Celebrity in the age of global communication networks

Author(s):  
Olivier Driessens
2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 2687-2702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjeong Kim ◽  
Yun-Cheol Heo ◽  
Seong-Cheol Choi ◽  
Han Woo Park

Author(s):  
M. Lim Sim ◽  
C. Ming Chin ◽  
C. Min Tan

In the future, communication devices, communication-capable devices or sensors and home electronic appliances will have the capability to form various MANETs, and interoperate with the global communication networks. These MANETs play an important role in supporting various visions toward the creation of a world of ubiquitous computing where computation is integrated into the environment, rather than having computers that are distinct objects. One of the goals of ubiquitous computing is to enable devices to sense changes in their respective surroundings and to automatically adapt and act on these changes based on user needs and preferences. With ubiquitous computing, people can move around and interact with computers, devices and home appliances more naturally than they currently do.


Author(s):  
FEDOROV ALEXANDER V. ◽  

The article deals with the problem of Internet governance in the context of international information security, which is quite new for political theory and international law, on a systematic basis. The advanced development of the technical base of the Internet, the attitude of the absolute majority of users to it as to new, powerful means of communication, without taking into account the conceptually inherent threats and risks, including political and even military ones, sharply complicate the creation of an international system of control over its use. Considered as a generalized concept, the Internet still does not have a clear definition. At the same time, even "advanced" Internet users rarely go beyond the knowledge that these resources, being included in open information networks and using the capabilities of public global communication networks, allow the storage, processing and exchange of information in a telecommunication mode. The question of who and how controls this process is not of interest to many. This uncertainty of the Internet environment is actively used by a number of states and IT corporations to solve their problems at the expense of the common good and public safety. Moreover, attempts to build a system of law in the Internet space as the development of the existing system of international security meets with resistance. As a result of the analysis of the practice of building an Internet governance system based on the principle of multistakeholderism, the presented article shows that this component of global communication in its current form, although it is caused by natural social and technical processes, acts in the interests of the United States and carries the potential of threats to peoples and countries. whose government policy does not allow Washington to classify them as "democratic" and "friendly". The recent Twitter revolutions are examples of this. Among the goals of their organizers today are the states of the Caspian region and the South of Russia. Accompanying and facilitating globalization, the Internet creates new opportunities and new, including strategic, risks. There are still no international legal mechanisms to prevent them. The development of the latter is an urgent task of modern law and diplomacy.


Author(s):  
Jean-Christophe Plantin

While Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft are mostly associated with online services and mobile applications, they now constitute important actors of the global communication infrastructure, as witnessed by their important investments in data centers, subsea cables, telecommunication networks, and non-terrestrial connectivity (such as drones, balloons, or satellites). Beyond these spectacular (and sometimes hypothetical) projects, this paper details how these tech companies are already changing the ways communication networks are managed. It shows that they become a dominant force shaping global connectivity by leveraging the platform logic that granted them their initial success in the web economy, and adapting it to communication infrastructures. Based on interviews with industry experts and network engineers, document analysis, and site visits, this paper offers a model to analyse this platformization of communication infrastructures: it consists of disaggregating existing networks components, inserting a platform which acts as new integrator, and making networks modular and programmable. This model extends scholarship on the platformization of social and economic life and shows how the same platform logic is at the center of the infrastructural expansion of tech giants and at the source of the power they gain over global connectivity.


Author(s):  
Stewart T. Fleming

The synthesis of global communication networks available at low cost, enormous growth in popular uptake of personal computers and communication devices, and the need for more sophisticated discussion of complex issues are continually pushing the boundaries of our expertise. Virtual learning communities (VLCs) are emerging constructs that depend on the notion of socially constructed learning to provide a focus for informed discussion and lifelong learning. They make use of increasingly sophisticated technologies to establish, support, and maintain communities—collections of individuals with a common purpose, acting in social settings, and geographically disparate.


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