scholarly journals Editorial: Learning and Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Andreja Istenič ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Material World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Digital Materiality ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Human Touch

Learning and development are the focus of The Journal of Education and Selfdevelopment. In the computation era, the contexts and spaces for learning need to be reconsidered. In early learning, the child acts in an approximate environment interacting with parents and also mediated by artefacts. The child learns by sensing human touch and non-verbal communication as well as from the material world surrounding her. Interaction in this approximate environment affords a child in its learning and development through the socialisation process. In post-digital era, the environment is constructed in societal processes utilising physical and digital materiality. The proliferation of digital technologies is affecting socialisation and perception of reality (materiality of physical and digital and transmedia practices) and the child’s agency. How the interaction process takes place utilising a set of media is affecting self-development and self-conception. The environment is established by social practices which in post-digital era blur the boundary between physical and digital. In defining literacy, the terms online and offline activity are introduced (Sefton-Green, Marsh, Erstad, & Flewitt, 2016). The boundaries between physical and virtual are blurred (Marsh, 2010; Plowman, 2016).

Entertainment publics in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2098596
Author(s):  
Anna Cristina Pertierra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Media ◽  
Entertainment Television

Since the late 1980s, Filipino entertainment television has assumed and maintained a dominance in national popular culture, which expanded in the digital era. The media landscape into which digital technologies were launched in the Philippines was largely set in the wake of the 1986 popular movement and change of government referred to as the EDSA revolution: television stations that had been sequestered under martial law were turned over to family-dominated commercial enterprises, and entertainment media proliferated. Building upon the long development of entertainment industries in the Philippines, new social media encounters with entertainment content generate expanded and engaged publics whose formation continues to operate upon a foundation of televisual media. This article considers the particular role that entertainment media plays in the formation of publics in which comedic, melodramatic and celebrity-led content generates networks of followers, users and viewers whose loyalty produces various forms of capital, including in notable cases political capital.

scholarly journals THE DIGITAL IMPACT ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.V. Pechatnova
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Audit System ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Legal Risks ◽  
Two Component ◽  
Reading System

The article analyzes the controversial issues of protecting the constitutional rights of citizens to information, to privacy, as well as to preserve the secrecy of correspondence, telephone conversations, and other messages in the digital era. The study identifi es major legal risks of using the advanced information processing methods in the new digital reality: fi rst, the risk of unintentional deanonymization of personal data; secondly, the risk of generating falsifi ed information. We propose solutions, such as introducing an information audit system and a two-component information reading system. They can help to overcome the legal risks of data deanonymization and information falsifi cation. We conclude that digital technologies have a signifi cant impact on the content and methods of protecting some constitutional rights of citizens.

scholarly journals The Relational Newsroom: An Appreciative Inquiry into how Leadership Empowers Learning in Newsrooms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Bernard Whelan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
News Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Hierarchical Levels ◽  
Personal Leadership

<p>The field of journalism in New Zealand has gone through significant changes in the last few years, with the onset of digital technologies, their impact on the funding of journalism and on readership, and in turn on the way journalism is performed. Therefore, the aim of this study is to understand how leadership empowers learning in newsrooms and, in turn, contributes to the training and development of journalists. The intent here is to contribute to the constantly evolving field of journalism as it deals with the digital changes driving what is arguably the most concentrated period of change in its history. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has typically been used in organisations to manifest positive change for people. However, for this study I have creatively adapted and applied the Appreciative Inquiry framework to situate qualitative research methods inside three newsrooms in New Zealand. Focus groups in each newsroom were comprised of individuals from different hierarchical levels of the workplace. As the lead researcher I led the groups who operated as co-researchers following the AI process of four phases comprising Discover, Dream, Design and Destiny seeking to understand how leadership empowers learning in newsrooms. The findings were initially drawn from an analysis of the themes which arose in the discussions. From the findings I use AI theory and adapt the AI process to propose a Relational Newsroom framework for use in newsrooms. By embedding newsroom groups constantly using the 4-D cycle of AI and involving the public in live interaction process with newsroom decision-making, the framework would generate practices of communication, trust, personal leadership and structure identified in the findings. This study concludes with proposals in the form of action statements for use in both news media and journalism school newsrooms to have journalists engaged and involved in creating the future of the field.</p>

An Open Innovation Lens on the Digital Transformation Frontiers

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-104
Author(s):  
Maryia Zaitsava ◽  
Elona Marku ◽  
Manuel Castriotta
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Research Findings

The aim of the present study is to explore Digital Transformation frontiers using the lens of Open Innovation. By implementing bibliographic coupling method, the authors bring together segmental publications from different research fields and provide a comprehensive overview of the combined Open Innovation and Digital Transformation field's intellectual structure, revealing the different groups of thoughts, influential authors, and pressing topics. The research findings illustrate, the research area has polycentric composition with absence of overlaps between articles. Five main research groups are identified: Co-evolution of Digital Technologies and Open Innovation; Digital Peer-communities; Digital Ecosystems; Knowledge Management in the Open and Digital Era; and Open Innovation, Digital Technologies, and Businesses Performance. The current research contributes both Open Innovation and Digital Transformation fields by cross-exploring each phenomenon and revealing how Digital Transformation shapes the nature of innovation as a collaborative activity as part of an independent research area.

The Role of Digital Advertising in Shaping Ideals and Consumption Choices in the Digital Era

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-288
Author(s):  
Lilit Baghdasaryan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Ideal Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Consumer Responses ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Consumption Choices

Digital advertising is one of the most dominant elements of a communication mix. Consumption choices refer to the journey where consumers make decisions based on the problem-solving attributes of the products and services. The choices are conditioned with the reality shaped around us and social processes that impose ideal, self-identity, self-concept, ideal self, gender identities, and consumer cultures via visual digital designs and celebrity portrayals. Organisations aim to build digital advertisement strategies and create awareness of certain goods and services, but at the same time, the advertisement plays a significant role in generating new needs, new identities for consumers, and new role expectations. Digital technologies enable marketers to predict consumption behaviour and measure the consumer responses on key metrics of advertisement effectiveness.

Transnational Advocacy and NGOs in the Digital Era: New Forms of Networked Power

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Hall ◽  
Hans Peter Schmitz ◽  
J Michael Dedmon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Transnational Advocacy ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Elite Networks

AbstractInternational relations (IR) scholars have recognized the importance of technology in enabling nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to build transnational networks and enhance their influence. However, IR scholars have typically focused on elite networks across NGOs, states, and international organizations. This article considers how digital technologies generate new types of networked power between NGOs and their members. Digital tools allow for fast feedback from supporters, rapid surges in mobilization, and more decentralized campaigns. Importantly, in the digital era, NGOs must decide not only which digital platforms to use, but also whether to devolve decision-making to their supporters. Two questions arise: First, do NGO staff or supporters primarily define and produce advocacy content? Second, is the goal of digital activism to broaden or intensify participation? Answers to these questions generate four digital strategies: proselytizing, testing, conversing, and facilitating. These strategies change advocacy practices, but only facilitating strategies open up new forms of networked power based on supporter-to-supporter connections. Digital strategies have profound ramifications for individual organizations, the nature of the advocacy sector, and its power in relation to states, corporations, and other nonstate actors. Digital adoption patterns shape how NGOs choose campaigns, how they legitimate their claims, and what strategies they rely on.

scholarly journals Becoming clowns: How do digital technologies contribute to young children’s play?

2019 ◽  
pp. 146394911986420
Author(s):  
Tove Lafton
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Early Childhood Setting ◽  
Material World ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play

Research concerning play and technology is largely aimed at expanding the knowledge of what technological play may be and, to a lesser extent, examines what happens to children’s play when it encounters digital tools. In order to explore some of the complexity in play, this article elaborates on how Latour’s concepts of ‘translation’ and ‘inscription’ can make sense of a narrative from an early childhood setting. The article explores how to challenge ‘taken-for-granted knowledge’ and create different understandings of children’s play in technology-rich environments. Through a flattened ontology, the article considers how humans, non-humans and transcendental ideas relate to one another as equal forces; this allows for an understanding of play as located within and emerging from various networks. The discussion sheds light on how activation of material agents can lead us to look for differences and new spaces regarding play. Play and learning are no longer orchestrated by what is already known; rather, they become co-constructed when both the children and the material world have a say in constructing the ambiguity of play. Lastly, the discussion points to how early years practitioners need tools to challenge their assumptions of what play might become in the digital age.

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