scholarly journals A feminist Critique to digital consent

Seminar.net ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elinor Carmi
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Current System ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Data Products ◽  
Asymmetric Power ◽  
The Web ◽  
Easy Solution ◽  
The Way

This paper presents a feminist critique to digital consent and argues that the current system is flawed. The online surveillance adtech industry that funds the web had to use a mechanism that commodifies people, rendering their behaviors into data - products that can be sold and traded for the highest bidder. This was made possible by objectifying, dehumanizing and decontextualizing human engagement and identity into measurable and quantifiable data units. In this way, digital consent serves as an authorizing and legalizing instrument to the business model of spying, selling and trading people in the online ecosystem. Using four key feminist approaches - process, embodiment, network and context - this article shows the way digital consent is a mechanism that transfers responsibility to people and enables an exploitative-extractivist market to exist. The design of digital consent creates a specific interface that teaches people to behave in ways that preserve the asymmetric power relations. Consequently, the article shows the broader educational effects of digital consent which conceives people as products with narrow agency and understanding of what they can do, think and imagine. The article concludes with a refusal to provide an easy solution to a flawed system. 

Competition on the Web Market Both Against Other Web Based Market Companies and Against Their Real Market Analogues

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Iulian Caraganciu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Real Market ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

The goal of this paper is to make known the business models by the type of seller and customer of the web market in order to better understand the field where web companies create competitive collusion. Further in this paper is going to be described the way competition between web companies and their real market analogues, as well as competition between web companies themselves, takes place. The types of business model that can be found on the web market are various. This shows us just how versatile the web market is. This paper aims to present a theoretical model on how competition between two web companies takes place, as it is not entirely a price based competition.

VHS and the Transitional Phase of Polish Capitalism

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Świrek
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Broad Audience ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Transitional Phase ◽  
The Way

The presented article is an attempt to interpret the historical phenomenon of VHS during the economic transformation in Poland. This technology is understood here as an ideological complex, which functioned on three levels: content distributed on videotapes, a business model, and an offer directed to a broad audience. Through films distributed on tape, VHS was a medium of capitalist realism: it showed capitalist social formation as a background for the way in which individuals experience their lives. VHS was also a transitory phenomenon: as a technology, medium of specific content, and practice it has lost popularity towards the end of the phase of capitalism, with which it was tied.

scholarly journals Literature review on business prototypes for digital platform

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shrutika Mishra ◽  
A. R. Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
New Business ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Way

Abstract In today’s world, many digitally enabled start-ups are budding all over the globe because of the fast enhancement in digital technologies. For the establishment of new business, it is necessary to adopt a proper business model which needs to define the way in which the company will provide values and the ways in which the customers can pay for their services. This paper aims to study the various business models being used in today’s marketplace and to provide a better understanding for these business models by having an insight on the attributes.

Franchising for Success?

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-68
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
The Web ◽  
Starting A Business

‘Internet Review’ provides critical commentary on entrepreneurship, small business and innovation information on the Web. This review explores the apparent phenomenal growth of the franchise business model, which can be a very attractive alternative to starting a business independently.

scholarly journals Asymmetric Power Relations in Gynaecological Consultations for Cervical Cancer Prevention: Biomedical and Gender Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7850
Author(s):  
Carla Freijomil-Vázquez ◽  
Denise Gastaldo ◽  
Carmen Coronado ◽  
María-Jesús Movilla-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Intraepithelial Neoplasia ◽  
Cervical Cancer Prevention ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Biomedical Knowledge ◽  
Asymmetric Power ◽  
And Gender

A generic qualitative research, using a poststructuralist feminist perspective, was conducted in a Spanish gynaecology unit with the following aims: (a) to analyse how asymmetric power relations in relation to biomedical knowledge and gender shape the medical encounters between gynaecologists and women diagnosed with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and (b) to explore the cognitive, moral, and emotional responses expressed by patients. A total of 21 women diagnosed with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia were recruited through purposive sampling. Semi-structured interviews were recorded and transcribed, and a thematic analysis was carried out. Two major themes were identified: (a) gendered relations in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia medical encounters are based on hidden, judgmental moral assumptions, making women feel irresponsible and blamed for contracting the human papillomavirus infection; (b) biomedical power is based on the positivist assumption of a single truth (scientific knowledge), creating asymmetric relations rendering women ignorant and infantilised. Women reacted vehemently during the interviews, revealing a nexus of cognitive, moral, and emotional reactions. In medical encounters for management of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, patients feel they are being morally judged and given limited information, generating emotional distress. Healthcare professionals should question whether their practices are based on stereotypical gender assumptions which lead to power asymmetries during encounters.

scholarly journals SPEECH INTERACTIVE WEB APPLICATION SERVICES

2016 ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
DHANASHREE TAWARE ◽  
NAMRATA ATTKARE ◽  
DIVYA SINGH
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Current System ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Speech Interaction ◽  
The Web

As we know internet has become a very important factor in our day today life. It is a wide media for communication and exchange of ideas for people staying in any nook and corner of the world. We have proposed a system in which we are developing a speech interactive web application services. Our main aim is to provide these services to the special ones who are unable to make use of the current system so efficiently. In our proposed work we are mainly focusing on the WEB APPLICATIONS. Many a times the disabled people are unable to access internet, for them this system will help to download news, or even access their mails through speech. Our proposed system mainly deals with the ability to handle web applications along with the O.S, mouse and keyboard control through speech, so that they can be used by persons without the use of the hands to develop an interface between the computer and the user. In our proposal we have used SAPI .It provides commands to the main central application which is handled by the GUI. Thus we look forward to develop web application through speech interaction.

scholarly journals User’s Behaviour inside a Digital Library

Data Mining ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 1312-1319
Author(s):  
Marco Scarnò
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Web Mining ◽  
Dynamic Change ◽  
Web Server ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Data Mining Techniques ◽  
Log File ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

CASPUR allows many academic Italian institutions located in the Centre-South of Italy to access more than 7 million articles through a digital library platform. The behaviour of its users were analyzed by considering their “traces”, which are stored in the web server log file. Using several web mining and data mining techniques the author discovered a gradual and dynamic change in the way articles are accessed. In particular there is evidence of a journal browsing increase in comparison to the searching mode. Such phenomenon were interpreted using the idea that browsing better meets the needs of users when they want to keep abreast about the latest advances in their scientific field, in comparison to a more generic searching inside the digital library.

scholarly journals REPLY: Formal Collective Arrangements: A Reply to Walsh

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Geare
Keyword(s):  
Current System ◽  
Opportunity To Respond ◽  
The Way

It was pleasing to see Pat Walsh's comment on my article (Geare, 1983) and to have the opportunity to respond. Added debate may help bring about the intended result of the original article - a reform in the way formal collective arrangements are classified. My article stressed the illogicalities in the current system and proposed a more logical classification as present in Table 2 of my article (and Walsh's). This proposed system could easily be introduced and, with a few legislative and administrative changes, collective arrangements could be printed with more logical and descriptive titles. Department of Labour and Arbitration Court data would become more useful and accurate. Until such changes occur, the proposed classification could be used by those writing about collective arrangements as it is still compatible with the actual titles on the documents. It was hoped that the article would create greater awareness of the problem and greater acceptance of the need for reform. Walsh's article, and this response, gives the problem further exposure and by so doing may increase the probability of reform.

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