Digital Divides of the Internet and Mobile Phone: Structural Determinants of the Social Context of Communication Technologies

2017 ◽  
pp. 91-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Rice ◽  
James E. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Digital Divides ◽  
The Social

Cognitive Phone for Sensing Human Behavior

2015 ◽  
pp. 1138-1150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Pei ◽  
Robert Guinness ◽  
Jyrki Kaistinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Behavior Detection ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social

A boom of various sensor options gives a mobile phone the capability for sensing the social context and makes a mobile phone an attractive “cognitive” platform, which has great potential to model and cognize human behavior. A review of the history, current state, and future directions of the cognitive phone are outlined in this article. An implementation example of a cognitive phone is presented, and a Location-Motion-Context (LoMoCo) model is introduced, to combine personal location information and motion states to infer a corresponding context. Future possibilities of cognitive phones in behavior detection and change are outlined.

Is the Internet Mightier than the Sword

2011 ◽  
pp. 338-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Lidman
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Recent Insight

This paper considers how to reduce corruption and improve governance, with particular attention to the impacts of information and communication technology. The media and the press in particular have played an important role in opposing corruption. The Internet and related tools are both supplementing and supplanting the traditional roles of the press in opposing corruption. A regression model with a sample of 164 countries demonstrates that, controlling for the independent variables commonly employed in empirical work on corruption, greater access to the Internet explains reduced corruption. The effect is statistically significant albeit modest. It is possible that the social media will have a growing impact on reducing corruption and improving governance. A number of examples of current uses of these media are provided. Recent insight and experience suggest how the newer information and communication technologies are somewhat tipping the balance toward those opposing corruption.

An Agent for Change

2011 ◽  
pp. 337-358
Author(s):  
Jiafei Yin
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Internet User ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Media ◽  
The World

China became the largest Internet user in the world with 420 million of its citizens connected to the new media by June 2010. This chapter investigates the social conditions and ways in which new communication technologies are transforming the politics, culture, and the society in China through analyses of uses of the Internet, differing roles played by the traditional and the new media, Internet regulations in the country, and cases catapulted to the national media spotlight by the online community, and through contrasts with the roles new communication technologies play in Western and African societies. The chapter also attempts to explore the implications of these transformations.

Between the newsroom and the pub: The mobile phone in the dynamics of everyday mainstream journalism practice in Zimbabwe

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 692-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Constructivist Approaches

This article uses an ethnographic case-study approach to investigate the deployment of the mobile phone by Zimbabwean mainstream print journalists in the dynamics of their daily professional routines and practices. The study’s theoretical and conceptual framework draws on social constructivist approaches to technology and the sociology of journalism to provide a direction for conceptualizing the interplay between journalists, their immediate context of practice and the wider socio-political and economic milieu that collectively structure and constrain the appropriation of the mobile phone. The findings suggest that the technology has assumed a taken-for-granted role in the routine operations of journalists and, in particular, that it is redefining traditional newsmaking practices. The article concludes that the cultural and social appropriations of the mobile phone by Zimbabwean mainstream journalists suggest that the technology has acquired new meanings in the social context of its appropriation. Its pervasiveness in everyday life has facilitated the blurring of the boundaries between the work and the private life of journalists.

scholarly journals Information and communication technologies and their impact on social security Social field study at the University of Baghdad

2017 ◽  
Vol 221 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-531
Author(s):  
M.M.Maryam Jabbar Rash
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Networks ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The University ◽  
Theoretical Side

Attention to issues of community and information networks and social increased since the Internet form Vdhaih informational and success in establishing his groups, has become the Internet Btfaalath part of everyday life for many individuals, saluting exposed Iraqi family, many of the challenges of growing and dangers with Maishdh society of rapid shifts physical and intellectual changes coincide with the breadth the pace of globalization and openness to Western cultures, especially with the wide range of technological and communication revolution and the information that allowed ample room for the penetration of the effects of other cultures in the reality of Iraqi society, and in this regard this study provides an analysis of the extent of utilization of the Internet in the province of Baghdad and its impact on the social security of the Iraqi society has adopted the study on two foundations theoretical side and the side of the field to collect the necessary information and data required for the analyzes of the study has reached important results, as put forward a number of recommendations that can help to achieve positive and effective results

Digital Divides

2004 ◽  
pp. 29-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Rooksby ◽  
John Weckert
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Material Deprivation ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Moral Significance ◽  
International Inequality ◽  
Digital Divides ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ethical Significance

This chapter considers the social and ethical significance of digital divides, where a digital divide is taken to be an intra- or international inequality in levels of access to information and communication technologies. The authors argue that digital divides are not necessarily morally objectionable in themselves. Digital divides are instead morally objectionable to the extent that they create, perpetuate or exacerbate morally objectionable conditions of other sorts, such as material deprivation, or abridgement of liberty. The authors also propose a method for assessing the moral significance of digital divides. They hope that the chapter will help analysts of inequalities in access to information and communication technologies to provide more specific accounts of the moral harms caused by instances of such inequalities.

scholarly journals Situating Learning for Digital Inclusion in the Social Context of Communities

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Nauras Akhras
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
The Social ◽  
Authentic Activities

An approach to digital and social inclusion has been developed which situates learning for digital inclusion in the social context of communities. The approach follows views of learning that emphasise the role of the context in learning and the importance of learning in authentic situations. While digital inclusion programs tend to focus more on teaching people how to use computers and the internet, the approach presented takes a different perspective, in which learning for digital inclusion is situated in the social context of the learners and is based on authentic activities. The approach is being applied in Brazilian rural communities.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Corinne May-Chahal ◽  
Emma Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Stranger

This introductory chapter provides an overview of online child sexual abuse, which is a concern for many parents, practitioners, and policy makers. One dominant fear is that of the stranger approaching children online, lurking in chatrooms masquerading as a child in order to lure victims for abusive ends. Yet child sexual abuse can also begin offline and become online through filming or photography, or it can be virtual, such as in the distribution of child abuse images. Indeed, distinctions between online- and offline-facilitated child sexual abuse are increasingly blurred. This book focuses on online child sexual victimisation. Victims are made both by the acts perpetrated on them (by perpetrators) and by the social context in which these acts take place and the consequences that are felt. The book examines online-facilitated child sexual abuse research through the lens of this social context, which contains multiple definitions of what is childhood, sex, and abuse as it connects to the Internet.

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