Genie Out of the Bottle - The Digital Revolution on its Way (Chapter 1 of Digital Society)

Sociology is a discipline inevitably based on interpretative categories of social reality derived from a specific historical phase. In a period that is increasingly defined as a new era or digital society, can sociological knowledge not be upset by this overload of changes of every kind and nature? And can these changes not involve all identity components of sociology, namely theory, research, and the usability of its knowledge? Given this, it seems rather evident that this volume is the sign of the times and testify the variety and flexibility of digital methods. The author limits to dealing schematically with two methodological components that are constitutive of the digital revolution: the shift from the traditional and glorious ethnography to the new and emerging netnography, especially as regards the qualitative side, and, on the more properly quantitative side, the overwhelming and boundless spread of big data. A brief and selective description of these “transitions” will be complemented by a thoughtful evaluation of their potential for the future in the peculiar field of inquiry.

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Expert didactics in the conditions of the third digital revolution

Issues of Forensic Science ◽

10.34836/pk.2020.308.4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 308 ◽

Author(s):

Olga Nedashkivska

Keyword(s):

Skills Development ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Digital Revolution ◽

Digital Society ◽

The Third ◽

Effective Application ◽

Forensic Examination ◽

Systematic Solution

The author raises the issue of the effective application of modern approaches in didactics in the process of training forensic experts, which is related to the specifics of activities in the field of forensic examination and to the requirements and needs of modern digital society. The purpose of the study is to analyze the existing approaches to the training of forensic experts and their skills development, as well as systematic coverage of practical problems of application of the latest didactic approaches in the field. The research was conducted by analyzing the existing classical educational approaches for the training of forensic experts in relevant fields. Taking into account the requirements of modernity associated with the total digitalization of all social and state processes the research determines the need to modernize the basic didactic techniques. The article proposes a systematic solution to the problem – the development and implementation of the latest digital platforms for the training of forensic experts in order to effectively apply their upgraded skills in practice.

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Culture and Society in the Digital Age

Information ◽

10.3390/info12020068 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 68

Author(s):

Ilya Levin ◽

Dan Mamlok

Keyword(s):

Cultural Studies ◽

General Model ◽

Digital Age ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Cultural Changes ◽

Digital Revolution ◽

Digital Society ◽

Surrounding Environment ◽

New Phenomena

This paper aims to examine a theoretical framework of digital society and the ramifications of the digital revolution. The paper proposes that more attention has to be paid to cultural studies as a means for the understanding of digital society. The approach is based on the idea that the digital revolution’s essence is fully manifested in the cultural changes that take place in society. Cultural changes are discussed in connection with the digital society’s transformations, such as blurring the distinction between reality and virtuality and among people, nature, and artifacts, and the reversal from informational scarcity to abundance. The presented study develops a general model of culture. This model describes the spiritual, social, and technological facets of culture. Such new phenomena as individualization, transparisation, and so-called cognification (intellectualization of the surrounding environment) are suggested as the prominent trends characterizing the above cultural facets.

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Digital quality: from necessity to opportunity

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202110604002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 106 ◽

pp. 04002

Author(s):

Ludmila Shcherbakova ◽

Ludmila Zobova ◽

Elena Evdokimova

Keyword(s):

System Quality ◽

Digital Revolution ◽

Digital Society ◽

Economic Relations ◽

Institutional Economic ◽

Sectoral Structure ◽

Information Accessibility ◽

Cloud Technologies

The article substantiates the systemic quality of digital society as an internal need for digital equality. The basis of the proof is the analysis of new properties of modern information: accessibility (spatial distribution and affordability) and dynamism (increase of its quantity and quality). It is shown that systematic quality is implemented through the production-technical and institutional-economic relations of the digital society thanks to the technologies of the second wave of the digital revolution: open information systems, a comprehensive Internet and big data, cloud technologies and social networks. The article presents the mechanisms changing under the influence of the system quality of the digital society: ensuring management at all levels, forming an optimal sectoral structure, identifying new sources of economic growth, changing the role of an individual in solving the problem of social development. The article summarizes that models, tasks and forms of realization of modern digital policy depend on the degree of implementation of the system quality, i.e. equality.

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From the Digital Data Revolution toward a Digital Society: Pervasiveness of Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction ◽

10.3390/make3010014 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 284-298

Author(s):

Frank Emmert-Streib

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Language Processing ◽

Method Development ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Digital Data ◽

Limiting State ◽

Digital Revolution ◽

Digital Society ◽

Private Lives

Technological progress has led to powerful computers and communication technologies that penetrate nowadays all areas of science, industry and our private lives. As a consequence, all these areas are generating digital traces of data amounting to big data resources. This opens unprecedented opportunities but also challenges toward the analysis, management, interpretation and responsible usage of such data. In this paper, we discuss these developments and the fields that have been particularly effected by the digital revolution. Our discussion is AI-centered showing domain-specific prospects but also intricacies for the method development in artificial intelligence. For instance, we discuss recent breakthroughs in deep learning algorithms and artificial intelligence as well as advances in text mining and natural language processing, e.g., word-embedding methods that enable the processing of large amounts of text data from diverse sources such as governmental reports, blog entries in social media or clinical health records of patients. Furthermore, we discuss the necessity of further improving general artificial intelligence approaches and for utilizing advanced learning paradigms. This leads to arguments for the establishment of statistical artificial intelligence. Finally, we provide an outlook on important aspects of future challenges that are of crucial importance for the development of all fields, including ethical AI and the influence of bias on AI systems. As potential end-point of this development, we define digital society as the asymptotic limiting state of digital economy that emerges from fully connected information and communication technologies enabling the pervasiveness of AI. Overall, our discussion provides a perspective on the elaborate relatedness of digital data and AI systems.

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Quick Reference: Chapter 1: The Musculoskeletal System: The Hand and Upper Extremity

Guides Newsletter ◽

10.1001/amaguidesnewsletters.2000.sepoct03 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 5 (5) ◽

pp. 4-5

Keyword(s):

Dorsal Column ◽

Persistent Pain ◽

Illness Behavior ◽

Abnormal Illness Behavior ◽

Organ Systems ◽

Spinal Cord Dorsal ◽

Objective Basis ◽

Dorsal Column Stimulation ◽

Underlying Pathology

Abstract Spinal cord (dorsal column) stimulation (SCS) and intraspinal opioids (ISO) are treatments for patients in whom abnormal illness behavior is absent but who have an objective basis for severe, persistent pain that has not been adequately relieved by other interventions. Usually, physicians prescribe these treatments in cancer pain or noncancer-related neuropathic pain settings. A survey of academic centers showed that 87% of responding centers use SCS and 84% use ISO. These treatments are performed frequently in nonacademic settings, so evaluators likely will encounter patients who were treated with SCS and ISO. Does SCS or ISO change the impairment associated with the underlying conditions for which these treatments are performed? Although the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides) does not specifically address this question, the answer follows directly from the principles on which the AMA Guides impairment rating methodology is based. Specifically, “the impairment percents shown in the chapters that consider the various organ systems make allowance for the pain that may accompany the impairing condition.” Thus, impairment is neither increased due to persistent pain nor is it decreased in the absence of pain. In summary, in the absence of complications, the evaluator should rate the underlying pathology or injury without making an adjustment in the impairment for SCS or ISO.

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Fifth Edition: the New Standard

Guides Newsletter ◽

10.1001/amaguidesnewsletters.2000.novdec01 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 5 (6) ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Christopher R. Brigham ◽

James B. Talmage ◽

Leon H. Ensalada

Keyword(s):

Musculoskeletal System ◽

Medical Information ◽

Objective Assessment ◽

Scientific Data ◽

Practical Application ◽

Fourth Edition ◽

Appropriate Use ◽

Medical Evaluation ◽

Single Set

Abstract The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Fifth Edition, is available and includes numerous changes that will affect both evaluators who and systems that use the AMA Guides. The Fifth Edition is nearly twice the size of its predecessor (613 pages vs 339 pages) and contains three additional chapters (the musculoskeletal system now is split into three chapters and the cardiovascular system into two). Table 1 shows how chapters in the Fifth Edition were reorganized from the Fourth Edition. In addition, each of the chapters is presented in a consistent format, as shown in Table 2. This article and subsequent issues of The Guides Newsletter will examine these changes, and the present discussion focuses on major revisions, particularly those in the first two chapters. (See Table 3 for a summary of the revisions to the musculoskeletal and pain chapters.) Chapter 1, Philosophy, Purpose, and Appropriate Use of the AMA Guides, emphasizes objective assessment necessitating a medical evaluation. Most impairment percentages in the Fifth Edition are unchanged from the Fourth because the majority of ratings currently are accepted, there is limited scientific data to support changes, and ratings should not be changed arbitrarily. Chapter 2, Practical Application of the AMA Guides, describes how to use the AMA Guides for consistent and reliable acquisition, analysis, communication, and utilization of medical information through a single set of standards.

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