scholarly journals Law in the Digital Age: How Visual Communication Technologies are Transforming the Practice, Theory, and Teaching of Law

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal Feigenson ◽  
Richard K. Sherwin ◽  
Christina O. Spiesel
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age

scholarly journals Topological and networked visibility: Politics of seeing in the digital age

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (231) ◽  
pp. 259-277
Author(s):  
Michele Martini
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Digital Landscape ◽  
Visibility Politics

Abstract Today, the convergence of video-based Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) is challenging centralized control over cultural topologies. Accordingly, this paper proposes a theoretical prism for the analysis of the sociopolitical impact of online audio-visual communication. More precisely, this study discusses how topological visibility (i.e. culture-based, highly centralized and spatially organized visibility structures) and networked visibility (i.e. occurrence-based, decentralized and network organized visibility structures) interact in today’s digital landscape. To this aim, four examples divided into two clusters will be discussed. The first cluster (i.e. Occupy Movement and BlackBerry Riots) will describe the functioning of topological visibility, while the second cluster (i.e. NO DAPL drone activism and Aleppo residents’ live-streaming) will illustrate how technology-enhanced mediability may create networked spaces of appearance. The paper concludes by arguing that networked visibility does not neutralize the relational nature of the human gaze but rather forces and expands the culturally-defined boundaries of its legitimate social existence.

Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Communicative Practice ◽  
Political Contention ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Everyday Resistance

Over the past decades, waves of political contention involving the use of information and communication technologies have swept across the globe. The phenomenon stimulates the scholarship on digital communication technologies and contentious collective action to thrive as an exciting, relevant, but highly fragmentary and contested field with disciplinary boundaries. To advance the interdisciplinary understanding, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age outlines a communication-centered framework that articulates the intricate relationship between technology, communication, and contention. It further prods us to engage more critically with existing theories from communication, sociology, and political science on digital technologies and political movements. Given the theoretical endeavor, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age systematically explores, for the first time, the influence of mobile technology on political contention in China, the country with the world’s largest number of mobile and Internet users. Using first-hand in-depth interview and fieldwork data, it tracks the strategic choice of mobile phones as repertoires of contention, illustrates the effective mobilization of mobile communication on the basis of its strong and reciprocal social ties, and identifies the communicative practice of forwarding officially alleged “rumors” as a form of everyday resistance. Through this ground-breaking study, Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age presents a nuanced portrayal of an emerging dynamics of contention—both its strengths and limitations—through the embedding of mobile communication into Chinese society and politics.

Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Herrera
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Generational Consciousness ◽  
Active Generation

Youth are coming of age in a digital era and learning and exercising citizenship in fundamentally different ways compared to previous generations. Around the globe, a monumental generational rupture is taking place that is being facilitated—not driven in some inevitable and teleological process—by new media and communication technologies. The bulk of research and theorizing on generations in the digital age has come out of North America and Europe; but to fully understand the rise of an active generation requires a more inclusive global lens, one that reaches to societies where high proportions of educated youth live under conditions of political repression and economic exclusion. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), characterized by authoritarian regimes, surging youth populations, and escalating rates of both youth connectivity and unemployment, provides an ideal vantage point to understand generations and power in the digital age. Building toward this larger perspective, this article probes how Egyptian youth have been learning citizenship, forming a generational consciousness, and actively engaging in politics in the digital age. Author Linda Herrera asks how members of this generation who have been able to trigger revolt might collectively shape the kind of sustained democratic societies to which they aspire. This inquiry is informed theoretically by the sociology of generations and methodologically by biographical research with Egyptian youth.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATION SKILLS AS A KEY TO CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 227-231
Author(s):  
Palle Manohar ◽  
G. Chenna Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Collaborative Activities ◽  
Crucial Ingredient ◽  
Historical Necessity

The postmodern phenomenon of globalization has launched digitalization as an outcome and the part of communication technologies by which the world has been brought together transcending the barriers of countries and cultures. The increase of global trade and the necessity of close and interlinked association among the nations at various stages of development have become imperative today as a historical necessity for future survival. Communication skills, especially in English, have become a crucial ingredient in all most all activities of life as communication channels are the arteries through which information flows and circulates to sustain any activity without disruption. Besides, to that the growth of coordination and collaborative activities in all spheres of life both public and private. Acquisition of and master over communication skills are the intellectual tools by which one’s competence is measured and career is enhanced. In the age of specialization and hierarchal structures of large organizations, communication is the link connecting and synergizing all activities and ability to communicate clearly and effectively is of immeasurable significance, to assume an important place in any organization. Every field of activity has its own specific vocabulary, specialized jargon and modes of communication which should be mastered by all participants to maintain the overall activity, especially in the age of digitalization. To rise effectively in one’s career and contribute satisfactorily and successfully, special packages of communication skills should be designed and imparted to all potential candidates who are ambitious of to rise high in one’s career. The inauguration of digital age made it both convenient to choose ones place and time for learning and also challenging as to how to utilize the recent technologies to enhance and extend ones communicative reach to become successful in one’s career. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the various programs and strategies of communication necessary to enhance ones career prospects by training the participants to equip themselves with right competitive communication skills in tandem with contemporary digital technology available.

E-Transformation in Higher Education and What It Coerces for the Faculty

2019 ◽  
pp. 355-378
Author(s):  
Ela Akgün-Özbek ◽  
Ali Ekrem Özkul
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

With the phenomenal developments in information and communication technologies, higher education has been facing an unprecedented challenge that affects all the stakeholders. Faculty is no exception. The authors synthesize the demographic, economic, and pedagogical factors that lead to a paradigm shift in higher education and the global trends in digital technologies that impel digital transformation in higher education. They then provide a snapshot of how higher education institutions respond to this challenge and change, and the impact of these factors on the roles and competencies of faculty that need to be covered in faculty development initiatives in the digital age. Finally, examples of faculty development programs and initiatives that address the digital competencies of faculty are provided along with a summary of faculty development models for teaching and learning in the digital age.

A Framework for Analyzing Social Interaction Using Broadband Visual Communication Technologies

2010 ◽  
pp. 528-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan O’Donnell ◽  
Heather Molyneaux ◽  
Kerri Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Organizational Relations ◽  
Audio Data

Broadband visual communication (BVC) technologies—such as videoconferencing and video sharing—allow for the exchange of rich simultaneous or pre-recorded visual and audio data over broadband networks. This chapter introduces an analytical framework that can be utilized by multi-disciplinary teams working with BVC technologies to analyze the variables that hinder people’s adoption and use of BVC. The framework identifies four main categories, each with a number of sub-categories, covering variables that are social and technical in nature; namely, the production and reception of audio-visual content, technical infrastructure, interaction of users and groups with the technical infrastructure, and social and organizational relations. The authors apply the proposed framework to a study of BVC technology usability and effectiveness as well as technology needs assessment in remote and rural First Nation (Indigenous) communities of Canada.

Soundtracking: music listening practices in the digital age

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuentes ◽  
Johan Hagberg ◽  
Hans Kjellberg
Keyword(s):  
Practice Theory ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Audio Quality ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Music Consumption

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further develop the conceptualization of music consumption in the digital age by examining how contemporary music listening is interweaved with other practices, how it shapes those practices and how it is in turn shaped by them. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on extensive, qualitative interviews with 15 Swedish music consumers. During the course of these interviews, specific situations of everyday music listening were discussed in detail. Findings Drawing on practice theory and more specifically the concepts of dispersed and integrative practices, the authors identify and explore a mode of music listening that they term soundtracking, which involves choosing and listening to music mainly to accompany other everyday practices. Research limitations/implications As soundtracking grows in importance, music is increasingly consumed as an affective-practical resource. Its significance is then not derived from its ability to demarcate difference and construct consumer identities but from its capacity to evoke emotions and moods than enable and enrich a set of everyday practices. Practical implications When music is consumed as part of soundtracking, issues such as the audio quality of music or ownership of material music media become less important, while aspects such as mobility, accessibility and the adaptability of music increase in importance. This has important implications for how and what music should be produced and marketed. Originality/value This paper offers an alternative view of contemporary music consumption compared to previous research, which has considered music listening primarily as an integrative practice on which the practitioner is fully focussed. The paper also contributes to practice theory by offering an empirically based understanding of a dispersed practice, showing that such practices are neither without shape nor necessarily very simple in their structure.

scholarly journals Towards a National Framework for Digital Preservation in Nigeria: Technologies and Best Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
David Oguche ◽  
Asabe Aliyu
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
National Memory ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
National Framework

The need for preserving digital resources (acquired or generated) by institutions in Nigeria becomes imperative in the wake of adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by these institutions. The paper advocates for a national framework for preserving digital resources for long-term or future use and to avoid the risk of losing national memory in this digital age. Technology emulation, migration and encapsulation are some of the digital preservation strategies discussed in the paper. The paper also identified two key national institutions that can drive the digital preservation initiative in Nigeria. Keywords: Archive, Preservation, Digital materials, Technology Obsolence

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