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.

Gender Inclusion in the Information Society

2011 ◽  
pp. 636-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Faulkner ◽  
Merete Lie
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Information Society ◽  
European Study ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
New Information ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Gender Inclusion

Strategies of Inclusion Gender and the Information Society (SIGIS) was a European study exploring initiatives to include more women in the information society.1 This article summarises its main conclusions. The work started from the premise that overall more women than men are excluded from the information society, both as users and as designers of new information and communications technologies (ICTs). Our literature review (Sørensen & Stewart, 2002) confirmed that there is still a gender gap in terms of ownership of some ICT products and, to a lesser extent, in terms of access and use. Gender cuts across other dynamics in the digital divide—income, occupation and age being generally more significant than gender—with other factors (e.g., ethnic minorities, lone parent families) also intervening. Although the trend with respect to the use of ICT products is one of a closing gender gap, it is clear that diffusion alone is not sufficient to close the gap all together; inclusion efforts are still warranted in this area. By contrast, the literature review revealed a persistent and sizeable gender gap within computer specialisms and professions designing ICTs. The proportion of women entering computer science and engineering courses in most countries is static or in decline, in spite of sustained inclusion efforts. So, the overall picture across Europe is a contradictory one: optimistic with respect to what we call women and ICT (users), and pessimistic with respect to women in ICT (professionals).

Role of Communication Technologies for Smart Applications in IoT

2019 ◽  
pp. 300-313
Author(s):  
Garima Singh ◽  
Gurjit Kaur
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Industrial Grade ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Long Life

New technologies like ICTs (information and communications technologies) are recognized as key players in building smart applications for IoT. The use of sensors and actuators can efficiently control the whole communication system and will provide application-based solutions for smart applications. ICT provides industry-leading cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies including industrial-grade embedded modules with cloud platforms, long life spans, expert application development assistance, and more. ICT M2M connectivity helps utilities to lower down the operating costs by eliminating the need to deploy and maintain communications infrastructure separately.

E-Communication in the Information Society and the Impact of New Technologies on Employee Communication

2009 ◽  
pp. 248-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Capriotti
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Employee Communication ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Organizational Efficacy ◽  
Basic Source ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
External Customer ◽  
Definition Of

In Castells’ (2001) definition of the information society, the term information refers to a specific form of social organization in which the generation, processing, and transmission of information become the basic source of productivity and power, due to the new technological conditions of a particular period of time. In this information- based society, people are amongst the most valuable and scarce assets of an organization (Murgolo- Poore, Pitt, & Ewing, 2002). It is recognized that members of an organization are of capital importance to its success, and employees are viewed as a key strategic group in obtaining organizational competitiveness (Grunig, 1992; Murgolo-Poore & Pitt, 2001). Employee communication plays an important role in improving organizational efficacy, performance, and competitiveness (Clampitt & Downs, 1993; Morley, Shockley-Zalabak, & Cesaria, 2002). It plays a role in the coordination of tasks, the circulation of information, and in helping employees to identify with organizational objectives and values (Hargie & Tourish, 2004). It even has potential benefits for external customer satisfaction (Piercy & Morgan, 1991; Fisk, Brown, & Bitner, 1993). This confirms the vital role that employee communication plays in organizational success (Murgolo-Poore & Pitt, 2001). Communication with and between employees is a central aspect of organizational life, and it has become even more important as organizations have entered the age of the knowledge economy (Murgolo-Poore et al., 2002). The information society, or knowledgebased era, brings challenges and opportunities to the employee communication process. New technologies are creating new channels of communication within organizations, and they are also modifying the old means of communication. Just as importantly, they are changing the way that organizational communication is now understood. This article presents the main impacts that new technologies (and, principally, the Internet) are having on employee communication, which can help us to understand the magnitude—and the implications—of the changes that have been produced in organizations by the evolution from traditional employee communication to e communication.

MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS OF GAME THEORY AS AN APPLIED TOOL FOR MAKING EFFECTIVE FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DECISIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
L.S. Zvyagin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
New Production ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Production Concept ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Mathematical Algorithms

The relevance of the topic is due to the fact that today the digital economy determines that the market leaders are determined not by a longterm success story, not by the value of real estate and assets, not by the number of patents or access to capital, but by the ability to change and adapt their business to new conditions. Digital technologies, which have emerged over the past decade, help to find sources of increased efficiency and opportunities for rapid competitive development of enterprises. At the same time, they demand to change the existing management models, reformat communications, technologies and the organizational structure of enterprises based on new values, priorities and guidelines based on partnership, customer focus, innovation and synergy. Today's global manufacturing landscape is changing rapidly. The current technological development and the development of big data allow managers to better understand their activities. Big data provides companies with huge opportunities to improve their performance. Industry 4.0 and the Internet make it possible to create intelligent factories where machines and networks are able to exchange and respond to information, as well as independently manage the production process. Recently, the Russian Government has been advocating a new production concept, namely redistributed production, which uses a number of new technologies, such as 3D printing, additive manufacturing, and big data, to provide numerous advantages over existing systems. As such, businesses will need to adapt to changing data usage patterns to operate effectively in the growing digital age.

The Renaissance of Learning

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Chris Yapp
Keyword(s):  
Production Line ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Potential Model ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Previous Generation ◽  
Communications Technologies

We are living in an era of rapid and disruptive changes in many aspects of our lives. Rapid developments in Information and Communications Technologies, ICTs give modern society a capacity no previous generation could aspire to. Do we therefore believe that ‘history is bunk?’ Back in the early 1990s when talk of the information superhighway and the Information Society arose, there was much talk about this being the new or next Industrial Revolution I sat through many presentations and read many articles which tried to draw a parallel between the capabilities of ICT and in particular the internet with the steam engine, spinning jenny and the production line amongst others. For me it didn't feel the correct analogy. In truth, part of this is personal. In revolutions, there are many victims and after the revolution, you shoot the revolutionaries. Standing where I was, that felt deeply uncomfortable. My thinking on the Renaissance as a potential model started in 1996.

scholarly journals The paradigm of international marketing in the digital age

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
A. T. Yerimpasheva ◽  
R. E. Tarakbaeva ◽  
S. A. Yolcu
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
International Marketing ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Asymmetry Of Information

As globalization and the internationalization of economies develop, traditional marketing strategies are gradually fading into the background. The digital age is coming, which is forming a new paradigm of international marketing. At the same time, as a result of the COVID–19 pandemic, the processes of transition to digitalization have accelerated. The new paradigm of international marketing is manifested in the intensification of competition, frequent changes in the product range, the need to expand partnerships and the reduction of asymmetry of information. In order to attract and retain customers in the era of advanced digital technologies, successful companies are forced to develop new strategies. New technologies such as Big Data and artificial intelligence are becoming an alternative. Consumer preferences are also changing regarding the form of advertising. Online advertising becomes preferable. With the aim of to identify the main features of the new marketing paradigm, preliminary qualitative secondary and primary studies were conducted. To study secondary information, a search for scientific literature on the research topic was carried out in the databases SCOPUS, Science Direct and Springer, which allowed us to understand the main trends in the development of international marketing in the era of digitalization. To conduct primary research, we compiled a questionnaire, consisted of open-ended questions. The survey was conducted using a Google Form. The questionnaire contained four sections on the following topics: (I) Manifestations of a new marketing paradigm; (II) Marketing strategies in a digital environment; (III) Big data VS Marketing research; and (IV) Online Advertising. A sample of convenience, based on 12 respondents – marketing specialists, allowed formulating marketing strategies in the context of the digitalization of the world.

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.

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