Socio-Cultural Interpretations to the Diffusion and Use of Broadband Services in a Korean Digital Society

2011 ◽  
pp. 78-89
Author(s):  
Dal Yong Jin
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Korean History ◽  
The People ◽  
Broadband Services ◽  
Modern Korean History ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This chapter attempts to ascertain the causes of the rapid growth of broadband services in the context of the broader socio-cultural elements. It recognizes technology as a socio-cultural product which has historically been constituted by certain forms of knowledge and social practice, so this chapter explores cultural elements contributing to the diffusion of broadband services in the context of the cultural environment in Korea. Further, this chapter discusses the significant role of the people, as users, in the process of the rapid diffusion and growth of broadband services. In particular, it emphasizes the way in which the 1997 economic crisis, as one of the most significant socio-cultural turning points in modern Korean history, has influenced the deployment of broadband services as high-speed Internet connections have developed since 1997.

Socio-Cultural Interpretations to the Diffusion and Use of Broadband Services in a Korean Digital Society

2009 ◽  
pp. 1200-1212
Author(s):  
Dal Jin Yong
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Korean History ◽  
The People ◽  
Broadband Services ◽  
Modern Korean History ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This chapter attempts to ascertain the causes of the rapid growth of broadband services in the context of the broader socio-cultural elements. It recognizes technology as a socio-cultural product which has historically been constituted by certain forms of knowledge and social practice, so this chapter explores cultural elements contributing to the diffusion of broadband services in the context of the cultural environment in Korea. Further, this chapter discusses the significant role of the people, as users, in the process of the rapid diffusion and growth of broadband services. In particular, it emphasizes the way in which the 1997 economic crisis, as one of the most significant socio-cultural turning points in modern Korean history, has influenced the deployment of broadband services as high-speed Internet connections have developed since 1997.

Role of E-Governance in Citizen Centric E-Government

2013 ◽  
pp. 182-203
Author(s):  
Ganesh Chandra Deka
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence

Recent World Bank study shows that a 10% increase in mobile phone subscribers is associated with a 0.8% increase in economic growth while 10% increase in high speed Internet connections is related to a 1.3% increase in economic growth. Development of ICT infrastructure attracts foreign direct investment, generates fiscal revenues and creates employment opportunities especially for youth and women. Political, Cultural, Socio-economic developmental and behavioral decisions today rests on the ability to access, gather, analyze and utilize information. These remarkable advancements in technology and understanding of how it affects growth highlight a strategic shift in the way ICT can influence development. The distribution of this tool of wealth creation and knowledge are highly unequal amongst countries of the Globe. At the current rate of technological advancement, such disparities in access to ICT related developments are large and likely to become larger in adoption amongst the countries around the Globe. As more of the services in an economy come online, those without access to this technological advancement will be marginalized. The ubiquitous presence of Internet has penetrated every aspect of daily life. This chapter discusses the role of e-Governance in citizen centric e-Government as well as the various issues and challenges of implementation of e-Governance in general. The last part of the chapter is about the e-Governance in Indian context. This chapter is likely to give the reader an overview of e-Governance and the related issues.

Dynamic Boundaries

2021 ◽  
pp. 269-286
Author(s):  
Louise Bezuidenhout ◽  
Dori Beeler
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Practice Of Science ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Historically, ethics discourse has reinforced the “othering” of the scientist as an individual who is different, held separate from society and other forms of knowledge production. This othering results in boundary creation that is contingent on where the lines are drawn and by whom. This presents an interesting challenge to current ethics discourse, necessitating flexibility and contextuality. In this challenge, virtue ethics can make a significant contribution. By focusing on boundary ethics, the infinitely variable social practice of science is presented as a negotiation of ever-changing boundaries. Subsequently, the scientist is understood as a morally robust individual who can flexibly deal with the fluctuating spaces created by boundaries without changing their ethical integrity. As such, understanding the role of boundaries affords a very different interpretation of what science is.

Listen: First Impressions of the Office

Architects ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Thomas Yarrow
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
First Impressions ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Part One Introduces the people, places and routines that constitute the everyday working lives of the nine architects on which the book focuses. The role of the author is described as researcher and interloper. It is suggested these architects' work is centrally about the difficulties and rewards of inhabiting 'spaces between': poised between competing interests, diverse social groups, and forms of knowledge, architects encounter and resolve a series of ethical conundrums, epistemic difficulties and problems from which creative possibilities also flow.

Tricking memory, remaking the city: Trompe l’oeil and the visual transformation of a historic city in China: Chengdu

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Yanshuo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Trompe L'oeil ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The People ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City

This article discusses how Chinese cities are transforming in visually radical ways to reconfigure their historic memories. In the midst of ‘creative city campaigns’ sweeping over China, which emphasize the discovery and exploitation of the creative-historic-cultural elements of urban pasts, Chengdu, one of China’s ‘New First-tier Cities’, epitomizes the pivotal role that visual culture plays in facilitating urban change. Grounded in critical analysis of both indigenous urban-making strategies within China and Chinese cities’ borrowing of western visual practices, this article investigates how Chengdu, as an emerging metropolis in globalizing China, introduces trompe l’oeil-style photographic installations on the site of its famous Kuanzhai Alleys (Kuanzhai xiangzi) transformation project. Urban planners in Chengdu take advantage of trompe l’oeil (‘trick-the-eye’), a post-Renaissance Western artistic innovation, to blur the boundaries between memory and reality. By transforming a vernacular architectural heritage site in Chengdu into a modern interactive cultural Disneyland, urban planners create embodied interactivity on the current tourist site of the Kuanzhai Alleys. While tourists indulge in the enchanting pleasure of a bygone urban past revived through visual tricks on the site, the people of Chengdu criticize the transformed district for failing to represent the authentic memories of the city. By revealing how the Kuanzhai Alleys becomes a site of contested urban experiences, the article probes the role of artistic creations in mediating memory and reality, the past and the present in fast-changing Chinese cities.

scholarly journals The role of cloisters in historical cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Luigi Maffei ◽  
Massimiliano Masullo ◽  
Roxana Adina Toma ◽  
Danila Jacazzi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Religious Architecture ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The People ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Air Space ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
The Voice

Over the centuries religious architecture had a significant role in social and cultural life of people. In the past sacred architectures with their silent spaces were symbolic sites were the “voice” of God was invoked by religious who dedicated most of their life to prayer and spiritual readings.Among them, the cloisters, with their typical architectural conformation of open-air space protected by galleries or corridors, enriched by fountains and gardens had a relevant role also for their restorativeness' capability. They were used as healing places where body, mind and spirit could benefit from the surrounding environment.Nowadays they are still attended by men of faith, pilgrims and religious believers but also, simply, by people in searching of quietness. Their sight on the sky, the greenery and the water, and their cultural elements still affects strongly the physiological and emotional restoration process of the people and, in overcrowded cities where green areas misses, they can represent a new resource. Recent studies highlighted the possibility to use them as pockets of quiet. The paper describes their diffusion in the urban tissue of some cities in Campania and their main characteristics.

scholarly journals PERFORMANCE OF JUNGLER'S CHAMPIONS IN THE GAME LEGUE OF LEGENDS

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Victor Ferreira SILVA ◽  
Édipo Menezes SILVA ◽  
Kelly Pereira LIMA ◽  
João Domingos SCALON
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
The Status ◽  
Special Mention ◽  
Computer Controlled ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
Electronic Games ◽  
League Of Legends

Since the 1980s, there has been a widespread of high-speed internet connections, which is causing an expansion of the multiplayer electronic games industry. These games have gained the status of sport (called e-sports). Among these games, Lol (League of Legends R ) deserves special mention. In this game, players form a team of veand assume the role of a "champion" (characters with unique abilities) generally varyingaround a type of class, and battle against a team of player (or computer-controlled champions). A recurring problem is to balance these champions, that is, to leave the game as honest as possible, so that only the player's ability will be a decisive factor for the victory. The aim of this work is to perform statistical analysis of the win rates of four champions of the tenth season of the Lol game mode "Wild Rift", doing control ofthe pachs. Using ANOVA and Tukey's HSD test, we showed that even when we take only the champions with the highest winning rates, one of them stands out from the others.

scholarly journals Biography of a Painted Wessel from Starčevo: Discovering Layers of Meaning

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Bajčev
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Painted Pottery ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Representative Material

Scientific interest in the painted pottery of the Starčevo culture in Serbia dates back to the very beginnings of research and the first works on the relative-chronological systematization of the Early and Middle Neolithic of the central Balkans. This paper presents the deconstruction of our established notion of painted ceramics as the ultimate parameter of relative-chronological dating, the most representative material reflection of the cultural identity of the people of Starčevo culture and the highest achievements of Starčevo culture. The paper discusses circumstances and archaeological practices through which this ingrained view and knowledge of painted pottery was formed. The research is based on the analysis of the biography of a painted vessel from the Starčevo-Grad site, having in mind that a detailed life history of an object can shed light on wider phenomena in the archaeological discipline. The aim of this paper is to remind that objects do not have a single essential meaning, but that their meaning shifts and builds through changes in the historical and social context, as well as through changes of actors gathered around certain practices in which the objects are used. The biography of the painted vessel is therefore viewed as a series of assemblages of relations in two planes, through which its identity and layers of meaning were built. The first plane is the Neolithic, in which the focus is on the practices of painting and use, and the second is her life in the role of an archaeological artifact, during which she moves from the sphere of scientific research and musealization to the sphere of negotiating contemporary cultural identities. By applying a new analytical approach, we discovered that this vessel was not very skilfully and carefully painted, and that as such it does not testify to the highest achievements of Starčevo culture, but to a social practice, learning, apprentices and mastering the skill of pottery painting. Therefore, I believe that by reducing painted pottery to relative-chronological parameters and luxury objects, we lose sight of the possibilities through which we can build much more diverse interpretations of the past.

scholarly journals Teungku Dayah Agency and Religious Social Capital on Drug Eradication in Aceh, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Nirzalin Nirzalin ◽  
Yogi Febriandi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Religious School ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Social Capital

This article examines the success of religious social capital and the agency of teungku dayah (Islamic scholars who belong to traditional religious school) in the collective drug eradication movement in Ujong Pacu, Lhokseumawe-Aceh, Indonesia. The role of religious social capital in combating the drugs market in global drug policy has been less studied. This study provides a quite different view from most scholars who work for combating drug dealers by engaging participation of religious communities in rural society. The agency of teungku dayah succeeded in mobilizing the villagers due to the social capital that bonded the community based on religious ties. The article used live-in method, observation, in-depth and interviews to build a sociological imagination about  the patterns of social practice of the people who  become  the subject  of the research. The researchers lived in one of the villager’s houses, participated in their discussions, listened to the gossip, worshipped with them and were involved in certain jobs carried out by the community members who targeted informants. Using religious social capital, this article argues that teungku dayah effectively  used  the social and  religious capital  of the Ujong Pacu community to conduct drug eradication. Religious social capital has strong ties in unifying elements of the people in the same religion, moreover it becomes an energy that keeps motivating the community to run anti-drugs movement and driving out the drug addicts in Ujong Pacu, Lhokseumawe-Aceh.

A Statistical Study of Process Variables to Optimize a High Speed Curtain Coater: Part I

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
PEEYUSH TRIPATHI ◽  
MARGARET JOYCE ◽  
PAUL D. FLEMING ◽  
MASAHIRO SUGIHARA
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Process Variables ◽  
High Speeds ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Air Removal ◽  
Removal System

Using an experimental design approach, researchers altered process parameters and material prop-erties to stabilize the curtain of a pilot curtain coater at high speeds. Part I of this paper identifies the four significant variables that influence curtain stability. The boundary layer air removal system was critical to the stability of the curtain and base sheet roughness was found to be very important. A shear thinning coating rheology and higher curtain heights improved the curtain stability at high speeds. The sizing of the base sheet affected coverage and cur-tain stability because of its effect on base sheet wettability. The role of surfactant was inconclusive. Part II of this paper will report on further optimization of curtain stability with these four variables using a D-optimal partial-facto-rial design.

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