scholarly journals Lexicographical and Translation Issues in the Inclusion of English

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (52) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
José Mateo Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Bilingual Dictionaries ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
Media Services ◽  
Internet Information ◽  
Information Media ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Web

This is a crossroads time for dictionaries in print in general and for bilingual dictionaries of Economics in printin particular. A time when the prevalence of information technologies supposedly makes access to specializedlexicographical information easier and faster. The present study first reviews briefly the current situation of bilingual dictionaries of Economics on paper and their viability in a near future. It then examines, with more detail, the specific lexicographical issue of incorporating (i.e. translating) English financial neonyms, which appear practically everyday in print and internet media, into English-Spanish/Spanish-English Dictionaries of Economics on paper, normally published in the lapse of years. This gap between the immediacy of the Internet and the delay of printing, seems to cause serious problems to bilingual lexicographers specialized in Economics especially when questionable translations of such neonyms are already circulating on the web. This, in addition to the ample presence of electronic glossaries and dictionaries, easily accessible by translators and professionals, but whose reliability, on the other hand, is not always guaranteed. Finally, a more active role is recommended to bilingual lexicographers in Economics by taking advantage of internet information media services and by joining efforts with finance experts and professionals.

A Methodology for Integrating Information Technology in Software Engineering Education

2009 ◽  
pp. 204-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kamthan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Software Engineering Education ◽  
Science And Engineering Education ◽  
The Web

The discipline of software engineering has been gaining increasing significance in computer science and engineering education. In this chapter, the goal is to describe a systematic approach toward integrating information technologies in software engineering education (SEE), both inside and outside the classroom. A methodology for integrating IT is proposed and explored in the context of SEE, particularly related to the Internet and the Web; in this context, SEE supports a heterogeneous combination of objectivism and constructivism, and aims to be feasibility sensitive. In doing so, the prospects and concerns of incorporating IT in SEE are presented. The potential of integrating IT in SEE is illustrated by examples.

scholarly journals A Importância do Inglês para a Internet

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Manuel Cruse ◽  
Erick Rodrigues Peck
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Internet Information

Resumo: A difusão da língua inglesa deve-se, fundamentalmente, ao fenômeno da globalização e, mais recentemente, ao evento das tecnologias da informação, muito em particular, à Internet. Tomando-se como base esta realidade, entende-se que a aprendizagem do inglês como língua estrangeira tornou-se uma necessidade imperiosa para que qualquer indivíduo consiga realizar-se tanto no campo pessoal quanto no profissional. O principal objetivo deste trabalho é, pois, refletir criticamente sobre a importância da língua inglesa enquanto meio de comunicação global por excelência, muito em especial aplicada ao campo da Internet. Pretende-se, por outro lado, incutir nos alunos o gosto e o interesse pela pesquisa científica para alimentar as linhas de pesquisa oferecidas pelo IFRS, campus Restinga e, ainda, transformar esta pesquisa em Trabalho de Conclusão de um bolsista que frequenta o curso superior em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas (ADS), feitas todas as adaptações, alterações e todos os ajustes necessários. Será utilizada uma metodologia de cunho teórico, baseada em revisão bibliográfica. Os resultados finais, que implicarão um trabalho mais extenso, elaborado e de maior profundidade, serão publicados numa revista de circulação nacional. Palavras-chave: Inglês. Aprendizagem de língua estrangeira. Internet. Tecnologias da informação. Globalização. THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH FOR THE INTERNET Abstract: The spread of English is basically due to the phenomenon of globalization and, more recently, due to the event of information technologies, in particular, the Internet. Taking into account this reality, learning English as a foreign language has become an imperative need so that any individual can succeed both in personal and professional activities. The main objective of this research is to critically reflect on the importance of English as a means of global communication par excellence, particularly, in the field of Internet. We also intend to motivate students towards their attitudes and interests in scientific research in order to stimulate research lines offered by IFRS, Restinga campus. On the other hand, we wish to transform the present work into a final dissertation of an undergraduate student who is taking a course in System Analysis and Development (ADS), after making all the necessary adaptations, adjustments and changes. We shall use a theoretical methodology based on literature review. The final results which will imply in a much extended, elaborated and in depth article will be published in a national circulating magazine. Keywords: English. Foreign language learning. Internet. Information technologies. Globalization.

Managing Operational Business Processes with Web-Based Information Technologies

2009 ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
Ned Kock
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Team Coordination ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
Generic Framework ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Web

Traditionally management schools of thought that emphasize certain types of work structures usually appear earlier than information technologies (IT) geared at supporting those work structures. This situation has undoubtedly changed recently, arguably around the mid-1990s, with the explosion in the commercial use of the Internet and particularly the Web. This calls for the development of a generic framework that ties together relevant management ideas that help organizations strategically and operationally align themselves with new Web-based IT. Our goal with this chapter is to provide some basic elements that can be used by managers and researchers as a starting point to develop this generic framework. As such, we focus on a particular set of activities associated with team coordination and communication in production and service delivery business processes through the Internet and the Web.

Ethical Dilemma of the Digital Divide in the Threshold of Social Inequalities in Africa

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Essien Essien
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
The Web

Despite the ubiquitous nature of the internet in our daily lives today, the digital divide discourse in Africa highlights the inequitable social distribution of ICT access. The failure to have equitable social access to ICT tools, or a lack of skills to operate them, clearly depicts a technological predicament and a metaphor that questions the social gaps between humans that can access and use the web, and those that cannot. Relying on content analysis of extensive literature on the digital divide, this paper explores the notion of digital divide social inequalities in Africa, especially as it concerns how it should be understood, valued and managed. Findings, reveals that though the new information technologies are rapidly changing lives of a small but growing number of people across Africa, decisions on content, knowledge and participation excludes Africans. The digital divide therefore, has the potential to create, perpetuate and exacerbate morally objectionable conditions that can replicate poverty, construct exclusion and foregrounds social inequality in many African societies.

US Cities and Social Networking

2012 ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Alana Northrop
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Real World ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Level Of Use ◽  
Us Cities ◽  
The Web

This chapter presents the results of a random study of US cities’ and mayors’ uses of five social networking features: Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn as well as city use of online surveys. Data from a random sample of fifty cities stratified on population indicates that only Facebook is used by a majority of cities’ websites and mayors. The lower level of use of Twitter and YouTube and less than universal use of Facebook is complemented by a very low level of citizen followers, viewers, and friends. Most cities also do not use online surveys on their websites. This low use likely just reflects government’s tendency to follow trends rather than lead and is not a statement about cities’ lack of citizen orientation. It also appears to be a reflection of smaller cities adopting information technologies more slowly than larger cities when we compare 2010 data with that from early in 2011. Nonetheless, the result is that the potential positive opportunities for cities and mayors to connect and converse with citizens via Web 2.0 are under-realized if we just look at the Internet social networking face presented, and if cities do not get on the Web 2.0 bandwagon in this regard, citizens, especially younger ones, may feel that it is another example of government being out of touch with what is happening in the “real” world.

Software Engineering Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 775-781
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kamthan
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Software Engineering Education ◽  
The Web

In this article, we explore the prospects and concerns of integrating information technologies (IT) in software engineering education (SEE), both inside and outside the classroom. By IT we will mean the technologies for various activities related to information (such as acquisition, creation, communication, dissemination, processing, archival, retrieval, transformation, and so on), within the context of the Internet and the Web, unless specified otherwise. The rest of the article is organized as follows. We first provide the background necessary for later discussion. This is followed by the prospects and concerns of systematically integrating IT in SEE and examples of use of IT in SEE, both inside and outside the classroom. Next, challenges and directions for future research are outlined. Finally, concluding remarks are given.

scholarly journals THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISEMBODIMENT AND CHANGES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL BORDERS AS THE NORMATIVE IMPLICATIONS OF THE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-194
Author(s):  
Наталия Васильевна Коптева
Keyword(s):  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Internet User ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Web ◽  
Normative Implications

Основанный на концепции британского экзистенциального психолога Р. Лэйнга конструкт невоплощенности в интернете (Н. В. Коптева, А. Ю. Калугин, Л. Я. Дорфман) посредством одноименной методики сопоставляется с системообразующим последствием нормативного применения интернета – изменением психологических границ в методике их оценки (МИГ-ТС-2) Е. И. Рассказовой, В. А. Емелина, А. Ш. Тхостова. Выявлены взаимосвязи измерений невоплощенности в интернете с параметрами изменения психологических границ, которые могут свидетельствовать о том, что искусственное технологическое разделение между ментальным Я и физическим телом пользователя создает предпосылки путаницы на границе между Я и не Я. Расширение и размывание границ интернет-пользователя усиливают его виртуализацию и соответствующие ей переживания деперсонализации, утраты реальности независимо от того, оправдывает или не оправдывает технология его ожидания достижимости и контролируемости окружающих людей, объектов и информации. Мотивация предпочтения интернета, связанная с возможностями, которые открывают независимость от физического тела и измененные границы, в значительной мере совпадает. Простота и легкость развоплощенного технологического способа бытия в расширенных, размытых границах придают привлекательность сети и объясняют связь невоплощенности с интернет-зависимостью, которую можно представить как искажение нормативного технологического развоплощения в случае проблемной пользовательской активности. In the present study we compare the construct of disembodiment on the Internet (N. V. Kopteva, A.Ju. Kalugin, L.Ya. Dorfman) based on the clinical conception by the British existential psychologist R. Laing and measured by the same-name technique to the framework consequence of the normative use of the Internet - changes of the psychological borders (E. I. Rasskazova, V. A. Emelin and A. Sh. Tkhostov) assessed by MIG-TS-2 technique. We identified the relationship between measurements of disembodiment and parameters of changes of psychological borders which may indicate that artificial technological split between the mental self and the physical body of a user creates conditions for confusion on the boundary between self and non-self. Expansion and blurring of the borders of an Internet user reinforces virtualizationinduced experiences of depersonalization and loss of reality regardless of whether the technology meets their expectations of availability and controllability of other people, objects and information or doesn’t. Motivation of Internet preference due to the opportunities that independence of the physical body and changes of boundaries present mostly follows the same pattern. Simplicity and easiness of the disembodied technological way of being within the expanded blurry borders makes the Web attractive and explains the relationship between the disembodiment and Internet addiction which can be viewed as distortion of normative technological disembodiment in cases of problematic user’s activity.

scholarly journals The Web as Information Source: a Case Study on the Impact of Internet Search Lessons

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Ravagni
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Internet Search ◽  
Learning Path ◽  
Internet Information ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Web

The use of the Web by students has increased more and more and it has become the most recurring way to find quick information for educational purposes. Given the lack, in Italy, of thorough programs for the integration of Information Literacy and Internet searches in schools and universities, the adults who are now using it are almost always self-taught. Consequently, many different approaches to the medium have spread, and with them an objective difficulty in planning Internet-research courses, since everyone has his/her own way to search and a unique perception of his/her search skills. That’s why delivering a course where every participant is forced to follow the same learning path may originate feelings of frustration, unease, or boredom, thus reducing the learning potential offered by the course. This research focuses on the Internet Search side of Information Literacy and analyzes the impact of short lessons on first and second year university students in Education at the University of Bolzano, Italy. The students are either native German-speakers or native Italian-speakers, and the research focuses, in an European perspective, on the differences in their Internet-research approaches as well. The first phase consists in interviews and test (the logs of the internet sessions are recorded by a software) to find out the perception of reliability of the Internet information and the way to find it by the students. The second phase is the course in itself, which focuses on Boolean operators, information retrieval theories and exercises, and evaluation of web pages. After the course the students are interviewed and tested again, to check if their approach to internet research has changed and in which way. The results can be used to plan courses on Information Literacy and Internet Search with individualized programs, or to propose methods to assess the learning in this field.

Digital Rights Protection Management of Web Portals Content

2011 ◽  
pp. 256-263
Author(s):  
Theodoros Evdoridis
Keyword(s):  
Access Point ◽  
Information Services ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Internet Information ◽  
The Web

Without doubt one of the most important factors that contributed to the wide acceptance and popularity of Web portals is the potential for users to access a broad spectrum of information from a single access point, the Web portal itself. A Web portal, in such a way, aggregates information from multiple sources and makes that information available to various users. Regardless of whether the offered assets are hosted within the Web portal or whether the latter serves as a gateway to information services and resources located on the rest of the Internet, a Web portal is simultaneously an all-in-one Web site and a browsing guide to all available Internet information worldwide. Even though there is no definite taxonomy of portals, relevant labels such as government, community, enterprise, general and others are offered aiming at defining the Web portal with respect to its content and its target group. Summarizing, it could be assumed that a Web portal offers centralized access to all relevant content and applications (Tatnall, 2005).

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