LIGHT: Enabling Instant Communication for Web Surfers with Momentary Needs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron J. Gao ◽  
Jose A. Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Instant Communication

Economies

2021 ◽  
pp. 152-204
Author(s):  
Vaclav Smil
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Instant Communication

The most obvious markers of economic transition have been the increasing rate of growth, fundamental structural transformation, and the creation of economies characterized by material abundance, high mobility, and instant communication. Growth rates of traditional economies were a mere fraction of a percent, while modernizing economies grew commonly by 3–5%, some even on the order of 10%. As labor productivities rose, labor force moved from the countryside to cities, and manufacturing became temporarily the most important economic sector before the next major shift transferred most labor to services. High-energy consumer societies created by these transitions enjoy unprecedented levels of material abundance, leisure, and mobility, but these gains have been accompanying by significant economic inequality and have yet to reach most of the world’s population.

Cantonese particles in Hong Kong students' English e-mails

English Today ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory James
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Standard English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Writing Students ◽  
Grammatical Accuracy ◽  
Hong Kong Students ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Instant Communication

With the popularisation of the Internet, the use of e-mails and computer-based chats (CBCs) has increased dramatically among university students. An interesting feature of such communication, however, is that a written medium is treated like speech (cf. Maynor, 1994). Conversations turn into notes where grammatical accuracy and conventional formalities take a backseat to instant communication. In the case of on-campus CBCs, informality and a certain disregard of the conventions of standard English are all the more manifest.It is commonly believed in Hong Kong that this general freedom to write ‘bad English’ has encouraged the habit of randomly incorporating Cantonese words into English e-mails. Yet an examination of students' e-mails and icq (‘I Seek You’) communications reveals that far from ‘polluting’ their English by substituting Cantonese words haphazardly for English ones, or by applying Cantonese structures to their English writing, students tend to incorporate certain kinds of Cantonese words systematically into their texts for specific identifiable purposes.

Design and Implementation of Web Instant Communication System Based on Web 2.0

2013 ◽  
Vol 850-851 ◽  
pp. 533-536
Author(s):  
Wei Chun Gao ◽  
Wu Xue Jiang ◽  
Wei Hai Gao ◽  
Jun Fan Liu ◽  
Jin Chuan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Conversion Rate ◽  
The Self ◽  
Chat Room ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Network Resource ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Instant Communication ◽  
Client Side ◽  
The Web

The self-organizing thought of the network resource based on Web2.0 can innovatively combine the web page and instant communication, realize the function for the normal user to add, find and enter into the chat room for any web page at the client side, and the users browsing the same URL and website can enter into the same chat room to communication, thus providing the communication place for all users visiting the same web page and achieving the aim to improve the visitor activity, user viscosity and visitor conversion rate of the site.

scholarly journals Challenges of Using Instant Communication Technology in the Emergency Department during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Focus Group Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12463
Author(s):  
Yuh-Shin Kuo ◽  
Chien-Hsin Lu ◽  
Po-Wei Chiu ◽  
Hung-Chieh Chang ◽  
Yu-Yuan Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Patient Evaluation ◽  
Patient Privacy ◽  
Patient Assessment ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Patient Acceptability ◽  
Instant Communication

A record outbreak of community-spread COVID-19 started on 10 May 2021, in Taiwan. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, care facilities have adopted various protocols using instant communication technology (ICT) to provide remote yet timely healthcare while ensuring staff safety. The challenges of patient evaluation in the emergency department (ED) using ICT are seldom discussed in the literature. The objective of this study was to investigate the factors influencing the utility of ICT for patient assessment in emergency settings during the pandemic. The patient flow protocol and the ED layout were modified and regionalized into different areas according to the patient’s risk of COVID-19 infection. Nine iPads were stationed in different zones to aid in virtual patient assessment and communication between medical personnel. A focus group study was performed to assess and analyze the utility of the ICT module in the ED. Eight emergency physicians participated in the study. Of them, four (50%) had been directly involved in the development of the ICT module in the study hospital. Three main themes that influenced the application of the ICT module were identified: setting, hardware, and software. The setting theme included six factors: patient evaluation, subspecialty consultation, patient privacy and comfortableness, sanitation, cost, and patient acceptability. The hardware theme included six factors: internet connection, power, quality of image and voice, public or personal mode, portable or fixed mode, and maintenance. The software theme included six factors: platform choices, security, ICT accounts, interview modes, video/voice recording, and time limitation. Future studies should focus on quantifying module feasibility, user satisfaction, and protocol adjustment for different settings.

scholarly journals The Discourse Analysis of E-Business Instant Communication from the Perspective of Politeness Principle

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Tingting Guo ◽  
Zhenxia Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Special Occasion ◽  
Instant Communication ◽  
Reasonable Use

With the popularity and frequency of e-business activities, e-business instant communication plays an increasingly important role in e-business, and the appropriate and reasonable use of business language usually directly influences the economic interests. Therefore, the present study takes politeness principle as the theoretical framework and the participants’ chat records of e-business instant communication as the research data, and adopts the methodologies of discourse analysis and interview to explore the language use in e-business activities from the perspective of politeness principle. And the present study finds that servicers and customers use different linguistic resources from the perspective of politeness principle out of different interest pursuit. More specifically, servicers strictly observe the six maxims having no violations in e-business instant communication, while customers go against Tact Maxim, Generosity Maxim, Approbation Maxim and Modesty Maxim and usually comply with Agreement Maxim and Sympathy Maxim, nevertheless, they violate Agreement Maxim and Sympathy Maxim on special occasion in e-business instant communication. What’s more, if customers can strictly observe Agreement Maxim and Sympathy Maxim, and servicers can study how to avoid and deal with customers’ violation to Agreement Maxim and Sympathy Maxim successfully, enterprises, servicers and customers will benefit.

scholarly journals Nuevo malestar en la cultura: El «des-alejamiento» del alejamiento o la conquista del espacio exterior

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Borja García Ferrer
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Current Work ◽  
New Information ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Instant Communication

RESUMENEl objetivo del presente trabajo es examinar, desde un enfoque epistemológico interdisciplinar, la vigencia o la actualidad que posee la visión heideggeriana de la decadencia occidental en la infoesfera, en virtud de la superación virtual del espacio-tiempo que conllevan, a mediados del Novecientos, las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (NTIC). Como trataré de mostrar, el fenómeno óntico de la comunicación instantánea no hace sino consolidar y poner de manifiesto en la praxis histórico-vital el «máximo olvido del ser» que Heidegger teoriza a nivel ontológico.PALABRAS CLAVE HEIDEGGER, TÉCNICA MODERNA, «MÁXIMO OLVIDO DEL SER», COMUNICACIÓN INSTANTÁNEA, SUPERACIÓN VIRTUAL DEL ESPACIO-TIEMPOABSTRACTThe aim of the current work is to study, from an interdisciplinary epistemological approach, the relevance or validity of the Heideggerian view on the western decadence in the infosphere, by means of the virtual superseding of space-time brought by the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the mid 20th century. As I will try to show, the ontic phenomenon of instant communication does nothing but highlight and strengthen in the historical and vital praxis the «fullest forgetfulness of being» theorized by Heidegger on an ontological level.KEY WORDS HEIDEGGER, MODERN TECHNOLOGY, «FULLEST FORGETFULNESS OF BEING», INSTANT COMMUNICATION, VIRTUAL SUPERSEDING OF SPACE-TIME

Ethical Considerations When Using Mobile Technology in the Pre-Service Teacher Practicum

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Cameron ◽  
Chris Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
Practicum Experience ◽  
Instant Communication ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

In this paper, the authors revisit the pre-service teacher practicum experience and propose that mobile technology, with its ability to provide instant communication and immediate access to resources, could minimise the “disconnect” between theory and the school classroom and improve the experience for all parties involved. However, before this project began, the wide-ranging ethical considerations surrounding the use of mobile technologies had to be addressed. This paper outlines a range of issues that should be considered whenever mobile technologies are to be employed when researching in schools.

Fostering a Safe Online Culture with Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Kay Kyeong-Ju Seo ◽  
Joseph Alfred Ciani
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Virtual Interaction ◽  
Instant Communication ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Diverse Cultures

The worldwide expansion of blogs, Twitter®, wikis, and virtual worlds is rapidly forming a new online culture where instant communication and virtual interaction are easily accessible at our fingertips. These powerful communication technologies are bringing global communities closer than we have ever imagined possible. While the technical affordances of these tools are holding promise to better support our diverse cultures and individual differences, the very same features can also bring in a major negative – cyberbullying. Internet aggression is more detrimental than traditional face-to-face bullying because it is often done anonymously behind computer screens. This makes human rights and equal participation more easily suppressed or violated in the cyberspace. This article focuses on raising awareness about the serious consequences of cyberbullying and suggesting innovative prevention actions, thus contributing to building a safe online culture.

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