The light switch fallacy: Emergency management and recovery in an on-demand world

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-251
Author(s):  
Daryl Schaffer, MHRM
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Emergency Service ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Time Factor ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
21St Century Technology ◽  
To Come

Disasters typically do not abide by logical or standard rules and can be of any size or variety. But what is a disaster? How does time factor into dealing with the disaster? When will help arrive? How long will it take to recover? Why can everything not be fixed immediately? Television shows since the 1970s were instrumental in elevating public awareness of emergency service capabilities but also created a false expectation of expediency and un-implied over-exaggeration in capabilities. The speed of information from 21st century technology has created an immediacy of results expectation. People now expect the lights to come on when the switch is turned on and get impatient when that does not happen. This light switch fallacy is the expectation of what should occur in the rescue and recovery after a disaster. But the light switch cannot just be turned on, everything is solved, and life goes back to normal. 

Wounds Week 2: 1–5 February 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-221
Keyword(s):  
Wound Care ◽  
Care Community ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Registration Process ◽  
Question And Answer ◽  
To Come ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Difficult Times

On 1 February, Journal of Wound Care and the University of Huddersfield streamed the first of the live webinars on their Wounds Week channel ( www.woundsweek.com ). All sessions are now available to watch on-demand. With highly innovative topics, Wounds Week 2 gives a chance for the wound care community to come together in these difficult times and engage in key education, free of charge. The sessions had live question and answer sessions; participants asked questions of the experts, making them a key part of the event. The registration process takes just a minute. There's nothing to install or set up—simply register and fill out your details. Follow on twitter at #WoundsWeek

scholarly journals Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110423
Author(s):  
Lauren Rouse ◽  
Anastasia Salter
Keyword(s):  
Economic Viability ◽  
Sample Analysis ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Brand Building ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Favorite Television

Fan producers engaged in monetization, or what Suzanne Scott has termed “fantrepreneurs,” struggle with legal mechanisms for brand-building given the limitations of both copyright and platform moderation. These challenges have been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has fundamentally changed the way that cosplayers, or fans who dress up as characters from their favorite television shows or movies, market themselves in an increasingly online space, as opposed to their initial public platforms of conventions. Restricted by digital platforms and their various moderation and monetization methods, cosplayer fantrepreneurs have developed new, multi-platform methods for sustaining their content and community connection. One prominent platform significant to this turn is OnlyFans, which is billed as a “peer-to-peer subscription app,” and allows users to “Sign up and interact with your fans!” Through a sample analysis of 50 cosplayers, this case study considers the approaches of cosplayers on integrating OnlyFans as part of a multiplatform struggle for economic viability. When we contextualize this platform labor in the history of cosplay, we note the hypersexualized labor that has always been central to monetization in this space, and the media franchise exploitation that profits from that labor at the expense of the fan producer, demonstrating the fundamental, gendered exploitation of the trend toward a patronage economy.

State Repression and the Struggles for Memory

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Jelin
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Truth Commission ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
State Repression ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Come ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
The Disappeared

Opening the newspapers in South America at the beginning of the 21st century can feel like being caught in static time: so many of the contemporary news stories point to the persistence of a past which is definitely not "over". The attempts to try Pinochet, the continuing searches for the disappeared, or a child of murdered parents' struggle to discover their real identity, the Truth Commission in Peru - across the continent, societies continue to come to terms with the past. This book provides an introduction to the complexity of ideas and approaches which have been brought to bear on memory and its importance for understanding social and political realities. Elizabeth Jelin draws on European and North American debates and theories to explore the ways in which conflicts over memory shape individual and collective identities, as well social and political cleavages. The book exposes the enduring consequences of repression and enriches our understanding of the conflicted and contingent nature of memory.

21ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT FLOODING SOLUTIONS: USE OF WATER DRONES, AND HIGH PERFORMANCE 2D NUMERICAL FLOOD AND HYDRAULIC SIMULATIONS USING CLOUD COMPUTING

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
REINALDO GARCIA ◽  
JACINTO ARTIGAS ◽  
NICK CALERO ◽  
JAVIER FERNANDEZ-PATO ◽  
MARIO MORALES-HERNANDEZ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
High Performance ◽  
21St Century Technology

Emergency Management Professional Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 651-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Robin Russo
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Social Communication Skills ◽  
Emergency Personnel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Response Systems

Although there is current research describing technology efforts utilized in the 21st century as it relates to emergency management, there are adult educational factors to examine regarding Information Communication Technology (ICT) and the Social Communication Skills (SCS) of emergency personnel. Technology is quickly evolving and the the population is becoming increasingly more diverse, driving the efforts of emergency personnel to harness more technological emergency advances and navigate the culture of each community to assure effective emergency measures are taken. Within the ICT and SCS framework, emergency management must concern itself with: (a) the basic tenets of emergency management; (b) the changing and new nature of global threats in the 21st century; (c) evolving emergency management technologies; (d) social considerations when interfacing with the communities served; and (e) recommendations for those who are involved in emergency management mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery emergency efforts. All of these factors revolve around the education and re-education of adults; therefore, the focus of this chapter explores subsequent educational implications for the emergency personnel workforce as well as positive results for affected communities. This chapter proposes a larger implication, one of emergency personnel professional development within technology-based response systems as well as the cultivation of social communication in an effort to build a Sense of Community (SOC) with the diverse citizenry they serve. Emergency first responders, as well as other emergency personnel, must be educated in technology and social skills to better serve the community and to become a part of a holistic community. It is in this way that safety, and ultimately social justice, efforts for specific groups who may be marginalized and disenfranchised during an emergency are enhanced.

Development and Sustainability of Learning Societies

2013 ◽  
pp. 110-121
Author(s):  
Linda Ellington
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Learning Behaviors ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
21St Century Technology

The chapter reviews the development and sustainability of learning societies, and employs an examination of literature to identify the connections that may assist in the-improvement of the 21st century (21st century) workforce. To increase their learning, it is imperative to create a place that embeds the culture, expectations, and appropriate learning behaviors within the environment. The tools are about the cultivation of connections and communities, not solely based on 21st century technology. This case study explored three key concepts: community connection, policy connection, and netizens’ connection.

scholarly journals P&G Asks Nonwovens Industry to Partner for Progress

2000 ◽  
Vol os-9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1558925000OS-90
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Technical Conference ◽  
The Road ◽  
Keynote Speech ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

Dr. Karl-Michael Schumann, Director, New Platform Technologies Division, Corporate R&D at Procter & Gamble, offered the keynote speech at the inaugural INDA/TAPPI International Nonwovens Technical Conference, in Dallas, TX on September 26. In his paper Dr. Schumann challenged the nonwovens community to come to P&G with the technologies that will drive both parties down the road to success in the 21st Century. In return, he promised, P&G would partner with the companies that lead the way. What follows are excerpts from Dr. Schumann's presentation.

Efficient on Demand Dynamic Availability-Distribution-Span Scheduling and Load Balancing Scheme for Cloud Computing

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 7655-7660 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Jeyakrishnan ◽  
P Sengottuvelan
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Load Balancing ◽  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Scheduling Algorithms ◽  
Time Factor ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Availability Factor ◽  
Scheduling Method

The problem of load balancing in cloud environment has been approached by different scheduling algorithms. Still the performance of cloud environment has not been met to the point and to overcome these issues, we propose a naval ADS (Availability-Distribution-Span) Scheduling method to perform load balancing as well as scheduling the resources of cloud environment. The method performs scheduling and load balancing in on demand nature and takes dynamic actions to fulfill the request of users. At the time of request, the method identifies set of resources required by the process and computes Availability Factor, Distributional Factor and Span Time factor for each of the resource available. Based on all these factors computed, the method schedules the requests to be processed in least span time. The proposed method produces efficient result on scheduling as well as load balancing to improve the performance of resource utilization in the cloud environment.

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