scholarly journals Emerging Gender, Media and Technology Scholarship in Africa: Opportunities and Conundrums in African Women’s Navigating Digital Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Gadzekpo ◽  
Paula Gardner ◽  
H. Leslie Steeves
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Optimistic Picture ◽  
Media And Technology

Over the past decade and earlier, much of the academic and grey literature has painted an optimistic picture of rapidly increasing access and growth of digital technologies in Africa. Industry statistics put internet penetration in Africa close to 40 percent and growing, even though the continent still lags behind the world average of Internet users (Internet World Statistics, June 2019). Some estimates predict that by 2025 the sub-continent will add 167 million mobile subscribers to its existing 456 million (GSMA Report, 2019). Mobile devices, especially, have assumed centrality in the lives of ordinary people and provide prospects for Africa to leapfrog into the modern digital world. Smart phones are enabling millions of Africans to share news and information more easily and to tap into all kinds of essential services, much like elsewhere in the world.

scholarly journals Media memory in the digital world

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 01014
Author(s):  
Denis Artamonov ◽  
Marina Volovikova ◽  
Sophia Tikhonova
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Media Philosophy ◽  
Memory Characteristic

The article analyses how historical memory is being formed in the modern digital realm. The authors show the emergence of a new form of historical memory, characteristic of the digital era, which we call "media memory". Using the methodology historical epistemology, media philosophy and memory studies, the authors demonstrate the change in production and replication of knowledge about the past due to the spread of digital media. The distinctive features of "media memory" are: massive non-professional production of historical content, democratic character, speed, subjectivity and emotional intensity. These features are associated with the combination of prosuming and crowdsourcing, which increase the activity of history lovers and non-professional volunteers in social media. Considering the largest historical digital projects, which have brought together the efforts of millions of history lovers, the article comes to the conclusion that academic historians are losing the monopoly on the production of historical knowledge, while the latter is being turned into digital form, with the widespread participation of ordinary people in the production of such content.

In the digital world of (dis)information – from manipulation to knowledge and wisdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 592 (7) ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Borawska-Kalbarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World ◽  
Complicated Process

The aim of the article is to draw attention to the complexity and complicated process of conscious and responsible use of digital infosphere resources. The text presents selected threats related to the functioning of young Internet users in the world of digital information. In the article I develop the thesis that the source of the indicated difficulties and threats is the low level of information literacy, resulting, among others from an insufficient process of preparing students for conscious, reflective use of electronic media and co-creation of their content. I also point to the importance of digital wisdom understood as the prudent use of digital media in the process of obtaining, processing and creating information.

A basic introduction to image processing using NIH-Image as a model

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
John Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Digital Instrument ◽  
Novice User ◽  
Nih Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Instrument Control

Advances in camera technology and digital instrument control have meant that in modern microscopy, the image that was, in the past, typically recorded on a piece of film is now recorded directly into a computer. The transfer of the analog image seen in the microscope to the digitized picture in the computer does not mean, however, that the problems associated with recording images, analyzing them, and preparing them for publication, have all miraculously been solved. The steps involved in the recording an image to film remain largely intact in the digital world. The image is recorded, prepared for measurement in some way, analyzed, and then prepared for presentation.Digital image acquisition schemes are largely the realm of the microscope manufacturers, however, there are also a multitude of “homemade” acquisition systems in microscope laboratories around the world. It is not the mission of this tutorial to deal with the various acquisition systems, but rather to introduce the novice user to rudimentary image processing and measurement.

A NOVEL DATASET FOR QURANIC WORDS IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thabit Sabbah ◽  
Ali Selamat
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Correct Identification ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Formats ◽  
Validation Tests ◽  
Holy Book

Quran is the holy book for Muslims around the world. For the past fourteen centuries after its revelation, ithas been preserved in all possible ways from any distortions. The huge increase in Internet usage and the spread of digital media lead to the development of many websites, services, and applications related to Quran. These efforts include the conversion of Quranic verses, translations, explanations,tafseer and other Quranic sciences into digital formats. Some of these efforts are foundless authentic. The authentication dependson correct identification of Quranic words in the text. In this paper, we introduce a novel dataset for Quranic words identification and authentication. The proposed dataset contains more than 93,000 samples with64 features for each extracted in numerical form.The validation tests of the proposed dataset resulted high accuracy average.

scholarly journals Remediating the past: YouTube and Second World War memory in Ukraine and Russia

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mykola Makhortykh
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
War Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Red Army ◽  
Transnational Space ◽  
Second World

This article examines how Second World War memory is circulated, reproduced, and challenged in the transnational space of digital media by Ukrainian and Russian Internet users. Using as a case study one episode of the war on the Eastern Front—the capture of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, by the Red Army in 1943—it investigates how this event is commemorated through YouTube, which is a popular online platform for uploading, viewing, and commenting on audiovisual materials. This article employs content analysis to assess audiovisual tributes to the Battle of Kyiv from two perspectives: that of representation (how the event is presented on YouTube) and that of interaction (how YouTube users interact with memory of the event). This article concludes that although YouTube is frequently used for the propagation of nationalistic interpretations of the past in Ukraine and Russia, it still has the potential to democratize collective remembrance of the Second World War.

scholarly journals Online and Plugged In?: Public History and Historians in the Digital Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meg Foster
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Public History ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Web

This article examines the complex and powerful relationship between the internet and public history. It explores how public history is being experienced and practiced in a digital world where ‘you’ – both public historians and laypeople – are made powerful through using the world wide web. Web 2.0 is a dynamic terrain that provides both opportunities and challenges to the creation of history. While it may facilitate more open, democratic history making, the internet simultaneously raises questions about gatekeeping, authority and who has the right to speak for the past. Though the web provides new avenues for distributing historical information, how these are used and by whom remain pressing questions. 

Intellectual Property in the Digital Age

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bollier
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The People

Once a backwater of law that elicited little interest beyond arts and entertainment industries and their lawyers, over the past generation, copyright law has become a major arena of social and political conflict. Many clashes amount to tactical skirmishes among companies for competitive advantage — a long and familiar dynamicin copyright law. But much of the turmoil revolves around a deeper issue: what legal principles and social norms should be used to promote new creativity, especially when the Internet and other digital technologies are involved? Many Internet users, academics, software programmers, artists and citizens criticise the expansion of copyright law and its enforcement as an obnoxious limitation on their basic freedoms. Content industries, for their part (with significant exceptions among large Internet-based companies like Google) tend to regard expansive copyright protection and enforcement as indispensable for sustaining creativity itself. This chapter describes the profound shifts that copyright law has undergone over the past 20 years as digital technologies have disrupted mass media markets and changed people’s stake in copyright law. As we saw in Chapter 2, the 20th century business models for media industries treated people as passive audiences, whose chief role was to ‘consume’ works made by professionals and sold in the marketplace. This changed with the arrival of the Internet. Telecommunications and digital technologies have enabled ordinary people to become prolific creators in their own right. The ‘people formerly known as the audience’, in Jay Rosen’s memorable phrase (Rosen, 2006), have become bloggers, musicians, remix artists, video producers, website curators, hackers, academic collaborators, and much else. Ordinary people can generate, copy, modify and share works with a global public without having to deal with commercial content intermediaries such as publishers, record labels or studios.

A review of Internet use among older adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 3937-3954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Hunsaker ◽  
Eszter Hargittai
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
World Population ◽  
Older Adulthood ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Relationship

As the world population ages and older adults comprise a growing proportion of current and potential Internet users, understanding the state of Internet use among older adults as well as the ways their use has evolved may clarify how best to support digital media use within this population. This article synthesizes the quantitative literature on Internet use among older adults, including trends in access, skills, and types of use, while exploring social inequalities in relation to each domain. We also review work on the relationship between health and Internet use, particularly relevant for older adults. We close with specific recommendations for future work, including a call for studies better representing the diversity of older adulthood and greater standardization of question design.

scholarly journals Implementasi Aplikasi Mobile Peta NKRI (Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia) Berbasis Android Menggunakan Metode Prototype

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-292
Author(s):  
Adika May Sari ◽  
Desri Yani ◽  
Desy Suryani
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
School Students ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Made In

Android technology is developing very rapidly, it is proven that everything can be done easily. Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in the world. The alternative name for Indonesia is called Nusantara. With its many islands, Indonesia has 34 provinces. Therefore, the author makes an android-based application program about the map of the State of Indonesia. Where the method used is the prototype method. With Android studio programming language. This mobile application makes it easy for users to view a map of the Indonesian archipelago which consists of 34 provinces. This application is intended for school students, but ordinary people can also use it. In the past we could only see maps of the islands and provinces using books. With the development of mobile applications, an Android-based application for the NKRI map was made. In this application, users can view a map of Indonesia, and can use other features such as interactive games, questions about the map of Indonesia to add insight into the map of Indonesia

scholarly journals Sound Mapping as a Tool for Sharing Sonic Cultures

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana A Chester
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Field Recordings ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Call To Prayer ◽  
Sound Maps

The Islamic call to prayer, the adhan, azhan, or athan, is recited five times daily as a way of signifying prayer times to Muslims. Over the past 7 years I have been involved in a research project of collecting field recordings of the call to prayer from mosques around the world and using a web-based sound map to geo-locate, share these recordings, and reach contributors outside of my own network. In this paper, I will offer a perspective of how the sound map as tool can participate in a discourse on the accessibility of archival materials to broader audiences, as well as the collection of archival materials from broader audiences. The paper will also consider that there may be an inverse relationship between accessibility of materials and archival standards and will look at how this impacts the breadth of accessibility versus the temporality of accessibility. What are the benefits and pitfalls of sharing compressed formats of archival recording through sound maps and widely accessible streaming services, that allow for broader dissemination, searchability, and access, and does this impact our understanding of the role of the archive?  What can a sound map offer in connecting users, materials, and communities and how can we leverage such a form of digital media toward archival ends? And finally, in a time when there are communities and people who are disappearing across the globe due to conflicts, how can tools like the sound map help us to archive and document these places.

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