scholarly journals A 21st Century Manifesto for the end of business as usual

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Sood
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Real People ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The Web ◽  
Book Publication

At the end of last century in 1999, the Cluetrain Manifesto (cluetrain.com) messages herald the end of business as usual for companies discovering the web and point corporates strongly towards the notion “markets are conversations”. Over a decade later, companies are participating in business online but are still none the wiser this century when trying to deal with connected customers as real people and often have no long term plans for social media activities. In light of this, the End of Business as Usual is not only a timely book in 2012 but also a potential compass for business leaders and communications professionals feeling disorientated by the proliferation of social media technologies. Of course, some might rightly believe “business as usual is an oxymoron” (a hat tip for the book publication by Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid).

Using Social Media for Dynamic Information Dissemination in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-250
Author(s):  
Fredrick Olatunji Ajegbomogun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Dynamic Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Independent Decision

The implementation and usage of information and communication technology (ICT) in library functions and facilities has revolutionized the way people use information and librarians perform their work. As a result of the advent of social media, the world's knowledge outlook has changed significantly, resulting in the sharing of thoughts, emotions, images, and videos as resources. A library is worth considering; it is a key to learning, a foundation for long-term mastery of information, and it promotes independent decision-making. The use of social media in library activities has enticed a significant number of users, but it has also challenged libraries to modernize their service delivery. Facebook, Twitter, Wikis, WhatsApp, MySpace, and LinkedIn facilitate community courses, collaboration, and information sharing. As a consequence, it is vital for libraries to consider and prioritize their users' needs.

scholarly journals The sustainability of the scholarly edition in a digital world

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Moran Hajo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
Digital Edition ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Community Standards

Scholarly editions must be used for generations; by nature they require a stable long-term publication format. Some editors have eagerly embraced digital editing and XML, but many more editors remain unconvinced that digital publications can last as long as printed books. Community standards and DTDs for editions have not been widely adopted and editors lack consensus about what a digital edition should be. XML's stability and sustainability is critical to efforts to go beyond “the book,” and to develop new ways of presenting texts and scholarly commentary. To build 21st century editions, we need tools to make XML encoding easier, to encourage collaboration, to exploit social media, and to separate transcriptions of texts from the editorial scholarship applied to them.

Interpretation Training Needs in the 21st Century: A Needs Assessment of Interpreters in the National Park Service

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Powell ◽  
Gina L. Depper ◽  
Brett A. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
21St Century ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Comprehensive List ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Park Service

To identify critical training needs in the Interpretation and Education (I&E) Division within the National Park Service (NPS), a team of experts and practitioners, including six academic institutions, the National Association for Interpretation, and the NPS, developed a comprehensive list of knowledge, skills, and abilities thought to be relevant for providing and managing interpretation in the 21st century. Using this list of 80 competencies, we received over 1,000 NPS I&E employees’ responses regarding their beliefs about the importance and their level of preparation performing these tasks. The results identified not only the most important competencies, but also three broad training needs: skills related to research-evaluation literacy, engaging new and diverse audiences, and using emerging and existing social media technologies. Preparing interpreters to perform these skills at the highest level appears imperative if the NPS is to maintain relevance and continue to meet the demands of 21st-century audiences.

scholarly journals Building Peace through Journalism in the Social/Alternate Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rukhsana Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Models ◽  
War And Conflict

Social media networks are rapidly rewriting the traditional principles and protocols of war and conflict reporting. This paper endorses the argument that with the help of new media technologies, journalists can enhance the peacebuilding efforts in societies and communities. Their writings in the alternate media can provide ‘compelling form of engagement’ between the audiences and the people affected in the areas of violent conflict. But, the paper further argues, this requires a broadening of the orthodox model of journalistic objectivity that has so far been in place. It examines the possibilities of new models in the light of the existing journalism paradigms as argued by scholars including Galtung and Ruge (1965), Lynch and McGoldrick (2005), Shinar (2007), Hackett (2011) and Shaw (2011). It concludes on the need to have a model that is ‘a more natural fit’ for the 21st century by giving journalists the ‘flexibility’ to enable people to make their own judgments as to where the truth lies; and to open up the possibilities for dialogue and engagement in conflict resolution.

scholarly journals Information Flow Solipsism in an Exploratory Study of Beliefs About Twitter

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630511769849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Proferes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Exploratory Survey ◽  
User Data ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
Subjective Belief

There is a dearth of research on the public’s beliefs about how social media technologies work. To help address this gap, this article presents the results of an exploratory survey that probes user and non-user beliefs about the techno-cultural and socioeconomic facets of Twitter. While many users are well-versed in producing and consuming information on Twitter, and understand Twitter makes money through advertising, the analysis reveals gaps in users’ understandings of the following: what other Twitter users can see or send, the kinds of user data Twitter collects through third parties, Twitter and Twitter partners’ commodification of user-generated content, and what happens to Tweets in the long term. This article suggests the concept of “information flow solipsism” as a way of describing the resulting subjective belief structure. The article discusses implications information flow solipsism has for users’ abilities to make purposeful and meaningful choices about the use and governance of social media spaces, to evaluate the information contained in these spaces, to understand how content users create is utilized by others in the short and long term, and to conceptualize what information other users experience.

The Social Media Presence of Non-profit Organizations

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Lucky ◽  
Dinesh Rathi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Médias Sociaux ◽  
The Social ◽  
Powerful Knowledge ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Medias Sociaux

Social media technologies have the potential to be powerful knowledge sharing and community building tools for both corporate and non-profit interests. This pilot study explores the social media presence of a group of forty-six Alberta-based non-profit organizations (NPOs) in this information rich space. In this paper we look at the pattern of presence of NPOs using social media and relationships with staffing structures.Les médias sociaux ont la capacité d’être de puissants outils de partage de la connaissance et de rassemblement communautaire pour les organisations à but lucratif et sans but lucratif. Cette étude pilote explore la présence dans les médias sociaux d’un groupe de quarante-six organisations sans but lucratif (OSBL) albertaines dans cet environnement riche en information. La communication portera sur les modèles de présence des OSBL dans les médias sociaux et les liens avec les structures organisationnelles.

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