Gift-Giving as a Conceptual Framework: Framing Social Behavior in Online Networks

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörgen Skågeby
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Other Orientation

This paper explores the use of gift-giving as a theoretical and conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior in online networks and communities. Not only has gift-giving the potential to frame and explain much social media behavior, but reversely, and perhaps more Importantly, mediated social behavior also has the potential to develop gift-giving theory. Information and communication technologies form joint sociotechnical systems where new practices emerge. The paper focuses on describing the academic background of the gifting framework to help develop a deeper, theory-based, understanding of these sociotechnical phenomena. Three themes are prevalent In the gifting literature: other- orientation, social bonding and generalized reciprocity. The paper gives examples of how these themes are enacted by end-users via the use of Information and communication technologies. Finally, sociotechnically embedded economies, called gifting technologies, are Identified and discussed.

A Conceptual Framework for Effective Knowledge Management Using Information and Communication Technologies

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hepu Deng
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Transformation Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Knowledge Objects ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Role Of Information

This paper investigates the role of information and communication technologies in enabling and facilitating the conversion of knowledge objects in knowledge management and explores how these roles might be affected in an organization. Such an investigation is based on a critical analysis of the relationships between data, information and knowledge, leading to the development of a transformation model between data, information and knowledge. Using a multi-method approach, in this paper, the author presents a conceptual framework for effective knowledge management in an organization. The author discusses the implications of the proposed framework for designing and developing knowledge management systems in an organization.

scholarly journals Guidance for SMEs with the adoption of technology: A conceptual framework

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riana Steyn ◽  
Awie Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Information Communications Technology ◽  
Ict Implementation ◽  
Information And Communication

<p>When starting up a new small or medium sized company, it is crucial to understand what the requirements are in terms of Information and communication technologies (ICT). Bentellis and Boufaïsa (2008) note that over the last twenty years the markets have been changing fast, which has led to the evolution of the business environment. In many instances companies cannot keep up with the change occurring in the ICT arena. Entering the market as a small competitor, you need to ensure that you implement ICT that will support your business strategies. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research study done to determine how SMEs cope with the adoption of technology. The paper explores the typical problems and challenges faced by SMEs, within South Africa, with regard to ICT and propose a conceptual framework to support managers in their decision making on ICT implementation. As such, this framework supports them in choosing the relevant technology, as well as supporting them with the effective application of the chosen technologies.</p><p><strong>KEY WORDS:</strong> Adoption, Information communications Technology (ICT), skills, small to medium organisations (SME), Technology</p>

The Russian Federation’s Approach to Cybersecurity

2021 ◽  
pp. 671-684
Author(s):  
Anton Shingarev ◽  
Anastasiya Kazakova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
International Security ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Distinguishing Features ◽  
Regulatory Landscape

This chapter discusses the approach of the Russian Federation in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of international security and peace. After analysing the conceptual framework and definitions, as well as key distinguishing features in Russia’s approach, it gives an overview of Russia’s regulatory landscape and main legislative acts concerning cybersecurity and international security broadly. It also provides an analysis of Russian foreign policy on cybersecurity.

China's Digital Nationalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Digital China

China’s Digital Nationalism explores online networks and their nationalist discourses in digital China. It asks what happens to national community sentiments when they go digital. Nationalism, in China as much as elsewhere, is today shared through digital information and communication technologies. It is adopted, filtered, transformed, enhanced, and accelerated through digital networks, and it interacts in complicated ways with nationalism ‘on the ground’. Understanding these processes is crucial if we hope to make sense of the social and political complexities that shape the twenty-first century. In China’s Digital Nationalism, Florian Schneider analyses digital China first-hand, by empirically examining what search engines, online encyclopaedias, websites, hyperlink networks, and social media accounts can tell us about the way that different actors construct and manage a crucial topic in contemporary Chinese politics: the protracted historical relationship with neighbouring Japan. Using two cases, the infamous Nanjing Massacre of 1937 and the ongoing disputes over islands in the East China Sea, Schneider shows how various stake-holders in China construct networks and deploy power to shape nationalist discourses for their own ends. These dynamics in an emerging great power, this book argues, provide crucial lessons on how nation states adapt to the shifting terrain of the digital age.

Transnational Activism of Young Spanish Emigrants and Uses of ICT

2017 ◽  
pp. 155-187
Author(s):  
Mauricio N. Olivera ◽  
Denise Cogo
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter analyses the transnational collective action of Spanish emigrants in the countries of destination and origin, from appropriations of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In the conceptual framework of migrant transnationalism, we approach the collective action and communication, the experience of network activism and the use of ICTs by the transnational Spanish collective Marea Granate (MG), created in 2013, with the aim of intervening in in the discourses of the Spanish government, regarding: a) the Spanish migration; and b) their rights abroad. The focus is on MG´s four collective actions on the voting rights of Spanish emigrants, applying a qualitative methodology. In the conclusions, a transnational activism is observed, with actions mediated and unmediated by ICTs, where Spanish emigrants denounce and mobilize, causing rearrangements in the sociopolitical spaces between States and citizens.

Moving to the Edge of Chaos: Bureaucracy, IT and the Challenge of Complexity

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Boisot
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Order ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Edge Of Chaos ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Institutional Challenges ◽  
The Relationship

Bureaucracies in the Weberian mould, whether of the state or corporate type, are rational-legal structures organized to deliver order, stability and predictability. Early developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) appeared set to deliver such an outcome. Yet the new economy turns out to be more ‘distributed’ than had originally been expected. What is the nature of the challenge that this poses for bureaucracies? To address this question, the paper first presents a conceptual framework, the Information-Space or l-Space, which allows us to explore the relationship between how knowledge is structured and how it flows within and between populations of agents. The paper then examines what cultural and institutional challenges the new ICTs pose for both state and corporate bureaucracies, confronted as they are with the complexities of an increasingly distributed social order.

Telemedicine Information Demands of Chinese Elderly People in the Future: Examination of Effectiveness in Applications

2012 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 373-378
Author(s):  
Wei Xing Shi ◽  
Man Cheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Information Domain

China had embarked several initiatives to take care of its aging population where modern and emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) had been heavily invested so as to use these technologies to enhance the life quality of its elders. By focusing on healthcare information domain, this paper attempted to forecast next generation of elderly information demands in the future, determining the effectiveness of using current & emerging ICT applications as a means to seek information. This was achieved by discussing the co-relationships between these technologies and adoption of elderly where the combined variables will influence the manner of elderly social behavior in receiving and sending information.

A Conceptual Framework for Effective Knowledge Management Using Information and Communication Technologies

2013 ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Hepu Deng
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Transformation Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Knowledge Objects ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Role Of Information

This paper investigates the role of information and communication technologies in enabling and facilitating the conversion of knowledge objects in knowledge management and explores how these roles might be affected in an organization. Such an investigation is based on a critical analysis of the relationships between data, information and knowledge, leading to the development of a transformation model between data, information and knowledge. Using a multi-method approach, in this paper, the author presents a conceptual framework for effective knowledge management in an organization. The author discusses the implications of the proposed framework for designing and developing knowledge management systems in an organization.

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