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Becerra, Martín Alfredo. "El progreso con peajes: la sociedad de la información. Acceso y convergencia a partir del proyecto europeo." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4165.
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El trabajo de tesis estudia la conformación de diferentes niveles de accesos sociales y comunicativos en el marco del proyecto de Sociedad d ella Información, haciendo hincapié en las políticas europeas y contrastándolas con indicadores socioeconómicos y con las directrices que, sobre el mismo proyecto, formulan países latinoamericanos.La tesis doctoral elucida los procesos de concentración y convergencia de industrias de la comunicación y la información, como procesos críticos de un abordaje analítico enmarcado en los estudios de economía política de la comunicación.
La construcción de un modo de desarrollo en el que aparecen las tecnologías de información y comunicación como elementos centrales (centralidad que se verifica en la estructuración de las sociedades nombradas como "informacionales") es parte medular de la tesis doctoral, que también presenta el análisis de contenido de los principales documentos de la Comisión Europea y de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE) en la última década del Siglo XX.
The thesis object is to study the different levels of social and communicative access with the Information Society as a framework. Thus, the thesis empathises the european policies of the Information Society project, and the thesis work contrasts this policies with socioeconomic indicators, as well as the main directives of Latin American countries in the same field.
The thesis focuses on the concentration and convergence processes localised at the information and communication industries, due to the critical impact of these two processes in the economic structure of contemporaneous societies.
The conceptual framework of the thesis is linked to the political economy of communications studies. The thesis also presents the content analysis of the main documents produced by the European Commission and the OECD.
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Rojas, Ruiz Sofía. "Mujeres: literatura, representación en los sistemas de clasificación y estudio bibliográfico." Thesis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008. http://eprints.rclis.org/12903/1/mujeres.pdf.
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Este trabajo nació de la inquietud personal de la autora a partir de algunos cursos y lecturas en torno al binómio litaratura-mujeres. En el primer capítulo la autora hace una revisión del feminismo y las teorías literarias feministas, las cuales sirvieron para respaldar la bibliografía contenida en esta tesis. En el segundo capítulo se presenta un estudio sobre la sintaxis, semántica y los principios de la división del conocimiento a los que obedece el sistema el Clasificación LC, particularmente la subclase HQ, de la clase H, a partir de implicaciones ideológicas y la reproducción de esquemas de dominación a través de instrumentos técnicos. En el tercer capítulo se muestran las relaciones bibliográficas de las obras de cinco escritoras latinoamericanas y una bibliografía de textos escritos por mujeres en América Latina. Estas cinco escritoras fueron elegidas basandose en conocimiento y gustos personales de la autora. El alcance de esta tesis termina con una aproximación bibliografía de carácter geográfico-temporal de la mujeres latinoamericanas del siglo XX.
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Fretel, Gutiérrez Liliana. "La Ética de la información de Luciano Floridi aplicada a los problemas informacionales de la novela 1984 de George Orwell." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/16970.
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Pretende discutir teorías y analizar conceptos, pues asume que es
también importante realizar este tipo de metodologías de investigación interpretativas dentro de
la Bibliotecología y las Ciencias de la Información. De manera particular, la investigación
emplea el modelo de la Ética de la información de Luciano Floridi como marco teórico
especializado en los problemas relacionados a la información desde una dimensión moral, que
permite evaluar y revisar el propio concepto de información, junto a otros aspectos de la
problemática informacional, pero siempre desde una perspectiva integradora. De ese modo, esta
investigación consiste en una interpretación de la novela 1984 de George Orwell desde los
conceptos de la Ética de la información de Floridi, entendida como una macroética, en la cual
replantea las tres dimensiones de la información, como recurso-producto-objetivo, y propone su
unificación e interacción en la Infosfera, pero además, reconoce que cualquier acción que afecte
negativamente a la Infosfera en su conjunto puede incrementar el nivel de entropía. La tesis
sostiene, a modo de resultado general, la importancia de la libertad individual como una
condición indispensable para la creación y transmisión de información confiable y veraz que
contribuya al conocimiento de la realidad, y considera la idea de que la presencia de individuos
libres y bien informados fortalece un sistema democrático y enriquece la Infosfera. La idea
básica es que el ciudadano debería defender la democracia, porque este tipo de gobierno
pretende salvaguardar sus derechos fundamentales, como son el derecho a la vida, a la libertad,
a la seguridad, a la privacidad, a la libertad de opinión y de expresión, al libre acceso a la
información, etc., y este tipo de reconocimiento y defensa de derechos, difícilmente, ocurriría
en gobiernos autoritarios.
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Morris, I. M. "Burial and society at Athens, 1100-500 BC." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273091.
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Сабадаш, Віктор Володимирович, Виктор Владимирович Сабадаш, Viktor Volodymyrovych Sabadash, and O. V. Bespalov. "Information society." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2004. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/22928.
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Bridgford, Susan Deirdre. "Weapons, warfare and society in Britain, 1250-750 BC." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14462/.
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This research project was designed as a large scale detailed study of British swords and spearheads, of the period from approximately 1250-750BC. 202 small metallurgical samples and 4 large sword cross sections were examined metallographically. Chemical compositions were ascertained. Sections of 'sword edge' were prepared and impacted experimentally to reproduce combat damage and the results used to help assess the 499 swords and 485 spearheads, which were measured and examined visually. The results were analysed statistically according to regional and typological groupings. The distribution of manufacturing characteristics showed significant regional and typological variations and indicate a hierarchy of technical proficiency. Metallographic examinations also revealed a number of weapons which had been burnt. The compositional analyses showed metal being recycled and mixed, although alloys used were similar. Aspects of typological classification were quantified and regional patterns of distribution were assessed. Patterns of damage confirmed that that the majority of the weapons had probably been used in combat before deposition. There were significant regional and chronological differences in the proportions so used. Patterns of non-combat damage, breakage and depositional context showed that despite evident similarities some highly significant regional, chronological and typological differences existed. The weapons indicate that warfare was endemic but probably sporadic and low level. Communities appear to have exercised some form of social sanctioning over warriors, in part by incorporating weapons and the concept of war symbolically within their ceremonials. Deposition practices varied with time and locality but many do appear to have been ritual. There were also distinct regional and chronological traditions in the design, manufacturing and pre-depositional combat use of weapons. The evidence points to an escalation in long distance travel and exchange of goods and ideas, increasing contacts between regions, where people adapted the new to their own society.
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Welbourn, Michael. "Censors and society : the Roman censorship, 443-21 BC." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49836/.
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The censorship was one of the Roman Republic's most significant magistracies. The range and importance of their duties – the census, the lectio senatus and recognitio equitum, letting public contracts and initiating public works, and the ceremony of the lustrum – meant that the office had a profound impact on Roman society. There is much modern scholarship on the censorship. But some of the arguments and conclusions put forward by earlier scholars, while valuable, need to be updated and certain misconceptions corrected. In particular, what is required is a greater focus on placing the censorship in its political and social context, into the political culture of the Roman Republic, in order to properly analyse the office, its wider function(s), and its influence on Roman society. At the same time, a careful consideration of what precisely the censors' duties involved and how each pair of censors carried these out is necessary. The present work hopes to address both aspects of this important magistracy. To that end, this thesis is divided into seven chapters. Five of which deal with the censors' individual responsibilities. Chapter 1 is a diachronic survey of the censorship across the whole period of its existence. It aims to highlight the development of the office over time and to ground the subsequent discussion of the magistracy in its proper chronological context. Chapter 2 highlights the infrastructure – assistants, schedule, records, headquarters etc – through which the censors were able to carry out their tasks. Chapter 3 is a study of the censors' most important task, the taking of the census, and its importance for the Roman community. Chapter 4 looks at the censors as guardians of the mos maiorum, and the activities through which this role was expressed. Chapter 5 investigates the censors' responsibility for letting public contracts of various kinds, and the impact this had on the Roman state and its economy. Chapter 6 focuses in more detail on the most significant and costly element of the censors' contracting duties – public works. It attempts to assess what contribution the censors made to the ever-changing face of the city of Rome, as compared to the other magistrates. Finally, Chapter 7 considers the lustrum, the sacred rite which closed each pair of censors' term in office. It asks both what the ceremony involved, and what its meaning and significance for the community might have been.
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Moore, James. "Landscape and society in Orkney during the first millennium BC." Thesis, Open University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.663229.
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This thesis explores the creation of embodied space and place in the landscapes of Orkney during the first millennium BC. This aims to address the persistent obsession with architectural evidence in Atlantic Scotland which has dominated research into the period, and has come at the expense of considerations of later prehistoric landscapes, particularly those of Orkney. Current approaches to the archaeology of past landscapes tend to be situated in one of two schools; one rooted in a 'muddy boots' approach to landscape archaeology which centres on the empirical collection and analysis of data; and a second more theoretically driven approach, which draws heavily on phenomenology to consider the ways in which people would have dwelt within past worlds. There has been little dialogue between practitioners of the respective approaches, and each camp has been heavily critiqued by scholars from the other. However there exists much shared ground between the two schools and it is proposed that within a theoretically driven research framework both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the landscape can be integrated more fully to illuminate the nature of the relationships between individuals and groups, and between people and the world during the later prehistoric period in Orkney and Atlantic Scotland. Such combination of techniques and approaches to the landscape also provides scope to consider the ways in which archaeologists collect, interpret and present data and study embodied archaeological landscapes
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Boucas, Dimitris. "Information society and the state : the Greek version of the information society paradigm." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2009. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2762/.
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The concept of the 'information society' has been systematically deployed to denote a new techno-socio-economic paradigm with information and communication technologies (ICTs) at the centre, which entails significant economic and social transformations and bears implications for governance and potential for development and quality of life. Departing from the deterministic view of information society as a set of uniform societal arrangements, the thesis examines its national variations, as they emerge from the interaction between ICTs and relevant policies with pre-existing social, political and economic realities. Drawing on a conceptual framework based on political economy and historical sociology, it proposes that the unfolding of any national information society is a contested process feeding on the historically formed relationship between the state and the national economy and society. This relationship is expected to inflect international policies and processes in quite idiosyncratic ways, leading to differentiated national information society trajectories, while the state is instrumental in articulating international policy directions with national societal arrangements. Identifying an empirical gap in the examination and analysis in semi-peripheral and middle-income countries, the thesis seeks to address evolving characteristics and dimensions of the 'Greek case' of information society, stressing the dialectic between European policy and the national socio-cultural, political and economic idiosyncrasies, the role of the Greek state, as well as the weaknesses encountered in the process. The emphasis is on the period 1998-2008, which includes the first comprehensive strategy and provides the opportunity to analyse preliminary results of the policies adopted. The empirical material includes relevant policy documents, quantitative indicators, personal observations, as well as a set of elite interviews with policymakers, ICT industry representatives and other actors involved in information society policies and processes.
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Jackson, Duncan. "Settlement and society in the Welsh Marches during the first millennium BC." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1593/.
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Stokes, Christopher Anthony. "Information societies in formation : making information-society strategies." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322863.
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Stewart, James. "Encounters with the Information Society." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8981.
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This research introduces a novel methodology to study the appropriation of new Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) or "Multimedia" in a natural setting. This includes computers, mobile phones and television, and any application and service based on these. Building on theoretical and empirical research in technology studies, diffusion of innovations and consumer research, the study investigates the processes of adoption, consumption and domestication across the life-space of individuals and natural groups. The BEAN approach is developed to investigate data from qualitative fieldwork that engaged with respondents in four natural social networks. This shows how a range of new ICTs are entering into the everyday world of these respondents, and how they engage with them: the way these technologies are appropriated, including adoption, learning and struggling, but also strategies of resistance, non-adoption, and arms-length appropriation. It shows the importance of the informal economy in providing access to technology, skills, knowledge and resources to deal with the complexities and difficulties of adopting and using ICTs. In particular, it finds the local expert is crucial to the adoption and use of many of these technologies, providing support that the commercial world fails or is unable to provide.
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Hrytsenko, Mikhail Alexandrovich, and Михайло Олександрович Гриценко. "Evolution of the information society." Thesis, National Aviation University, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/51706.
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content&view=article&id=3479The evolution of cloud technology began in the 1950s with the introduction of mainframes at IBM. A mainframe is a server with a large amount of RAM and external memory. It is designed to solve problems related to the processing of large amounts of data. The operators of these machines have the ability to access the central computer through terminals, the only function of which was to provide access to additional operators to the mainframes. In most cases, the user did not need the full power of the mainframe. Therefore, «stupid» ports have made mainframes more costeffective, and cloud technologies have a chance for further development. The idea of an «intergalactic computer network» first originated in the 1960s with Joseph Licklider. He was responsible for setting up the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPANET) network. The essence of his concept was that all users from anywhere in the world should be interconnected and access programs and data on any site. The very idea of cloud services is associated with John McCarthy, a specialist in the theory of electronic computers. He suggested that computer computing would be available as a service in the future. This concept will form the basis of the SaaS model, which provides cloud software as a public service.
Еволюція хмарних технологій почалася в 1950-х роках з появи мейнфреймів в компанії IBM. Мейнфрейм - це сервер з великим об'ємом оперативної і зовнішньої пам'яті. Він призначений для вирішення завдань, пов'язаних з обробкою великих обсягів даних. Оператори цих машин мали можливість доступу до центрального комп'ютера через термінали, єдиною функцією яких було забезпечення доступу додаткових операторів до мейнфреймів. У більшості випадків користувачеві не потрібна повна потужність мейнфрейма. Тому "дурні" порти зробили мейнфрейми економічнішими, а хмарні технології мають шанс на подальший розвиток. Ідея "міжгалактичної комп'ютерної мережі" вперше виникла в 1960-х роках у Джозефа Ліклайдера. Він відповідав за створення мережі Агентства передових дослідницьких проектів (ARPANET). Суть його концепції полягала в тому, що всі користувачі з будь-якої точки світу повинні бути пов'язані між собою і мати доступ до програм і даних на будь-якому сайті. Сама ідея хмарних сервісів пов'язана з Джоном Маккарті, фахівцем з теорії електронних обчислювальних машин. Він припустив, що в майбутньому комп'ютерні обчислення будуть доступні як послуга. Ця концепція ляже в основу моделі SaaS, яка надає хмарне програмне забезпечення в якості публічної послуги.
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Pershutkin, Alexander. "Information society and domestic conflicts." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Ristvet, Lauren Marie. "Settlement, economy, and society in the Tell Leilan region, Syria, 3000-1000 BC." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615230.
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Voigt, Sonja. "World summit on the information society." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3655/.
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Глівенко, Сергій Володимирович, Сергей Владимирович Гливенко, Serhii Volodymyrovych Hlivenko, and A. V. Anchurova. "The conception of modern information society." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2004. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/22954.
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Morris, Stacy Lynn. "Adolescent Girls’ Contributions to Community and Society: Exploring Perceptions, Goals and Motivations." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108110.
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Thesis advisor: Jacqueline V. LernerYouth contribution is important to the development of a healthy society (Lerner, Dowling et al., 2003; Schmid & Lopez, 2011). As youth develop on positive trajectories, they engage in higher rates of contribution to self, family, community, and civil society (Lerner, 2004). Many youth believe it is important to participate in contribution-oriented activities, but not many are involved in personally meaningful forms of contribution (Hershberg et al., 2014; Zeldin et al., 2013). In order to engage youth in contribution, and thereby increase the likelihood that they will continue to contribute into adulthood, it is important to understand the processes involved in contribution, the ways in which adolescents experience contribution, and how they conceptualize their role in giving back to the community. In the present research, I addressed the following questions: 1) How do adolescent girls experience contribution in their lives? (a) In which contribution-related activities are they involved? (b) What beliefs do they have about contribution? (2) How do adolescent girls direct their contribution goals or efforts? To whom do they contribute, or want to contribute? (3) What motivations are associated with contribution goals or efforts for adolescent girls? Through in-depth semi-structured qualitative interviews, I investigated adolescent contribution in nine adolescent girls in high school. This subsample of participants is drawn from the Connecting Adolescents’ Beliefs and Behaviors (CABB) Study (Lerner & Johnson, 2014), a longitudinal investigation of youth character development in adolescent students in the New England area. I analyzed the interviews using the Listening Guide (Gilligan, Spencer, Weinberg, & Bertsch, 2006), a method for analysis of qualitative texts. I derived many themes from these texts to address my research questions. Youth expressed a range of contribution experiences, including how they conceptualize what counts as making a contribution. Participants directed their contributions in accordance with their personal social identifications, their future career goals, and people seen as generally “less fortunate.” Youth expressed multiple intrinsic and extrinsic motivators for contributing and wanting to contribute in the future. Implications for future research, programming and policy will be discussed
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Castelli, Nemo. "Charles Taylor and a theological response to the secularization of Chilean society." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108872.
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Ojo, Olajide Joshua, Станіслава Станіславівна Зайцева, Станислава Станиславовна Зайцева, and Stanislava Stanislavivna Zaitseva. "Information And Communication Technology In The Society." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/84794.
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The relevance and aim of this research is to point out importance of ICT in the society, problems and solutions of ICT, and recommendations. ICT play a significant role in all aspects of modern society.
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Morris, Robert. "Concessions, communications, and controversy: the early privileges of the Society of Jesus 1537 to 1556." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108457.
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Thesis advisor: Catherine M. MooneyThesis advisor: Barton Geger
Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry
Discipline: Sacred Theology
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Lee, Hee-Jeong. "Discourses of civil society in South Korea : democratisation in an emerging information society." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3746/.
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This thesis presents a late-Durkheimian theoretical framework on civil society as a sphere of solidarity and applies it to the development from modern society to an „information society‟. The framework is used to identify the cultural codes that exist in different information societies and to show their role in integrating or dividing the members of civil society. The framework is applied to South Korean civil society entering an information age coincident alongside processes of democratisation. Three policy debates relating to information are used as case studies to show the coexistence of, and conflicts between, a „developmental code‟ based on economic growth and anti-communism deriving from the authoritarian period of state-sponsored capitalism, and a later „democratic code‟ based on human rights. The three cases are: the Electronic National Identification Card, the National Education Information System and the credit information system. The thesis argues that the values of a „democratic‟ code are becoming more dominant in recent South Korean society, despite continuous challenge for its validity. The cases provide evidence that democratisation and informatization can operate in tandem to establish the dominance of the democratic code in public discourse in South Korean civil society.
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Struby, Ethan. "Essays on Information in Macroeconomics and Finance:." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107371.
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Thesis advisor: Ryan ChahrourExpectations formation is central to macroeconomics. Households, firms, and policymakers must form expectations not only about fundamentals, but about what other agents’ beliefs are, because others’ beliefs will determine their actions. The three essays in this dissertation examine empirically and theoretically how agents use both public and private information to form expectations. The first two essays combine a models of optimizing behavior and forecasting with data on the macroeconomy, financial prices, and macroeconomic forecasts to examine the extent to which economic agents learn about the macroeconomy from financial prices and monetary policy actions. The third essay examines theoretically how members of a committee use public and private information to form beliefs when they care both about having accurate forecasts and coordinating actions with others. All three essays emphasize that frictions in expectations formation are a salient feature of the world, and understanding the extent and importance of those frictions is important for both positive and normative questions in macroeconomics and finance. Beliefs about the future determine the willingness of financial market participants to save and invest, and theory suggests they should value more highly assets which are expected to pay higher returns during recessionary periods when consumption is otherwise low. Hence, financial prices reflect macroeconomic expectations. In the first essay, titled "Macroeconomic Disagreement in Treasury Yields," I explore how agents with idiosyncratic, private information form beliefs about both the macroeconomy and the beliefs of other agents. Using data on United States Treasury debt, the macroeconomy, and individual inflation forecasts, I estimate the precision of bond traders’ information about the macroeconomy and how much they disagree with each other. I allow for traders to learn both from private signals and from asset prices, which aggregate the beliefs of all the traders in the market. I find that bond prices are moderately informative about macroeconomic variables, but are the source of most of the information traders have about monetary policy and the beliefs of others. In contrast to studies which assume full information, risk premia are much less important than slow-adjusting interest rate expectations for explaining the behavior of long-run yields. The most important signal for bond traders appears to be the Federal Reserve’s short-run rate, which encodes information about the macroeconomy and the central bank’s intended future policy. Nevertheless, the fact that traders held disparate beliefs about the macroeconomy, and especially about the long-run inflation target of the Federal Reserve, elevated long-term yields on average. The first essay demonstrates empirically that financial market participants learn about the macroeconomy from monetary policy actions. However, it is silent on how monetary policymakers form beliefs about the macroeconomy, or how the information in monetary policy rates endogenously affects macroeconomic outcomes. In the second essay "Your Guess is as Good as Mine: Central Bank Information and Monetary Policy," I use data on private sector forecasts and forecasts from the Federal Reserve Board staff to examine the typical assumption of common information between firms and monetary policymakers. Using forecasts from a survey of professional forecasters and from the Federal Reserve Board staff, I show evidence against the typical assumption of common information between monetary policymakers and the private sector, and also that policymakers are, at best, only weakly better at forecasting than private forecasters. Based on this evidence, I augment an otherwise standard monetary policy model by relaxing the common information assumption. Instead, I assume there is idiosyncratic, private information among price-setting firms, and between firms and the central banker. Firms combine private information about aggregate conditions with the observed monetary policy rate to form expectations about fundamentals and the beliefs of rival firms. The central banker must form expectations about firms’ beliefs because those beliefs will determine inflation and overall economic activity. But as a result of their differences in information sets, firms must form expectations about other firms’ expectations, and what the central banks’ expectations of their expectations are. I examine the ability of this model to fit the data and find that the model can capture features of both firm and central bank inflation expectations, but in the absence of imperfect information among households, it is difficult to simultaneously match the forecast data and data on real activity. This result points to the sensitivity of models with dispersed information to the underlying assumptions about how central bankers will respond to exogenous shocks. The second chapter emphasized how the assumptions economists make regarding monetary policymakers’ information is critical for understanding their actions. Motivated by this example, my third chapter "Information Investment in a Coordination Game" explores theoretically how members of a committee who are uncertain about others’ beliefs decide on a binary action, and how their decision to pay close attention to public or private signals is related to their desire to accurately forecast versus coordinating their behavior with others. I show that when it is assumed that information decisions among committee members are symmetric - everyone pays the same amount of attention to the same things - there is a unique outcome of the coordination game. However, I further show that it is difficult to guarantee that committee members will all choose a symmetric allocation of information. Aside from the direct cost of acquiring better information, allocating attention to more accurate signals can harm welfare when coordination motives are dominant. In a set of numerical exercises, however, I show that it is possible for a unique equilibrium to exist, and that actions that do not have a large impact on the payoffs of committee members (such as changing the size of the committee) may nevertheless have large impacts on the accuracy of the committee’s forecasts. This suggests a possible tension between the welfare of the committee, which benefits from consensus, and the welfare of those affected by the committee’s actions, which likely depends on whether the committee takes the objectively correct action. My dissertation has important implications for both academic economists and policymakers. Understanding the sources of business cycle fluctuations and the determinants of asset prices requires grappling with the fact that people have differences in beliefs. Empirical evidence suggests that agents’ beliefs are shaped by both idiosyncratic forces and by public announcements and policy decisions, and economists’ models need to reflect these features of the world. Policy, too, is affected by the information available to policymakers, and to understand how policymakers have acted in the past and should act in the future, it is necessary to take seriously the ways their belief formation deviates from the full information rational expectations benchmark
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Fahlbeck, Erland. "En diktaturs väg in i informationssamhället : Kina och World Summit on the Information Society = [The way of a dictatorship into the information society] : [ China and the World Summit on the Information Society] /." Borås : Högsk. i Borås, Bibliotekshögskolan/Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, 2004. http://www.hb.se/bhs/slutversioner/2004/04-29.pdf.
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Kokkinos, Nikos. "The Herodian dynasty : origins, role in society and eclipse (2nd century BC to 2nd century AD)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335743.
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Candian, Giacomo. "Essays on Information and Financial Frictions in Macroeconomics." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:106871.
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Thesis advisor: Susanto BasuThesis advisor: Peter Ireland
This dissertation consists of three independent chapters analyzing the role that information and credit frictions play in goods and financial markets. Within these chapters, I develop dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models to study the implications of these frictions on the macroeconomy, both at the national and international level. In the first chapter, I provide a novel explanation for the observed large and persistent fluctuations in real exchange rates using a model with noisy, dispersed information among price-setting firms. Chapter two studies how entrepreneurs' attitudes towards risk affect business cycles in a framework with agency frictions between borrowers and lenders. Finally, chapter three introduces a liquidity channel in a business cycle model with agency frictions to rationalize the highly volatile behavior of default recovery rates observed in the data. Real exchange rates have been extremely volatile and persistent since the end of the Bretton Woods system. For many developed economies, real exchange rates are as volatile as nominal exchange rates, and their fluctuations exhibit a half-life in the range of three to five years. Traditional sticky-price models struggle to jointly account for these features under plausible nominal rigidities (Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan, 2002). Is it possible to reconcile, in a single framework, the enormous short-term volatility of the real exchange rate with its extremely long half-life? The first chapter of this dissertation addresses this question within a framework in which information is noisy and heterogeneous among price-setting firms. In this context, the continuing uncertainty that firms face about the state of the economy and about the beliefs of their competitors, slows down the price adjustment in response to nominal shocks, generating large and long-lived real exchange rate movements. I estimate the model using real output and output deflator data from the US and the Euro Area and show, as an out-of-sample test, that the model successfully explains the observed volatility and persistence of the Euro/Dollar real exchange rate. In a Bayesian model comparison, I show that the data strongly favor the dispersed information model relative to a sticky-price model à la Calvo. The model also accounts for the persistent effects of monetary shocks on the real exchange rate that I document using a structural vector autoregression. The second chapter, joint with Mikhail Dmitriev, studies how entrepreneurs' attitudes towards risk affect business cycles in a model with agency frictions. Entrepreneurs are inevitably exposed to non-diversified risk, which likely affects their willingness to borrow and to invest in risky projects. Nevertheless, the financial friction literature has paid little attention to how entrepreneurs' desire to take on this risk affects their investment choices in a general-equilibrium setting. Indeed, business cycle models with credit market frictions that feature idiosyncratic risk assume, for tractability, that entrepreneurs are risk neutral (Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist, 1999, BGG). In this chapter, we generalize the BGG framework to the case of entrepreneurs with constant-relative-risk-aversion preferences. In doing so, we overcome the aggregation challenges of this setup and maintain an analytically tractable, log-linear framework. Our main result is that higher risk aversion stabilizes business cycle fluctuations in response to financial shocks, such as wealth redistribution or risk shocks, without significantly affecting the dynamic responses to technology and monetary shocks. Our findings suggest that, within this class of models, the ability of financial shocks to account for a large portion of short-run output fluctuations found in previous work (e.g., Christiano, Motto, and Rostagno (2014)) crucially hinges on borrowers' risk neutrality. The third chapter, joint with Mikhail Dmitriev, examines the implications of the cyclical properties of default recovery rates for aggregate fluctuations. We document that recovery rates after default in the United States are highly volatile and strongly pro-cyclical. These facts are hard to reconcile with the existing financial friction literature. Indeed, models with limited enforceability à la Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) do not feature defaults and recovery rates in equilibrium, while agency costs models following Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999) underestimate the volatility of recovery rates by one order of magnitude. In this chapter, we extend the standard agency costs model allowing liquidation costs for creditors to depend on the tightness of the market for physical capital. Creditors do not have expertise in selling entrepreneurial assets, but when buyers are plentiful, this disadvantage is minimal. Instead when sellers are abundant, the disadvantage of being an outsider is higher. Following a negative shock, entrepreneurs sell capital and liquidation costs for creditors increase, driving down recovery rates. With higher liquidation costs, creditors cut lending and cause entrepreneurs to sell even more capital. This liquidity channel works independently from standard balance sheet effects, and amplifies the impact of financial shocks on output by up to 50 percent
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics
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Diamantides, Costas Kyprou. "Measuring the Information Society : the case of Cyprus." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/3bfd0b5a-771a-403b-8ea5-e2727556bcb0.
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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to study the development of the information society in Cyprus. By applying a conceptual model, a comprehensive measurement of the information society in Cyprus is carried out and comparison with Malta and the EU average is performed. Specific proposals are made for the successful development of the information society in Cyprus. Methods: A major part of this thesis is the review of the literature and in this respect the exploratory nature of the first two research questions prompted the application of a systematic narrative review by using a unique and well defined procedure. Then the OECD framework descriptive model is applied to Cyprus and Malta. Findings: This research reaffirms the lack of a universally accepted definition for the information society due its complex and diverse nature. However, a common denominator of all definitions is that this concept is based on the ICTs and that it is related to technology, economy and society. The systematic narrative review demonstrated three distinct groups of indices. The ranking of Cyprus does not differ significantly regardless of the scope of measurement of each composite index. The relationship between small countries and information societies has not drawn the interest of the scientific community. The application of the model confirmed the position of Cyprus behind Malta and helped to explain some reasons for the differences. Conclusions: None of the available indices seemed appropriate for policymakers in small countries trying to assess, and explain the relative position of their countries. The OECD’s model appears the most helpful approach in pinpointing problems, by comparing the results for two countries that are relatively similar in size, location, history and general development but which occupy different positions on other indicators. Recommendations concern an information strategy and evaluation framework for Cyprus.
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Fang, Chien-san. "Imagining the 'information society' : the case of Taiwan." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34586.
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Centring on information technology (IT), this thesis examines two broad but related areas of interests: ideological formations and material movements. Starting from a historical survey it contrasts two visions of 'information society' (IS), and then goes on to depict the social background from which these visions arise. It is found that since the 1960s the capitalist world system has been undergoing crisis, and it becomes especially obvious in the 1980s that IT has been playing a crucial role in restructuring capitalism. As such, the concept of IS and practical functions subsumed by IT have important implications for (semi-)peripheral countries . As one of the widely claimed economic 'miracles' Taiwan's recent developmental trajectory is particularly useful for realising how IT functions and how dominant ideas about 'IS' disseminate. Benefiting from selling IT, Taiwan's experience cannot be said to have constituted a successful story supporting the modernisation theory. Rather, the developmental process she has so far gone through fits the arguments of the world-system approach. Taiwan's quick rise to seize IT for expanding her economic base tells a very good example as how the international capital, the state, and the national capital cooperate and clash. In contrast, Taiwan's records of using IT for production, transmission or consumption are rather poor. This reflects her position in the world system in general, however, it is a necessary result considering that her economic structure is based on small business. On the side of ideological representations, this study confirms the dominant pattern of IT coverage in the popular media (newspapers). Though the newspapers have not yet produced a coherent articulation of different elements of the idea of 'IS', it relays uncritically the established (the government and the business) perspectives on IT and 'IS'. The protesting or suspicious opinions about them are therefore contained in marginal places like the environmental movements or expressed in science fictions.
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Nekrasenko, L., and B. Lazurenko. "Alternatives of economic development in the information society." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/64829.
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Kovalenko, E. "Technologies of an information society and sustainable development." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2004. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/23004.
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Bedi, Shalu, and Kiran Sharma. "Library Consortia: A Step forward the Information Society." Twenty First Century Publications, Patiala, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105994.
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The increasing price of electronic journals, indexing and abstracting databases along with the traditional published print subscriptions has forced library community to explore alternative means of subscription. The emergence of library a very promising development in this direction. The Phenomenon of consortia or group of libraries maintaining information resources together has become very common these days, In India, during last few years we witnessed many consortia based subscription. This paper briefly discusses the concept, need, advantages and also the major consortia initiatives in India.
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Partridge, Helen L. "Establishing the human perspective of the information society." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2007. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16572/1/Helen_Partridge_Thesis.pdf.
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The digital divide is a core issue of the information society. It refers to the division
between those who have access to, or are comfortable using, information and
communication technology (ICT) (the "haves") and those who do not have access
to, or are not comfortable using ICT (the "have-nots"). The digital divide is a complex
phenomenon. The majority of studies to date have examined the digital divide from
a socio-economic perspective. These studies have identified income, education and
employment as the key factors in determining the division between the "haves" and
the "have-nots". Very little research has explore the psychological, social or cultural
factors that contribute to digital inequality in community. The current study filled this
gap by using Bandura's social cognitive theory (SCT) to examine the psychological
barriers that prevent individuals from integrating ICT into their everyday lives.
SCT postulates that a person will act according to their perceived capabilities and
the anticipated consequences of their actions. Four studies have explored the digital
divide using SCT. Because of limitations in the research design these studies have
shed only limited light onto current understanding of digital inequality in community.
The current research was the first study exploring the digital divide that (i)
incorporated both socio-economic and socio-cognitive factors, (ii) used a community
context that ensured the recruitment of participants who represented the full
spectrum of the general population, and (iii) was conducted in both the US and
Australia. Data was gathered via self administered questionnaires in two
communities: Brisbane, Australia and San Jose, USA. Completed questionnaires
were obtained from 330 and 398 participants from the US and Australia,
respectively.
Hierarchical regression analysis was used to explore the research question: what
influence do socio-cognitive factors have in predicting internet use by members of
the general population when the effects of socio-economic factors are controlled?
The results of this analysis revealed that attitudes do matter. The US study found
that socio-economic factors were not statistically significant predictors of internet
use. The only factor that found to be a significant predictor of use was internet self
efficacy. In short individuals with higher levels of internet self efficacy reported
higher levels of internet use. Unlike the US study, the Australian study found that by
themselves several socio-economic factors predicted internet use. In order of
importance these were age, gender, income and ethnicity. However, the study also revealed that when socio-economic factors are controlled for, and socio-cognitive
variables included into the analysis, it is the socio-cognitive and not the socioeconomic
variables that are the dominant (in fact the only!) predictors of internet
use.
The research illustrated that the digital divide involves more than just the availability
of resources and funds to access those resources. It incorporates the internal forces
of an individual that motivates to them to use or integrate ICT into their lives. The
digital divide is not just about ICT such as computers and the internet. It is about
people. As such, the key to solving the issue of digital inequality is not going to be
found with corporate or government funds providing physical access to technology.
Instead, the key to solving digital inequality is inside the individual person. The
alternative view of the digital divide presented in this research is by no means
intended to minimise the role played by socio-economic factors. Indeed, the socioeconomic
perspective has helped shed light on a very real social issue. What this
research has done is suggest that the digital divide is more complex and more
involved than has been imagined, and that further and different research is required
if genuine insights and real steps are going to be made in establishing an
information society for all.
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Partridge, Helen L. "Establishing the human perspective of the information society." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16572/.
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The digital divide is a core issue of the information society. It refers to the division
between those who have access to, or are comfortable using, information and
communication technology (ICT) (the "haves") and those who do not have access
to, or are not comfortable using ICT (the "have-nots"). The digital divide is a complex
phenomenon. The majority of studies to date have examined the digital divide from
a socio-economic perspective. These studies have identified income, education and
employment as the key factors in determining the division between the "haves" and
the "have-nots". Very little research has explore the psychological, social or cultural
factors that contribute to digital inequality in community. The current study filled this
gap by using Bandura's social cognitive theory (SCT) to examine the psychological
barriers that prevent individuals from integrating ICT into their everyday lives.
SCT postulates that a person will act according to their perceived capabilities and
the anticipated consequences of their actions. Four studies have explored the digital
divide using SCT. Because of limitations in the research design these studies have
shed only limited light onto current understanding of digital inequality in community.
The current research was the first study exploring the digital divide that (i)
incorporated both socio-economic and socio-cognitive factors, (ii) used a community
context that ensured the recruitment of participants who represented the full
spectrum of the general population, and (iii) was conducted in both the US and
Australia. Data was gathered via self administered questionnaires in two
communities: Brisbane, Australia and San Jose, USA. Completed questionnaires
were obtained from 330 and 398 participants from the US and Australia,
respectively.
Hierarchical regression analysis was used to explore the research question: what
influence do socio-cognitive factors have in predicting internet use by members of
the general population when the effects of socio-economic factors are controlled?
The results of this analysis revealed that attitudes do matter. The US study found
that socio-economic factors were not statistically significant predictors of internet
use. The only factor that found to be a significant predictor of use was internet self
efficacy. In short individuals with higher levels of internet self efficacy reported
higher levels of internet use. Unlike the US study, the Australian study found that by
themselves several socio-economic factors predicted internet use. In order of
importance these were age, gender, income and ethnicity. However, the study also revealed that when socio-economic factors are controlled for, and socio-cognitive
variables included into the analysis, it is the socio-cognitive and not the socioeconomic
variables that are the dominant (in fact the only!) predictors of internet
use.
The research illustrated that the digital divide involves more than just the availability
of resources and funds to access those resources. It incorporates the internal forces
of an individual that motivates to them to use or integrate ICT into their lives. The
digital divide is not just about ICT such as computers and the internet. It is about
people. As such, the key to solving the issue of digital inequality is not going to be
found with corporate or government funds providing physical access to technology.
Instead, the key to solving digital inequality is inside the individual person. The
alternative view of the digital divide presented in this research is by no means
intended to minimise the role played by socio-economic factors. Indeed, the socioeconomic
perspective has helped shed light on a very real social issue. What this
research has done is suggest that the digital divide is more complex and more
involved than has been imagined, and that further and different research is required
if genuine insights and real steps are going to be made in establishing an
information society for all.
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Fung, Yat-chu, and 馮一柱. "Information technology and empowerment in information society: use of computers amongst senior persons." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31245298.
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Sabir, Mammadrzali Shahin. "RENOVATING THE SUBJECT MATTER OF INFORMATION LAW: RIGHT TO EDUCATION IN INFORMATION SOCIETY." Thesis, Сучасна правова освіта: [матеріали VIІ Міжнародної науково-практичної конференції, Київ, Національний авіаційний університет, 23 лютого 2018 р.]. – Тернопіль: «Вектор», 2018, 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/32831.
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Perkins, Philip Ernest. "Settlement, society and material culture in Central Etruria from the 8th century BC to the Social Wars." Thesis, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309193.
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Chetcuti, Bonavita Kristian. "Aspects of the archaeology of northern Italy in the last five centuries BC : settlement, society and geography." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612234.
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Spier, Shaked. "CollectiveAction2.0: The Impact of ICT-Based Social Media on Collective Action – Difference in Degree or Difference in Kind?" Thesis, 2011. http://eprints.rclis.org/16437/1/CollectiveAction2.0%20PDF-A.pdf.
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The events in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa were referred in the media as the ‘Arab Spring’ and been described as Twitter and Facebook Revolutions. In this paper, the author addresses the information-technological relation between mass-protests (as a form of collective action) and social media. The paper uses the sociological framework in the field of collective action and social media and connects it with theories of information and communication technologies in the context of social movements.
The paper begins with an outline of relevant models of the social movement theory, a description of the role that ICT play in collective action in accordance with these models follows and then continues with a close analysis of the impact social media has on collective action. This work concludes with a description of the adjustments required in the analysis-framework, as social media changes the collective action equation, with emphasize on the possible dangers that should be avoided when addressing social media’s role collective action.
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HOLLOS, Adriana Cox. "Entre o passado e o futuro: limites e possibilidades da preservação documental no Arquivo Nacional do Brasil." Thesis, 2006. http://eprints.rclis.org/17025/1/disserta%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20Adriana%20Holl%C3%B3s.pdf.
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The main objective of this study is build a reading way about the historical memory of
the documental preservation at the National Archive of Brazil, through the annual
regulations written by the institution’s directors between 1843 and 1985 and the
reports, laws, decrees that belongs to Arquivo Nacional funds. This research was
based in two analyses focus: building the theoretical-conceptual landmark of the
documental preservation and the choice of records. In the theoretical
fundamentation, we discussed the concepts about social memory, records and
heritage; in search of verify the applicability of the concept about selectivity of the
social memory in the practice of the documental preservation.
[Keyword: Preservation, Records, Memory, Conservator]
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Martínez-Musiño, Celso. "Los flujos de información en la administración del conocimiento: diagnóstico en una organización de servicios de consultoría en tecnologías de información." Thesis, 2009. http://eprints.rclis.org/29146/1/Tesis.pdf.
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The objectives of the article were: to identify information flows, and how they generate and classify information resources of a consulting firm in information technology. For background, we can say that in Mexico there isn’t an investigation like this. The methodology used for this was the case study, using a questionnaire as a tool for collecting data and mapping information for the results. As a result, was the location and classification of information used, shared and produced by members of the consulting firm in Information Technology. The main findings were that from the instruments of knowledge management is to identify the inputs and information products and how these are shared. This makes it feasible to diagnose the flow of information in organizations.
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Dyer-Witheford, Nick. "Cyber-Marx : cycles and circuits of struggle in high technology capitalism." Thesis, 1999. http://eprints.rclis.org/6252/1/acknowledgements.pdf.
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In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter.
Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities, from public health and maternity to natural resource allocation and the geographical reorganization of labor power. He also shows how these sites and activities may become focal points of subversion and insurgency, as new means of communication vital for the smooth flow of capital also permit otherwise isolated and dispersed points of resistance to connect and combine with one another.
Dyer-Witheford predicts the advent of a reinvented, "autonomist" Marxism that will rediscover the possibility of a collective, communist transformation of society. Refuting the utopian promises of the information revolution, he discloses the real potentialities for a new social order in the form of a twenty-first-century communism based on the common sharing of wealth.
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Segura, Rodríguez José María. "Estudio comparativo de los informativos de televisión en España : análisis cuantitativo de los telediarios en su edición nocturna de Intereconomía TV, laSexta y TVE." Thesis, 2013. http://eprints.rclis.org/20721/2/Estudios_informativos_TV_JOSE_M_SEGURA_2013.pdf.
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The next article contains the whole data and conclusions that were recollected from a 20 days research about LaSexta, Intereconomía TV and TVE evening newscasts. Front news topics, duration and contains plus first five news have been analyzed, in order to perform a quantitative study of those dates through many commented graphics and comparative boards. Finally, a series of conclusions derived from obtained data analysis appear.
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Nascimento, Andrade de Lima do. "Direito a informação e direitos sociais no contexto do capitalismo contemporâneo." Thesis, 2007. http://eprints.rclis.org/25667/1/Direito%20a%20Informacao%20e%20Direitos%20Sociais_0.pdf.
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This bibliographic research analyses the right to information in the context of social rights and the manner in which the right to information is capable of contributing to the acquisition of social rights in the era of capitalism. Information and knowledge are defined as a social phenomenon that is defined by, as well as defines, various social processes. The social value attributed to information and its effectiveness in the creation of opportunities for change determine the correlation between the right to information and social rights due to the potential of information to contribute the establishment of opportunities for autonomy and processes of participation among others. This research comprehends the right to information as a symbolic recourse that reproduces and represents the actualization of information as a facilitator and mediator of social relations that are of an informative nature. As such this research analyses the relationship between information and capitalism based on three interconnected thematically articulated topics: the genesis of the relationship between capitalism and information based upon the concept of the technological revolution as explained by Mandel (1985); the effects and impact of technological information and communication on social processes; and the emergence of the information based society as political strategy to maintain the hegemony of capitalistic interests. This relationship is characterized in terms of its capitalistic based appropriation of information and subsequent aggravation of social inequality. This research also perceives the social State as information based State that provides for individual or collective information based demands. Local authority is also analyzed as means of informational based governance and as a means of satisfying the informational and communication based needs of a society as a strategy to legitimize the right to and form of information presented to civil society. Social control is considered as a mechanism to: establish the effective management and socialization of local information based upon the right to information; establish channels of participation for civil society in a regime that is based upon and that promotes informational based governance.
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Rosas, Hernández Charly Michelle. "El ecosistema de la desinformación en internet: Una radiografía de su estructura." Thesis, 2021. http://eprints.rclis.org/42272/1/El%20ecosistema%20de%20la%20desinformaci%C3%B3n%20en%20internet.pdf.
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Develop an scan of the ecosystem of disinformation on the internet to identify an approach to the actors and mechanisms that influence the spread of this phenomenon, from a library and information studies perspective. Additionally, three specific objectives are proposed: 1) Establish a conceptual framework around the ecosystem of disinformation on the internet; 2) Identify the international legal frameworks that emerged with the phenomenon of disinformation on the internet; 3) Determine the actors, technologies and manifestations of disinformation on the internet.
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Figueroa, Alcantara Hugo Alberto. "Vivencia y convivencia en la sociedad red." Thesis, 2010. http://eprints.rclis.org/14921/1/Hugo_Figueroa_-_Tesis_-_Vivencia_y_convivencia_en_la_sociedad_red.pdf.
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The research problem that guided this dissertation is: What are the most significant critical elements that affect the experience and coexistence in the network society, and what is the impact that they have on human activities, in the reconfiguration of universe of information, and in our Librarian task?
The objectives are: to investigate in a critical and reflective way about the crucial elements that substantially modify the patterns of experience and coexistence in the network society; to analyze the consequences on human activities in the reconfiguration of the universe of information that have the experience and coexistence models in the network society; to determine the implications of this topic in the library science field and to propose a concrete agenda of research and writing about Librarianship. This research is divided into three chapters: The first chapter is about the analysis of critical elements of the network society. Particular attention is given to internet as a communication emblem of this model of society. To explain the current dynamics of social and cultural interaction in the social environment of this paradigm, is described in detail, the theory of new social movements. It is also considered relevant the careful examination of identities and the individual and collective actions as crucial elements for the characterization of the network society. The second chapter is directed to the study of the culture that gives, share, collaborate, recognize each other and is solidary in the network society, as fundamental components to understanding much of the peculiarities of the experience and coexistence, in this interconnected social environment. In such context, are discussed the reasons why hacker culture is considered representative of the new social movements, also is set out the reasons why hackers enclose social and cultural repercussions beyond the technological sphere. It also discussed two models with very deep impact in the networked society: the paradigm peer to peer (P2P) of sharing in the network and the paradigm wiki of collaborating into the network, standing out above all, not so much the software or tools used, but the philosophy inherent in the method and configuration of new forms of relationships, work, create, study, share works, etc. into this emerging social model. Based on the theoretical, critical reflective elements and about the social and cultural models of participation studied in the first two chapters, the main issue of the third chapter is the experience and coexistence in the network society. In this sense, is looking for the ideal of free society and culture, as well as the tensions and conflicts about it, generated largely by the economic forces of global markets. The cybercultural paradigms are analyzed in relation with alternatives of experience and coexistence in the network society. It is argued how these alternative models may imply a new qualitatively phase in the benefit of human evolution and to promote an intercultural dialogue more developed, laying the foundation for a new model of civilization in the network society. Of course, is also discussed the trouble spots that reflects an uncertain and problematic perspective in these areas. Finally, based on all the issues previously addressed, are made specific and critical proposals in order to develop a research and action agenda for the librarian, but based on the main axis of the issue as complex work of the experience and coexistence in the network society.
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Becerra, Martín Alfredo. "El progreso con peajes: la sociedad de la información. Acceso y convergencia a partir del proyecto europeo." Thesis, 2001. http://eprints.rclis.org/6216/1/mab1de1.pdf.
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The thesis object is to study the different levels of social and communicative access with the Information Society as a framework. Thus, the thesis empathises the european policies of the Information Society project, and the thesis work contrasts this policies with socioeconomic indicators, as well as the main directives of Latin American countries in the same field. The thesis focuses on the concentration and convergence processes localised at the information and communication industries, due to the critical impact of these two processes in the economic structure of contemporaneous societies. The conceptual framework of the thesis is linked to the political economy of communications studies. The thesis also presents the content analysis of the main documents produced by the European Commission and the OECD.
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Castro, Ponce Samuel. "La función social de los servicios bibliotecarios y de información dirigidos a personas con discapacidad." Thesis, 2008. http://eprints.rclis.org/13337/1/Samuel_-_..._e-lis.pdf.
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This study examines the importance of library services and information from the perspective of social integration for persons with disabilities. And also states that libraries serve as a significant means for promoting social inclusion and equal opportunities for persons with disabilities. Similarly, the needs that people with disabilities have in relation to access to library services, and at the same time demonstrate the responsibilities of the library facing this population for their integration into society.
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Alonso, Lucía L. A., Elizabeth E. C. Camio, Luis L. N. Noble, and Ignacio I. S. Saraiva. "Intersección entre la alfabetización en información y las políticas públicas educativas: formando una ciudadanía crítica y autónoma en el manejo de la información." Thesis, 2014. http://eprints.rclis.org/29211/1/Intersecci%C3%B3n%20entre%20la%20Alfabetizaci%C3%B3n%20en%20Informaci%C3%B3n%20y%20las%20Pol%C3%ADticas%20P%C3%BAblicas%20Educativas.%20Alonso-Camio-Noble-Saraiva.pdf.
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This research is based on the premise that the Uruguayan Educational System does not provide individuals sufficient tools to acquire skills and competencies in the management of information, being that one of the reasons that explain the difficulties to improve the levels of academic performance of the students.
It seeks to justify that the inclusion of Information Literacy into the Educational Public Policies, that guide the Uruguayan Educational System, would contribute to solve the identified problem, since, the Information Literacy is the process by which the students could acquire the information tools that are necessary to have a good information management, adopting a critical stance toward it, and achieving more autonomy. In this way, the student would be more able to graduate from the Educational System, being a citizen more suitable for the decision-making and to exercise the full enjoyment of their rights.
It considered that a citizenship with these characteristics possess the ability to deal with the social problems in a more conscious and responsible way, collaborating with the contraction of a more just and egalitarian society.
To achieve the above stated objective, the research was developed with a purely qualitative and analytical deductive methodology, in which was elaborated a conceptual framework with great bibliographical support, with the development of the key research concepts by the research team. After that, a set of interviews were held with qualified informants in each of the themes that are treated in the development of this research. Reinforcing these interviews was made a focus group in which participated only actors that make up the Uruguayan Educational System from various roles (students, teachers, authorities, etc.) that facilitated the establishment of the status of situation of that system from all the possible perspectives,
Developed these three instances of the investigation, was carried up a theoretical discussion of the problem identified and the proposal established to contribute to solve it, nurturing that discussion with theoretical concepts and the testimonies gathered in the previous stages of the research.
After that, were settled some conclusions and reflections that confirm the hypothesis raised by the research team and consequently the achieving of the objectives that were established by him.
Finally were exposed some recommendations taking into account the results obtain.
Concluding that, indeed, the inclusion of Information Literacy in Educational Public Policies that rules the Uruguayan Education System would contribute to improve the educational performance of students, since that would give them the necessary tools to develop skills and competencies in the information management, which also will favour his development within society.
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Sousa, Guerreiro João de. "Espacio compartido: modelo de relación biblioteca-comunidad basado en la participación ciudadana y la teoría de los stakeholders." Thesis, 2016. http://eprints.rclis.org/34198/1/Tese_EspacioCompartido.pdf.
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This doctoral thesis aims to propose a community engagement model which can be integrated into an efficient management within librarian institutions. The theoretical grounding of this model is based on citizenship participation, understood as a set of dynamics and techniques which enable citizens to take part in the decision-making processes related to public affairs and services. The research adopts the action research process as methodological approach, taking advantage of its practical elements in order to identify problems and its ongoing and cyclical nature to solve them.
The model consists of three main stages. The first one is the identification of different and relevant social groups directly linked to the public library. Given the fact that it is not feasible to establish relationships with the whole community and based on the Stakeholders theory, the model provides the library’s staff with simple guidelines in order to undertake this task. Secondly, the model adopts the focus group as the interaction technique which involves meetings among seven to ten individuals who have some knowledge of or experience with the topic, led by a moderator who guides participants through a series of questions. Finally it is proposed a simple method for collecting and analyzing data. Each of these stages entails a series of tasks such as criteria for the selection of the groups, design of the topics and questions under discussion and standards to elaborate the final report.
The model therefore pursues a threefold objective of 1) Collecting information in order to adopt strategic decisions, 2) Creating participatory dynamics with various groups within the community and 3) Strengthening and consolidating the relationship established with these groups.
A pilot test was subsequently conducted in the Public Library of Salamanca for validating the applicability of the model. This experience determined the capability of the model to collect the views and opinions of the main social agents in the community and set strategic objectives of the library grounded on these points of view. It also proved to be an effective way to promote institutional change, transforming a library focused on the service offer into a “net library” in which its values and strategic goals are defined by the connection with the community.
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Beneyto, Raul G. "El Community Manager y las Ciencias de la Documentación." Thesis, 2013. http://eprints.rclis.org/20196/1/El_Community_Manager_y_las_Ciencias_de_la_Documentacion.pdf.
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The current Information Society and information technology (IT) evolve at the same time. That is why professions are changing and adapting to the new reality. This fact results in the new professional community manager (CM), closely related to the new communication models of the XXI century. These are social networks. How is this professional profile? What skills this professional should have?
This paper aims to find the link there, or could have, among this profession in association with social networks and Web 2.0, and Information Science.
Learn the skills needed to perform the job of community manager, define their duties, and see if the studies in Information Science in Spanish universities are supporting and forming effectively in tasks and abilities about community managemen