Between Mutation and Glitch

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-178
Author(s):  
Alina R. Latypova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Levels Of Functioning

The following paper considers the immanent principles of digital media evolution. The features of the evolutional route of digital objects are conditioned by glitches, errors and bugs, which appear in media functioning, what in its turn gives birth to the new forms, structures and configurations of digital reality. The glitches are considered not only as a kind of digital mutations, but also as a sign of activity of media. Decisions elaborated from the programs’ failures enlarge the resolution capacity of new technologies. The paper provides an analysis of certain errors and glitches, which engineers, programmers, game designers faced with during their work with digital environment. The theoretical framework includes Henri Bergson’s theory of creative evolution, Gram Harman’s object-oriented philosophy, media philosophical approach to the problem of the activity of object proposed by Valery Savchuk and the theory of self-organisation and autopoiesis of the social systems worked out by Niklas Luhmann. The analysis of digital objects activity demonstrates two levels of functioning. The first one, fictional level, reveals mainly (but not only) in the computer games and concerns the content of media, when we gain a habit to interact with digital objects/characters as if they are real. The second level, operational, realises in the digital environment in general and concerns the form of media. On this level, glitches and bugs have crucial meaning, because they might evoke the changes in the digital world organisation, starting from the local decisions for the certain program (e.g. the elaboration of the new ways in solving locomotional tasks in simulations, which might be later use in other projects) and ending with the replacement of practices and representations typical for the human of digital era. The paper shows that it is possible to talk about digital evolution not in terms of the history of technological inventions, but in terms of the changes in digital objects caused by the inner logic of media, independently from the human will and expectations.

After the revolution – new chances for service research in a digital world

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 597-607
Author(s):  
Werner H. Kunz ◽  
Gianfranco Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Literature Alert ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Business Perspective ◽  
Media Research

PurposeDigital media has revolutionized societies and changed forever how we do business. This paper aims to determine the current scope of service research in the area of digital media, identifying research gaps and introducing new research contributions to complement our knowledge of digital media.Design/methodology/approachBased on all service articles of the SERVSIG literature alert system from 2016 to 2019, a subset of digital media articles was identified and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) text-mining methods were used on the abstracts and titles of the articles for topic modeling of the field. Dominant research topics were identified and depicted in a two-dimensional space.FindingsThe study identifies eight distinct topic areas of digital media in service research and shows their relationship to each other in a two-dimensional space. A clear tendency in service research towards taking primarily a customer (versus business perspective) of digital media can be observed. Further, for some journals, a trend towards specialization on particular topics could be detected.Research limitations/implicationsThis article advocates for more digital media research with a stronger business perspective. Further, although particular new technologies are exciting to discuss, it seems that the importance of customer relationship topics in digital media is not reflected in the current digital media research as needed.Originality/valueThe article uses a quantitative–explorative approach to determine the current state of research in regard to digital media in services. The authors introduce 11 new studies that aim to close the knowledge gap in critical areas of digital media.

Digital World of Excess – Pedagogical Reflections on Students and Education Immersed in New Technologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-10
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Borawska-Kalbarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Digital World

The article presents selected aspects of the process of cognitive functioning of the users of contemporary technologies and the Internet, with special consideration of the negative effects of being immersed in the digital culture. The introduction synthetically characterizes the digital world, focusing on the most active users of the virtual space. In the body of the text, the author analyzes the negative effects of an individual’s functioning in the Internet space, especially those related to the change in the way of information acquisition and processing. The conclusions refer to implementing educational postulates connected with helping students develop the culture of behavior in the virtual space, involving as major elements the ability to distance oneself from digital media, to engage in deep reflection, and to organize and sort the acquired information. These skills are treated as crucial, ensuring the rational use of digital technologies. Focusing educational activities on the formation of youths’ media competence offers them an opportunity of fuller intellectual development, the sense of security in the context of expansion of the media, and active participation in the information society by structuring the available information and the knowledge constructed on its basis.

The anti-GMO advocacy: an institutionalist and systems-theoretic assessment

Kybernetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 888-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Valentinov ◽  
Stefan Hielscher ◽  
Sebastian Everding ◽  
Ingo Pies
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Problematic Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Public Debates

Purpose Public debates on the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are strongly influenced by the nongovernmental organization (NGO)-led advocacy, most of which is harshly critical of genetic engineering. This advocacy has resulted in discourse failures marked by the disregard for the scientific consensus on the risks and benefits of GMOs. This paper aims to present a theoretical inquiry into this phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on American institutionalism and Niklas Luhmann social systems theory, the paper explains these discourse failures in terms of the problematic relationship between institutions and technology. Findings Clarence Ayres would likely see these discourse failures as a form of “institutional resistance” to the progress of science and technology. In contrast, Marc Tool’s social value principle stresses the importance of democratic legitimation and public acceptance of new technologies, while being sensitive to the possibility of ideologically biased discourses. It is argued that the institutionalist understanding of the interplay between democracy, science and technology would benefit from a better account of Niklas Luhmann’s concept of “complexity reduction”. Social implications The study shows that some NGOs are powerful enough to actively shape, if not manipulate, public attitudes and sentiments against GMOs. Originality/value The case of the anti-GMO advocacy calls for a new conceptualization of how democracy, science and technology fit together.

The Role of Parents for Developing Digital Literacy of 0-5 Year Olds

2018 ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
Linda Daniela ◽  
Arta Rudolfa
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Parental Competence ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Relationship Of

The digitalization of the world has brought with it changes in the mutual relationship of parents and children, upbringing traditions, and challenged the parents' role. Parents' attitudes towards the digital world could be described as “fear and fascination,” where a fraction treats the possibilities provided by the digital environment with uncritical adoration, while another fraction is convinced that the digital environment poses a variety of risks, which is why children should be deterred from the use of digital media for as long as possible. None of the approaches is productive in helping the development and growth of children born in the digitalization era. That is why an objective for the study was set out – to identify parents' competence in promoting children's digital literacy in order to seek solutions and make recommendations for parents to promote children's digital literacy. The chapter summarizes the results of a part of an ongoing study of parental competence in raising kids of the digital era.

Digital Media Consumption of Children in Television Series

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Armoni Bayar
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Consumption Frequency ◽  
Media Channels

With the development of technology, media channels have found themselves in the digital environment and continue to reach their target audience digitally. Media consumption is distributed according to age. In the digital world, young people and children make up a large part of this distribution. In addition to this, consumption of digital media has been reflected in many scenarios. The authors examine digital media consumption of children characters in the series by conversation analysis technique. Basic problems of this article are children characters' use of language as a result of the digital media consumption frequency and the language differences that the child and family television series have shown over the years in this context. For this purpose, the relevant old and new episodes of Çocuklar Duymasın series are selected randomly and the children characters are discussed in terms of the language they use during digital media consumption.

scholarly journals Loneliness as a potential consequence of the presence of children in the digital world.

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Iwanicka Agnieszka Iwanicka
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Potential Consequence ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Early School ◽  
The Media ◽  
Early School Age

The feeling of loneliness is a condition that affects not only adults and youth, but also children. It may be a temporary and transient in nature, occurring as a response to external circumstances, although it can also be long-lasting, as long as months and years, and be a result of deep, traumatic childhood experiences. One of its most common sources is isolation of a child in a family, peer groups and at school. In the article, the author considersnwhether the sense of loneliness experienced by children can also be traced back to the media and the functioning of children in the digital environment. Thanks to the conductednqualitative study (focus interviews with children), the paper answers questions regarding how early school-age children perceive loneliness and isolation, and whether they link this phenomenon with digital media.

scholarly journals Sustainable development of new technologies for clustering human capital (cenological approach)

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 07034
Author(s):  
Alexandra Voronina ◽  
Alexander Kuzminov ◽  
Alexander Okhotnikov ◽  
Oksana Sorokina
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Social Image ◽  
Economic Interaction

The article examines the stratification of human capital as a categorical unit of a research in the digital information space. The necessity of cognition of the properties and living conditions of generations arising from the nature of functioning in new categories of social and economic interaction is revealed. The authors substantiate the thesis that the study of the complex structure of human capital, prospects and dynamics of interaction is one of the most urgent tasks in the information space. Scientific research in this area can provide an invaluable contribution to improving the system of public administration and management of human capital in modern Russia. The article proposes the use of a cenological approach to the study and assessment of human capital as a theoretical and methodological basis for modeling and managing social systems. The goal is to develop approaches to the creation of a targeted structure of human capital, allowing the construction of a key social image in the information and digital environment.

scholarly journals Death in digital spaces: social practices and narratives

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Graikousi ◽  
Maria Sideri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Internet And Social Media

Purpose: In post-modern society, Internet and social media mediate between daily life processes such as death, establishing new forms of social interaction among social actors and creating new norms. The creation of digital cemeteries and the usage of the services they offer by Internet users, the conversion of a deceased person’s Facebook profile into a profile “Remembering” or the replacement of a user's profile photo by a black background in cases of grieving, demonstrate emphatically the new dimensions that the event of death takes on Internet and social media, leading to the building of a public experience, despite the fact that in Western societies death is considered to be a private affair.Methods: This paper based on an in-depth review of the literature deals with death as an event mediated by new technologies, since Internet and social media have given the opportunity for new narratives about the experience of death and have contributed to the emergence of new social practices.Conclusions: Users’ interaction in digital environments, on the account of death, generates new broader social relationships, while the operating terms of digital media enable the emergence of new death-related practices that probably substitute traditional rituals, having though the same purpose. At the same time, the continuing presence of the deceased in the digital world ensures a form of "immortality" for him/her, even if not preselected, while at the same time it seems to contribute to the maintenance of a relationship between the living and the deceased.

scholarly journals Impact of digital media on emotional, social and moral development of children

2018 ◽  
Vol XVI (3) ◽  
pp. 560-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Globokar
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

Digital media is radically changing the way people communicate and influencing the thought processes and experiences of children and adults. New technologies pose a challenge to the educational process. The paper presents the results of the latest research on the impact of digital technology on the emotional, social, and moral development of children. School should respond to the challenges of the digital world by promoting self-respect among children, emotional development, community affiliation, creativity, and innovation. Furthermore, the key to the success of the educational process is the creative passion of the teacher.

scholarly journals Benefits and barriers: a qualitative study on online social participation among widowed older adults in Southwest China

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Hong ◽  
Jingjing Fu ◽  
Dehui Kong ◽  
Siqi Liu ◽  
Zhu Zhong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Southwestern China ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Barriers And Challenges

Abstract Background With the development of digital media, online activities are increasingly becoming part of the daily life of older adults. Widowed older adults generally would face changes in social interactions and activities due to widowhood; thus, the importance of online participation may be more prominent in this population. However, a detailed evidence on the experiences of online social participation among widowed older adults is relatively sparse. This study aimed to explore widowed older adults’ perceptions regarding online social participation in southwestern China. Methods This study adopted a qualitative approach. Semi-structured, in-depth individual interviews were conducted with 19 widowed older adults between September–December 2020. Thematic analysis was applied to analyse the data. Results Two major themes, “benefits” and “barriers” were identified from the original data analysis. Subcategories concerning the theme “benefits” were “benefit perception (convenience, flexible time, supplementation)”, “health promotion”, “emotional comfort”, and “social connection”. Subcategories of “barriers” were “worries: personal economic loss”, “concerns: security of digital device”, “troubles: the diversity of online social participation”, and “difficulties: using digital media”. Conclusions Social participation of widowed older adults in southwestern China has begun to be integrated into the digital world; however, it remains at an early stage with the simple purpose of engagement. The older adults may face many challenges for online social participation. Although there are barriers and challenges in online social participation, widowed older adults can reap its benefits, which can be used as an important measure to facilitate a fulfilling life and successful ageing. There is no doubt that online social participation will become a trend within the foreseeable future. Family, friends and health care professionals should pay more attention to the needs of online social participation in widowed older adults and provide adequate support for them to achieve a meaningful life.

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