Research Ethics in the Social Sciences

Information And Communication Technology ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Personal Communication ◽

The Other ◽

Technology Tools ◽

The One

This chapter explores the role played by Information and Communication Technology tools in the management of indigenous Knowledge in general. Of importance to note, therefore, is the fact that the emergence of Information and Communication Technology tools has opened new avenues in Indigenous Knowledge Management (IKM) which have the potential of playing important roles in the society by making the valuable knowledge available to everyone who recognizes and uses it. Given the nature of indigenous knowledge which is commonly exchanged through personal communication and demonstration exemplified as deriving from the master to the apprentice, from the parents to the children, from the one neighbour to the other and so on. Information and Communication Technology tools appear to be providing as a solution in forestalling the possible extinction of IK.

Use of Information and Communication Technologies Tools to Capture, Store, and Disseminate Indigenous Knowledge

Indigenous Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-0423-9.ch018 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 325-347

Author(s):

Petros Nhlavu Dlamini

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

Information And Communication Technology ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Personal Communication ◽

The Other ◽

Technology Tools ◽

The One

This chapter explores the role played by Information and Communication Technology tools in the management of indigenous Knowledge in general. Of importance to note, therefore, is the fact that the emergence of Information and Communication Technology tools has opened new avenues in Indigenous Knowledge Management (IKM) which have the potential of playing important roles in the society by making the valuable knowledge available to everyone who recognizes and uses it. Given the nature of indigenous knowledge which is commonly exchanged through personal communication and demonstration exemplified as deriving from the master to the apprentice, from the parents to the children, from the one neighbour to the other and so on. Information and Communication Technology tools appear to be providing as a solution in forestalling the possible extinction of IK.

Technology and Inuit identity: Facebook use by Inuit youth

AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples ◽

10.1177/1177180118782993 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 228-236 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Alexander Castleton

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Digital Media ◽

Canadian Arctic ◽

The Arctic ◽

The Social ◽

Facebook Use ◽

The Relationship

This article discusses the relationship between technology and Inuit identity. Using interviews, it explores how a group of students from the Arctic College located in the community of Iqaluit in the Canadian Arctic, use the social network Facebook. It was found that in addition to an expected use of the social network associated with the script promoted by the technology, Inuit youth used Facebook to access content related to their identity in various groups, discuss sociocultural issues, and remember traditions. This article argues that Inuit identity is an example of how indigenous cultures have to be understood as something dynamic, constantly changing, for which information and communication technologies are fundamental. Furthermore, this article claims that rather than understanding Facebook as a tool that is adopted by Indigenous people—as previous literature tends to hold—the use of digital media should be conceived as part and parcel of identity.

Postmodernism as Discourse from Foucault to Habermas

International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences ◽

10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.57.106 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 57 ◽

pp. 106-109

Author(s):

Loredana Terec-Vlad ◽

Alexandru Trifu

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Economic Life ◽

The Other ◽

Modern Age ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Future ◽

The One

During the last decades, the term postmodernity has been highly invoked, on the one hand, or ignored, on the other hand. It is a term that can be found in the writings of various philosophers and sociologists, and is almost ignored and less meaningful within the economic thinking.At first view and analysis, postmodernity is the successor of the modern age, modernity in other words. However, the concept has much deeper meanings; it regards the future, foreshadowing the new realities of today's world, which are very complex and dynamic, and come under endogenous and exogenous influences, activities and issues that are permanently under the influence of multiple and multidimensional challenges [7]. In fact, the period of globalization, of the new trends of the revolutionary ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), is believed to overlap the period of postmodernism.From the philosophical point of view, but also in consonance with the economic life and realities, the individuals and entities of any nature should be characterized by adaptability, the ability to respond promptly and appropriately to the impulses and reactions that affect that system.

INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, EDUCATION QUALITY AND CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE

Problems of Education in the 21st Century ◽

10.33225/pec/13.56.05 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 56 (1) ◽

pp. 5-7

Author(s):

Vincentas Lamanauskas

Keyword(s):

Education System ◽

The Other ◽

Information Communication ◽

Technology Application ◽

Ict Implementation ◽

The One ◽

Learning Programming

Information and communication technologies are changing so rapidly, that it is hardly possible to react properly to all changes. First of all, the speech is about technological changes. This inevitably touches education system as well. A certain technological “overloading” is felt in all levels of the system. It is especially felt in comprehensive education sector. On the one hand, a big demand remains for teachers’ qualification in ICT field, on the other hand, the pressure increases for the younger generation to possibly master technologies earlier. In Lithuania, as in the other Baltic region countries, a lot of attention is paid to ICT implementation at schools. For example, in Estonia, even primary class children are already learning programming; the state also devotes much attention to this, first of all, financially. One of priority fields in Lithuania, declared in education policy since 2000, has been information and communication technology application in education system.

Responsibility, Jurisdiction, and the Future of “Privacy by Design”

Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-61350-132-0.ch001 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Ugo Pagallo

Keyword(s):

Video Surveillance ◽

Data Protection ◽

Smart Cards ◽

The Other ◽

Legal Systems ◽

Privacy By Design ◽

The One

This chapter focuses on some of the most relevant issues in today’s data protection: responsibility and jurisdiction are examined in the light of the principle of “privacy by design.” On one hand, both from the substantial and procedural points of view, national legal systems determine differently rights and duties in the field of data protection. On the other hand, these divergences can be overcome to some extent, by preventing privacy infringements through the incorporation of data protection safeguards in information and communication technologies. Although it is unlikely that “privacy by design” can offer the one-size-fits-all solution to the problems emerging in the field, it is plausible that the principle will be the key to understand how today’s data protection-issues are being handled. By embedding privacy safeguards in places and spaces, products and processes, such as Information Systems in hospitals, video surveillance networks in public transports, or smart cards for biometric identifiers, the aim should be to strengthen people’s rights and widen the range of their choices. On this basis, we can avert both paternalism modelling individual behavior and chauvinism disdaining different national provisions of current legal systems.

Constructionism as Non-naturalism

The Logic of Information ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198833635.003.0003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 53-68

Author(s):

Luciano Floridi

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Ultimate Explanation ◽

Contemporary Science ◽

The World ◽

Naturalistic Methodology ◽

The One

Philosophical constructionism is far from being relativistic. This chapter will argue that it does not have to be naturalistic either. The discussion begins with a consideration of a strange predicament in which contemporary science seems to be caught. On the one hand, science holds a firm and reasonable commitment to a healthy naturalistic methodology, according to which explanations of natural phenomena should never overstep the limits of the natural itself. On the other hand, contemporary science is also inextricably and now inevitably dependent on ever more complex technologies, especially Information and Communication Technologies, which it exploits as well as fosters. Yet such technologies are increasingly ‘artificializing’ or ‘denaturalizing’ the world, human experiences, and interactions, as well as what qualifies as real. The search for the ultimate explanation of the natural seems to rely upon, and promote, the development of the artificial, seen here as an instantiation of the non-natural. In this chapter, I shall try and find a way out of this apparently strange predicament. I shall argue that the naturalization of our knowledge of the world is either philosophically trivial (naturalism as anti-supernaturalism and anti-preternaturalism), or mistaken (naturalism as anti-constructionism).

Impact of information and communication technologies in agroecological cooperativism in Catalonia

Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) ◽

10.17221/171/2018-agricecon ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 65 (No. 2) ◽

pp. 59-66

Author(s):

Ricard Espelt ◽

Ismael Peña-López ◽

Oriol Miralbell ◽

Toni Martín ◽

Núria Vega

Keyword(s):

Political Commitment ◽

Solidarity Economy ◽

Food Supply Chains ◽

The Social ◽

Consumption Model ◽

The One ◽

The Impact

In Catalonia, agroecological cooperativism is part of a set of alternatives that appeared as a response to the current hegemonic food consumption model, controlled by large commercial establishments. It is defined by its promotion of short food supply chains (SFSCs), operates under the values of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) and holds a strong political commitment. This article, on the one hand, studies the setup of agroecological cooperativism understood as the outcome of a network of producers, intermediaries and consumers and, on the other hand, examines the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the development of this consumption model. The data has been obtained through on-site interviews and online research on the 56 consumer groups and cooperatives present in Barcelona. Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis have been used to study them. The results prove the salient role that ICT has as a facilitator in the relational network established between the agents that take part in it, thus becoming a key characteristic element of the new agroecological consumer cooperativism.

A Classification Scheme for Innovative Types in Scholarly Communication

Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-879-6.ch021 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 216-226

Author(s):

Svenja Hagenhoff ◽

Björn Ortelbach ◽

Lutz Seidenfaden

Keyword(s):

Classification Scheme ◽

Scholarly Communication ◽

The Other ◽

Original Publication ◽

Cost Efficient ◽

The One ◽

Efficient Distribution

Information and communication technologies seem to bring new dynamics to the established, but partly deadlocked, system of scholarly communication. Technologies are the basis for new publication forms and services which seem to enable a faster and more cost-efficient distribution of research results. Up to now new forms of scholarly communication have been described in the literature only in the form of single and often anecdotic reports. Despite the large number of papers in that area, no classification scheme for new forms of scholarly communication can be found. Therefore, this chapter aims at presenting such a classification scheme. It allows the description of new forms of scholarly communication in a standardized way. A structured comparison of new activities is possible. For this purpose, original publication media on the one hand and complementary services on the other are differentiated. With the help of morphological boxes, characteristics of both kinds of new means of scholarly communication are presented.

Transition to a New Economy: Transformation Trends in the Fields of Income and Salary Functions

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20196706019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 67 ◽

pp. 06019

Author(s):

Olena Grishnova ◽

Andriy Cherkasov ◽

Olena Brintseva ◽

Olena Sakovska ◽

Anatoly Ostapchuk

Keyword(s):

Information Technologies ◽

New Economy ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

The Social ◽

Rapid Spread ◽

Grouping Method ◽

The Relationship

The rapid spread of information technologies and other phenomena in the new economy causes significant changes in the social and employment spheres. The objective is mainly to analyze and systematize the peculiarities of labor and payment for it in the new economy. In this paper are used the analytical grouping method for characterizing salary functions, as well as changes in the social and labour sphere that take place in the new economy, correlation-regression analysis to determine the relationship between average income and factors affecting its level. The results of the paper show three important findings. Firstly, the gradual changes in the content of labour and forms of its organization that happen in modern conditions under the influence of dissemination of information and communication technologies require new approaches to income adjustment. Secondly, the authors also found that the fair employee compensation, ensuring productive employment in modern conditions, is a challenge not only of the national but also of international scale. Thirdly, the prospective directions of reducing inequality and social tension in society is the guarantee of the basic unconditional income; progressive tax on all types of income; reduction of the length of working time while maintaining payments and improving productivity.