Research of Comics in Modern Humanities

The growing popularity of comics in Ukraine and worldwide increases scientific attention to this type of information product. The article is devoted to generalising the leading tendencies in the Comics Study and researching comics in modern humanities. Based on the study devoted to comics professional publications, profile resources of world comics research centres and the current state of understanding the phenomenon of comics magazines and Internet resources, application of review-analytical, historical-chronological, dialectical, socio-communication, and content analysis methods has been detected that the syncretic nature of comics made them a research subject in various sciences and programme subject areas: literary studies, linguistics, cultural study, art history, history, political science, and others. Leading research centres of Comics Study are the International Comic Art Forum, the British Consortium of Comic Researchers, the Comics Research Hub of the University of the Arts, the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics, the Society for Comics Researchers (USA). The educational direction of Comics Studies has been represented by bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral (doctor of philosophy) educational programs in higher education institutions of different countries: the University of Florida, University of Toronto, University of California Santa Cruz, University of Portland, West University, University Dundee, Teesside University, Lancaster University (UK), Kyoto Seika University (Japan). The growth of scientific knowledge in Comics Study, on the one hand, and on the other hand - the predominance of interdisciplinary approach in the studies necessitated the establishment of special scientific journals dedicated to comics, such as the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Studies in Comics, European Comic Art. In Ukraine, the study of comics at the dissertation level took place in the dimension of pedagogy and philology. However, some scientific research on comics is available in journalism, press studies, publishing, political science, literature, journalism, and social communications. It has been found that as a multifunctional and unique information product and object of library activity, comics have not yet become the subject of study for bibliologists and librarians. The prospects of separating the corresponding research direction in bibliology and library science are substantiated.

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 21st century age of rifles - A bibliometric analysis

In the 21st century data, itself are information, product, and goods. The pandemic situation has given new eyes to the old invention to effectively bridge the gap between history, happenings, and technology as well as past and future. Health is requisite and every one of us would have placed our footstep one way or the another in the healthcare sector. The demand for healthcare professionals is also increasing in our country with an increasing population. To address the health need of society, this paper attempts to exhibit the studies captured on these two broad areas in the healthcare sector with a systematic literature review of bibliometric analysis. This paper will bring out the technological invention, its implications in the 21st century, relevance in the covid 19 pandemic situation, research, and facts explored in this area. Humans are the inventor and users of technology: the good we use the great will be the outcome: It all depends. (*The paper was presented at the 2nd Conference on Business Data Analytics: Innovation in emerging trends in management data analytics. Apeejay School of Management, Dwarka, Delhi, India. November 2021)

Complementarity of Information Products

In “Marketing Information: A Competitive Analysis,” Sarvary, M., and P. M. Parker. 1997. “Marketing Information: A Competitive Analysis.” Marketing Science 16 (1): 24–38 (S&P) argue that in part of the parameter space that they considered, a reduction in the price of one information product can lead to an increase in demand for another information product, i.e. information products can be gross complements. This result is surprising and has potentially important marketing implications. We show that S&P obtain this complementarity result by implicitly making the following internally inconsistent assumptions: (i) after purchasing information products, consumers update their beliefs using a Bayesian updating rule that assumes they have a diffuse initial prior (i.e. their initial prior variance is ∞ before receiving any information); (ii) if consumers choose not to purchase any information product, it is assumed that their initial prior variance is 1 (implied by the utility function specification). This internal inconsistency leads to the possibility that when information products are uncorrelated and their variances are close to 1, marginal utility is increasing in the number of products purchased, and hence information products can be complements in their model. We show that if we remove this internal inconsistency, in the parameter space considered by S&P, information products cannot be complements because the marginal utility of information products will be diminishing. We also show that, in parts of the parameter space not considered by S&P, it is possible that information products are complements; this space of parameters requires consumer’s initial prior to be relatively precise and information products to be highly correlated (either positively or negatively).

THEORETICAL DIMENSION OF INFORMATION-DIGITAL ECONOMY: INFORMATION-DIGITAL PROCESSES AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES

Cognitive activity and its types (sensory-emotional, empirical-abstract, theoretical-abstract, applied and integral-synthetic) are presented as a contradictory unity of discretizing and cretinizing components. The accompanying information-digital discretizing activity and the accompanying information-digital cretizing activity are characterized as components of the accompanying information-digital activity, their separate attributes, and also results are the basic kinds of discrete-digital materialized derivative information products. The main serial-parallel technical, technological and technical-technological processes of processing accompanying information-digital activity are considered: i) transformation of a discrete materialized derivative information product into a discrete-digital materialized derivative information product by digitization in an analog-to-digital converter; ii) own production of discrete-digital materialized derivative information products with the use of discrete-digital electronic computer; iii) conversion of a discrete-digital materialized derivative information product into an analog materialized derivative information product in a digital-to-analog converter. The composition of the knowledge-information chain of intermediate links between the real object and its final-surface designation is determined: “Real object – knowledge product – knowledge-information product – knowledge-concept product – primary information product – derivative information product – materialized derivative information product – discrete materialized derivative information product – discrete-digital materialized derivative information product.”Four types of information-digital economy are highlighted. Its core, or information-digital economy of the I kind, is represented exclusively by the accompanying information-digital activity, its types and attributes. Information-digital economy of the II kind includes information-digital economy of the I kind and production of attributes of accompanying information-digital activity both within the information economy, and outside it. Information-digital economy of the II kind together with information and non-information economic activity, the attributes of which are discrete-digital materialized derivative information products, forms the information-digital economy of the III kind. Finally, in the information-digital economy of the IV kind, along with the information-digital economy of the III kind, the components of all types of economic activity are presented, in which at least one of the attributes of the accompanying information-digital activity is used.

Comics in the Practical Activity of Ukraine Libraries

The amount increasing of produced information raises the issue of its effective perception and assimilation and increases attention to graphic information products as effective communication tools, including, in particular, comic books, and library practices built around comics. The article is devoted to the disclosure of modern domestic library experience in activities related to the comics use, outlining the system of service formed around comics in the libraries of Ukraine. Based on the study of funds and official websites of domestic libraries, professional publications, media materials, and the use of a set of research methods – especially bibliographic and heuristic search methods, analysis of content – it was found out that comic books are presented in the funds of domestic libraries of different levels and types: from large national-level institutions to small district book collections. The beginning of the comics history in the libraries of Ukraine dates back to the 20-the 30s of the twentieth century and today we can already talk about the formation of a comprehensive innovative library service around comics as an information product, the main components of which are the organization of educational events dedicated to comics, informing about the receipt of comics in the library, organizing exhibitions of comics, compiling lists and preparing bibliographic indexes and organization of meetings with authors and publishers of comics, workshops, and competitions. It has been found that comics as an information product is not only the subject of work of domestic librarians but also an effective tool for solving educational, social, and internal narrow professional tasks to promote the library profession and library business by them.

Information Management as a Factor in the Transition of the State from the Information Economy to the Digital Economy

The purpose of the article is to present the author’s approach to the study of information management when making managerial decisions by public administration bodies. In this paper, information management is consistently considered as an object, subject and method of information management. By the example of the content and correlation of such concepts as data and information, information and knowledge, the main obstacles to the transition of the state from the information economy to the digital economy are shown. The hypothesis is formulated that effective information management does not so much contribute to the formation of the added value of management processes, as it creates the potential for obtaining additional value of a management decision as an information product.Materials and methods. The research is based on the analysis of the processes of informatization of society and the state, as well as the analysis of the possibilities of information management for building a digital infrastructure and effective interaction of the subjects of the digital economy. Various aspects of information management are disclosed in accordance with the “subject-object-subject” and “subject-object-object” models. The problems of determining the quantity and quality of information are revealed in comparison with the attributive, functional-cybernetic and semiotic concepts of information. The information base of the research was made up of the results of scientific research in the field of decision-making in public administration and methodological approaches to information management used in science.Results. The main risks and problems of information management in decision-making by public administration bodies were identified. It is determined that knowledge becomes an economic resource not at the stage of its production, but at the stage of use. This resource allows you to create the added value of a management solution as an information product. It is proved that the role of the state in the dissemination and use of knowledge is provided by the unconditional desire of the individual to produce new knowledge. In addition, it is shown that for the transition to the digital economy, the state needs to create an information infrastructure in which openness and transparency of data are combined with equal opportunities for individuals in the economy (inclusive economy).Conclusion. Information management is a significant factor in the transition of the state from an information economy to the digital one. The simple accumulation of information and knowledge cannot be a guide for the transition to the digital economy. Information management from the perspective of creating and using additional information value will avoid the risk of mechanical informatization and uncontrolled digitalization. The state activities in this direction should be responsible and consistent. The volume of information increases as a result of the individual’s desire to produce new knowledge, but the social value of knowledge increases as a result of the effective impact of the state on the development of information infrastructure and the diffusion of information technologies. Thus, the realization of the potential of the additional value of information and its scaling on the basis of state-supported platform tools will allow for the transition from the information economy to the digital economy.

Formation of information competencies when learning by pupils of desktop publishing systems in project activities in informatics

The article discusses the feasibility of the formation of information competencies of schoolchildren and the significance of the subject area of informatics for their formation. The necessity of project activities in informatics for the purposeful formation of information competencies is shown. The possibilities and advantages of the MS Publisher desktop publishing system as an information technology that allows the formation of information competencies of students in project activities in informatics are disclosed. The types of students' activities when using the desktop publishing system MS Publisher and information competencies formed in each type of activity are highlighted. The process of organizing project activities is described on the example of creating a school newspaper. In this process, students learn basic publishing concepts, master basic desktop publishing skills, plan project activities, create an information product, document project results, present and analyze work performed. Methodological recommendations are given, aimed at the purposeful formation of information competencies of schoolchildren.

DOCUMENTARY FUND AS A REFLECTION LEVEL OF INFORMATION CULTURE OF THE LIBRARY

The purpose of the article is to define the essence of the informational culture of the library, that represents the created documentary fund as an information product that is the result of the joint efforts of the staff, including its modeling, composition, and organization; to identify key elements and analyze components; outline directions for further research in terms of meeting the needs of the information society in the digital age. The methodology is to apply a culturological and systematic approach, general scientific methods of cognition, and the method of moving from the abstract to specific aspects. The scientific novelty of the work is to study the informational culture of the library and its documentary fund as a consolidated information product of joint efforts of its staff, which serves as an indicator of the level of the corporate culture of the library on the one hand and the informational culture of society on the other. The factors due to which the modern head of the library should take care of the informational culture of his institution, the main features and levels of the informational culture of the modern library are elaborated. Conclusions. The documentary fund as a product of joint activity and the main object of cultural creativity of the library staff can be presented as a complex, multidimensional structure, including the ability to collect and analyze source information, the ability to create electronic databases, knowledge of information retrieval systems and information retrieval techniques, ability to process information, skills of structuring documented information, knowledge of methods of preparation of different information documents, ability to provide information services. The combination of the main elements of the informational culture of the library is based on the principles of complexity, differential approach, and continuity and gives a new vision and understanding of the need for joint work on the formation of its documentary fund. The information culture of the library requires further research and detailed analysis of its components. Key words: informational culture; documentary fund; joint information product; information technologies; digital age.