scholarly journals The Illusion of Democracy in Online Consumer Restaurant Reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-65
Author(s):  
Morag Kobez
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
High Status ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Online Consumer ◽  
Restaurant Reviews ◽  
Food Writing

Food has long served as a form of cultural capital, and historically it was an elite few food critics who held the power to ascribe status to dining experiences. The rise of social and digital media arguably allows anybody to adopt the role of critic. Lowered barriers associated with digital technologies, coupled with the contemporary ‘foodatainment' boom have opened the floodgates for amateurs to weigh into the critical culinary discourse. The tendency for contemporary high-status dining experiences to include casual, rustic and simple foods suggests that the age of food snobbery is in the past. However, this notion of ‘omnivorousness' can be viewed as an alternative means of establishing rules surrounding high-status foods. Johnston and Baumann's US research reveals two frames used in food writing to valorise foods in an omnivorous age: authenticity and exoticism. In this project, Johnston and Baumann's methodology is developed and applied to Australian professional and amateur reviews. Results show that Australian professional reviews frequently employ frames of distinction whereas amateur reviews do not; it concludes that the contribution by amateurs to the critical culinary discourse is limited.

Looking for the 'Language' of Recognition among Greek Communities of Georgia

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Sideri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diaspora Politics

The Caucasus was a zone of encounters for centuries, generating images of regional cosmopolitanism in the past. This vision creates expectations for the present, when it is included in the wider discussion about the meanings of cosmopolitanism today, its relation to modern geopolitics, and issues of social and political co-existence and recognition. This essay focuses on two different photographs that belong to different Greek families in Georgia. These photographs represent two different historical experiences of migration and pinpoint different understandings of cosmopolitanism. However, they both seem to stem from specific discourses about diasporas and their cosmopolitan character. The role of language in the construction of these discourses is fundamental. The essay compares photographic representations of the 'Greek Diaspora' in order to trace the perceptions of cosmopolitanism they generate, the cultural capital they carry, and its outcome in relation to Greek diaspora politics.

scholarly journals What is the role of depression in the discrepancy between estimated and actual iPhone use? An exploratory analysis using cubic response surface analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Sewall ◽  
Douglas Parry
Keyword(s):  
Response Surface ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Surface Analysis ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Response Surface Analysis ◽  
Self Report ◽  
The Past ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Insight Into

The association between depression and digital media use has received substantial research and popular attention in recent years. While meta-analytic evidence indicates that there is a small, positive relationship between digital media use and depression, almost all studies rely on self-report measures of digital media use. Evidence suggests these measures are poor reflections of usage measures derived from digital trace data. Additionally, a recent study showed that the error in self-reported digital media use is likely biased systematically by factors that are fundamental to the effect being investigated: respondents’ volume of use and level of depression. The current exploratory study harnesses cubic response surface analysis—a novel analytical approach in this domain—to advance our understanding of how inaccuracies in self-report measures of digital media use can be explained by respondent attributes, in this case their level of depression and actual iPhone usage. A sample of 325 iPhone users provided estimates of their total iPhone use over the past week, their actual iPhone use as recorded by the Apple Screen Time application, and a measure of their depression (CESD-R-10). The results of the analysis indicate that depression is i.) more strongly associated with estimated than device-logged DMU; ii.) more associated with over-estimating than under-estimating of DMU; and iii.) more associated with inaccuracy at lower versus higher levels of DMU. The findings raise important questions concerning the validity of conclusions in this area and provide insight into the structure of measurement error in self-report estimates of digital media use.

scholarly journals A Review of Evidence on the Role of Digital Technology in Shaping Attention and Cognitive Control in Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Vedechkina ◽  
Francesca Borgonovi
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Future Research

The role of digital technology in shaping attention and cognitive development has been at the centre of public discourse for decades. The current review presents findings from three main bodies of literature on the implications of technology use for attention and cognitive control: television, video games, and digital multitasking. The aim is to identify key lessons from prior research that are relevant for the current generation of digital users. In particular, the lack of scientific consensus on whether digital technologies are good or bad for children reflects that effects depend on users’ characteristics, the form digital technologies take, the circumstances in which use occurs and the interaction between the three factors. Some features of digital media may be particularly problematic, but only for certain users and only in certain contexts. Similarly, individual differences mediate how, when and why individuals use technology, as well as how much benefit or harm can be derived from its use. The finding emerging from the review on the large degree of heterogeneity in associations is especially relevant due to the rapid development and diffusion of a large number of different digital technologies and contents, and the increasing variety of user experiences. We discuss the importance of leveraging existing knowledge and integrating past research findings into a broader organizing framework in order to guide emerging technology-based research and practice. We end with a discussion of some of the challenges and unaddressed issues in the literature and propose directions for future research.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN THE CREATION OF HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Iva Bubanja
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Target Consumer

This paper analyzed the changes in the process of creating high -quality products that occurred after the introduction of information -communication technolo gies and the Internet in the enterprises. Internet offeres advantages connected with the possibility of further company development and with the possibility for the high quality products to find their way to target consumer groups quickly and easily. Speci al emphasis will be given to the role of online advertising and social media in the promotion of such products. With the use of digital technologies enterprises have the ability to do business more competitive and to contribute to the growth of the nationa l economy.

scholarly journals Post-Pandemic City: Historical Context for New Urban Design

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Veaceslav MIR
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Past ◽  
The City

Cities have been almost completely unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic. Urban history has known many epidemics and pandemics, and there are clear historical parallels between the 13th and 19th century plague pandemics and cholera epidemics and the 21th century COVID-19 pandemic, from an administrative point of view. However, the cities’ public administration did not take into account the experience of the cities of the past to be prepared for the future problems. This requires developing flexible pandemic strategies and focusing on the decentralization of urban space through an even distribution of population in the urban environment. The COVID-19 pandemic will change the city, as previous pandemics and epidemics did. Urbanism v.3.0. will emerge, combining a green vector of development and digital technologies to ensure the autonomy and sustainability of buildings, districts and cities. At the same time, the role of culture will increase, which will become an effective tool for consolidating the soft power of the city in order to attract new people as the opposition of nowadays trend for living in the countryside.

E-Knowledge

2009 ◽  
pp. 215-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fortunato Sorrentino
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Millennium

Change is driving the new millennium along many paths. There is one particular place where the change is especially deep, and that is the path in which knowledge is heading. However, this is not always perceivable and it takes an act of detachment to appreciate it. The same is happening with the main cause of that change, which is technology: it is so much a part of our daily life, that we are no longer aware of it. Contemporary digital media and digital technologies, that is, the most innovating front of ICT, have a characteristic: they reciprocally function as triggers, giving way to sudden waves of adoption, which in turn start others, all much more rapid and frequent than in the past. We are flooded, often unwillingly, by storms of technological stimuli: even though we may not be conscious of them, the result is an empowerment of our faculties of action, communication and cognition. The term “e-knowledge” has been coined, as several others of similar structure, to catch, via the “e-” extension (electronic), the new shape of knowledge which is peculiar of a deeply technology-driven world. In such a world, technes (re. technology) is no longer “the art of making” and it becomes the “art of knowing”.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Sarah Florini
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Technological Environment ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Racial Discourses

This chapter begins with a retelling of the events of Ferguson, emphasizing the role of Black digital media networks as the news first spread and then as media outlets broadcasted the aftermath. It then considers the nature of these networks, their origins and functions, and how they interplay with broader racial discourses and media narratives, as well as the context for these networks, including the prevalence of race-based disparities, the predominance of neoliberal racial discourses that proffer nonracial explanations for racist outcomes, and the contemporary technological environment that allows for digital networks to exist. In this environment fighting racial oppression requires strategies for making race and racism visible, in the collective context in which they materialise. In critiquing the development of digital technologies around neoliberal values, the chapter also looks at Black adoption of and innovation in digital technologies.

scholarly journals E-11 Social Peace and Reform, the foremost contemporary need (In perspective of practical role of 1st century Hijri Muslim women)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Hafiz Nasir Kausar ◽  
Abdul Razzaq Azad ◽  
Syed Abrar Hussain Shah
Keyword(s):  
Care Home ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
High Status ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Real Model ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Status Of Women

Life cycle is started with a man and a woman. Women bring up the human beings,while children's care, home management and preparation of food have also been remained in their duties. Due to strong arms man can do hard task that a woman thinks beyond her limitations. Therefore, he has given high status but in the past, the status of women was very pitiable. So, man has deprived females for the basic rights, from which every human being must enjoy. Peace is called alternate of security. Thus a developed society comes into existence where there is a clear and harmonious relationship among entire its masses. Reformation is the name of correction. So, it must be in view that where Islam wants collective reform, it does not ignore person's correction but it declares that man's correction is truly a social reform. Hence the feminist part is called a spinal cord of society, if they participate to improve the work of reform, unite each other with the concept of every correction; the destination of our society will be closer. And then, in reality, the society will become a real model of peace. Thus it can be called a peaceful and reformed society. In this article, contemporary needs relating to Muslim women in peace and reform will be highlighted in the light of  Muslim women’s role of 1st century Hijra.

scholarly journals Presence of the Past: Digital Narrative of the Dennys Lascelles Concrete Wool Store; Geelong, Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1395
Author(s):  
Md Mizanur Rashid ◽  
Chin Koi Khoo ◽  
Sofija Kaljevic ◽  
Surabhi Pancholi
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Digital Heritage ◽  
Digital Narrative ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Recreation of the past—of historical buildings—sits at the intersection of the spatio-temporal manifestation of cultural memories, socio-cultural meanings, values, and identity remolds, and refines the existing understanding and sense of place. Digital technologies have become a popular tool in recreation of the past by creating a new body of knowledge and historical discourse based on identifying the gaps within our written histories. Designers and policymakers around the world have been exploring various tools and technologies, such as diachronic modeling, yet there is a gap in evidence-based understanding regarding the actual functioning and success of applications for placemaking. This paper, therefore, sets out to scrutinize the role of digital technologies in facilitating digital placemaking. To do so, it investigates the potential of a new “digital heritage” narrative in the revival of the lost architectural narrative of the Dennys Lascelles wool store, Geelong. The proposed paper aims to investigate the potential of a new “digital heritage” narrative and storytelling as a means towards a digital placemaking framework. While exploring the new and unique capabilities provided by the digital narrative in capturing, simulating, and disseminating lost heritage, it will further imbue a sense of place by connecting the everyday city dweller.

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