Technical Communication in an Information Society

2011 ◽  
pp. 3668-3673
Author(s):  
John DiMarco
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Social System ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Information Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Product Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Product

Gutenberg developed movable type and revolutionized communication. O’Hara (2001) makes identification that “from the fourteenth century on, the social system of science has depended on technical communication to describe, disseminate, criticize, use, and improve innovations and advances in science, medicine, and technology” (p.1). O’Hara’s reference provides a clear pathway to further discussion and interpretation on the rapidly changing tools, techniques, and roles that have caused the permutation of technical communication from an original tool of science and medicine in the 1400s to an academic discipline and a universally desired societal skill set for all who engage the information society. The purpose of this research is to identify the stature of technical communication in societies which engage heavily in information design, social technological product consumption, and publishing. This chapter addresses the past, present, and future issues, controversies, and roles that technical communication has had and will have on the information society.

Environmental Health and Anthropology in a County Health Department

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Roberta Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
County Health Department ◽  
Participant Observer

I became a participant observer long before I learned much about the academic discipline of anthropology. I have held a variety of unusual jobs over the past twenty years, from working as a deck hand on shrimp boats in Florida to harvesting tobacco in Kentucky. When I enrolled in graduate school, my early experiences in the fishing industry drew me to fisheries issues as they are related to the social sciences, particularly anthropology.

scholarly journals Informational Space and Its Subjective Basis

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
Marat Buzskiy
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social System ◽  
Special Property ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Information Space ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Main Function ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

The article discusses the problem of determining the information space of modern society. Considering modern interpretations of this space, the author notes the widespread approach of describing the properties of this space from the information itself contesting the relationship between the past and the present, their interaction in modern society. Trying to solve the problem we consider the constant function of the social system, i.e. the formation of its specific historical integrity in the form of the universality of the subject - a special property of the system itself expressing the achieved level of social relations of society, forming goals, defining guidelines and patterns of behavior, as well as features of consciousness and ideas of people of this society. The article deals with the peculiarities of four historical forms of universality of the subject – myth, religion, activity and information, their interaction with the social system and personality (social subjects). From this point of view the author believes that the modern information space does not reveal its real subjective potential and should be considered as a formation, since the social system itself and its subject are historically only at the beginning of its existence. The conceptual basis of the article lies in the identification of a special objective regularity – the dialectical interaction of the social system and its subject form generated by the system – a historically reproducing permanent mechanism, which, however, changes its content along with the development of society. The main function of the universality of the subject is to present or express the most common systemic quality as a kind of objective goal of society and at the same time to determine the main direction and nature of socio-spiritual and practical interactions of people in a particular historical era. Thus this subject acts as a special intermediary between specific individuals and the social system. It expresses some general quality of system structures or orders arising in different epochs objectively arising in society. Therefore, the information society and its space are not autonomous in relation to the past, but express the modern stage of this process – the formation of objective conditions of the system stability on the basis of accelerating dynamics of information processes and interactions. And the basis of these conditions, their concentrated manifestation is the universality of the subject in its information "objectification".

scholarly journals Patriotism for sale or distribution of values in the era of marketing

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-395
Author(s):  
Żanna Sładkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Code ◽  
Social System ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Proper Functioning ◽  
Distribution Of Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Integral Element

Patriotism is the foundation of the social system viability, one of the conditions for the proper functioning of the state. Patriotism is not transmitted through the genetic code, but formed in the society. Over the past two decades in Russia no ideological value has undergone such an evaluation as patriotism. After the collapse of the previous regime the governing structures have been trying to “resuscitate” patriotism as an integral element of the national mentality. Moreover, in the era of ubiquitous marketing, patriotism is not only instilled in the citizens, but also sold. Taking into account the socio-political context, enterprising people and public companies greatly expanded the range of “patriotic” products (T-shirts, hats, toys, dolls, puzzles, alphabet). The author analyzes the increasing distribution of patriotic ideas in Russia in the following areas: sports paraphernalia, souvenirs and home accessories.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DALAM LARANGAN MENYEMBELIH SAPI (Menelisik Filosofi Ajaran Sunan Kudus)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahlail Syakur
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Social System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
The Past ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hindu Community ◽  
Descriptive Method

Islam as a part of the social system comes with a mission as rahmah lil-‘alamin to take part in nation-building. On the other sides Indonesia is a multicultural country where Islam is one of the subsystems. Therefore, Islam should be introduced as the potential for an inclusive, democratic and pluralist. Sunan Kudus spreads Islam by way of acculturation traditions and local culture because at that time the majority of the population is Hindu Holy.This research includes the study of literature (library research) using the method of documentation and descriptive. Descriptive method is used to describe all of the information about the fatwa Sunan Kudus and his background. The researcher also used a historical approach to photographing the events of the past time.There are two findings in this study, namely: (1) Prohibition of slaughtering cows that produce discourse that the Kudus people have high awareness for religious tolerance when Islam was come to Kudus, (2) Character education in banning slaughter cows produced a discourse that architecture of Mosque and Kudus Minaret and fatwa "Prohibition of slaughtering cows" contains the educational value of inter-religious tolerance.Methods and strategies of propaganda Sunan Kudus conceived a view to educating the Muslim community in order to have a noble character, are willing to respect and appreciate the confidence the Hindu community who believed that the cow is considered sacred animals. 

Review of periodical articles

Urban History ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-355
Author(s):  
FREDERIK BUYLAERT ◽  
GERRIT VERHOEVEN ◽  
REINOUD VERMOESEN ◽  
TIM VERLAAN
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Museum Objects ◽  
Empirical Perspective ◽  
Current Context

From an empirical perspective, archaeologists and historians face a somewhat peculiar challenge, that is, to understand a past that is no longer with us through the discussion of wide range of objects – buildings, texts, textiles and so on – that are mere relics of that past. This challenge is complicated by what the anthropologist Arjun Appaduraj has famously called ‘the social life of things’. The material remnants of past societies do not survive in a vacuum: instead, these objects are used and re-used in new contexts in which they acquire new meanings, be it as cherished family heirlooms, as stuffy museum objects or as irritating obstacles for project developers. Consequently, these objects are suspended between the past and the present, in the sense that – as Joseph Morsel mordantly put it – ‘a restored castle is essentially a trophy of a new social system, whose might is expressed through the ruins of another social system’. Proceeding from the insight that the original meaning of objects is often clouded by the current context in which they function, historians and archaeologists are increasingly attentive to the question why – and if so, how – some material remnants of the past are re-used whereas others are not.

Technology Management: The Perspective of Social Network

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 1440011
Author(s):  
Calvin S. Weng
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Technology Management ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social

Over the past decades, technology management (TM) has gradually become an academic discipline. Many aspects of TM are worthy of study. This paper will introduce how the social network analysis (SNS) applies on the TM studies. We also briefly introduce some of the network analysis on technological studies.

The structure of mnemonic revolutions

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Mihai-Stelian Rusu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social System ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Theoretical Formula ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Break ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article proposes an evolutionary model of collective memory built on the concept of mnemonic revolution. It tries to go beyond the apparently mutual exclusive theories existing in sociological literature by integrating them into a comprehensive conceptualization. The first part of the study begins with the presentation of competing theories of collective memory developed over time. The second step presents the theoretical formula resulting from the adoption of a broader time frame (longue durée). This formula also takes into consideration the introduction of the concepts of mnemonic revolution and mnemonic reform. Mnemonic revolution is defined as a major break occurred in the structure of collective memory, which succeeds in a sociopolitical revolution, whereby the entire representation of the past is abandoned and the social labor of constructing a new retrospective vision of the past is initiated. Mnemonic reform includes the adjustable changes and the superficial reconfiguration through which the general image of the past that is incorporated into the collective memory is slightly calibrated depending on the evolution of the social system. The final part presents in a synthetic manner the way in which I sought the empirical validation of the notions developed in order to capture the dynamics of collective memory.

Adaptation and Integration in the Social System of Temne Immigrants in Freetown

Africa ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Banton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social System ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Tribal People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Successful Adaptation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThis paper presents a study of what is sometimes called detribalization—the process by which tribal people, especially those who have left their homeland and obtained paid employment in towns, are separated from the social and cultural heritage of their tribe. But this is too superficial a statement of the matter. It is necessary to define the problem in sociological terms before attempting a systematic analysis of the process. Accordingly I shall start by describing the system of social relations prevailing among Temne in Freetown, and shall examine the forces which, over the past fifty years, have influenced its character. At the beginning of this period relationships among the Temne immigrants appear to have been relatively close and stable, but, from the 1920's, disintegrative tendencies became progressively more marked until, at the end of the 1930's, the young men carried out a series of swift changes which resulted in a more successful adaptation of the system and its closer integration.

scholarly journals INFORMATION SOCIETY AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
M. Koval ◽  
A. Lytvyn
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Education System ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Social System ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Flow Monitoring ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pedagogical Science

The review article analyzes the features of the information society as a new stage in the evolution of the social system based on trends in the increasing role of information and knowledge, socio-economic and spiritual, cultural reality with the dominance of information and communication technologies operating globally. The conclusion is made about the strategic role of informatization as a leading factor in the modernization of education and science. Mankind’s transition to a social system based on the production of knowledge is associated with a sharp increase in the importance and accessibility of education, which leads to qualitative changes in the social structure. It puts forward new requirements for the education system, changing the paradigm of pedagogical science, the content and mechanisms of education, the center of which is the individual. The informatization of the educational process makes it possible to make the training of young people as close as possible to the realities of life in a global information society. It will contribute to more efficient use of information, energy, and labor resources to improve the quality of training. However, psychological and pedagogical science has laid only the foundation so far, the conceptual and methodological basis for the study of information resources and processes occurring within the educational system, the development, and implementation of effective computer-oriented educational technologies. In our opinion, the development and application of a holistic scientific apparatus will make it possible to identify the essential characteristics of the informatization process, the conditions of its course, ways of optimization, as well as to develop the tools for information flow monitoring in education. Informatization should be considered as a process of creating a unified information educational space ensuring the availability and efficiency of use, integration, and unification of the resources of the information and educational environment for all the institutions of the education system.

scholarly journals ADVICE FROM A PROFESSIONAL: The DNA of a Technical Communicator

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Mette Nyberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technical Communicators ◽  
Technical Communicator

Unlike our peers in the US or UK, the technical communicators in the Danish/Scandinavian region have not had the luck of easy access to formal education within the field of technical communication. I claim that most of us technical communicators in the Danish/Scandinavian region do not have a formal technical communication degree. We have learned on the job – spiced with relevant courses (such as Information Mapping), and we have kept ourselves up to date by attending conferences, reading books and articles. For the past 10 years or so we have been blessed with the growing wealth of information on the Internet to keep us in the loop and the social media to exchange views and experiences.This article discusses the evolution of a technical communicator profile as known in the Danish/Scandinavian region and what it takes to become a good technical communicator. What is indeed the skill set of a good technical communicator? Is there at all a future for technical communicators - and is it a promising career path?

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