scholarly journals Personal Management of Digital Information in University Students from a Gender Perspective

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Patricia López Vicent ◽  
José Luis Serrano Sánchez ◽  
Isabel Gutiérrez Porlán
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Cognitive Interview ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Personal Management ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Party Support

The purpose of the present study is to delve into the process of personal management of digital information among Spanish university students in their final year and to analyze whether there are similarities or differences regarding students’ gender. A non-experimental methodological design has been implemented of an exploratory type and based on a questionnaire as a single data collection instrument. The instrument was validated by means of experts’ judgement, cognitive interview, and construct validity. A total of 2,054 students’ surveys were collected, sourced from all areas of knowledge, in 75 public and private universities. These surveys made it possible to obtain information about the information search, selection, organization, processing, and creation processes. The results revealed that university students have a positive self-concept about their own competence for personal management of information. However, they fail to take advantage of all the possibilities that the digital world offers them. Women search the Internet for more diverse resources than men. They have better judgment when it comes to selecting and processing the information they need. Male students rely more often than female ones on digital mediums when organizing and creating information and choose to publish the information in less complex and more popular formats than their female counterparts. The conclusions of the present study match those of the majority of reviewed studies, namely regarding the organization of information, contextual and social factors which influence the management of information, such as third-party support, and also in relation to the increasing implementation of digital technologies in information management processes.

Digital Convergence and Cybersecurity Policy

2008 ◽  
pp. 395-405
Author(s):  
Anthony W. Buenger
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Convergence ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
The Government

Digital convergence constitutes the full realization of the Information Age and provides the foundation to link cultural, personal, business, governmental, and economic affairs into a rapidly expanding global digital world called cyberspace. However, this linking of people around the globe is challenging the government to actively work with private industry to ensure its critical infrastructures and associated information is adequately protected. The purpose of this chapter is to explain how digital convergence is affecting the public sector and the need for a cybersecurity policy that includes the active involvement of both the public and private sectors. Digital convergence has made incredible inroads thanks to rapidly developing technologies such as the ubiquitous Internet, seemingly endless bandwidth (including wireless), and rapid advances in computer processing power that are all responsible for the processing, transporting, and storing of digital information throughout cyberspace. Moreover, these technologies have brought about the collision of three colossal industrial segments within the private sector—(a) computing, (b) consumer electronics, and (c) telecommunications providers—and are providing a multitude of compatible services via various digital devices (Figure 1). Without a doubt, the explosion of digital convergence has produced a flourishing multimedia, multidevice, and multitasking environment (Baker & Green, 2004). A significant impact of a converged society is the empowerment of individuals (consumers) and organizations to collaborate and compete on a global scale. Most importantly, however, these highly mobile and perpetually connected consumers are putting information at a greater risk as they have access to this information outside of its traditionally protected network boundaries in an environment where this information is increasingly vital to the nation’s critical infrastructure assets. The government must be able to effectively secure the information flowing throughout cyberspace.

Deoxyribonucleic Acid as a Tool for Digital Information Storage: An Overview

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ashish C Patel ◽  
C G Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Consensus Sequence ◽  
Random Access ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Multiple Sequence ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital File

Current data storage technologies cannot keep pace longer with exponentially growing amounts of data through the extensive use of social networking photos and media, etc. The "digital world” with 4.4 zettabytes in 2013 has predicted it to reach 44 zettabytes by 2020. From the past 30 years, scientists and researchers have been trying to develop a robust way of storing data on a medium which is dense and ever-lasting and found DNA as the most promising storage medium. Unlike existing storage devices, DNA requires no maintenance, except the need to store at a cool and dark place. DNA has a small size with high density; just 1 gram of dry DNA can store about 455 exabytes of data. DNA stores the informations using four bases, viz., A, T, G, and C, while CDs, hard disks and other devices stores the information using 0’s and 1’s on the spiral tracks. In the DNA based storage, after binarization of digital file into the binary codes, encoding and decoding are important steps in DNA based storage system. Once the digital file is encoded, the next step is to synthesize arbitrary single-strand DNA sequences and that can be stored in the deep freeze until use.When there is a need for information to be recovered, it can be done using DNA sequencing. New generation sequencing (NGS) capable of producing sequences with very high throughput at a much lower cost about less than 0.1 USD for one MB of data than the first sequencing technologies. Post-sequencing processing includes alignment of all reads using multiple sequence alignment (MSA) algorithms to obtain different consensus sequences. The consensus sequence is decoded as the reversal of the encoding process. Most prior DNA data storage efforts sequenced and decoded the entire amount of stored digital information with no random access, but nowadays it has become possible to extract selective files (e.g., retrieving only required image from a collection) from a DNA pool using PCR-based random access. Various scientists successfully stored up to 110 zettabytes data in one gram of DNA. In the future, with an efficient encoding, error corrections, cheaper DNA synthesis,and sequencing, DNA based storage will become a practical solution for storage of exponentially growing digital data.

Foulweather Friends: Violence and Third Party Support in Self-Determination Conflicts

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200272199322
Author(s):  
R. Joseph Huddleston
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Variable Model ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
International Stability ◽  
General Preference ◽  
Party Support

This paper investigates how violence in self-determination conflicts influences bilateral foreign policy. I argue that a general preference for international stability causes third parties to support self-determination groups when violence reaches high levels, when they gain territorial control, and when major powers officially recognize. In these conditions, third parties perceive a stable new status quo to be nigh: unrecognized statehood. Ongoing instability encourages foreign policy that encourages the development of the de facto state, even when third parties have no intention of recognizing them as states. Importantly, I also show that targeting civilians erodes third-party support of the perpetrating side. I demonstrate these relationships using a latent variable model of international sovereignty of aspiring states, built on bilateral military, diplomatic, and economic exchange data. My model and tests provide new insight into how aspiring state actors become increasingly eligible for recognition through the tacit support of third-party states.

scholarly journals Relationships between motivation, cognitive styles and perception of teaching practices for creativity

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 503-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunice Maria Lima Soriano de ALENCAR ◽  
Denise de Souza FLEITH
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Private University ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public

Abstract This study investigates differences between Pedagogy and Teachers' Certificate in Mathematics undergraduates, males and females, from public and private institutions with respect to motivational orientations, cognitive styles and perception of pedagogical practices for creativity implemented by their teachers, as well as relationships between these variables. Three hundred and sixty-five students answered scales regarding motivation to learn, cognitive styles, and teaching practices for creativity. Intrinsic motivation predominated in the private university students and extrinsic motivation in the public university students. The data revealed differences between courses, gender and type of university concerning cognitive styles. Private university and pedagogy students had a more positive perception of professors' teaching practices that promote creativity. Positive relationships were observed between the factors of the instrument of pedagogical practices for creativity, intrinsic motivation and nonconformist transformer style, and between the various cognitive styles and intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientation.

scholarly journals Situating Politics: Spatial Heterogeneity and the Study of Political History

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Slez
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
Parameter Heterogeneity ◽  
Global Regression ◽  
Party Support

While quantitative methods are routinely used to examine historical materials, critics take issue with the use of global regression models that attach a single parameter to each predictor, thereby ignoring the effects of time and space, which together define the context in which historical events unfold. This problem can be addressed by allowing for parameter heterogeneity, as highlighted by the proliferation of work on the use of time-varying parameter models. In this paper, I show how this approach can be extended to the case of spatial data using spatially-varying coefficient models, with an eye toward the study of electoral politics, where the use of spatial data is especially common in historical settings. Toward this end, I revisit a critical case in the field of quantitative history: the rise of electoral Populism in the American West in the period between 1890 and 1896. Upending popular narratives about the correlates of third- party support in the late nineteenth century, I show that the association between third- party vote share and traditional predictors such as economic hardship and ethnic composition varied considerably from one place to the next, giving rise to distinct varieties of electoral Populism—a finding that is missed by global models, which mistake the mathematically particular for the historically general. These findings have important theoretical and empirical implications for the study of political action in a world where parameter heterogeneity is increasingly recognized as a standard feature of modern social science.

scholarly journals Traditional Ulama', Islamic Traditions, and Ngaji Pasanan within the Networked Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-304
Author(s):  
Mohamad Sobirin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Digital Information Technology

In Ramadan, kiai in various pondok pesantren (Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools) conduct lecturing activities known as "Ngaji Pasanan". This tradition has been going on for a long time ago till today. However, since 2017 up to now, it has been seen to be held by taking advantage of digital information technology through live streaming via Facebook, YouTube or other media platforms. In 2020, online “Ngaji Pasanan” has become a trend nationwide. This study aims to reveal the context of the online “Ngaji Pasanan phenomenon, which is carried out by the ulama' in pondok pesantren, by taking two samples, namely K.H. Mustofa Bisri and K.H. Said Aqil Siradj. Data collection and analysis used a netnographic approach. This study found that: First, Ngaji Pasanan of the two traditional Ulama' who used digital media were actually conducted offline, but were mediated by the internet and broadcast online. Second, through the online “Ngaji Pasanan”, the two traditional Ulama' not only convey the teachings in the kitab kuning but also contextualize them into socio-religious issues within the digital world, beside they also produce religious discourses and actual nationalities that are being debated by the public, whether in the online or offline context. Third, the presence of traditional Ulama' in the digital space, on the other hand, has been used by netizens to support their opinions by framing their positions on controversial religious and political issues. Fourth, the presence of traditional ulama' in the digital space is more driven by their insistence on addressing the flow of religious and national discourse in the digital space compared to their affirmation of the use of digital technology to carry out the academic tradition of pondok pesantren in Ramadan, namely "Ngaji Pasanan".

scholarly journals Analisis Pencarian Informasi Remaja Generasi z dalam Proses Pengambilan Keputusan Belanja Online (Analisis pada Mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi Universitas Tidar)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Fitria Khairum Nisa ◽  
Arief Bregas Viratama ◽  
Nurul Hidayanti
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Product Reviews ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Depth Interviews

<p><strong>Abstrak<br /></strong></p><p><strong></strong>Berdasarkan <em>survey</em>, salah kegiatan berinternet yang paling sering dilakukan adalah belanja <em>online</em> sebanyak 44.6%. Sedangkan generasi yang mendominasi penggunaan internet adalah generasi z. Generasi z merupakan generasi yang akrab dengan dunia digital dan berani mengambil resiko. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat bagaimana generasi z melakukan proses pencarian informasi dalam melakukan belanja <em>online</em><em> </em>dengan menyebarkan angket serta melakukan wawancara mendalam. Penelitian ini menggunakan <em>mix method. </em>Adapun subjek dari penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa Program Studi Ilmu Komunikasi, Universitas Tidar. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa ulasan produk di <em>e-commerce</em> merupakan sumber utama remaja generasi z dalam mencari informasi yakni sebesar 80.7%. Sumber informasi lainnya adalah ulasan produk di sosial media dan bertanya kepada teman. Adapun alasannya adalah untuk mencari <em>trend</em> terkini serta ulasan produk dapat dipercaya dan generasi z peduli dengan pendapat orang sekitar.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Abstract</strong></em></p><p><em>Based on the survey, one of the most frequently carried out internet activities was online shopping which is 44.6%. Meanwhile, the generation that dominates internet usage is z generation. Z generation z is a generation that is familiar with the digital world and is willing to take risks. This study aims to see how generation Z performs the information search process in online shopping. This study uses a mix method by distributing questionnaires and conducting in-depth interviews. Subject of this research is the students of communication in Tidar University. The results of this study indicate that product reviews on e-commerce is the main source of z generation adolescents in seeking information, which is 80.7%. Other sources of information are product reviews on social media and asking friends. The reasons for those are they look for the newest trend and product reviews are trustworthy and z generation cares what people think about them.</em></p>

scholarly journals Digital matter as interdisciplinary commodity

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Uwe Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Starting Point

<p>With the current exponential growth in the sector of Spatial Data Technology and Mixed Reality display devises we experience an increasing overlap of the physical and digital world. Next to making data spatially visible the attempt is to connect digital information with physical properties. Over the past years a number of research institutions have been laying the ground for these developments. In contemporary architecture architectural design the dominant application of data technology is connected to graphical presentation, form finding and digital fabrication.<br />The <em>arc/sec Lab for Digital Spatial Operations </em>at the University of Auckland takes a further step. The Lab explores concepts for a new condition of buildings and urban patterns in which digital information is connected with spatial appearance and linked to material properties. The approach focuses on the step beyond digital re-presentation and digital fabrication, where data is re-connected to the multi-sensory human perceptions and physical skills. The work at the Lab is conducted in a cross disciplinary design environment and based on experiential investigations. The arc/sec Lab utilizes large-scale interactive installations as the driving vehicle for the exploration and communication of new dimensions in architectural space. The experiments are aiming to make data “touchable” and to demonstrate real time responsive environments. In parallel they are the starting point for both the development of practice oriented applications and speculation on how our cities and buildings might change in the future.<br />The article gives an overview of the current experiments being undertaken at the arc/sec Lab. It discusses how digital technologies allow for innovation between the disciplines by introducing real time adaptive behaviours to our build environment and it speculates on the type of spaces we can construct when <em>digital matter </em>is used as a new dynamic building material.</p>

scholarly journals Consumer-Complainant’s Contentment with Reference to Performance of Consumer Dispute Redressal Machinery

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S7) ◽  
pp. 381-385
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Interactional Justice ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Satisfaction Level ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Consumer Protection Act ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Analysis Technique

Recognizing the significance of customer retention and creation, customer centric firms are continuously and systematically measuring customer satisfaction in terms of how well their customers are being treated and what are the factors influencing customer satisfaction level. Even when conscious efforts are being made by the business to keep its customers satisfied, there may be an instance where a consumer instead of getting his/her grievance resolved with the vendor / service provider approaches the consumer forum i.e. third party for resolution of grievance. An important question that arises in such scenario is that whether such aggrieved persons are satisfied with the offering of the forum or not. Moreover, in today’s dynamic and digital world, third party complaints are on continuous rise. The present study focuses on identifying various factors which influence the satisfaction level of consumer complainants. Through well designed questionnaire, involving likert scale statements related to distributive, procedural and interactional justice, responses have been collected from 300 respondents from the district of Ludhiana from the State of Punjab. Analysis of responses, using factor analysis technique, has enabled the identification of factors such as convenience and cost, behavioural aspect and credentials of the personnel working with consumer dispute redressal forums, established under Consumer Protection Act 1986

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document