scholarly journals Network infrastructure in the present-day realities

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
Olga Zheleznyak
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Network Systems ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Network Culture ◽  
The Face ◽  
Basic Infrastructure

The development of digital technologies, the transformation of the Internet into a “communication medium” leads to the formation of a network society with the large-scale development of network culture and the invasion of network business and network forms of education. Replacement of the face-to-face contact by the network communication, destruction of personal space, openness of personal life, its “inclusion in the network”, simultaneous possibility of anonymity, protection and irresponsibility of users become a reality of modern life. Network systems are becoming the basic infrastructure of modern society.

scholarly journals E-Leadership: The Implication of Digital Transformation for Leadership in Organizations in Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fetnani Cecilia
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Leadership Competencies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Scale Transformation ◽  
Network Systems ◽  
Case Study Methodology

The paper discusses electronic leadership (e-leadership) competencies that would ensure organizational competitiveness in the digital transformation of an organisation or a unit of an organisation. Like any other large-scale transformation of a business that has high failure rates, digital transformation can fail and it is failing in organisations in Africa; making them bankrupt requiring business rescue or taking them completely out of business. Digital transformation is considered as the process of using digital technologies (integrating cyber-physical systems (CPS) i.e., (intelligent network systems) and business processes) to create and improve production, sustain customer experiences; thus, the use of digital technologies to integrate business process, office automation, industrial process and factory automation to transform business. It is therefore argued that most African organizations are currently faced with the critical challenge of determining the pre- convergence and convergence of technologies, their alignment with strategy and their integration with business processes and systems to build digital business infrastructure for competitiveness. The concept of enactment of technology-in-practice derived from Adaptive Structuration Theory was used as a lens through which to understand and interpret the implications of the digital transformation on leadership competencies to derive e-leadership profile to lead African businesses in the digital age. As such the objective of this paper is to determine the competencies of e-leadership to lead digital transformation agenda of an organization in a highly and digitally competitive marketplace. It is a qualitative study, using an interpretative paradigm in a case study methodology where semi- structured interviews were used to collect data from each unit of analysis representing specific South African based businesses. The selected Cases in South African were extensively investigated. The enactment of e-leadership derived from AST is proposed to lead digital transformation. The implication is that the deployment of e-leadership in an organization has a potential to yield benefits such as the creation of higher organisational flexibility, empowerment of staff and strategic/competitive advantages for the organization. This paper proposes that having effective e-leaders in an organisation would lead to adequate appropriation of digital technologies to digitally transform an organisation.

Summary of Empirical Findings

2019 ◽  
pp. 275-280
Author(s):  
James N. Stanford
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
The Face

Chapter 10 summarizes the empirical results of the book. This chapter outlines each part of the study and highlights key findings for each of the major New England dialect features. The chapter serves as an overall reference for the major results of the book, from the large-scale online audio projects across New England down to the face-to-face interviews in particular regional field sites.

scholarly journals Manfaat Teknologi Selama Masa Pandemi

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aries Yusril Ihza Mahendra ◽  
Esa Bagus Pratama ◽  
Erik Rudianto ◽  
Fatah Yasin ◽  
Syalabi Abdillah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Technology Innovations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Public Health Strategies

Banyak  dari  masyarakat  menerima  begitu  saja  teknologi  informasi  dan komunikasi  modern  yang  bahkan  tidak  dapat  diakses  beberapa  dekade  lalu.  Inovasi-inovasi teknologi informasi dan komunikasi ini, telah lama dianggap sebagai hal sepele, tidak  penting,  selama  masa  tenang  kini  menjadi  sangat  diperlukan  dalam  menghadapi pandemi COVID-19. Sekarang telah ada berbagai teknologi digital yang dapat digunakan untuk  menambah  dan  meningkatkan  strategi  pekerjaan,  pembelajaraan  dan  kesehatan masyarakat.  Selama  pandemi  COVID-19,  teknologi  memainkan  peran  penting  dalam menjaga kegiatan masyarakat tetap berfungsi pada saat Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar (PSBB). Disimpulkan  bahwa masyarakat  memanfaatkan  saja  teknologi  informasi  dan  komunikasiuntuk  tetap  melaksanakan kegiatan  karena  fasilitas  dan  fitur  dari  saja  teknologi  informasi  dan  komunikasi  yang memiliki   keunggulan      dan  kemudahan  untuk  dipergunakan  oleh  berbagai  kalangan masyarakat.Kata Kunci: Teknologi Informasi, Komunikasi, Pandemi, Covid-19Many of the public take for granted modern information and communication technology that was not even accessible decades ago.  These information and communication technology innovations, have long been regarded as trivial, unimportant, as long as calm is now indispensable in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are now a variety of digital technologies that can be used to augment and enhance job, learning and public health strategies.  During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology played an important role in keeping community activities functioning during large-scale social restrictions (PSBB). It was concluded that the public only utilizes information and communication technology to continue to carry out activities because of the facilities and features of information and communication technology that has advantages and conveniences to be used by various groups.Keywords: Information Technology, Communication, Pandemic, Covid-19

scholarly journals The Role of Responsive Leadership in Meeting Customers' Needs during Crises

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Leadership Attributes ◽  
Leadership Support ◽  
The Face ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
The Impact

This case study conducted to investigate the impact of a responsive leadership approach in meeting customers' needs in a higher education institution in the UAE during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, a mixed-method model has been used. The data has been collected from a convenient sample working and studying at Al Qasimia University Language Center, in fall 2020. This result indicates that the provided responsive leadership support during COVID-19 was effective and helped in motivating learners and customers to keep learning and making progress greater than what was shown before COVID-19, during the face-to-face teaching and physical assessment. Although the qualitative and quantitative results in this case study revealed a significant impact of responsive leadership approach on customers’ progress, there is still a need to conduct other researches to develop and validate a responsive leadership inventory to facilitate measuring of responsive leadership attributes in a large scale sample and/or population.

scholarly journals E-learning and Blended Learning in Orthodontic Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 188-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avinash Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Manual Skills ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Better Than

The purpose of this article is to evaluate how effective and efficient e-learning and blended learning is when compared with traditional face-to-face learning in orthodontic education. This article also provides a comparison between face-to-face learning, e-learning, and blended learning. An open PubMed literature search was done from 1980 to 2015, and a total of 23 relevant key articles were reviewed. Information emerging from studies in orthodontic education has indicated that e-learning classes are at least as good as and/or better than face-to-face classroom learning. Till date, only one study stated that the face-to-face conventional learning is better than e-learning. Two studies stated that blended approach using both traditional face-to-face learning and e-learning is the best method. In one study, the advantages of e-learning observed in the theoretical fields of orthodontics were not achieved in learning practical procedures for manual skills. Few studies found improvements in the efficiency of learning with e-learning program. Studies performed through questionnaires showed that student’s attitude and acceptance toward the use of e-learning was positive and favorable; however, blended learning was always rated high. Future research should be based on experiences of both faculty and student on a large scale for implementation of e-learning and blended learning in academic institutions. There is also need to provide professional development for faculty who will be teaching both in the physical and virtual environments.

HUMAN–ROBOT COLLISION AVOIDANCE USING A MODIFIED SOCIAL FORCE MODEL WITH BODY POSE AND FACE ORIENTATION

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 1350008 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHOTCHARA RATSAMEE ◽  
YASUSHI MAE ◽  
KENICHI OHARA ◽  
TOMOHITO TAKUBO ◽  
TATSUO ARAI
Keyword(s):  
Collision Avoidance ◽  
Motion Tracking ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Force Model ◽  
Social Force ◽  
Social Force Model ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Components

The ability of robots to understand human characteristics and make themselves socially accepted by humans are important issues if smooth collision avoidance between humans and robots is to be achieved. When discussing smooth collision avoidance, robot should understand not only physical components such as human position, but also social components such as body pose, face orientation and proxemics (personal space during motion). We integrated these components in a modified social force model (MSFM) which allows robots to predict human motion and perform smooth collision avoidance. In the modified model, short-term intended direction is described by body pose, and a supplementary force related face orientation is added for intention estimation. Face orientation is also the best indication of the direction of personal space during motion, which was verified in preliminary experiments. Our approach was implemented and tested on a real humanoid robot in a situation in which a human is confronted with the robot in an indoor environment. Experimental results showed that better human motion tracking was achieved with body pose and face orientation tracking. Being provided with the face orientation as an indication of the intended direction, and observing the laws of proxemics in a human-like manner, the robot was able to perform avoidance motions that were more human-like when compared to the original social force model (SFM) in a face-to-face confrontation.

scholarly journals The Effects of Synchrony on Group Moral Hypocrisy

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radim Chvaja ◽  
Radek Kundt ◽  
Martin Lang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Behaviors ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Moral Hypocrisy ◽  
The Face ◽  
Group Unity ◽  
Student Subjects

Humans have evolved various social behaviors such as interpersonal motor synchrony (i.e., matching movements in time), play and sport or religious ritual that bolster group cohesion and facilitate cooperation. While important for small communities, the face-to-face nature of such technologies makes them infeasible in large-scale societies where risky cooperation between anonymous individuals must be enforced through moral judgment and, ultimately, altruistic punishment. However, the unbiased applicability of group norms is often jeopardized by moral hypocrisy, i.e., the application of moral norms in favor of closer subgroup members such as key socioeconomic partners and kin. We investigated whether social behaviors that facilitate close ties between people also promote moral hypocrisy that may hamper large-scale group functioning. We recruited 129 student subjects that either interacted with a confederate in the high synchrony or low synchrony conditions or performed movements alone. Subsequently, participants judged a moral transgression committed by the confederate toward another anonymous student. The results showed that highly synchronized participants judged the confederate’s transgression less harshly than the participants in the other two conditions and that this effect was mediated by the perception of group unity with the confederate. We argue that for synchrony to amplify group identity in large-scale societies, it needs to be properly integrated with morally compelling group symbols that accentuate the group’s overarching identity (such as in religious worship or military parade). Without such contextualization, synchrony may create bonded subgroups that amplify local preferences rather than impartial and wide application of moral norms.

scholarly journals The Enigma of Gülchatai’s Face or The Face of the Other

Corpus Mundi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-196
Author(s):  
Serguey N. Yakushenkov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Face ◽  
Large Face

The article analyzes the problem of interpretation of the image of the Other through their Body. In modern society, the problem of denoting the Other is extremely important. Very often mass media resorts to the metonymy of the body for naming the Other, for example, "the face of Caucasian nationality". This usage of the word ‘face’ as a certain metaphor to describe the nationality depersonalize people. The usage of the metonymic method of pars pro toto indicates archaic nature of the notions related to the corporality of the Other. As an argument, the author quotes numerous examples of images of mythological heroes whose otherness is expressed through hypertrophied bodily parts, for instance a large face or a tremendous head. The article analyses the popular Soviet movie "The White Sun of the Desert", because this movie demonstrates in the best way the Soviet and post-Soviet pattern of Cultural Encounter. The astonishing popularity of the movie in the USSR shows that the representation of a face-to-face meeting with the Other that the movie offered was very close to the Soviet viewer. The author argues that Russian society still faces the challenge of rediscovering the dialogue of cultures instead of a monologue.

Boston, Longy School of Music: Rodney Lister's ‘Friendly Fire’

Tempo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (266) ◽  
pp. 70-73
Author(s):  
Peter Nelson-King
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
New Music ◽  
Moral Conflicts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
School Of Music ◽  
Friendly Fire ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Boston Marathon

The American public has been left in an odd position for the past few years in terms of the War on Terror. As the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan slowly trickle away our news outlets have lost interest in calculating the statistics of death, and we have become complacent and apathetic. The greatest fallacy in our vision of war is that wars have an end, when in reality war has never ended, but rather switched conflicts, like influenza. War will never end as long as natural human short-sightedness remains intact. Large-scale global communication may help in ending the threat of war, as new moral conflicts arise once we realize we can have a face-to-face conversation with a colleague on the other side of the world. Rodney Lister's Friendly Fire, premièred at Boston's Longy School of Music this past May in the coincidental wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, is a wide-ranging and harrowing plea for pacifism in the face of apathy. However, its performance by Charles Blandy and Collage New Music may betray its cause, meeting terror with tenuousness.

scholarly journals Does a Sense of Social Presence During Conversation Affect Student's Shared Memory? Evidence From SS-RIF Paradigm

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Zhu ◽  
Jinkun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face ◽  
Induced Forgetting ◽  
Conversational Remembering

People constantly talk to one another about the past, and in so doing, they recount certain details while remaining silent about others. Collaborative or conversational remembering plays an important role in establishing shared representations of the past (e.g., the 911 attacks, Covid-19). According to the socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting (SS-RIF) effect, a listener will forget about relevant but unpracticed information during communication, due to intentional or unintentional selective retrieval of data by the speaker. The SS-RIF paradigm has been applied to explain how collective memory is shaped within the context of conversation/discourse. This study sought to determine if SS-RIF occurred only during face-to-face communication, or whether shared memories could be developed through other types of conversation quite common in modern society. We also investigated whether a level of social interaction in the real-world presence of others is a necessary condition for inducing SS-RIF, and if listeners experience different degrees of SS-RIF due to different levels of perceived social presence. We observed the SS-RIF phenomenon in listeners both in real life and video; the degree of forgetting was the same for the two conditions. These results indicate that social presence may not be associated with SS-RIF. Public silence affects the formation of collective memory regardless of the face-to-face presence of others, and thus physical presence is not necessary to induce SS-RIF.

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