The Social Study of Information Work: StopFake.org and Ukraine's Online War with Russia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Haigh ◽  
Nadine I. Kozak ◽  
Thomas Haigh
Keyword(s):  
Social Study ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Work ◽  
Made In

The grassroots Ukrainian organization, StopFake.org,performs the information work of combatting Russiangenerateddisinformation. The Internet allows anetwork of supporters scattered around the world toevaluate, and undercut, claims made in Russianpropaganda. This case illustrates that virtual internetcommunities can distribute work that once required acentralized, well-financed team.L’organisation populaire ukrainienne, StopFake.org,effectue le travail informationnel de lutter contre ladésinformation générée par la Russie. L’Internetpermet à un réseau de sympathisants éparpillés depar le monde d’évaluer et d’atténuer les allégationsformulées par la propagande russe. Ce cas illustre lefait que des communautés virtuelles reliées parInternet peuvent distribuer le travail qui nécessitaitautrefois une équipe centralisée et bien financée.

Elections and Social Media

2015 ◽  
pp. 314-328
Author(s):  
Ahmet Sarıtaş ◽  
Elif Esra Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Target Mass ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Today, using of the internet extended social media by individuals habitually enables both the business firms and politicians to reach their target mass at any time. In this context, internet has become a popular place recently where political communication and campaigns are realized by ensuring a new dimension to political campaigns. When we examine the posts and discussions in the social media, we can say that they are converted into open political sessions. As there are no censorship in such channels, individuals have a freedom to reach to any partial/impartial information and obtain transparent and fast feedback, and with this regard, political parties, leaders and candidates have a chance to be closer to electors. In this study, it is aimed to give information about the social media, present what medium has been used for election campaigns from the past until today and besides, by considering the effects of effective and efficient use of social media and new trends related to the internet by politicians, together with their applications in the world, to make suggestions about its situation and application in Turkey.

The Credulity of Conspiracy Theorists

2018 ◽  
pp. 422-431
Author(s):  
Brian L. Keeley
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Rational Inquiry

Where does entertaining (or promoting) conspiracy theories stand with respect to rational inquiry? According to one view, conspiracy theorists are open-minded skeptics, being careful not to accept uncritically common wisdom, exploring alternative explanations of events no matter how unlikely they might seem at first glance. Seen this way, they are akin to scientists attempting to explain the social world. On the other hand, they are also sometimes seen as overly credulous, believing everything they read on the Internet, say. In addition to conspiracy theorists and scientists, another significant form of explanation of the events of the world can be found in religious contexts, such as when a disaster is explained as being an “act of God.” By comparing conspiratorial thinking with scientific and religious forms of explanation, features of all three are brought into clearer focus. For example, anomalies and a commitment to naturalist explanation are seen as important elements of scientific explanation, although the details are less clear. This paper uses conspiracy theories as a lens through which to investigate rational or scientific inquiry. In addition, a better understanding of the scientific method as it might be applied in the study of events of interest to conspiracy theorists can help understand their epistemic virtues and vices.

Global Digital Divide, Global Justice, Cultures, and Epistemology

2011 ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Soraj Hongladarom
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Epistemology ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Digital Divide

The problem of global digital divide, namely disparity in Internet access and use among the various regions of the world, is a growing concern. Even though, according to some reports, the gap is getting narrower, this does not mean that the problem is disappearing, because the problem does not just consist in getting more people to become “wired,” so to speak. This chapter investigates the various relationships among the global digital divide, global justice, cultures and epistemology. Very briefly stated, not getting access to the Internet constitutes an injustice because the access is a social good that can lead to various other goods. Furthermore, as information technology is a second-order technology, one that operates on meaning bearing symbols, access to the technology is very much an issue of social epistemology, an attempt to find out the optimal way to distribute knowledge across the social and cultural domains.

Revisiting Business Historians and the Internet

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-181
Author(s):  
K. Austin Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business History ◽  
The Internet ◽  
American Business ◽  
Graphical Interface ◽  
The World ◽  
Made In

During the 1996 annual meeting of the Business History Conference, a session on the World Wide Web attracted considerable attention from curious members (see Business and Economic History 25 [Fall 1996]: 46—54). The Internet was then somewhat of an infant, and most of us, just becoming accustomed to the speed and convenience of electronic mail, were barely aware of the opportunities afforded by the then-new graphical interface known as the Web. No more! At least not in the United States, where advertisers bombard us with their Internet addresses and news accounts inform us of vast fortunes made in new Internet ventures that have not yet turned a profit. There is, in short, a “dot.com” revolution occurring in American business. It is also happening, albeit more slowly, in scholarly and educational circles.

scholarly journals Internet Trolling: Analyzing The Legal Myths And Facts

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5C) ◽  
pp. 1429-1431 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Internet And Social Media

The internet and social media is bringing the world closer. It keeps us connected as it is not possible for people to carry any social visits personally due to their hectic schedule. However trolling is a menace in the age of internet and social media. Some people with malicious intentions tend to misuse the social media platforms and thereby cause trouble to other innocent users. Therefore a person who opens an account on social media shall behave in a civilized way and use the social media in decent way so that there is no trouble caused to other social media users.

scholarly journals Raspberry Pi Based Weather Station

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
A.C. Gheorghe ◽  
M.S. Chiran
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Weather Station ◽  
Twisted Pair ◽  
Sole Purpose ◽  
Program Language ◽  
The World ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe paper proposes the development of a weather station made up from a Raspberry Pi 3 and the Sense Hat shield. The shield used in this application has sensors for temperature, humidity and pressure. The weather station can connect to the internet wirelessly or with a standard UTP (Unshielded twisted pair) connection, this connection gives us the ability to take part in a scientific community for the sole purpose to monitor the weather all around the world. The program for the weather station is made in Python, the program language is easy to used and very versatile.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Cyber Stalking Legislations in UK, US and India

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Arunbaby Stephen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Connectivity ◽  
Late Entry ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian Penal Code ◽  
Made In ◽  
Fast Internet

The Internet, with its vast connectivity and ample resources, provides an easy platform for committing crimes. Cyber stalking is one such offence, which has grown in the last two decades with the advent of cheap and fast internet connectivity. The Internet provides various means by which cyber stalking can occur. The lack of boundaries on the internet creates more risk for the users and as more and more people start using internet, the scope and complexity of this problem will only increase. More and more states are passing exclusive statutes for tackling Cyber Stalking, believing that their offline stalking statutes are not enough to handle different aspects of this issue. This paper analyses the different legislations passed across the world to tackle cyber stalking. With stalking itself being a comparatively fresh offence in India, it has been a late entry into the field of cyber stalking, with the first provision being made in 2013, in the form of Section 354 D of the Indian Penal Code. The article examines the shortfalls of this provision and the ways in which they can be tackled.

scholarly journals EDUCATION IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC: Lessons learned and shared

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. a16en
Author(s):  
Elaine Jesus Alves ◽  
Denilda Caetano de Faria
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Education In Brazil

In 2020, the world was plagued by a pandemic that demanded the social isolation of people from all over the planet to prevent the rapid spread and overcrowding of hospitals. In the educational field, face-to-face classes have been suspended in more than 150 countries. Some institutions started to use technological resources to offer remote education. The pandemic highlighted issues such as the unpreparedness of education systems and teachers, inequalities in access to the internet and students' computers, among others. Considering that technologies have been part of the daily life of schools for more than 30 years, in this atypical moment there is a strangeness among teachers in their improvised use with their students. This article aims to reflect what this pandemic situation has taught us about online education in Brazil and the perspectives that we can see in this field in the post-pandemic scenario.

An Agent for Change

2011 ◽  
pp. 337-358
Author(s):  
Jiafei Yin
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Internet User ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Media ◽  
The World

China became the largest Internet user in the world with 420 million of its citizens connected to the new media by June 2010. This chapter investigates the social conditions and ways in which new communication technologies are transforming the politics, culture, and the society in China through analyses of uses of the Internet, differing roles played by the traditional and the new media, Internet regulations in the country, and cases catapulted to the national media spotlight by the online community, and through contrasts with the roles new communication technologies play in Western and African societies. The chapter also attempts to explore the implications of these transformations.

The poverty of Grand Theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Brown
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Is Theory ◽  
The One ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Made In

The editors of the special issue, in their call for papers for this special issue, expressed a degree of disquiet at the current state of International Relations theory, but the situation is both better and worse than they suggest. On the one hand, in some areas of the discipline, there has been real progress over the last decade. The producers of liberal and realist International Relations theory may not have the kind of standing in the social/human sciences as the ‘Grand Theorists’ identified by Quentin Skinner in his seminal mid-1980s’ collection, but they have a great deal to say about how the world works, and the world would have been a better place over the last decade or so if more notice had been taken of what they did say. On the other hand, the range of late modern theorists who brought some of Skinner’s Grand Theorists into the reckoning in the 1980s have, in the main, failed to deliver on the promises made in that decade. The state of International Relations theory in this neck of the woods is indeed a cause for concern; there is a pressing need for ‘critical problem-solving’ theory, that is, theory that relates directly to real-world problems but approaches them from the perspective of the underdog.

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