A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Rheingold ◽  
Adolfo Plasencia
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Intelligent Machines

Howard Rheingold, professor and expert in cultural, social and new digital media fields, who coined the term ‘Virtual Community’, starts this dialogue by defining the complex meaning encompassed in another expression that lends its name to one of his books: “Smart Mobs”. He goes on to explain why the terms ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) and ‘intelligent machines’ are being used wrongly, and describes how collective intelligences emerge from ‘smart mobs’. Later he reflects on why radio has not killed off movies, movies haven’t put an end to theatre, television will not kill off movies, and the Internet will not be the end of television; in other words, new media do not ‘do away with’ any of their predecessors. He then argues why poetry and business are not mutually exclusive, before finishing with an explanation of why there are more people, in more places, who are able to do things they never used do with personal computers, and they do them almost exclusively with a smartphone with a ubiquitous connection (anywhere, anytime) to the Internet.

Making the Most of the Internet for Failure Analysis

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan J. Bodoh
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Optimization Theory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Digital Production ◽  
Computer Monitors ◽  
And Storage

Abstract The growth of the Internet over the past four years provides the failure analyst with a new media for communicating his results. The new digital media offers significant advantages over analog publication of results. Digital production, distribution and storage of failure analysis results reduces copying costs and paper storage, and enhances the ability to search through old analyses. When published digitally, results reach the customer within minutes of finishing the report. Furthermore, images on the computer screen can be of significantly higher quality than images reproduced on paper. The advantages of the digital medium come at a price, however. Research has shown that employees can become less productive when replacing their analog methodologies with digital methodologies. Today's feature-filled software encourages "futzing," one cause of the productivity reduction. In addition, the quality of the images and ability to search the text can be compromised if the software or the analyst does not understand this digital medium. This paper describes a system that offers complete digital production, distribution and storage of failure analysis reports on the Internet. By design, this system reduces the futzing factor, enhances the ability to search the reports, and optimizes images for display on computer monitors. Because photographic images are so important to failure analysis, some digital image optimization theory is reviewed.

Digital Watermarking Using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) And Steganography Methods to Increase The Level Of Security Of User Data In The Image Files On Internet Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khoerul Umam
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Advanced Encryption Standard ◽  
The Internet ◽  
User Data ◽  
Original Owner ◽  
The Media ◽  
Internet Network

The spread of digital media on the internet was very broad, fast, and cannot be monitored in a structured manner about what media has been uploaded and distributed on the internet network. The spread of digital media like this was very difficult to detect whether the media that shared was privately owned or that of others that is re-shared by media theft or digital media piracy. One step to overcome the theft of digital works is to give them a watermark, which is an identity that is placed on top of the work. However, this is still considered unsafe because the identity attached can be cut and manipulated again until it is not visible. In addition, the use of Steganography method to hide messages in an image can still be manipulated by adding messages continuously so that it accumulates and damages the original owner of the image. In this article, the author provides a solution called Digital Watermarking, a step of encrypting the data of the original owner of the work and putting it into the image of his work. This watermark cannot be seen clearly, but actually in the media there is encrypted data with a strong Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) method. As a result, a tool that can improve the security of media owner data by combining the AES and Steganogaphy methods in the formation of new media that cannot be changed anymore. So, when the media is stolen and used by others and has been edited, the owner's personal data can never be changed.

Perceived media influence on youth bullying and substance abuse behaviors

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick C. Herbert ◽  
Darson Rhodes ◽  
Je’Lynn Tiberi-Ramos ◽  
Taylor Cichon ◽  
Hailee Baer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Literacy Curriculum ◽  
Literacy Interventions ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

Social influences and ‘new media’ may contribute to students participating in risky health be-haviors. An evidence-based, digital media literacy curriculum was delivered by members of a communitysubstance abuse prevention coalition to upper elementary-aged students in a local afterschool program.Written pre-post assessments of perceived media influence on their health risk behaviors were completedby participants. Mean pre-test scores for ‘Influence of the Internet’ were significantly (p<.01) higher thanpost-test scores. Results reflect participants reporting the internet had less influence on their health choicespost-program than pre-program. Media literacy interventions can be effective when used in the afterschoolsetting.

scholarly journals Reports of the 2014 AAAI Spring Symposium Series

AI Magazine ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Manish Jain ◽  
Albert Xin Jiang ◽  
Takashi Kiddo ◽  
Keiki Takadama ◽  
Eric G. Mercer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New Media ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Representation And Reasoning ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Motivational Systems ◽  
Symposium Series ◽  
Computational Game Theory ◽  
Machine Systems

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence was pleased to present the AAAI 2014 Spring Symposium Series, held Monday through Wednesday, March 24–26, 2014. The titles of the eight symposia were Applied Computational Game Theory, Big Data Becomes Personal: Knowledge into Meaning, Formal Verification and Modeling in Human-Machine Systems, Implementing Selves with Safe Motivational Systems and Self-Improvement, The Intersection of Robust Intelligence and Trust in Autonomous Systems, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics, Qualitative Representations for Robots, and Social Hacking and Cognitive Security on the Internet and New Media). This report contains summaries of the symposia, written, in most cases, by the cochairs of the symposium.

Exploiting P2P in New Media Distribution

2013 ◽  
pp. 479-487
Author(s):  
Marcus Mansukhani ◽  
He Ye ◽  
Ma Zhaoran
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Media Distribution ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
The Moment

P2P is currently the most contentious area of Interactive Digital Media on the Internet. It continues to grow in popularity at a phenomenal rate while media producers are seemingly stuck in a cycle of who needs to be prosecuted to prevent this form of piracy, and the majority feel that content should be paid for either to own or to rent with a Digital Rights Management time bomb. An alternative method of paying for the licence to download is presented by two self styled media futurists, and they conclude that it is easier for the industry to adapt to a market based on something that continues to feel like free rather than trying to enforce a model that is clearly not working at the moment and brands hundreds of millions of Internet users criminals. One proposal is that a US$5 monthly licence would produce an income of US$3 billion to the music industry. We explore how this could be extended to the digital media.

scholarly journals Reconceptualising the Elements of Islamic Propagation: Religious Response and Adaptation to New Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-216
Author(s):  
Adeni Adeni ◽  
Andi Faisal Bakti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Content Provider ◽  
Religious Lives

The internet has tremendous effects to social and religious lives, including Islamic propagation (da'wah) activities. This paper aims to examine the fundamental concepts of da'wah in response to the mushrooming of cyber based-da’wah as well as adaptation to new media culture. Using a qualitative research for conceptual design, this study has found that the proliferation of cyber religious proselytizing leads the elements of da'wah have become ever-widening concepts. The concept of da’i, for instance, has experienced the reconceptualisation that not only refers to person who convey Islamic teachings through religious sermon (khutbah), but also denotes to a creative content provider for da’wah purposes in the internet. Additionally, the power of preaching in the new media lies in good, comprehensive, and argumentative messages. Similarly, redefinition of the concepts ma'du, feedback, and other da'wah elements occur as response to digital media culture.

scholarly journals The Existence of Conventional Mass Media in the Center of New Media

MEDIASI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Tika Yulianti
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Tv Viewing ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social

The presence of new media (new media) based on Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) that relies on Internet connection is undeniable to change social order in the community. Thus, the existence of the conventional media became a question in the middle of the new media was presented in the social order. Based on Nielsen study in 2018, Indonesian consumers now spend an average of 5 hours every day consuming content, either through conventional media or the Internet. The research also shows that the TV viewing duration is still the highest, which is an average of 4 hours and 53 minutes per day, the duration of accessing the Internet is the second highest which is an average of 3 hours 14 minutes per day; followed by listening to Radio (2 hours 11 minutes), reading the newspaper (31 minutes) and reading the magazine (24 minutes). Beside that, the increase in Internet consumption makes dual-screen habits between digital media and conventional media becomes something common. There are at least 50 percent duplication between TV and Digital, 62 percent duplication on Radio vs Digital, while the print and Digital Media duplication reaches 72 percent. Based on the description, the convergence becomes one of the keys on mass media existence in the present era. 

scholarly journals “If you need a virtual community, something is wrong with your congregation”: Institutionalized Laestadianism and the use of digital media

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-296
Author(s):  
Stefan Gelfgren
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
Use Of The Internet

This article studies how the Laestadian movement (a Christian confessional revivalist movement that is sceptical of technology) uses digital media in general, and the internet in particular, in its work. In a time when churches on a large scale are concerned with how to communicate with people through digital media, the Laestadian movement choses another path, based upon other assumptions and choices. The focus here is on how congregations and representatives use digital media, and not on individual and private use, and this article will focus primarily on Sweden and Finland. Based on interviews with representatives and by mapping the congregations’ online presence, this article provides an interpretation of the use of the internet within Laestadianism. Through this group, we see how ideology, faith, and practices regulate a restricted, negotiated, and conscious use of the internet, which challenges any preconceptions regarding use and effect of the internet on religion. This case study therefore gives additional perspective for understanding the role of digital media within and in relation to institutionalized Christianity.

scholarly journals Will There Be Superintelligence and Would It Hate Us?

AI Magazine ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-70
Author(s):  
Yorick Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Decision Theory ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
The Future

Bostrom’s Superintelligence (SI) is a wide-ranging essay (2016) that has raised important questions about the future of intelligent machines and the possible malign developments they may undergo. But, and perhaps surprisingly, it is not about technical developments in artificial intelligence (AI) nor a philosophical analysis of the concept of SI. There is little of either of these in it, which is largely an extended and stimulating essay on economics, decision theory and other forms of social science, all held together by the unsubstantiated hypothesis of “superintelligence” that belongs more to science fiction than AI. AI may well in some future produce undesirable social effects — the Internet itself could already be such a development — but there is as yet no reason to think they could be on the massive and end-of-civilization scale Bostrom so confidently predicts.

scholarly journals DIGITAL JOURNALISM: multifaceted research in the development of didactics and production processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. a13en
Author(s):  
Zanei Barcellos
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New Media ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Media Formats

The internet is the main source of news for Brazilians, the smartphone is the preferred device to reach them and social media have overtaken television as the hegemonic journalistic medium. Fragmented journalism in cyberspace demands new narratives, new media formats, production and distribution processes. Algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) systems already perform many tasks, the profession reshapes itself and the teaching of digital journalism needs to keep up with the transformations. This article proposes multifaceted applied research as a way to develop narratives, apparatuses, production management systems and didactics capable of keeping up with technological evolutions and train journalists capable of researching and working in mutant environments.

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