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Holt, Jennifer, and Michael Palm. "More than a number: The telephone and the history of digital identification." European Journal of Cultural Studies 24, no. 4 (March 7, 2021): 916–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549421994571.
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This article examines the telephone’s entangled history within contemporary infrastructural systems of ‘big data’, identity and, ultimately, surveillance. It explores the use of telephone numbers, keypads and wires to offer new perspective on the imbrication of telephonic information, interface and infrastructure within contemporary surveillance regimes. The article explores telephone exchanges as arbiters of cultural identities, keypads as the foundation of digital transactions and wireline networks as enacting the transformation of citizens and consumers into digital subjects ripe for commodification and surveillance. Ultimately, this article argues that telephone history – specifically the histories of telephone numbers and keypads as well as infrastructure and policy in the United States – continues to inform contemporary practices of social and economic exchange as they relate to consumer identity, as well as to current discourses about surveillance and privacy in a digital age. This article is based on a paper presented at the Media in Transition symposium (Utrecht, June 28, 2018), in the Industries and Infrastructures panel organised by Judith Keilbach. Also published in this issue of ECS are Amanda D. Lotz, ‘Unpopularity and cultural power in the age of Netflix: new questions for cultural studies’ approaches to television texts’ and Vicki Mayer, ‘From peat to Google power: communications infrastructures and structures of feeling in Groningen.’
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Matthew, Ugochukwu Okwudili, Jazuli Sanusi Kazaure, and Prisca Ijeoma Okochi. "5G Mid-Range Electromagnetic Spectrum Implementation for Critical Infrastructure Development." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijitn.307103.
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The current research analysed the existing literature on the electromagnetic spectrum influences and made significant contributions in the perspective of the ongoing insinuations of electromagnetic frequency radiation emitted from the novel 5G network technology installations. In this case, the contemporary 5G network technology was tested along ANALOGY1, ANALOGY 2 and ANALOGY3 to find out if 5G network does emit electromagnetic non-ionizing radiation capable of destroying human body cells as already alleged. The paper observed that deploying the standalone 5G network on unmodulated ultra-high frequency beyond 20Gigahertz will produce non-ionizable, non-visible radiation (electrons and protons interacting as fields) capable of adverse health effect including heating up the human skin through polarisation and dipolar moment urtication , thereby destabilising the equilibrium of the human DNA charged particles through the formation of free radicals that are highly reactive due to the presence of unpaired electrons that occurred when water molecules are broken within the human cell.
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Chankova, Elena V., and Oleg V. Sorokin. "Personal User’s Communicative Competence of “Mediatized World” Construction." RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism 26, no. 4 (December 29, 2021): 730–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2021-26-4-730-737.
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The relevance of this article is determined by the growing ubiquitous digitalization of mediatized communications, including under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021. The consequence of this process is the transformation of the structure of social space and approval of virtual interaction as a basic method of communication - instead of interpersonal. These transformations entail institutional changes, manifested in axiological and normative transitions of communicative space, semantic restructuring of communications under the influence of changing social reality. Induced by the technological infrastructure of communication, a mediatized social reality emerges, which also entails semantic changes in communication. All these circumstances actualize the phenomenon of communicative competence of an individual, which determines the effectiveness of interactions in the context of technological, semantic and institutional changes. The article presents some outcomes of empirical verification of communicative competence in contemporary Russian interaction practices. The phenomenon of hybridization of communicative competence during the transition of a person from the environment of real communications to the environment of virtual communications, contributes to the construction of mediatized social reality and expands his social reality. This ability of an individual and his communicative competence for transgression, combined with hybridity, is a factor in the integration of the communicative space of society with its contradictory characteristics.
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Druzhilov, Sergey A. "CONTEMPORARY INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN ECOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS." Hygiene and sanitation 97, no. 7 (July 15, 2018): 597–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.18821/0016-9900-2018-97-7-597-603.
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Introduction. The information environment of the society as an integral part of a human habitat is a factor of his health and must comply with safety requirements. As a result of the development of communication technologies on the basis of computer devices and the Internet, there have been significant changes in the information environment of the society and its impact on people. The study of the negative impact of the contemporary information environment on a human cannot be limited to physical and psychophysiological factors. A semantic component of the information itself is significant. Information environment has a negative impact on the cognitive and emotional sphere of his psyche. The object of information influence is the personality. The objective of the paper is to study the formation of the contemporary information and communication environment of the society, the trends in its development, to define its main components and psychological peculiarities. Material and methods. The method of investigation is a comparative analysis of the views of various authors and their theoretical generalization. Results. Based on the analysis of publications, a current understanding of the information and communication environment of the society is presented. The formation of the information environment is connected with the development of technologies and tools for fixing, preserving and transferring social experience. Six stages of the development of the means of the information transferring and preservation in the society are selected. Global informatization of the environment leads to the changes in people’s lives and activities. The picture of the human world, his worldview, his way of life are exposed to the effects of the information traffic. The risk factor is the deterioration of the human adaptation to new conditions. The changes within the individual do not keep up with the rapid changes in technology. Conclusion. In the context of the new information and communication reality the importance of the problems of human ecology was shown to increase. The information environment of a society as an object of the study can be considered in the following aspects: a) as a human habitat; b) as a means of information human activities; c) as a system of communications, including interpersonal ones; d) as an information infrastructure that provides storage, access and use of information arrays.
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İbrahim, Dogan. "Message from Editor." Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies 8, no. 1 (April 27, 2018): I. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v8i1.3333.
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Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies focuses on contemporary research addressing Information technology including emerging technologies, strategy, change, infrastructure, human resources, sourcing, system development and implementation, communications, technology developments, technology futures, national policies and standards. The journal also publishes articles that advance our understanding and application of research approaches and methods covering information technology, its evolution and future prospects. It is intended to be a multi-disciplinary international journal aimed at revealing results of research on information technology.
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Nefedov, Valeriy, and Margarita Stiglitz. "Landscape Urbanism of Riverside Territories: Humanization Strategy." Applied Mechanics and Materials 725-726 (January 2015): 1114–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.725-726.1114.
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Present situation with riverside territories planning in many Russian cities, particularly in bigger scale in St. Petersburg and Moscow, might be characterized as quite problematic. Main reason for this situation is related with constantly increasing transport pressure, in fact noticeably reducing pedestrian accessibility because of riverside territories dense occupation by transit roads network. Instead forming ecologically balanced blue-green infrastructure for sustainable development providing, many big cities in Russia are losing riverside areas for population direct contact with the most attractive parts of urban landscape. Contemporary international experience is permanently presenting wide diapason of riverside territories management concepts realization and their humanly orientated strategies of adaptation for population sufficient using. Among the most topical aspects of riverside territories essential transformation such as optimally balanced pedestrian, bicycle and transport infrastructure creation, functions and landscape logical integration, widening of leisure activities infrastructure, water communications development and regeneration of riverside ecosystems could be marked.
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Bibi, Iram, Adnan Akhunzada, Jahanzaib Malik, Muhammad Khurram Khan, and Muhammad Dawood. "Secure Distributed Mobile Volunteer Computing with Android." ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 22, no. 1 (February 28, 2022): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3428151.
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Volunteer Computing provision of seamless connectivity that enables convenient and rapid deployment of greener and cheaper computing infrastructure is extremely promising to complement next-generation distributed computing systems. Undoubtedly, without tactile Internet and secure VC ecosystems, harnessing its full potentials and making it an alternative viable and reliable computing infrastructure is next to impossible. Android-enabled smart devices, applications, and services are inevitable for Volunteer computing. Contrarily, the progressive developments of sophisticated Android malware may reduce its exponential growth. Besides, Android malwares are considered the most potential and persistent cyber threat to mobile VC systems. To secure Android-based mobile volunteer computing, the authors proposed MulDroid, an efficient and self-learning autonomous hybrid (Long-Short-Term Memory, Convolutional Neural Network, Deep Neural Network) multi-vector Android malware threat detection framework. The proposed mechanism is highly scalable with well-coordinated infrastructure and self-optimizing capabilities to proficiently tackle fast-growing dynamic variants of sophisticated malware threats and attacks with 99.01% detection accuracy. For a comprehensive evaluation, the authors employed current state-of-the-art malware datasets (Android Malware Dataset, Androzoo) with standard performance evaluation metrics. Moreover, MulDroid is compared with our constructed contemporary hybrid DL-driven architectures and benchmark algorithms. Our proposed mechanism outperforms in terms of detection accuracy with a trivial tradeoff speed efficiency. Additionally, a 10-fold cross-validation is performed to explicitly show unbiased results.
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Syrmos, Evangelos, Vasileios Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Bechtsis, Fotis Stergiopoulos, Eirini Aivazidou, Dimitris Vrakas, Prodromos Vezinias, and Ioannis Vlahavas. "An Intelligent Modular Water Monitoring IoT System for Real-Time Quantitative and Qualitative Measurements." Sustainability 15, no. 3 (January 23, 2023): 2127. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15032127.
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This study proposes a modular water monitoring IoT system that enables quantitative and qualitative measuring of water in terms of an upgraded version of the water infrastructure to sustain operational reliability. The proposed method could be used in urban and rural areas for consumption and quality monitoring, or eventually scaled up to a contemporary water infrastructure enabling water providers and/or decision makers (i.e., governmental authorities, global water organization, etc.) to supervise and drive optimal decisions in challenging times. The inherent resilience and agility that the proposed system presents, along with the maturity of IoT communications and infrastructure, can lay the foundation for a robust smart water metering solution. Introducing a modular system can also allow for optimal consumer profiling while alleviating the upfront adoption cost by providers, environmental stewardship and an optimal response to emergencies. The provided system addresses the urbanization and technological gap in the smart water metering domain by presenting a modular IoT architecture with consumption and quality meters, along with machine learning capabilities to facilitate smart billing and user profiling.
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Taylor, Gregory, Catherine Middleton, and Xavier Fernando. "A Question of Scarcity: Spectrum and Canada's Urban Core." Journal of Information Policy 7, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): 120–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.7.1.0120.
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Abstract This article uses a case study of urban Canada to explore the contentious issue of spectrum scarcity. Drawing upon infrastructure studies, this article argues for more critical approaches to this essential element of contemporary communications. The first part of the article explores positions of various actors in the antagonistic debate regarding spectrum scarcity in the lead up to the Canadian 700 MHz spectrum auction, held in 2014. The second part of the article provides unique empirical data for spectrum traffic on licensed frequencies in a busy urban location. The article reaches an unanticipated conclusion that demonstrates shortcomings in current allocation methods.
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Saldžiūnas, Kęstutis, and Rimvydas Skyrius. "THE CHALLENGES OF BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN THE MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SECTOR." Ekonomika 96, no. 2 (November 2, 2017): 110–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/ekon.2017.2.11004.
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The activities of the MNO (Mobile Network Operator) feature rapid development and business model innovations; one of their principal results is the communications infrastructure that is vital for economic growth. This dynamic and changing mode of operation (modus operandi) introduces high requirements for business decisions and overall informing to maintain competitiveness. One of the principal success factors in MNO activities is the application of contemporary information technologies, in particular technologies of business intelligence and analytics. The activities of MNO create large data volumes, leading to a significant potential discovery of insights from data. As a result, MNOs have been using analytical technologies to mine large data volumes for several decades, and experience accumulation started long before the term “big data” emerged in academia and business. The growing dynamics of activities drive the efficient use of analytical experience to boost competitive advantage. The goal of this paper is to define the most important features of the use of big data analytics in MNO business and any possible related challenges.
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Collier, Ben, Gemma Flynn, James Stewart, and Daniel Thomas. "Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state." Big Data & Society 9, no. 1 (January 2022): 205395172210787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20539517221078756.
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We have identified an emerging tool being used by the UK government across a range of public bodies in the service of public policy - the online targeted advertising infrastructure and the practices, consultancy firms, and forms of expertise which have grown up around it. This reflects an intensification and adaptation of a broader ‘behavioural turn’ in the governmentality of the UK state and the increasing sophistication of everyday government communications. Contemporary UK public policy is fusing with the powerful tools for behaviour change created by the platform economy. Operational data and associated systems of classification and profiling from public bodies are being hybridised with traditional consumer marketing profiles and then ‘projected’ onto the classification systems of the targeted advertising infrastructures. This is not simply a case of algorithms being used for sorting, surveilling, and scoring; rather this suggests that targeted interventions in the cultural and behavioural life of communities are now a core part of governmental power which is being algorithmically-driven, in combination with influencer networks, traditional forms of messaging, and frontline operational practices. We map these uses and practices of what we describe as the ‘Surveillance Influence Infrastructure’, identifying key ethical issues and implications which we believe have yet to be fully investigated or considered. What we find particularly striking is the coming-together of two separate structures of power - the governmental turn to behaviourism and prevention on one hand, and the infrastructures of targeting and influence (and their complex tertiary markets) on the other. We theorise this as a move beyond ‘nudge’ or ‘behavioural science’ approaches, towards a programme which we term ‘influence government’.
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Ashton, Hazel, and David C. Thorns. "The Role of Information Communications Technology in Retrieving Local Community." City & Community 6, no. 3 (September 2007): 211–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2007.00214.x.
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The article explores the decline in social connectivity and the questions of whether and how local populations can use information–communications technologies (ICTs) to help reconnect. At the center of this debate are problems in conceptualizing community in today's globalizing network society. As well as challenges to older ideas about community, these problems include the impacts of numerous contemporary societal and global pressures on communities themselves. The first step of community renewal is what Scott Lash (1994) refers to as the “retrieval” of community, which is to be a genuinely participatory process, rather than presuming community already exists or engineering a consensus about what it is or what it wants. Some governments are now suggesting that a way to reconnect local populations in order to recover lost sociability and rebuild social infrastructure is through using ICTs as a major tool. Using the New Zealand Government policy contained in the Connecting Communities programme (2002) and the Digital Strategy (2004), the article explores and provides a critique of the strategies being advocated, particularly with respect to the use of the concepts of community and connectivity. A case study of the development and use of ICT tools for community retrieval within a particular local area is used to identify some pitfalls and argue for approaches to connectivity that effectively utilize ICTs as community networking tools.
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Kopanaki, Evangelia. "Conceptualizing Supply Chain Resilience: The Role of Complex IT Infrastructures." Systems 10, no. 2 (March 14, 2022): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/systems10020035.
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To deal with environmental uncertainty, organizations need resilience to respond to disruptions, such as changing market conditions or variations in demand or supply, while avoiding large scale adjustments. The concept of resilience is ambiguous, often explained as the capability of an organization or a supply chain to recover its original state, within an appropriate time frame, after being disrupted. Resilient supply chains have event handling capabilities, can provide efficient responses, and can return to their normal operating performance, after the disruptive event. To increase their resilience, companies often make changes or adjustments to their internal IT infrastructure, which may temporarily disrupt their smooth operation. As a result, contemporary IT infrastructures are mixed and include varied systems or technologies. Although new technologies, including blockchain, IoT and cloud-based solutions, may facilitate the handling of changes by providing secure, low cost and scalable solutions, more traditional systems may hinder such changes. Therefore, the relationship between IT and supply chain resilience is still unclear. The paper intends to examine the above issues by adopting a socio-technical approach to explain the concept of supply chain resilience and investigate the role of IT. More specifically, based on previous literature and on the appreciative systems thinking theoretical perspective, the paper develops a theoretical framework to analyse the organisational and/or supply chain resilience. It then uses this framework to examine and explain the impact of IT, by identifying important characteristics of an IT infrastructure and examining whether they may support or hinder business resilience.
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Guzhakovskaya, Kristina, and Yuriy Umnitsyn. "Protocol SS7 and the Security of Mobile Networks." NBI Technologies, no. 4 (February 2019): 6–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/nbit.jvolsu.2018.4.1.
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The paper considers Global System for Mobile Communications, which plays the important role in contemporary society and carries new forms of dialog in the modern world. It is shown, that GSM-nets play two roles: firstly, they serve as communication tools for people who are in any point of world, and secondly, they can be used as tools for confidential data theft due to the old technology for telephone exchange setting, created as early as in the 1970s. Attacks using SS7 are often executed by hackers. After all, the attacker does not have to be close to the subscriber, and the attack can be made from anywhere on the planet. Therefore, to calculate the attacker is almost impossible, through this vulnerability can be hacked through almost any phone in the world. It will not be difficult to eavesdrop on conversations, intercept SMS, get access to the mobile Bank, social networks because of the vulnerability in the SS7 telephone infrastructure, through which service commands of cellular networks are transmitted. Due to the fact that the vulnerability with the Protocol SS7 is on the side of the operator, protection from such an attack is impossible. Until mobile operators are able to abandon this technology, this threat in the field of information security will remain relevant.
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Cass, Noel, Elizabeth Shove, and John Urry. "Social Exclusion, Mobility and Access." Sociological Review 53, no. 3 (August 2005): 539–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2005.00565.x.
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Much of the literature on social exclusion ignores its ‘spatial’ or ‘mobility’ related aspects. This paper seeks to rectify this by examining the mobile processes and infrastructures of travel and transport that engender and reinforce social exclusion in contemporary societies. To the extent to which this issue is addressed, it is mainly organized around the notion of ‘access’ to activities, values and goods. This paper examines this discourse in some detail. It is argued that there are many dimensions of such access, that improving access is a complex matter because of the range of human activities that might need to be ‘accessed’, that in order to know what is to be accessed the changing nature of travel and communications requires examination, and that some dimensions of access are only revealed through changes in the infrastructure that ‘uncover’ previously hidden social exclusions. Claims about access and socio-spatial exclusion routinely make assumptions about what it is to participate effectively in society. We turn this question around, also asking how mobilities of different forms constitute societal values and sets of relations, participation in which may become important for social inclusion. This paper draws upon an extensive range of library, desk and field research to deal with crucial issues relating to the nature of a fair, just and mobile society.
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Tariq, Emad, Muhammad Alshurideh, Iman Akour, and Sulieman Al-Hawary. "The effect of digital marketing capabilities on organizational ambidexterity of the information technology sector." International Journal of Data and Network Science 6, no. 2 (2022): 401–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5267/j.ijdns.2021.12.014.
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The aim of the study was to examine the impact of digital marketing capabilities on organizational ambidexterity by focusing on the Information Technology Sector in UAE. Data were primarily gathered through self-reported questionnaires created by Google Forms which were distributed to a purposive sample of managers at different levels via email. This study was conducted structural equation modeling (SEM) to test the hypotheses, which represents a contemporary statistical technique for testing and estimating the relationship between factors and variables. The results showed that the highest impact on organizational ambidexterity was for strategic approach and data content infrastructure, followed by integrating customers with employees, and finally the lowest impact belonged to the process of improving performance. Based on the study findings, the researcher hopes that the decision-makers and managers define all tasks, roles and work procedures in companies through digital marketing systems to improve their organizational ambidexterity and enhance their performance.
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Yue, Meng, Qingxin Yan, Han Zheng, and Zhijun Wu. "Cross-Plane DDoS Attack Defense Architecture Based on Flow Table Features in SDN." Security and Communication Networks 2022 (September 30, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7409083.
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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) actualizes the separation of control and forwarding and innovates network functionalities with a logically centralized controller. Contemporary SDN infrastructure exposes the potential bottlenecks which are prone to engage in distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) thus posing an ever-increasing threat. This paper adopts the idea of “cross-plane collaboration” accomplishing DDoS attack defense and incorporates a two-phase project deploying the lightweight detection mechanism in data layer and the fine-grained filtering model in control layer. The coadjutant detection mechanism introduces a novel three-dimensional entropy consisting of five flow table features performing real-time feature detection; the defense strategy schedules an attack classification algorithm based on neural network by means of extracting four flow rule features designed to locate compromised interfaces occupied by malicious traffic. Extensive experiments are implemented to demonstrate the method we proposed brings excellent superiority. The detection rate of the classification filtering model is 99.4%, and it is real-time, with a detection time of 0.51s. In addition, the method of cross-layer defense reduces the CPU utilization of the controller.
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Popova, Yelena, and Diana Zagulova. "Aspects of E-Scooter Sharing in the Smart City." Informatics 9, no. 2 (April 22, 2022): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/informatics9020036.
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The contemporary urban environment faces such challenges as overloaded traffic, heavy pollution, and social problems, etc. The concept of the “smart city” allows solving some of these issues. One of the opportunities provided by the smart city is the development of micro-mobility and sharing services; contributing to the optimization of transport flows and decreasing carbon footprints. This study investigates the factors affecting the development of e-scooter sharing services and the attitudes of young urban residents towards using these services. The research applied a PLS-SEM (partial least squares structural equation modeling) analysis performed in SmartPLS3.7 software. The data were collected via focus groups and surveying a population aged 18–35. The authors partially based the research on the UTAUT model (the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology), taking such constructs as “intention to use”, “anxiety”, “attitude toward use”, “effort expectancy”, and “social influence”; they also introduced the new unique variables “internal uncertainty”, “e-scooter design”, “experience”, “perceived safety”, “infrastructure quality”, and “motivation to physical activity”. The main finding of the study was determining that the latent variables attitude towards sharing, anxiety, internal uncertainty, JTBD (jobs to be done), and new way of thinking have a direct or indirect effect on the intention to ride e-scooters in the future and/or to use sharing services. The obtained results permit making recommendations to businesses, municipal authorities, and other stakeholders on developing e-scooter sharing services as a contribution to the advancement of the smart city.
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Abu Al-Haija, Qasem, Moez Krichen, and Wejdan Abu Elhaija. "Machine-Learning-Based Darknet Traffic Detection System for IoT Applications." Electronics 11, no. 4 (February 12, 2022): 556. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040556.
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The massive modern technical revolution in electronics, cognitive computing, and sensing has provided critical infrastructure for the development of today’s Internet of Things (IoT) for a wide range of applications. However, because endpoint devices’ computing, storage, and communication capabilities are limited, IoT infrastructures are exposed to a wide range of cyber-attacks. As such, Darknet or blackholes (sinkholes) attacks are significant, and recent attack vectors that are launched against several IoT communication services. Since Darknet address space evolved as a reserved internet address space that is not contemplated to be used by legitimate hosts globally, any communication traffic is speculated to be unsolicited and distinctively deemed a probe, backscatter, or misconfiguration. Thus, in this paper, we develop, investigate, and evaluate the performance of machine-learning-based Darknet traffic detection systems (DTDS) in IoT networks. Mainly, we make use of six supervised machine-learning techniques, including bagging decision tree ensembles (BAG-DT), AdaBoost decision tree ensembles (ADA-DT), RUSBoosted decision tree ensembles (RUS-DT), optimizable decision tree (O-DT), optimizable k-nearest neighbor (O-KNN), and optimizable discriminant (O-DSC). We evaluate the implemented DTDS models on a recent and comprehensive dataset, known as the CIC-Darknet-2020 dataset, composed of contemporary actual IoT communication traffic involving four different classes that combine VPN and Tor traffic in a single dataset covering a wide range of captured cyber-attacks and hidden services provided by the Darknet. Our empirical performance analysis demonstrates that bagging ensemble techniques (BAG-DT) offer better accuracy and lower error rates than other implemented supervised learning techniques, scoring a 99.50% of classification accuracy with a low inferencing overhead of 9.09 µ second. Finally, we also contrast our BAG-DT-DTDS with other existing DTDS models and demonstrate that our best results are improved by (1.9~27%) over the former state-of-the-art models.
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Krishina-Hensel, Sai Felicia. "Boundaries, Governance and the International Order." Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas Avançadas do Terceiro Setor 1, no. 1 (September 18, 2018): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31501/repats.v1i1.9931.
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The article examines the distinctive character of the interconnected world of the twenty-first century. The analysis explores the influence of technology on the international system in the modern age, leading up to the unique challenges of the contemporary world. Historically, advances in transportation, scientific breakthroughs, and their military applications have profoundly influenced the ability of states to project power and have had an impact on political structures and configurations. There appears to be little consensus on how these changes influence the debates on power, deterrence, diplomacy, and other instruments of international relations. Traditionally, scholars of the international system have focused on the possession of knowledge and weapons that provided a military advantage in the interpretation of power configurations. Our argument is that the twenty-first century world has a different technological emphasis, that of communications and its supportive satellite and internet infrastructure that forms the basis of the information revolution. The new technologies have succeeded in creating an alternative universe presenting a governance challenge to traditional institutions, laws, and concepts of territoriality.
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Hasan, Muhammad Zulkifl, Zurina Mohd Hanapi, Muhammad Zunnurain Hussain, Masnida Hussin, Nadeem Sarwar, and Mohammad Yahya Akhlaqi. "Deep Insight into IoT-Enabled Agriculture and Network Protocols." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2022 (October 6, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/5617903.
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In recent years, research has combined the connection of agricultural equipment to increase crop growth rates and lower planting costs by refining the entire planting process. IT-enabled agriculture has beneficial effects on this industry and is yet a source of debate in academic circles. Trending network technologies like WSN and IoT have never been easy to develop and use in agriculture. The growth rate was not increased using outdated, conventional methods and technologies. Additionally, the rapid population expansion cannot meet human demands and expectations. Survey Methodology. The existence of IoT in agriculture was investigated and reported in this review. The paper describes the different IoT-agriculture network protocols. This study clarifies how the Internet affects agriculture and its underlying mechanisms. It also discusses how the growth rate is boosted when both sectors work together. This study intends to explore a platform that offers an infrastructure to link devices using the network protocol used in agriculture. In this study, several contemporary network difficulties relating to agriculture are also covered. Conclusion. The results of this study can be used as a guide for creating particular network protocols for the agriculture industry.
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Pecoskie, Jen (J L. )., and Heather Hill. "Beyond traditional publishing models." Journal of Documentation 71, no. 3 (May 11, 2015): 609–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-10-2013-0133.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the state of contemporary publishing, specifically the realms of fanfiction and self-publishing, for the ways in which readership is represented in conjunction with authors and publishers within the publication process. The structure of this process is then compared with Robert Darnton’s communications circuit in order to propose a new model for the publication. As the publication process has a profound impact on the teaching and practice of collection development and reader studies in LIS, the discipline must be aware of any changes to the publication process. Design/methodology/approach – Using the case study approach, this research examines the cultural product, Fifty Shades of Grey (FSOG). Evidence included fanfiction and self-published manuscripts, reader reception of these texts, and a timeline of how the texts developed. Findings – Evidence gathered from the case study illustrate a variety of players and infrastructure present in the development and trajectory of FSOG. Throughout the entire development of the cultural product, readers were found to be active agents in the publication process promoting strong connections between reader and author. Findings focus on the themes of textual development and their publicity. Originality/value – Proposes a new model for the publication process that includes fanfiction and self-publishing.
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Middleton, Peter. "Looking Behind the Screen: Genealogies of Poetic Technology." American Literary History 32, no. 1 (December 26, 2019): 169–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz052.
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Abstract Everyone, from distinguished philosophers to emergent poets, has been to some extent disoriented by the new digital technology and its shimmer of compositional novelty. This article reviews recent studies of the impact of the digital on research into the history of modern and contemporary poetry. Almost all poetry written and circulated today is dependent on digital media, with profound consequences for every aspect of its writing, performance, and reception. I argue that scholars of poetry can benefit from learning more about what constitutes the digital, as material technology, as programming, and as transformative social practice, as well as by studying earlier phases of the rapid transformation of communications technology. I then discuss briefly several recent texts on current digital infrastructure, before surveying some representative recent critical works that draw on insights derived from our digital era to provide new perspectives on the predigital age of poetry. At the heart of this review, essay is extended discussions of Seth Perlow’s The Poem Electric and Todd Tietchen’s Technomodern Poetics, recent books that explore changing concepts of lyric, surveillance, anonymity, and even electricity. In addition, this essay discusses The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, edited by Joseph Tabbi, which has a strong focus on poetics.
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Bruchev, Ilia, Nikolai Dobrev, Georgi Frangov, Plamen Ivanov, Radoslav Varbanov, Boyko Berov, Rosen Nankin, and Miroslav Krastanov. "The landslides in Bulgaria — factors and distribution." Geologica Balcanica 36, no. 3-4 (December 30, 2007): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.52321/geolbalc.36.3-4.3.
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The necessity of contemporary assessment of the natural hazardous processes on the territory of Bulgaria leading to disastrous and catastrophic situations in a number of regions is motivated by their high activity resulting in destruction of building fund, infrastructure, historicalmonuments, land use disturbance and annihilation of areas, interrupting of communications, aggravation of ecological conditions, human health threats, social stress enhancement. The landslide manifestations displayed recently along the Black Sea coast and the Danubian riparian area, the Rhodopes and other parts of the country and their serious consequences confirm the long ago ascertained truth that the Bulgarian territory is characterized by a high degree of landslide hazard. The geological-tectonic conditions and the relief of the country determine the development of a large number of landslides on its territory. The many years of research and applied activities on landslides have led to the establishment of important relationships for their distribution, factors for origin and activation, mechanism and dynamics, etc. The origin and activation of landslides is a consequence of the influence of many factors — tectonic, seismic, geomorphologic, climatic and technogenic ones. A part of them act permanently, while others have short-term impact. Both separately and in combination they reduce slope stability and provoke the manifestation of big and destructive landslides. The impact of the destabilizing factors and the distribution of 403 landslides are analyzed in this work. Regions with different degree of landslide hazard have been distinguished. Diagrams are shown for the regional distribution and time of landslide display. The weighted effect of the destabilizing factors for slope stability formation is different. A part of them as the contemporary vertical movements and earthquakes are of regional importance, others act locally — erosion, abrasion, precipitation. The origin of the active landslides may be closely related to contemporary tectonic activity. The regional distribution of the landslides according to their volume shows that landslides with a volume up to 10 million m3 are the prevailing type in the country. The most numerous landslides in this group — about 50% of the total number — are observed along high Danubean Bank and Northern Black Sea coast, in the tectonically active grabens as Sofia, Pernik or Simitli and the landslides along some of the faults in the Strouma zone. The largest landslides with a volume of more than 100 million m3 are encountered along the Danubean Bank, the Northern Black Sea coast and in Rhodope Region.
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Omirzak, Islam, Yuliya Razumova, and Svetlana Nikishina. "New Generation Mobile Networks and Their Application in Electronic Learning." International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) 15, no. 02 (January 26, 2021): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v15i02.18323.
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The present article was aimed at examining the promising capabilities of new generation mobile networks for the implementation of first-class online education based on advanced immersive technologies. The study described the main functional drivers of the modern end-to-end 5G architecture and proposed several options for their application in today’s socio-economic life. It was assumed that, in the long view, 5G could become a facilitator and a quickening agent of Industry 4.0 and SMART Education, giving way to machine learning and the realization of Machine-to-Machine/Man (M2M) and Device-to-Device (D2D) technologies. The article provided an argument that the ability to connect through the 5G network would allow innovative technological solutions to fully realize their potential and create the global telecommunications infrastructure of the digital economy. In order to investigate public opinion toward a 21st-century education and identify the prioritized requests for university training among potential students, a survey of the target audience in the business administration segment was conducted. It involved 100 MBA students of the Graduate School of Business of Kazan Federal University (Russia) and 200 business workers. Respondents were offered to choose the most relevant requirements for the education quality from among 50 proposed variants by determining their priority on a 100-point scale. The analysis of questionnaire results allowed identifying 20 consumer trends and requests in education, which are becoming more and more prioritized in the contemporary business environment. After reviewing the survey outcomes, it was concluded that the main competitive advantages of an educational course are its pace, convenience, and effectiveness in goal-achievement. The provision of these benefits can become possible due to the synthesis of 5G and other digital educational technologies. In view of this, the present work also presented the analysis of promising educational opportunities of 5G for creators of study materials and students.
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İbrahim, Dogan. "Editor message." Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies 7, no. 2 (August 13, 2017): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v7i2.2231.
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Message from EditorDear Readers,It is a great honor for us to publish seventh volume, second issue of Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies.Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies focuses on contemporary research addressing Information technology including emerging technologies, strategy, change, infrastructure, human resources, sourcing, system development and implementation, communications, technology developments, technology futures, national policies and standards. The journal also publishes articles that advance our understanding and application of research approaches and methods covering information technology, its evolution and future prospects. It is intended to be a multi-disciplinary international journal aimed at revealing results of research on information technology.The journal seeks to encourage academically robust papers, research, critical reviews and opinions on the organizational, social and management issues associated with significant information-based technologies.Articles focusing on the effect of cooperative learning on social networking with creative problem solving process on creative problem solving ability and teamwork skills of pre-service teachers, cultural model of information technology usage, the role of emotional intelligence in decreasing the anxiety in language learning, how to assess information and communication technology knowledge and skills of the students and technology enhanced learning in EFL classrooms have been included in this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in each volume and issue.A total number of ten (10) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of five (5) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.Best regards,Prof. Dr. Dogan IbrahimEditor – in Chief
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Yao, Wang, and Zhang Zhihai. "Design of Sports Training Data Monitoring System Based on Wireless Internet of Things." Mobile Information Systems 2022 (September 13, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4162088.
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With the development of the times and the continuous improvement of science and technology, people’s living standards are getting better and better, living conditions are getting more and more abundant, the infrastructure of cities is becoming more and more perfect, the comprehensive strength of the country is constantly increasing, and the speed of development is also increasing fast. However, under conditions of continuous development, the physical health of adolescents and children has not improved, the physical fitness of adolescents has declined, and many problems have appeared. This survey will combine embedded software and Internet technology, focusing on testing the safety of the sports training system and collecting data. It is very necessary for us to investigate the safety of the sports training system. The system also has potential for development. Only when the safety of the sports training system is determined can we understand the most suitable exercise methods for contemporary youths and ensure that they are not right in order to make the relevant sports training methods more confidently when a second injury occurs to the body. The sports training system to be studied this time consists of three basic technologies, namely, data collection terminals, database stations, and web servers. We will install the relevant equipment of the data collection system in the campus, such as teaching buildings or campus buildings and roads on the open space next to it, and a chip with a wireless transmission system will be placed in the student’s campus card. This chip is small in size, high in transmission efficiency, and easy to carry by students. Therefore, when each student holds the campus card, the related equipment in the campus card will be signal linked with the equipment installed in the school. This mode is wireless, which is very convenient and fast. In this way, we can collect the identity information and money storage status of the campus card through the web server. When the student ID is displayed on the computer screen, it proves that the student has swiped the card successfully.
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Young, Liam Cole. "Innis’s Infrastructure." Cultural Politics 13, no. 2 (July 1, 2017): 227–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-4129161.
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The work of Harold Adams Innis offers important contributions to the recent “infrastructural” turn in media, communication, and cultural studies. While Innis’s late communication studies texts are widely read, few outside Canada engage with his earlier economic histories and the “dirt research” (fieldwork) that produced them. The early texts offer the clearest presentation of Innis’s infrastructural orientation. The author traces the development of this orientation by focusing on three aspects of his work often remarked upon but infrequently explored: dirt, beavers, and documents. Each is paradigmatic of Innis’s methodological, conceptual, and discursive contributions, respectively, and through them, he speaks very differently than we are used to hearing. Infrastructural approaches to contemporary media networks and environments are a recursion of Innis’s earlier contributions. Integrating Innis into these debates allows us, the author argues, to move beyond the limits of his mid-twentieth-century work, and to expand the horizons of what John Durham Peters calls “infrastructuralism.”
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İbrahim, Dogan. "From the Editor." Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies 6, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v6i2.1234.
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Message from Editor Dear Readers,It is the great honor for us to publish sixth volume, second issue of Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies (GJIT). Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies seeks to encourage academically robust papers, research, critical reviews and opinions on the organizational, social and management issues associated with significant information-based technologies.GJIT focuses on contemporary research addressing Information Technology including emerging technologies, strategy, change, infrastructure, human resources, sourcing, system development and implementation, communications, technology developments, technology futures, national policies and standards. The journal also publishes articles that advance our understanding and application of research approaches and methods covering information technology, its evolution and future prospects. It is intended to be a multi-disciplinary international journal aimed at revealing results of research on information technology.Ethical perception of information technologies, flight tests and flight data analysis and efficiency of virtual classes used in distance education topics have been included into this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in 2016 Volume.A total number of eight (8) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of three (3) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue. Best regards,Prof. Dr. Adem KarahocaEditor – in Chief
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İbrahim, Dogan. "Message from editor." Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies 7, no. 1 (June 28, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v7i1.1937.
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Message from EditorDear Readers,It is a great honor for us to publish seventh volume, first issue of Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies.Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies focuses on contemporary research addressing Information technology including emerging technologies, strategy, change, infrastructure, human resources, sourcing, system development and implementation, communications, technology developments, technology futures, national policies and standards.The journal also publishes articles that advance our understanding and application of research approaches and methods covering information technology, its evolution and future prospects. It is intended to be a multi-disciplinary international journal aimed at revealing results of research on information technology.The journal seeks to encourage academically robust papers, research, critical reviews and opinions on the organizational, social and management issues associated with significant information-based technologies.Articles focusing on computer network terms lexicon, social media network for learning, use of social networking tools by students and LSB steganography have been included in this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in each volume and issue.A total number of seven (7) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of four (4) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.Best regards,Prof. Dr. Dogan IbrahimEditor – in - Chiefes
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Binder, Christoph, Christian Neureiter, and Arndt Lüder. "Towards a Domain-Specific Approach Enabling Tool-Supported Model-Based Systems Engineering of Complex Industrial Internet-of-Things Applications." Systems 9, no. 2 (March 24, 2021): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/systems9020021.
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Contemporary manufacturing systems are undergoing a major change promoted by emerging technologies such as Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) or the Internet of Things (IoT). This trend, nowadays widely known by the term “Industry 4.0”, leads to a new kind of automated production. However, the rising number of dynamically interconnected elements in industrial production lines results in such a system being transformed into a complex System of Systems (SoS). Due to the increasing complexity and the challenges accompanied by this change, conventional engineering methods using generic principles reach their limits when developing this type of systems. With varying approaches only trying to find a solution for small-scaled areas of this problem statement, the need for a holistic methodology becomes more and more obvious. Having recognized this issue, one of the most promising approaches has been introduced with the Reference Architecture Model Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0). However, in the current point of view, this domain-specific architecture framework is missing specifications to address all aspects of such a critical infrastructure. Thus, this paper introduces a comprehensive modeling approach utilizing methods applied in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and including domain-specific particularities as well as architectural concepts with the goal to enable mutual engineering of current and future industrial systems. The resulting artifacts, a domain-specific language (DSL), an architecture definition and a development process, are thereby consolidated in a ready to use software framework, whose applicability was evaluated by a real-world case study.
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Siwak, Jakub. "Digital communication and agency." Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa 37, no. 1 (October 13, 2022): 118–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v37i1.1585.
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The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which personally distinguishable information wascollected without explicit permission from millions of Facebook users, once more brought intofocus the potential dangers of our now-pervasive social media use. What the scandal primarilyindicates is the unsettling idea that one’s personal information and what it reveals is open toan infrastructure capable of manipulating such information to its own ends. Despite suchdevelopments, in my experience of lecturing digital communication to students at a South Africanuniversity, there is a lack of awareness of how the technical infrastructures that makes up digitalcommunication can play a role in potentially negating our agency when using digital forms ofcommunication. And this lack of awareness is echoed in the lax global response to the CambridgeAnalytica scandal. In response, this article argues that digital space may well be antithetical tothe notion of agency through digital communication. To do so, it turns to a very specific source;the post-structural theorist, Gilles Deleuze, and his conception of digital societies of control, aswell as contemporary theoretical works that reflect his concerns over our agency within the virtualspaces we now increasingly inhabit.
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van Es, Karin, and Michiel de Lange. "Data with its boots on the ground: Datawalking as research method." European Journal of Communication 35, no. 3 (April 29, 2020): 278–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323120922087.
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This article explores datawalking as a novel method in media and communication research for studying datafication. Drawing from existing literature, datawalking is characterized as an embodied, situated and generative practice. These affordances of walking help to tackle existing research challenges and connect lived experiences to data infrastructural concerns. More specifically, contemporary research on the deep mediatized city faces challenges that pertain to the invisibility, loss of context and access to data and its infrastructures. It is argued that datawalks, as an empirical method in media and communication research, offers a much-needed anchoring of data as material and situated, and constitutive of everyday life.
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İbrahim, Dogan. "Message from the editor." Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies 6, no. 3 (June 23, 2017): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v6i3.1884.
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Message from Editor
Dear Readers,
It is a great honor for us to publish sixth volume, third issue of Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies.
Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies focuses on contemporary research addressing Information technology including emerging technologies, strategy, change, infrastructure, human resources, sourcing, system development and implementation, communications, technology developments, technology futures, national policies and standards.The journal also publishes articles that advance our understanding and application of research approaches and methods covering information technology, its evolution and future prospects. It is intended to be a multi-disciplinary international journal aimed at revealing results of research on information technology.
The journal seeks to encourage academically robust papers, research, critical reviews and opinions on the organizational, social and management issues associated with significant information-based technologies. Articles focusing on colony algorithm, classification of eeg eye state data and integration of Facebook in high education classrooms have been included in this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in each volume and issue.
A total number of nine (9) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of three (3) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.
We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.
Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Dogan Ibrahim
Editor – in Chief
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İbrahim, Dogan. "Message from Editor." Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies 8, no. 2 (August 30, 2018): I. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v8i2.3711.
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It is a great honor for us to publish Volume 8, No 2 of Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies.
Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies focuses on contemporary research addressing Information technology including emerging technologies, strategy, change, infrastructure, human resources, sourcing, system development and implementation, communications, technology developments, technology futures, national policies and standards. The journal also publishes articles that advance our understanding and application of research approaches and methods covering information technology, its evolution and future prospects. It is intended to be a multi-disciplinary international journal aimed at revealing results of research on information technology.
Articles focusing on Barriers to adopting e-commerce with small to mid-sized enterprises-SMEs in developed countries: an exploratory study in Australia, Building artificial neural networks to predict direction and magnitude of wind, current and wave for sailing vessels, Analysing Bangladeshi Consumers’ Satisfaction and Preferences of E-banking Services in Small to Mid-sized Enterprises (SMEs), The economic benefits of Cloud-based e-commerce in Indian service SMBs have been included in this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in each volume and issue.
A total number of twelve (19) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process bythe reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of four (4) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.
We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue. Best regards,Prof. Dr. Dogan Ibrahim Editor – in Chief
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Yun, Sergey, and Vitaly Pakulin. "Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European states within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative and the ‘17+1’ mechanism." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International relations 14, no. 2 (2021): 241–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2021.207.
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The Belt and Road initiative (BRI) is a large-scale geo-economic project which is an integral part of China’s contemporary foreign policy. The foundation of this project is the vast network of trade and transport communications by land and sea that encompasses countries of the Eurasian continent as well as Africa. The European destination is a key link of the project: most of the transit ways of the BRI lead to the EU and European countries. The Central and Eastern Europe region (CEE) occupies a special place in China’s strategy of the implementation of the Belt and Road initiative: the countries of this region are located on the main trade routes from China to the most developed European countries. Moreover, the CEE countries are in dire need of investment and infrastructure development. In 2012 China launched a multilateral cooperation mechanism with 16 CEE countries (in 2019 the number of participants increased to 17 due to the accession of Greece). This article aims at analyzing the structure and functioning of the mechanism, key areas of activity within the framework of the Belt and Road initiative, and the problems and prospects of cooperation between China and the CEE countries. The main hypothesis of the work is that China uses the ‘17 + 1’ mechanism as a tool for establishing bilateral cooperation with selected countries of the region. Such an approach evokes criticism from the CEE states, as well as EU institutions. The current situation shows that China needs to make adjustments to its strategy for the implementation of the BRI initiative in the region. The authors used legislation and materials from official websites of EU institutions, China and the CEE countries’ government agencies, statistical data and analytical papers by international organizations, as well as material from news agencies.
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Markelin, Lia, and Charles Husband. "Contemporary Dynamics of Sámi Media in the Nordic States." Media International Australia 149, no. 1 (November 2013): 70–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1314900109.
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Although one people, the Sámi live in four different countries with different laws and regulations. The Sámi media landscape is thus shaped by four different political and economic frameworks, creating unique nationally defined environments. Simultaneously, the Sámi people are internally diverse, both in terms of language and identity. The media professionals within Sámi media need to navigate in an environment where there are several indigenous and majority languages, which raises questions about the fragmentation of potential audiences, and also about the role of the Sámi media in sustaining or undermining particular Sámi languages. Drawing upon recent interviews (2012) with Sámi media professionals, this article seeks to provide insight into the development of an expanding indigenous media infrastructure within the Nordic states and the homelands of Sápmi. It points particularly to the centrality of the national public service broadcast system in providing the political and infrastructural context for this development. The different political settlements between national governments and their Sámi populations significantly shape the wider political will that has framed this process. At the same time, while seeking to shed some light on the diverse Sámi media environment, this article also provides some insight into the professional and personal identities of the individuals working within the Sámi media world. The synergy between the wider media environment and the personal and professional endeavours of Sámi media professionals is central to the future development of the Sámi media environment of Sápmi.
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Ananny, Mike, and Megan Finn. "Anticipatory news infrastructures: Seeing journalism’s expectations of future publics in its sociotechnical systems." New Media & Society 22, no. 9 (September 2020): 1600–1618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444820914873.
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To understand news rhythms, scholars have primarily studied how the rituals and routines of news organizations align with the practices and expectations of audiences. The rhythms of today’s networked press, though, are set not only by journalists and consumers but also by largely invisible digital infrastructures: software, data, and technologies from outside newsrooms that are increasingly intertwined with journalistic work. Here, we argue that the rhythms of the contemporary, networked press live in the materials, practices, and values of hybrid, time-setting sociotechnical systems, a new concept we call anticipatory news infrastructure. We explicate this concept through a typology of sociotechnical dynamics, showing how the networked press is poised to sense events, structure journalistic work, predict and commodify traffic, architect audience relations, and categorize content. We argue that these infrastructures anticipate possible public life, thus creating anticipation publics through their largely invisible power to shape expectations of journalists and audiences alike.
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Jensen, Erik Granly. "Kulturindustri og sikkerhedsstat. To noter om kritikken af The Wire og en om ”Dread Pirate Roberts”." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 44, no. 122 (December 31, 2016): 243–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v44i122.25055.
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The central question in this article concerns the current state of critique at the threshold of the digital age of surveillance. How is it in other words possible to respond critically within this new paradigm of the security state, and where should we look to further develop such a possible critical approach? The HBO TV-series The Wire is at the center of this article, due to its focus on surveillance and communication technologies. The overall focus, however, is to follow the critical readings of the series by Slavoj Žižek and Fredric Jameson. Both Žižek and Jameson frame their analysis by insisting on the political implications of the cultural industries. Furthermore, it is a central claim in the present article that it is not possible any longer (maybe it never was possible) to distinguish the infrastructure of the cultural industries from the infrastructure of the security state. For this reason, the analysis is primarily concerned with the inseparability of the communication technologies, the cultural industries and the security state; and the thesis is that a contemporary critique needs to address this infrastructural problem in the midst of our mediated society.
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Godin, V. V., and A. E. Terekhova. "Contemporary experience of education digitalization." Vestnik Universiteta, no. 4 (June 5, 2021): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.26425/1816-4277-2021-4-37-43.
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The article considers the evolution, forms and current situation in the field of education based on information technologies (ITE). The authors investigate directions of changes in the educational sphere as a form of activity, as well as the system and process of knowledge transfer under information and communication technologies (ICT) influence. The paper defines the general properties of the forms of education, based on information technologies. The authors use as a tool of studying the impact of the information and communication technologies on educational institutions and on a learning process the idea of a value chain and employees routine loops reflection in it. The study highlights three areas in which information and communication technologies are changing educational organizations: pedagogics, infrastructure, and organization. The article shows how these changes are seen in the value chain. The paper considers a number of trends in the widely understood process of digitalization of education, the COVID-19 pandemic impact on the development of on-line education, evaluates the existing experience of such education and the limits of its applicability.
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Pfetsch, Barbara. "Democracy and Digital Dissonance: The Co-Occurrence of the Transformation of Political Culture and Communication Infrastructure." Central European Journal of Communication 13, no. 1 (July 21, 2020): 96–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/1899-5101.13.1(25).7.
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The aim of this essay is to discuss the state of democracy in Western Europe in the light of an essential change in public spheres towards more dissonance, disconnection, and noise. It is argued that this condition is the unintended consequence of the co-occurrence of two long-term changes in contemporary societies: political culture changes in liberal democracy and changes in communication infrastructures. The interaction of the disruption of democracy and digital communication has implications for public spheres as opportunity structures for democratic speech and institutions. The dynamics of dissonant public spheres have created a new disinformation order, pushing new political actors and communication modes to the fore. These conditions threaten established patterns of authoritative information flows and public debate, which puts contemporary democracy under serious stress.
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Мунтян, Ірина В., Катерина Ю. Соколюк, and Рафаела Р. Значек. "ВИСТАВКОВО-ЯРМАРКОВА ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ ЯК ЕФЕКТИВНА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙНА ФОРМА ПРОСУВАННЯ БРЕНДУ." Bulletin of the Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. Series: Economic sciences 145, no. 2 (October 26, 2020): 46–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.30857/2413-0117.2020.2.3.
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The object of analysis in this study is exhibition and trade fair activities in Ukraine and abroad. It is argued that in contemporary realia, exhibition and trade fair activities is a crucial strategic element in building marketing communications. The research results on the development trends of modern exhibition business in Ukraine suggest that the exhibition industry is still in its infancy. The findings reveal the sector-specific issues. In particular, among the key challenges are the following: insufficient exhibition infrastructure development, the lack of transparency of the exhibition market, the lack of experience in the most effective use of this type of product promotion, etc. Based on statistical analysis and the legal regulatory framework review, the key exhibition business development trends in Ukraine have been presented along with identifying the major factors hindering the exhibition industry development. From this perspective, a conclusion has been drawn about the conceptual and terminological immaturity in the area of carrying out exhibition and trade fair activities in Ukraine. An emphasis is also put on the profound effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the exhibition industry globally. The study results demonstrate evidence of a significant decline in economic performance in this industry; in particular, this refers to a drastic decrease in companies’ income, a drop in investment flows, and costs of organizing exhibition events. Modern business environment is facing dramatic changes in exhibition and trade fair management, especially in the context of digital technologies advancements. A shift in priorities is a forced necessity, since virtual events is the safest method to promote companies and brands. Investing in virtual participation remains a key element in the survival plan of many exhibitions. The study discusses the need to design a strategy to boost exhibition activities in Ukraine, with due regard to the national socioeconomic development specifics along with suggesting priority measures to support the exhibition industry, such as affordable loans, tax «holidays» to ensure liquidity, long-term support in the form of direct subsidies which will contribute to sales and exhibition services market recovery, as well as further economic development in Ukraine.
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Järvenpää, Anna-Therése, and Tina Karrbom Gustavsson. "Contextual Communicative Competence in Multinational Infrastructure Projects." Buildings 11, no. 9 (September 10, 2021): 403. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11090403.
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Communication is dynamic, social, challenging, and a key quality factor for construction projects. This is especially the case in multinational and inter-organizational infrastructure projects where factors like culture and language differ among the involved actors. As infrastructure projects usually extend over longer periods of time, collaborative relationships need to be established in which the actors can develop, for example, mutual understanding, learning, and efficient working routines. By building on empirical data from contemporary infrastructure projects, we explore how international contractors and a large public client communicate in multinational infrastructure projects (i.e., what the challenges are and what competences are needed). The analysis is based on the linguistic framework of communicative competence, and we contribute to the development of collaborative models in construction project management by suggesting the concept of contextual communicative competence.
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Jerkovic-Babovic, Bojana, Ivana Rakonjac, and Danilo Furundzic. "Fluid spaces in a contemporary urban context: Questioning the boundary between architecture and infrastructure." Spatium, no. 43 (2020): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/spat2043035j.
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The aim of this paper is to research the relations between the contemporary networked context and transformations in the understanding of architectural and infrastructural spaces, and to research the main models of fluidity within this relation. The contemporary urban context is characterized by globalization, transculturalism and increased technological development, which simultaneously change the everydayness, usage and perception of urban spaces and architecture. New networking phenomena occurring on informational, communicational and spatial levels transform the city and its architecture into constant processes of flows. Fluidity is positioned as the main problem of this research, simultaneously causing, and manifesting in, transformations of contemporary spatial conditions where the notion of flow becomes the new spatial quality. This research is focused on one of the main spatial manifestations of the fluidity phenomenon in contemporary cities - the dispersion of the boundary between architectural and infrastructural space. The aim of the paper is to present the idea that fluid spaces are characterized by: 1) increased loss of disciplinary boundaries; 2) loss of physical boundaries - inner-outer space overlapping; 3) dispersion of perceptual boundaries in space. The research is significant because it defines new meanings of spaces of flows and movement in a contemporary urban context.
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Alzidi, Marwa Mohmmed, and Safaa Aldeen Hussein Al-Samarae. "The Smart Systems' Role In the Infrastructure's Integrated Management For Housing Projects." Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning 19, no. 2 (February 16, 2021): 72–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.36041/iqjap.v19i2.518.
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Many contemporary economic and social drivers have enabled the introduction of sensor network technologies, computing and communication systems in urban infrastructure and contemporary housing projects with the aim of achieving integration between infrastructure management. As a result, the current study deals with a topic that has not been dealt with through previous studies, theses and theses in an accurate and required manner. Therefore, the aim of the research was to clarify the role of smart systems in achieving integrated management by building a comprehensive theoretical framework to be a research problem (the need for a comprehensive theoretical framework on the role of smart systems in achieving integrated management of infrastructure infrastructure related to housing projects). This goal is achieved by adopting a descriptive analytical approach that includes several stages, the first of which is the analysis of multiple studies and the extraction of the main vocabulary represented in (the basic elements of infrastructure intelligence, planning, design, monitoring and observation of Smart infrastructure). Second, applying these vocabulary to a number of global projects, then discussing the results of the practical study, and presented final conclusions , to be a knowledge base that can be used and applied to future projects.
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Brennan, Shane. "Visionary Infrastructure: Community Solar Streetlights in Highland Park." Journal of Visual Culture 16, no. 2 (August 2017): 167–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470412916685743.
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This article develops the concept of ‘visionary infrastructure’, defined as infrastructure that provides visions of and begins to build more sustainable futures for local communities, through the case study of a solar-powered street lighting project in Highland Park, Michigan, near Detroit. After the local utility company repossessed most of the city’s streetlights, residents began building their own grassroots public lighting network. This infrastructure is visionary because it allows members of the largely African American community to determine precisely how their city is illuminated, and thus how seeing operates therein. By shifting control over the conditions of urban visuality from state and corporate officials to local residents, the lighting project intervenes in a long history of light on the street as a racialized tool of state surveillance and policing. And it shows how utility infrastructure can become a key site and mode of contemporary political resistance.
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UPARNA, JAYARAM, and KLAUS WEBER. "WHEN IS THE NEXT BUS?: INFLUENCE OF MOBILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RURAL INDIA." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 21, no. 02 (June 2016): 1650014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s108494671650014x.
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We propose that, at a fundamental level, social isolation in its many forms (geographical, cultural and information-based) is a key barrier to entrepreneurial opportunity and success, not only by preventing access to material resources and markets, but also to ideas and information about products and services. Multi-modal data (survey and archival) from more than 150 entrepreneurs in contemporary rural India suggest an entrepreneur’s travel footprint is associated with the profitability of micro enterprises, even after accounting for village-level differences, and that the communication facilities and information sources available in the village interact with travel effects. The positive effect of travel on profit endures even after accounting for other known correlates of profit: infrastructure, information and communication.
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Folaron, Debbie. "Digital World Communication аnd Translation." Slovo.ru: Baltic accent 10, no. 3 (2019): 9–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/2225-5346-2019-3-1.
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The introduction of digital computers, information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the Internet/Web has broadened the scope of communication globally in ways unprecedented in human history. The “digital world” implies more than the technical and instrumental aspects and usage of technology; it equally involves our tangible human social engagement and interface with the tools and technologies themselves. The relevance of digital studies to translation studies, and vice versa, is substantial. Both fields intrinsically deal with language, information, and communication and are inextricably linked to technology. After a brief introduction, the article highlights first the essential informational and communicational foundation of technology development that intertwined with histories of translation technology. The convergence of these multiple histories has led to today’s 24/7 digital infrastructure. It then considers the social and cultural facets of the digital world, presenting research areas in digital studies that can be explored in relation to translation studies. While the existing analytical and critical approaches to researching translation can arguably be extended and transposed to include elements of the contemporary digital context, there are also compelling and legitimate reasons for contextualizing translation within the broader, global communication universe, positioning it wholly within the digital sphere.
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Gansing, Kristoffer. "The Cinema of Extractions: Film as Infrastructure for (Artistic?) Research." International Journal of Film and Media Arts 7, no. 1 (October 3, 2022): 94–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.24140/ijfma.v7.n1.05.
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In contemporary discussions of film and artistic research, the historical undercurrent of film as an intense research and development activity, does not seem to be widely discussed. In contrast, film history and media archaeology has since long re-evaluated the status of early moving image technologies, which do not any longer denote pre-cinematic curiosities that simply predate the institution of cinema and its narrative forms but is rather seen as containing socio-technical trajectories and aesthetic regimes that can be studied in their own right. This essay performs a further modulation of the legacies of film history, one in which moving image technology is not seen as primarily a vehicle for film as cinema, but a continuously evolving technological and aesthetic infrastructure for film as research. This then becomes the starting point from which to reflect on artistic research in film, which today is being institutionalized as a form of practice-based research, arguably with the risk of loosing sight of an already long-established tradition of film, not only as research but also as artistic research. With the aid of an accompanying desktop video essay, the article speculates on the changing contexts of film as research visà-vis film as artistic research, from early cinema and its connection to scientific discoveries and the advanced data-analysis of today’s streaming platforms. Inspired by “The New Film History” and Tom Gunning’s influential notion of “The Cinema of Attractions” which revised the view on early cinema and the development of a filmic avant-garde, the presentation eventually focuses on artistic responses to the contemporary “Cinema of Extractions”, as a datafied infrastructure that now conditions what is knowable and sayable through the moving image.
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Bal-Woźniak, Teresa. "Infrastruktura systemu innowacyjnego jako czynnik transformacji struktur przemysłowych." Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society 12 (January 1, 2009): 45–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20801653.12.3.
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It is proved in the article that identification and shaping of infrastructure of innovative system has contemporarily the fundamental meaning for transformation of industrial structures. Thus the pace of changes and effects of performed reindustrialization are determined by such infrastructure elements as: enterprise, competence, group activity and internal communication, organizational solutions together with computer support and network of external connections. This work is devoted to the characteristics of the mentioned elements.