scholarly journals Un mondo governato da dati e algoritmi. La data literacy attraverso il cinema

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Davide Bennato
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Collective Process

The digital society focuses on the use of technologies that incorporate every individual and collective process. New infrastructures of contemporary society are the algorithms that define social dynamics by producing data, true raw materials of this condition. All this necessitates a relatively new competence in data literacy, understood as the ability to read and understand data. To train in this competence, cinema can be a useful tool, in particular the films that put data at the center of the story.

Statistical Methods for Conducting the Ontology and Classifications of Fake News on Social Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 632-651
Author(s):  
Joshua Ojo Nehinbe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Political Rivalry

Fake news and its impacts are serious threats to social media in recent time. Studies on the ontology of these problems reveal that serious cybercrimes such as character assassination, misinformation, and blackmailing that some people intentionally perpetrate through social networks significantly correlate with fake news. Consequently, some classical studies on social anthropology have profiled the problems and motives of perpetrators of fake news on political, rivalry, and religious issues in contemporary society. However, this classification is restrictive and statistically defective in dealing with cyber security, forensic problems, and investigation of social dynamics on social media. This chapter exhaustively discusses the above issues and identifies solutions to challenges confronting research community in the above domain. Thematic analysis of responses of certain respondents reveal three new classifications of fake news that people propagate on social media on the basis of mode of propagation, motives of perpetrators, and impacts on victims.

scholarly journals Fake news as a social phenomenon in the digital age: a sociological research agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-153
Author(s):  
Gabriel-Alexandru Toma
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Market Driven

This paper proposes a sociological research agenda for analysing the spreading mechanisms of misinformation in contemporary society. The contemporary fake news phenomenon is approached as an emergent outcome of inter-related technological, economic, socio-cultural and political factors that have made society vulnerable to misinformation. Those factors are understood as generators of various social dynamics rather than as direct causal determinants. In order to better acknowledge the conditions under which fake news is propagated and legitimated in digital society, news should be approached not only as a commodity that functions in a market-driven economy, but also as a social institution that regulates political discourse and public debate. Based on these considerations, the conclusions support the necessity of a more prominent sociological focus on media studies, which could build awareness of the performative role of language in the context of technologically mediated realities.

scholarly journals Local Human Development in contexts of permanent crisis: Women’s experiences in the Western Sahara

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
María López Belloso ◽  
Irantzu Mendia Azkue
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Western Sahara ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Process ◽  
Physical Assets ◽  
The One ◽  
Camp Life

Sahrawi women are active agents in the social dynamics of the refugee camps, in which they have developeda number of coping strategies to overcome the hardships of a deteriorating humanitarian situation. Since the outbreak of the con#ict and the forced settlement in Tindouf, Algeria, women have been responsible for the entire management of refugee camps, assuming leadership roles in many sectors of society.This paper highlights the Sahrawi women’s contribution to the process of local human development in a context of protracted refuge such as the one in the Western Sahara. In addition to the enlargement of the refugee population’s capacities in relation to material and physical assets, social and organizational abilities, and motivational strengths, one of the major achievements of Sahrawi women has been their own individual and collective process of empowerment within the camp life.

scholarly journals Digital society in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: first results and prospects (comparative analysis of the experience of Russia and Bulgaria)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Volodenkov ◽  
D. Pastarmadzhieva
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Regime Formation ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
First Results

This work aims to study the peculiarities of digital society development in Russia and Bulgaria in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to solve this task the authors used a variety of methods, namely comparative analysis, critical analysis, and case-stage method. The article analyzes the experience of the socio-political processes of digitalization in Russia and Bulgaria in the context of the self-isolation regime formation in both countries. The authors put forward a hypothesis that both countries have found themselves in recent months in the conditions of forced digitalization, which has left its mark on the processes of the natural evolution of digital society. The results of the study give ground to conclude that forced digitalization lies mainly in the intensification and randomization of digital communication flows, but not in the qualitative development of a digital society and the emergence of new technological solutions that could contribute to effective and meaningful socio-political development. The practical significance of the work lies in the comprehension of the current processes of the socio-political sphere’s digitalization and identifying key problems and challenges, without which it is impossible to successfully solve the problems of the transition of contemporary society to a new stage of its evolution in the digital environment.

scholarly journals Iron Age craftworks in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. An approach based in Cultural Inheritance Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Consuelo Mata Parreño ◽  
Lucía Soria Combadiera ◽  
Marta Blasco Martín ◽  
Elena Mora García ◽  
Mercedes Fuentes Albero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Cultural Inheritance ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Hard Materials

The aim of this paper is to examine the craftwork on hard materials of animal origin from the Iron Age of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. We deal with the processes of craftsmanship, transmission of knowledge and the circulation of ivory combs and perforated bone plates. The Cultural Inheritance Theory offers a framework to help identify social dynamics in the craft productions and the transmission of the cultural knowledge between and among individuals (vertical, horizontal or oblique). Therefore, the consequences of these cultural transmission processes will be different for each artefact. This could be used to investigate relative levels of standardization within and between groups. For this we use various morphometric measurements related to the technological process of making combs and perforated plates. The results point to an oblique transmission with particularities linked to each object related to their formal and decorative characteristics and owing to their raw materials.

Intercluster Lithic Patterning at Nobles Pond: A Case for “Disembedded” Procurement among Early Paleoindian Societies

1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark F. Seeman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Material Procurement ◽  
Lithic Raw Materials ◽  
Debitage Analysis

This study examines the relation between raw-material procurement and subsistence behavior among foraging societies. “Embedded procurement” of raw materials may characterize many or most modern foraging societies (Binford 1979). Past societies, however, present economic configurations different than those of any contemporary society. The Early Paleoindian societies of North America present extreme examples in this regard, and were characterized by high mobility, low population density, and high weapon reliability. A lithic-debitage analysis of a portion of the Nobles Pond site (33ST357) supports the argument that the acquisition of lithic raw materials was not embedded in subsistence behavior, but rather, was a specialized activity required by the particular demands of band aggregation in a location far removed from sources of acceptable lithic materials.

scholarly journals Neolithization Processes of East Belgium: Supra-Regional Relationships Between Groups Highlighted by Technological Analysis of Lithic Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 904-922
Author(s):  
Solène Denis ◽  
Laurence Burnez-Lanotte ◽  
František Trampota
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Central Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lithic Industry ◽  
Economic Functioning ◽  
The Village ◽  
Density Population ◽  
Technological Analysis

Abstract Technological analysis of variations in blade production and the flow of siliceous raw materials revealed new understandings of different types of socio-economic functioning on a supra-regional scale. In this article, we are focusing on supra-regional relationships between technical groups and the social dynamics involved in early Neolithic mobility within the communities of East Belgium. A detailed technological analysis was done to highlight discrete characteristics that permit the identification of distinct technical groups within the village of Vaux-et-Borset. Four technical groups have been identified in the Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain village, whereas two technical groups have been highlighted for the previous Linear Pottery culture (LPC) occupation. The search for the origin of the different technical groups was to understand the micro-processes of Neolithization in East Belgium. A central area with a high-density population during the pioneer LPC colonization, Hesbaye became a peripheral occupation area of the Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture. This fringe territory seemed to attract neighbouring communities in different ways. Multidirectional dynamics seems to characterize this small territory leading to the coexistence of a high diversity of technical groups.

scholarly journals Critical is not political

Seminar.net ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fieke Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
Data Environment

Data literacy is slowly becoming a more prominent feature of contemporary society. Some argue that people need to obtain new competencies to mitigate and engage with the multiplicity of ways in which they are affected by data. Literacy as such is positioned as a pathway towards empowerment, enable people to make informed choices about their data environment and increasing their ability to actively participate in the discussion that determines the socio-technical systems that will impact their lives. In this article, I will argue that we need to account for the externalities that emerge from the mere act of centring data in a literacy approach and unpack the assumptions that underpin the concept. To advance the argument that data literacy needs to be (re)politicize, both in terms of the perceived competencies need in a data society and the 'neutrality of the practice in itself. To ensure that the audience will have more thoughtful and actionable pathways forward data literacy should learn from other disciplines that have a more thorough analysis of dismantling power structures, engaging with inequality and encouraging political participation.

scholarly journals Investigation and Analysis of the Current Situation of Olive-Stone Carving Inheritance in Guangzhou

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
Zhaofeng Hou
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
Olive Stone ◽  
Stone Carving ◽  
The Government

The issue of inheriting and developing traditional handicrafts in this contemporary society is being explored by all walks of life in China. Taking the olive-stone carving in Guangzhou as a case, field investigations and analyses of its current situation of inheritance have been conducted. It has been found that although the government in Guangzhou has been paying more attention to olive-stone carving, there are still many problems, including the shortage of raw materials, no inheritors, low market recognition, and inadequate promotion. Therefore, the local government has cooperated with schools and craftsmen to search for key solutions in regard to raw material protection, training of inheritors, product development, and product promotion.

Digital Society and Social Dynamics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandro Serpa ◽  
Carlos Miguel Ferreira ◽  
Maria José Sá ◽  
Ana Isabel Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Digital Society
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