Social Communities of Design and Makers and their Impact on Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-61
Author(s):  
Norman Gwangwava ◽  
Albert U Ude ◽  
Enoch N Ogunmuyiwa ◽  
Richard Addo-Tenkorang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
End User ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Special Knowledge

The past two decades have seen a rapid growth in the Maker communities and Communities of Enquiry. Unlike social media, these communities have a unique goal of sharing special skills as well as enquiring about special knowledge areas. Advancements in web technologies and models of delivery, in particular, cloud computing (CC), enables the communities to thrive virtually. The authors focus on the technocratic communities interested in designing and making things. These are also known as hobbyists or hackers, in their respective scientific or engineering disciplines. Various online platforms continue to surface, modelled around the Maker concept. The article scrutinizes the value and impact of these communities in learning. A new model for inspiring innovation in knowledge-based economies and building communities of industry and end-user ready product maker is presented and discussed.

scholarly journals Social media: Are the lines between professional and personal use blurring?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Josie Cassano Rizzuti
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
Media Interaction ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Use Of Social Media

A key aspect of understanding communications in a global environment is understanding social media usage. With the recent dramatic increase in social media usage in the past decade, the incorporation of social media and online platforms into communication strategies of organizations has been intensively discussed and researched. This study investigates social media usage at a global manufacturer to understand how it is being used for business purposes. Are personal and professional lines blurring with social media use? With the increased use of social media in the workplace, our professional and personal lives are increasingly becoming intertwined. The literature suggests that social media interaction and managing the boundaries is more difficult online than offline. Social media is where the lines are blurred between our professional and private lives. It is where we share our food, music, movies, pictures, purchases, politics, and our every-day patterns, alongside our daily professions, on display for the entire world to see.   Keywords: social media, strategy, digital, issues, communication, professional

Inundated with Online Antisemitism

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3.1) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Keith Kahn-Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Online Technology ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Jewish Experience

Online technology has produced expressions of antisemitic abuse that, whether or not they are novel in content, do have novel experiential consequences. Online platforms have broadened, although not necessarily deepened, the Jewish experience of antisemitism. At the same time, they have multiplied the opportunities for Jewish action against antisemitism. However, the rapid growth in “decentralized” Jewish activism against antisemitism raises questions about its efficacy and the consequences for Jews who engage in this kind of activism. Thus, the practice of countering online antisemitism is therefore nascent, ill-understood, and imperfectly mapped. Above all, the experience of those engaged in this world is under-researched. This research note sketches agendas for research and Jewish communal action that might respond to these developments at a time when “exhaustion” has become a key experiential component of the contemporary Jewish experience of antisemitism and the fight against it. Keywords: social media, health, experience, internet, Labour Party

The Past, Present, and Future of End-User Performance

2008 ◽  
pp. 2266-2273
Author(s):  
I. M. Jawahar
Keyword(s):  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
User Performance ◽  
End User ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
Sophisticated User ◽  
End User Computing

Over the last decade, end-user computing has become an integral part of the organizational landscape. The emergence of end-user computing can be attributed to the necessity to manage and to effectively use information to function in a knowledge-based economy. Because of the increased organizational computing needs, computer literacy requirements have skyrocketed for clerical and support staff and for many middle and senior management positions (Bowman, Grupe, & Simkin, 1995). The proliferation of microcomputers and the availability of sophisticated user application tools (Shayo, Guthrie, & Igbaria, 1999) have facilitated the widespread implementation of end-user computing technology.

The Past, Present, and Future of End-User Performance

2005 ◽  
pp. 2826-2830
Author(s):  
I. M. Jawahar
Keyword(s):  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
User Performance ◽  
End User ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
Sophisticated User ◽  
End User Computing

Over the last decade, end-user computing has become an integral part of the organizational landscape. The emergence of end-user computing can be attributed to the necessity to manage and to effectively use information to function in a knowledge-based economy. Because of the increased organizational computing needs, computer literacy requirements have skyrocketed for clerical and support staff and for many middle and senior management positions (Bowman, Grupe, & Simkin, 1995). The proliferation of microcomputers and the availability of sophisticated user application tools (Shayo, Guthrie, & Igbaria, 1999) have facilitated the widespread implementation of end-user computing technology.

IMPACT OF CLOUD COMPUTING ON BUSINESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-97
Author(s):  
Dr. Anamika Ahirwar ◽  
◽  
Anshu Singh Parihar
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Total Cost Of Ownership ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cloud Migration ◽  
Cost Of Ownership

Cloud computing is very helpful for a business just because cloud computing helps the small and large business to start a digital business. Due to the rapid growth of computing resources over the past years, cloud computing has been treated as a prominent research field and this technology appeared as a new solution in the IT field. Many businesses including small, medium, and enterprise are migrating to this technology for so many reasons such as availability of computing resources, reduced total cost of ownership, on- demand services, increased revenue, and many more. Cloud Computing offers a number of advantages of cloud migration that motivated business enterprises to adopt this change. Our Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi Ji dreams to make a digital India and the cloud could help to make India digital.

Sharade Marathe. Regulation and Development: The Indian Policy Experience of Controls Over Industry. New Delhi: Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd. 1986. 328 pp.Price: (Hardbound edition) Rupees (Indian) 195.00.

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-227
Author(s):  
Khwaja Sarmad
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Indian Policy ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The Past ◽  
Distinguished Career ◽  
Comprehensive Manner

This book documents in a comprehensive manner the 'twists and turns' in India's industrial policy and strongly suggests the need for a re-orientation of this policy to overcome the weaknesses in the industrial structure and to utilize the sources of its strength. The author has had a distinguished career in the Indian Economic Service and brings this experience to bear on his analysis of the evolution of industrial policy in India. In India, the primary objective of planned development has been the creation of a technologically mature society capable of sustaining a process of self-propelled growth without extreme concentration of wealth in a few hands. It is rightly pointed out in the book that this objective is possible only in the context of rapid growth, which is the ultimate test of industrial policy. The book traces the origins of India's industrial policy and analyses its evolution during the past thirty years, showing how there has been an increasing gap between the objectives of this policy and the performance of the industrial sector.

scholarly journals Quantified Nostalgia: Social Media, Metrics, and Memory

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512110088
Author(s):  
Benjamin N. Jacobsen ◽  
David Beer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Memory Practices ◽  
The Relationship

As social media platforms have developed over the past decade, they are no longer simply sites for interactions and networked sociality; they also now facilitate backwards glances to previous times, moments, and events. Users’ past content is turned into definable objects that can be scored, rated, and resurfaced as “memories.” There is, then, a need to understand how metrics have come to shape digital and social media memory practices, and how the relationship between memory, data, and metrics can be further understood. This article seeks to outline some of the relations between social media, metrics, and memory. It examines how metrics shape remembrance of the past within social media. Drawing on qualitative interviews as well as focus group data, the article examines the ways in which metrics are implicated in memory making and memory practices. This article explores the effect of social media “likes” on people’s memory attachments and emotional associations with the past. The article then examines how memory features incentivize users to keep remembering through accumulation. It also examines how numerating engagements leads to a sense of competition in how the digital past is approached and experienced. Finally, the article explores the tensions that arise in quantifying people’s engagements with their memories. This article proposes the notion of quantified nostalgia in order to examine how metrics are variously performative in memory making, and how regimes of ordinary measures can figure in the engagement and reconstruction of the digital past in multiple ways.

scholarly journals Application of Reactor Engineering Concepts in Continuous Flow Chemistry: A Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Candice Neyt ◽  
Darren Lyall Riley
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Flow Chemistry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Continuous Flow Chemistry

The adoption of flow technology for the manufacture of chemical entities, and in particular pharmaceuticals, has seen rapid growth over the past two decades with the technology now blurring the...

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