called IDeRBlog presented in this paper created a web-based tool to motivate pupils to write text as well as to read and to comment on texts written by fellow students. In addition, IDeRBlog aims to improve student’s German orthography skills and supports teachers and parents with training materials for their students. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach With the aid of learning analytics, the submitted text is analyzed and special feedback is given to the students so that they can try to correct the misspelled words themselves. The teachers as well as the parents are benefiting from the analysis and exercises suggested by the system. Findings A recent study showed the efficiency of the system in form of an improvement of the students’ orthographic skills. Over a period of four months 70 percent of the students achieved a significant reduction of their spelling mistakes. Originality/value IDeRBlog is an innovative approach to improving orthography skills combining blogging and new media with writing and practice.

scholarly journals Digital vs Material: the Everyday Construction of Mediated Political Action

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Barassi
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Trade Union Movement ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Groups

The relationship between internet technologies and political action has often been analysed with an emphasis on the empowering qualities brought about by the digital age. Frequently, this is to the detriment of further consideration of the continuing role of ‘old’/traditional media, yet, campaigning organisations and political groups in Britain are still investing their few economic resources in the production of printed activist magazines, as well as developing web-based platforms. Based on ethnographic research amongst solidarity campaign organisations and the Trade Union movement in Britain, this paper will show that the relationship between internet technologies and social movements is embedded in a double tension of empowerment and anxiety. It is by considering this ambivalent tension – the paper will argue – that we can shed some light on the continuing role of printed media in the everyday mediation of political action, and we can better appreciate how new media have not replaced old media but may have powerfully transformed their meaning.

scholarly journals The Arrival of Prosumers and Produsers: Transformations of User Practices in the New Media

Monitor ISH ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Tadej Praprotnik
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Multimedia Production ◽  
Interactive Nature ◽  
Basic Characteristics

The article presents the phenomenon of new communication technologies. Focusing on the role of the social media (Web 2.0), it sketches certain global trends in the field of the new media and explains the role of software as an important ‘generator’ of everyday life. The basic characteristics of the traditional one-way mass communication and consumption of media products are contrasted with the interactive nature of the new media and a recent resulting phenomenon – user-generated media contents. The article goes on to present an important element of the new media cultures – interactivity, discussing its transforming effect on such traditional media categories as the ‘audience’, and introducing categories typical of the new media, such as ‘produser’ and ‘prosumer’. Technology is discussed as an elaborate and fluid apparatus dependent on society: an apparatus which reinforces the new and previously ignored cultural relations. The process of multimedia production is presented through different types of inclusion as promised by the technological forms. The article further investigates the World Wide Web as a multimedia form which has absorbed many other media types. The multimedia production of web pages and other cultural products has been a major channel for the democratisation of cultural production, as well as a field for the expression of individuals. The final topic to be addressed is the question of creativity, which is an important promise of the new media production.

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable Base of Pyramid Market: Role of ICTs in Shared Innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-443
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ilyas ◽  
Sulaman Hafeez Siddiqui ◽  
Rabia Rasheed
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Base Of The Pyramid ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The People ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Bop Markets ◽  
Base Of Pyramid ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this paper is to make a systematic review of the literature on role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in sustainability of the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) markets by studying the impact of ICT on innovation development at BOP. BOP markets are those segments of the global markets that have an income of about two to four dollars or less and are untapped fortunes for the business (Prahalad, 2002). BOP is fraught with dearth of infrastructure and resources which makes it hard for business firms to work out viable and sustainable strategies as the separations between the producers and end users are much wider in these markets compared with developed markets. Use of ICT helps reduce these separations by developing shared innovations with the people at BOP. Systematic literature review approach has been adopted to analyze the peer-reviewed journals for the period 2000 to 2019 using Google Scholar and Science Direct. BOP, ICT and Shared Innovations were the key words used in this search. Our findings suggest that ICT has significant role in development of shared innovations at the BOP markets as it bridges the physical market separation with its internet and web-based networks. This research has implications for busines managers, as it will guide them in making viable and sustainable strategies to run their businesses in these huge un-tapped markets.

scholarly journals The role of digital/online resources in the Jewish Diaspora communities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dov Winer
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Education ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Jewish Diaspora ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The Impact

Globalization, in its earlier stages, was expected to erode national and ethnic identities. In contrast, ethnicity and ethnic affiliations persisted, growing socially and politically. This paper examines the role of the globalizing new communications technologies on this process, focusing on Diasporas. The study of trans-state networks based on ethnic solidarity, connections and affinities in the framework of social and political science is quite recent. Following a clarification of the distinction between classical and modern Diasporas we analyse a particular case study, that of the Jewish Diaspora. This diaspora was an early adopter of computer-based communications and the Internet for a wide range of purposes. Early events are described including the diffusion of the Internet to Israel, the planning of a Global Jewish Information Network, Israel 2020 macro scenarios for Israel and the Jewish People and the decision on Jewish Peoplehood through communication technologies. A survey of historical systems (Responsa, BBS, and Usenet) follows by a description of the Jewish population and the wide variety of Jewish Web based activities today. These include the Institutional landscape; Jewish media — press, radio, video and blogs; the impact on Jewish religious observance; Jewish genealogy; Online dating; Social networks; Jewish education; Online learning; Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities; Jewish memory. Judaica Europeana supports the activities previously described by aggregating and facilitating the access and the re-use of Jewish digital culture. Europeana is the leading global digital library for cultural heritage as well as a lively eco-system for relevant stakeholders.

scholarly journals Desing in new media practices: A review on facebook ads as a social network

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seçil Ermiş
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Short Time

The requirement of reaching the target audience in a short time and simultaneously, which is located at the core of new media environment, is one of the common goals of today’s communication tools. The impediments between humans such as geography, language, limited information and limited visuals are now obsolete. Virtual environments, which have become a part of our everyday life with communication technologies, also create a study field in advertising.  Delivering advertisements to the target audience at the lowest cost and in the shortest time, addressing to both individuals with the lowest financial sources and individuals with highest financial sources and allowing global multi-communication are factors that have helped virtual environments excel over other communication technologies and lent impetus to digital advertising. Social networking environments, where new advertising practices are observed in the new media, are defined as web-based services that connect world-wide computer networks and allow them to communicate. Facebook is one of such social networking environments. Hundreds of thousands of people are exposed to insistent and imposing advertisements on online environment due to advertisements posted via Facebook. A good design and creativity is required in order to successfully convince the target audience. Graphic design is, therefore, of great importance in the advertising industry. Graphic design in advertising combines elements that help convey the message to the consumer more quickly, easily and effectively. In this study, a literature review was conducted in terms of facebook ads, graphic design discipline, advertising, advertising strategies of agencies and these were investigated using qualitative research methods.Keywords: Facebook, social media, design and media, advertising

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