Community and Urban Places in a Digital World

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Goodspeed
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Urban Places

The sources of big data of most interest to urban social researchers arise from the adoption of digital information and communications technologies (ICTs)—especially Internet–connected smartphones and computers—by city residents themselves for nearly all aspects of economic and social life. As much as might be learned from this new data, they also reflect broader changes in the nature of urban community. ICTs are not only loosening ties among residents and their neighbors, but also enabling urban residents to remain deeply connected to places regardless of where they live. These trends promise to have profound consequences for local civic participation, since it increases the number and variety of interested stakeholders for any given place. The comment concludes by observing that since ICTs mediate urban life for many residents, researchers should explore the myriad ways they shape cities.

The Roles of Digital Literacy in Social Life of Youth

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Chrispina S. Lekule ◽  
Yuqi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter contains findings related to social aspects of digital activities of youth. Computers, mobile devices, and the internet are increasingly used in everyday social practices of youth, requiring competencies that are largely still not being taught in schools. To thrive in the digital era, youth need to competently use digital tools and define, access, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information. Being able to develop perceptions of, and respect for, social norms and values for functioning in the digital world, without compromising one's own privacy, safety, or integrity is also important. After addressing the social prospects of information and communication technology (ICT) use among youth, this chapter describes their online behavior through the paradoxical nature of the internet (i.e., providing opportunities for social development vs. introducing risks). Educators and youth services are advised to consider these factors in designing flexible, innovative, and inclusive programs for young people that use ICT.

scholarly journals A New Urban Vitality Analysis and Evaluation Framework Based on Human Activity Modeling Using Multi-Source Big Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 617
Author(s):  
Shaojun Liu ◽  
Ling Zhang ◽  
Yi Long ◽  
Yao Long ◽  
Mianhao Xu
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Spatial Pattern ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Driving Mechanism ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Geographically Weighted Regression Model ◽  
Activity Modeling ◽  
Urban Activities

A quantitative study of urban vitality brings new insights for evaluating the external construction environment and internal development power of cities. However, it still has limited knowledge of the relations between people’s diverse urban life and urban vitality, although urban activities are often used as the proxy for urban vitality. This paper aims to deeply mine the content of urban social life and reveal the driving mechanism of urban vitality after inspecting human activities. We propose a general framework for exploring the spatial pattern and driving mechanism of urban vitality using multi-source big data. It builds a mapping relationship between various urban activities and urban vitality aspects, including economic and social. In addition, the physical environment (static) and human–land interaction (dynamic) indicators are designed to analyze the driving mechanism of urban vitality using the Geographically Weighted Regression model. The results show that the spatial pattern and driving factors of urban vitality are heterogeneous over space regarding both the economic and social aspects of our experimental study. This work provides us with multiple perspectives to understand the connotation of urban vitality and urges us to develop rational strategies to make the city more vital, coordinated, and sustainable.

Spatial Organization and the Residential Experience: Black Cincinnati in 1850

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry L. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
Residential Experience

Although the role of strategically situated black Cincinnati as a gateway to freedom in the period before the Civil War has been well documented, the internal structure of this dynamic black urban community and its evolution within the larger urban setting has proved a more elusive subject (Woodson, 1916; Wade, 1954; Ellwein, 1964; Lammermeier, 1970; Riley, 1971; Berlin, 1976; Curry, 1981; Horton, 1984). In the antebellum period, as in our own age, residential location determined the type and quality of housing one might occupy, the employment opportunities and the public and private facilities accessible to the resident, and the overall physical, economic, political, and social setting in which urban residents lived and raised their families. Moreover, in the commercial era, before the advent of modern intraurban transport, the residential structure was the foundation upon which the entire social life and the organizational structure of urban life was built. An understanding of residential patterns, and of the location of the black community in geographic space and in the context of the evolving urban structure, is therefore a critical prerequisite to understanding what life in the antebellum black urban community was like.

Ethnography Bytes Back: Digitalising Visual Anthropology

2005 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Murdock ◽  
Sarah Pink
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Emerging Media ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Multimedia Technologies

The last decade has seen a sustained debate about the limits and biases of traditional fieldwork practice. The same period has also seen the launch and adoption of a range of new digital information and communications technologies (ICTs), including CD-ROMs, the internet, digital photography and film, and multi-function mobile phones. Investigating how these emerging media are encountered and worked with in a range of everyday settings has opened up a range of new areas and questions for anthropological research, while underlining the central challenges currently facing ethnographic practice. Visual anthropologists are particularly well placed to explore the possibilities opened up by innovations in multimedia technologies since their investigative and presentational practices have, from the outset, sought to use photography and film alongside written text and recorded speech. Their patchy, but nonetheless important, efforts to encourage subjects to take their own photographs and make their own films have also introduced more participatory modes of investigation. Drawing on a range of recent work, this paper explores how visual anthropologists are currently using both the multimedia and interactive properties of emerging media to develop new forms of practice across the three key moments of research: ethnographic investigation, analysis and interpretation, and presentation. In particular, it looks at how varying combinations of digital media are being employed to assemble ‘thicker’ accounts of everyday practices and beliefs that incorporate participant as well as researcher productions, develop modes of analysis that are more self-reflexive, collaborative and participatory, and construct hypermedia archives and research presentations that are open ended and interactive.

The Roles of Digital Literacy in Social Life of Youth

2018 ◽  
pp. 2314-2325
Author(s):  
Dragana Martinovic ◽  
Viktor Freiman ◽  
Chrispina S. Lekule ◽  
Yuqi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter contains findings related to social aspects of digital activities of youth. Computers, mobile devices, and the Internet are increasingly used in everyday social practices of youth, requiring competencies that are largely still not being taught in schools. To thrive in the digital era, youth need to competently use digital tools and define, access, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information. Being able to develop perceptions of, and respect for, social norms and values for functioning in the digital world, without compromising one's own privacy, safety, or integrity is also important. After addressing the social prospects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use among youth, this chapter describes their online behavior through the paradoxical nature of the Internet (i.e., providing opportunities for social development vs. introducing risks). Educators and youth services are advised to consider these factors in designing flexible, innovative, and inclusive programs for young people that use ICT.

scholarly journals O Scratch nas aulas de matemática: caminhos possíveis no ensino das áreas de figuras planas

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Williane Costa Ferreira ◽  
Carloney Alves de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Programming Language ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
State School ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics

<p><strong>Resumo</strong></p><p>O presente artigo teve como principal objetivo investigar como a utilização da linguagem de programação Scratch pode contribuir para o aprendizado das áreas de figuras planas. O estudo baseia-se em autores como Valente (1998), Murari (2012), Borba e Penteado (2012) e Correia (2013), que explicitam sobre a importância das Tecnologias Digitais da Informação e Comunicação (TDIC) para o ensino de matemática e, de modo particular, o uso do Scratch. A pesquisa de cunho exploratório, numa abordagem qualitativa, foi realizada com 27 alunos da turma do 9º ano A de uma escola estadual na cidade de Maceió - AL, com dados coletados por meio de atividades propostas e questionário respondido pelos alunos. Constatou-se o interesse dos alunos pelo Scratch para desenvolver atividades sobre áreas de figuras planas, aprendendo com seus erros e desenvolvendo a criatividade e a capacidade de raciocínio.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave</strong></p><p>Áreas de figuras planas. Scratch. Aprendizagem matemática.</p><p> </p><p><strong>The Scratch in Mathematics Classes: Possible Ways for Teaching the Area Flat Shapes </strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>The main goal of the present paper is to investigate how using the Scratch programming language can help students learn to determine the area of flat shapes. The study is based on authors such as Valente (1998), Murari (2012), Borba and Penteado (2012) and Correia (2013) who explain the importance of Digital ICT (Digital Information and Communications Technologies) for the teaching of mathematics, particularly the use of Scratch. We used a qualitative and exploratory approach with 27 students in a ninth grade class at a state school in Maceió, the capital of the state of Alagoas. We collected data through activities proposed to and a questionnaire responded by the students. The students showed an interest in Scratch for activities involving the areas of flat figures, thus learning from their mistakes and developing both creativity and reasoning skills.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong></p><p>Areas of flat figures. Scratch. Mathematics learning.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Scratch en las clases de matemáticas: caminos posibles en la enseñanza de las áreas de figuras planas </strong></p><p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>El presente artículo tuvo como principal objetivo investigar de qué forma la utilización del lenguaje de programación Scratch puede contribuir al aprendizaje de las áreas de figuras planas. El estudio se basa en autores como Valente (1998), Murari (2012), Borba y Penteado (2012) y Correia (2013), que inciden en la importancia de las Tecnologías Digitales de la Información y la Comunicación (TDIC) para la enseñanza de las matemáticas y, en particular, el uso de Scratch. La investigación, de carácter exploratorio y enfoque cualitativo, se llevó a cabo con 27 alumnos de la clase del 9.º año A de una escuela estatal de la ciudad de Maceió (Alagoas), y los datos se recogieron mediante actividades propuestas y cuestionarios respondidos por los alumnos. Se constató el interés de los alumnos por el Scratch para desarrollar actividades sobre áreas de figuras planas, con las que aprendieron de sus errores y desarrollaron su creatividad y capacidad de razonamiento.</p><p><strong>Palabras clave</strong></p><p>Áreas de figuras planas. Scratch. Aprendizaje matemático.</p>

ICTs and Sexual Exploitation of Children in Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 565-579
Author(s):  
László Dornfeld
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Child Pornography ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Production And Distribution

The development of digital information and communications technologies changed society in many ways. Many new threats, including online child pornography, emerged. Child pornography appeared with the emergence of photography, and since then, with each technological advance, there was an increase in the availability of these materials. The article focuses on how ICTs changed the production and distribution of child pornography and the European response to this new threat. As this criminal behavior targets one of the most vulnerable groups of society, and it being a global phenomenon, it is important for international organizations to combat it. For the European Union, this is one of the priorities for over one and a half decades and since then many legal, political, and institutional changes took place.

scholarly journals Foreword: Big Data Future and the First Decade of an Interdisciplinary Journal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Shane
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Information Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal

This essay is the Foreword for a symposium entitled "Big Data Future," which was organized by I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society. As the Journal marked the end of its first decade of publication, this piece explains how the emergence of the Big Data phenomenon substantiates the premises for the interdisciplinary journal's creation: the information and communications technologies of the digital age promise to reshape virtually every aspect of our collective economic, social, political, and cultural life, and appropriate roles of law and policy in meeting the challenges and opportunities that new technologies pose requires a wide-ranging interdisciplinary conversation.

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