Maximizing Collaboration Using Topic Maps-Based Ontology

2010 ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
Myongho Yi
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Information Organization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
User Performance ◽  
Topic Maps ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Structured Information ◽  
Ontology Languages

Enhanced information organization is more critical than ever in the digital world where ill-structured information is increasing because of the rapid growth of intranets, the Internet, and user-created content. This chapter discusses limitations of current information organization approaches in the digital age and incorporating ontology into information organizations, thus enhancing collaboration possibilities. This chapter compares the two ontology languages, RDF and Topic Maps, addresses the selection guidelines between the two ontology languages, and then presents user performance using a Topic Maps-based ontology.

scholarly journals Sociocultural Aspects of Intergenerational Communications in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-373
Author(s):  
Evgeniya V. Listvina ◽  
◽  
Svetlana M. Frolova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
New Generation

The article deals with the problem of interaction between generations in the emerging digital age. With the introduction of digital technologies into everyday life, qualitatively new conditions for the existence of society are formed, what affects the interaction of generations. Based on the following classification of generations – the “book” generation, the “TV” generation, the “Internet” generation – which have different value attitudes, specific ways of organizing work, communication, forming value ideas and priorities, different ways of experiencing life in general, the authors explore the characteristic features of a new generation. These include the problem of freedom and transparency of existence in the world of gadgets. The article also discusses the problem of communication in the presence of an intermediary – a gadget that sets its own rules of social interaction, including short communications aimed at achieving fractional, rapid goals, what leads to the situativeness of human existence in the digital world. The next problem that follows from the previous one is the problem of personality and its self-determination, which is expressed in the presence of polyidentities. The fourth characteristic feature is a specific way of getting information. The turn-of-the-century generation is also characterized by the absence of a “big hero” and the absence of a “big goal” that people of previous generations aspired to. As a way to achieve intergenerational consensus, we propose the formation of a multi-figurative culture in which all the generations which we have identified participate equally.

Free Speech in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Right

This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech. The rapid expansion of online communication, as well as the changing roles of government and private organizations in monitoring and regulating the digital world, give rise to new questions, including: How do philosophical defenses of the right to freedom of expression, developed in the age of the town square and the printing press, apply in the digital age? Should search engines be covered by free speech principles? How should international conflicts over online speech regulations be resolved? Is there a right to be forgotten that is at odds with the right to free speech? How has the Internet facilitated new speech-based harms such as cyber-stalking, twitter-trolling, and “revenge” porn, and how should these harms be addressed? The contributors to this groundbreaking volume include philosophers, legal theorists, political scientists, communications scholars, public policy makers, and activists.

scholarly journals Internet Meme in the System of Social Mythology of the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Denis Sergeyevich Artamonov ◽  
Svetlana Mikhailovna Frolova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ivan The Terrible

The paper discusses the place of Internet memes in the structure of the social mythology of the digital world. The authors understand the Internet meme as a communication phenomenon. They characterize it as an online miniformat genre. An Internet meme integrates an image with an ironic text caption for a concise assessment of a situation, state or phenom-enon and visualization of reality. The myth is em-bedded in the semantic structure of the meme, which spreads it to large audiences. In the post-truth era, Internet memes are not only retransmitters of myths, but also actively create a new social my-thology, allowing network users to interpret reality in accordance with their worldview, laid down by mass culture. As a result, the myth becomes a fake, and the Internet meme becomes an effective way of spreading it. Analyzed memes “Karl!” and “The Wrong Guy” as examples of modifying archaic myths and constructing a new social mythology, as well as memes “Ivan the Terrible kills”, “Peter I and Shrek”, “Lenin is a mushroom” as confirmation of the thesis about the transformation of political and historical myths into a fake form.

Cloud Computing in Library

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Angelė Pečeliūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
International Experience ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library Services ◽  
General Activity ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Computing Services

The article analyses the possibility of how Cloud Computing can be used by libraries to organise activities online. In order to achieve a uniform understanding of the essence of technology SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS, the article discusses the Cloud Computing services, which can be used for the relocation of libraries to the Internet. The improvement of the general activity of libraries in the digital age, the analysis of the international experience in the libraries are examples. Also the article discusses the results of a survey of the Lithuanian scientific community that confirms that 90% of the scientific community is in the interest of getting full access to e-publications online. It is concluded that the decrease in funding for libraries, Cloud Computing can be an economically beneficial step, expanding the library services and improving their quality.

Tendencies of development of modern innovative technologies and the digital economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
S. M. Doguchaeva
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The era of digital transformation provides the opportunity for leading companies to change priorities - to begin to take care of the support environment using innovative technologies and become a leading creative platform open for innovation. The successful development of the digital world, the blockchain technology, the Internet of things – the mechanism which will change the financial world. 

scholarly journals Internet users’ utopian/dystopian imaginaries of society in the digital age: Theorizing critical digital literacy and civic engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110186
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Polizzi
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Utopian Studies ◽  
Utopian Thinking ◽  
Literacy Research

This article proposes a theoretical framework for how critical digital literacy, conceptualized as incorporating Internet users’ utopian/dystopian imaginaries of society in the digital age, facilitates civic engagement. To do so, after reviewing media literacy research, it draws on utopian studies and political theory to frame utopian thinking as relying dialectically on utopianism and dystopianism. Conceptualizing critical digital literacy as incorporating utopianism/dystopianism prescribes that constructing and deploying an understanding of the Internet’s civic potentials and limitations is crucial to pursuing civic opportunities. The framework proposed, which has implications for media literacy research and practice, allows us to (1) disentangle users’ imaginaries of civic life from their imaginaries of the Internet, (2) resist the collapse of critical digital literacy into civic engagement that is understood as inherently progressive, and (3) problematize polarizing conclusions about users’ interpretations of the Internet as either crucial or detrimental to their online engagement.

Citizenship under Surveillance: Dealing with the Digital Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World

The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia … The Internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The Internet is a threat to human civilization.

Loving Ebola-chan: Internet memes in an epidemic

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Rose Marcus ◽  
Merrill Singer
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Response ◽  
Coping Mechanism ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Fear Response ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
History Of

In this article, the authors provide a layered analysis of Ebola-chan, a visual cultural artifact of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak. Rather than considering her as a two-dimensional anime character (i.e. as a simple iconic coping mechanism and/or a fear response), this recent Internet meme is analyzed using an integrated semiotic and structural approach that involves discussion of the genesis of disaster humor in light of the changing world of the Internet, the history of anthropomorphism of disease, and the biosocial nature of an infectious disease epidemic. Our analysis is designed to advance both the anthropology of the Internet and the anthropology of infectious disease. As a multi-vocal symbol with different meanings for different audiences, Ebola-chan represents a social response to a lethal epidemic in the digital age.

IP-TUNNELING OF KNX BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM AS AN IOT REABILITY STUDY

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
Abdullatif Y. M. Alhatem
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Automation System ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Building Automation ◽  
Building Automation System ◽  
Ip Network ◽  
Technological Developments

At the present time the smart technology enhanced to be utilized for the human life in many elds, especially in the houses. The building automation experienced a rapid growth in techniques and methods to provide an advanced management for operational advantages in buildings and develop the equipment in the houses to the consumption of energy and operation. When the KNX system has been developed to be the most important building automation, the ethernet system has evolved to be global communication system and use it as automation system. Among the various technological developments is IoT, which is the essential development the future achievement via the internet techniques, Meanwhile the different available communication mediums of KNX and the need of utilizing IP network in compiling extensive areas of KNX has led us to conduct this comparison.

Personal Bible Reading and the Faith Formation of Teenagers in a Digital Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Judith Hildebrandt ◽  
Jack Barentsen ◽  
Jos de Kock
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Faith Formation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Back Seat ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Bible Reading ◽  
People Today

Abstract History shows that the use of the Bible by Christians has changed over the centuries. With the digitization and the ubiquitous accessibility of the Internet, the handling of texts and reading itself has changed. Research has also shown that young people’s faith adapts to the characteristics of the ‘age of authenticity’, which changes the role of normative institutions and texts in general. With regard to these developments this article deals with the question: How relevant is personal Bible reading for the faith formation of highly religious Protestant German teenagers? Answers to this question are provided from previous empirical surveys and from two qualitative studies among highly religious teenagers in Germany. The findings indicate, that other spiritual practices for young people today are more important as a source of faith than reading the Bible. The teenagers interviewed tend to seek an individual affective experience when reading the Bible, so that the importance of cognitive grasp of the content takes a back seat to personal experience.

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