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Harmer, Jeremy Michael. "Is Internet privacy dead? : recovering Internet privacy in an increasingly surveillant society." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18753/.
Full textNugroho, Yanuar. "Does the Internet transform civil society? : the case of Civil Society Organisations in Indonesia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:58115.
Full textFahlbeck, 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.
Full textMurthy, Jaya D. "Evolution of the Internet and its impact on society." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31127.
Full textLovink, Geert. "Dynamics of critical internet culture (1994-2001) /." Connect to thesis, 2003. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000768.
Full textKhiznyak, S. S. "The impact of social media on society." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/14374.
Full textArguello, Salvador Carleton University Dissertation Journalism and Communication. "The Impact of the Internet in Costa Rican journalism and society." Ottawa, 1996.
Find full textStewart, James. "Encounters with the Information Society." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8981.
Full textFarag, Ahmed M. "The internet in Egyptian society and its use as a news medium /." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84507.
Full textDe, Castro Arribas Ignacio. "Economics of Internet interdomain interconnections." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/306599.
Full textInternet es un ecosistema en continua evolución. Formado por una multitud de redes o Sistemas Autónomos (Ases), los acuerdos de interconexión son una pieza esencial de Internet, que permite que los usuarios finales disfruten de conectividad global. La vertiginosa adopción de Internet, el desmesurado crecimiento de su trafico y las crecientes demandas por una mayor calidad de servicio son un desafío que produce constantes conflictos sobre los acuerdos económicos entre las redes y cuestiona la capacidad de Internet para proveer servicios críticos. Esta tesis estudia los aspectos económicos de la interconexión entre Ases, identifica desafíos que amenazan el futuro de Internet y propone soluciones para resolverlos. Primeramente realizamos el primer estudio analítico y empírico sobre el peering remoto, un tipo emergente de interconexión que relaja las limitaciones geográficas de los Ases y facilita interconexiones a un menor coste. Después presentamos CIPT y T4P, dos nuevos tipos de interconexiones que reducen los costes de interconexión entre redes. Puesto que algunas de las limitaciones son inherentes a la presente arquitectura de Internet, finalizamos la tesis proponiendo Route Bazaar, una nueva arquitectura de Internet que, inspirada en el mecanismo de block chain y las herramientas criptográficas típicas de las criptomonedas, provee un marco contractual para realizar tipos de interconexiones muy flexibles.
The Internet is an evolving ecosystem where a multitude of interconnected networks, or Ases (Autonomous Systems), support global connectivity of end users. By providing economic incentives for routing traffic on behalf of other networks, interconnection agreements between ASes are a cornerstone of the Internet. However, rapid Internet adoption, unrelenting traffic growth, and increasing demands for quality and performance are challenging to cope with, provoke recurrent conflicts over the economic settlement of interconnections, and question the capacity of the Internet to provide critical services. This thesis studies the economic aspects of the interconnections between ASes, identifies challenges hampering the future of the Internet, and proposes solutions to resolve them. We begin by presenting the first analytical and empirical study on remote peering, an emerging type of interconnections that relaxes the geographical constraints of ASes and also facilitates interconnections at a lower cost. Then we introduce CIPT and T4P, two novel interconnection arrangements that reduce traffic delivery costs for the ASes. Because some of the limitations are inherent to the current Internet architecture we end this thesis presenting Route Bazaar, a new Internet architecture that, inspired by the use of the block chain mechanism and cryptographic tools in cryptocurrencies, provides a contractual framework for flexible interconnections with rich policies.
Hannigan, Kerry. "Protection and security in a technologically advanced society : children and young people's perspectives." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21562.
Full textUndrahbuyan, Baasanjav. "Internet content and use by civil society and government institutions in Mongolia the situation in 2005 /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1163524341.
Full textRoos, Bertil. "ICT and formative assessment in the learning society." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Department of Education, Umeå University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-477.
Full textAlgarni, Abdullah Faze. "Policing Internet fraud in Saudi Arabia : the mediation of risk in a theocratic society." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:13584.
Full textRiddlesden, Dean. "Expanding the Big E-Society : a contemporary model of Internet access, exclusion and investment." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2016. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3004566/.
Full textOjo, 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.
Full textWaelder, Laso Pau. "Selling and collecting art in the network society: Interactions among contemporary art new media and the art market." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399029.
Full textLa presente tesis explora y analiza las interacciones actuales entre arte, nuevos medios y el mercado del arte, así como las transformaciones que se están produciendo en el reconocimiento del arte digital, la estructura del mercado del arte y los roles del espectador y el coleccionista. La tesis se divide en tres partes. La primera parte analiza las formas en que el arte de nuevos medios se ha definido a sí mismo como un mundo del arte específico, y las polémicas que ejemplifican su separación del mundo del arte contemporáneo. La segunda parte analiza las motivaciones y las expectativas de los artistas que trabajan con tecnologías emergentes, por medio de una encuesta realizada por el autor entre más de quinientos artistas de cincuenta países. La tercera parte analiza las maneras en que el arte digital ha sido comercializado y los cambios recientes en el mercado del arte contemporáneo en internet.
The present dissertation explores and analyzes the current interactions among art, new media and the art market, as well as the ongoing transformations in the recognition of digital art, the structure of the market, and the role of the viewer and collector. It is divided into three parts. The first part analyzes the ways in which new media art has defined itself as a distinct art world, as well as the controversies that exemplify its separation from the mainstream contemporary art world. The second part exposes the motivations and expectations of artists working with emerging technologies by means of a survey carried out by the author among more than 500 artists from 50 countries. The third part discusses the ways in which digital art has been commercialized as well as the recent developments in the online contemporary art market.
Kent, Michael. "The invisible empire : border protection on the electronic frontier /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20051222.112058.
Full textUzuner, Demet. "An Interdisciplinary Approach In Understanding Internet As A Practice: A Case Study Of Internet Cafes In A Small Town." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606784/index.pdf.
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Rambaree, Komalsingh. "The ecology of the internet & early adolescent sexulity in a technology-driven mauritian society." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.509111.
Full textLiu, Shih-Diing. "The struggle for democracy : Internet-based social movements, civil society and democratization in greater China." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433721.
Full textNylund, Jesper. "Civil Society 2.0 : Conceptualizing the idea of a." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1617.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to conceptualize the idea of a “digital civil society”. During the latest half-century, technological developments in the areas of information and communication have been increasingly ingrained in everyday-life of many people. Not surprisingly, politics have also been affected by these developments. The concept of a global civil society is getting increasingly fashionable, and it is my belief that this global civil society in many ways is related to the technological developments manifested in the digital revolution. From this point of departure, it is my intent to depict the idea of a digital civil society within a conceptual framework substantiated by a number of cases of collective action where the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) has been instrumental. By doing this, my intention is to see if, and how, the ICT revolution is altering civil society organization, mobilization, advocacy and action.
The essay has five parts. First, there is a brief introduction of the subject where the main research issues are put forward. The second part describes the methodology and defines the central concepts; global civil society, globalization and the ICT revolution. This framework, elaborated more thoroughly in part three, will serve as both goal and means for the research as it constitutes the research method as well as a potential basis for further research in the area. In part four, a number of cases of civil society collective action are portrayed and analyzed in connection to the conceptual framework. In some of these cases, ICT is used as a way to support and supplement more traditional “offline” collective action whereas in the second part of this chapter, cases of more pure “online action” are described. With the features and characteristics of these case studies in mind, the aim is to identify tendencies supporting the idea of a possibly emerging digital civil society. In the last chapter, there is a discussion concerning the potential characteristics and outcomes of such a digital civil society. I also present a model describing the logic of the conceptual framework and the processes and concepts which are central to this study.
My conclusions are meant to create an environment conducive to further research on the subjects I have studied. First, it appears as if the logic of “networking” as power structure within civil society is favourable for organization, participation, communication, mobilization and action. As such, the networked, dynamic and horizontal character of the Internet seems to influence the organizational character of many civil society entities. Secondly, the Internet’s ability to allow for many-to-many communication seems to contribute to a broader and more inclusive way to debate issues of all kinds. Thirdly, ICT in some ways appears to “individualize” collective action, a development possibly related to the individual and isolating character of Internet use itself and the relative anonymity which can be enjoyed online. In sum, these findings suggest that the idea of a digital civil society broadens the base of collective action and, to some extent, reduces the costs of participation.
Juzapavicus, Erin A. "A comparative legal study of free society and control when dealing with the Internet and beyond." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2003. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/319.
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Undrahbuyan, Baasanjav. "INTERNET CONTENT AND USE BY CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS IN MONGOLIA: THE SITUATION IN 2005." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1163524341.
Full textDias, Ed Wilson Pereira. "A produção de territorialidades da internet." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12307.
Full textThe aim of this research is how Internet is the developing territorialities. We investigate the social relations in the virtual word as well as the inherent power relations and their territorial inscriptions, and their economic and social consequences. We analyze how those movements are constructed in different territorial dimensions since the Industrial Revolution. This research focuses, thus, in the comprehension of those movements and its influences which produce volatile relations, studying which structures produce those movements
Esta pesquisa em Geografia está centrada sobre uma reflexão acerca da produção territorial pela internet. Trata-se de investigar as relações sociais no mundo virtual, suas relações de poder que se inscrevem nos territórios, bem como seus desdobramentos econômicos e sociais. Analisamos como esses movimentos são constituídos nas mais variadas dimensões territoriais desde a Revolução Industrial. Esse trabalho busca compreender tais movimentos, assim como sua influência na volatilidade das relações que lhes são pertinentes, bem como quais estruturas dão condições a esses movimentos
Araújo, Luíza Uehara de. "Política e modulações: há vida libertária na internet?" Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. http://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2407.
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This work is situated in the transposition of the disciplinary society to the society of control from the emergence of inteligent digital information outflows. It matters to demarcate little wars, dailly struggles that does not seek for a pacification, as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon has shown, in the face of protocolar modulations of the digital information flows and the possible anarchist resistances, questioning the existence of libertarian life in the internet. In this regard, the collaboration software wiki is presented, used by Wikipedia; the knowledge's division in the encyclopedia in portals such as the Portal: Anarchism. The anarchist encyclopedia project had already been done by Sébastien Faure in 1934 and had been written by anarchists from many corners of the planet as a libertarian educational work demarcating a resistance to the government over the life in the disciplinary society. Thus, a wiki conduct is pointed in the digital encyclopedias. Finally, the Anonymous, the cypherpunks and the PirateBay are studied, such as how does their political claims remains in the logic of the reform and the negociation of protocols and its political effects, taken as constitutions of a counterprotocol that destabilises protocols and are quickly captured to maintain its operation. Thus, the upshot of forces in the web is presented, considering the possibilities of an anarchist eruption that could fight an anti-protocol little war in front of the expansion of controls
Este trabalho situa-se na transposição da sociedade disciplinar para a sociedade de controle a partir da emergência de fluxos inteligentes computo-informacionais. Interessa aqui demarcar pequenas guerras, lutas cotidianas que não buscam uma pacificação como mostrou Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, diante das modulações protocolares no fluxo computo-informacional e as possíveis resistências anarquistas, questionando-se se há vida libertária na internet. Para isso, apresenta-se o software colaborativo wiki, utilizado pela Wikipédia; a divisão do conhecimento na enciclopédia em portais sendo um deles o Portal da Anarquia. O projeto de uma enciclopédia anarquista já havia sido realizado por Sébastien Faure em 1934, e foi escrita por anarquistas de vários cantos do planeta enquanto uma obra de educação libertária, e demarcou uma resistência ao governo sobre a vida na sociedade disciplinar. Assim, aponta-se para uma conduta wiki a ser seguida nas enciclopédias digitais. Por fim, estuda-se o Anonymous, os cypherpunks e o PirateBay e quais as suas reivindicações ao permanecerem na lógica da reforma e da negociação de protocolos e seus efeitos políticos enquanto constituição de um contraprotocolo que desestabilizam protocolos e rapidamente são tragados para dar continuidade ao seu funcionamento. Assim, traça-se o embate de forças presente na internet e atenta-se para as possibilidades de uma erupção anarquista que trave uma pequena guerra antiprotocolar diante da expansão de controles
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.
Full textPartridge, Helen L. "Establishing the human perspective of the information society." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16572/.
Full textCreely, Thomas Eugene. "International Communications Standards: A Comparative Study of the ITU and ISOC as Regimes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31429.
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Johansson, Fanny, and Frida Karlsson. "Gränsdragningar mellan inkomstslag vid varuförsäljning på internet : en analys ur ett rättssäkerhetsperspektiv." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67832.
Full textKočí, Michal. "Internet a analýza chování českého internetového uživatele." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-74673.
Full textSanta, Paula Rosa Pestana Prego Fonte. "Espaços internet e novas formas de sociabilidade: um estudo exploratório." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/16352.
Full textKoelemeijer, Dorien. "Auster: A service designed on the context of a surveillance society in an increasingly connected world." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21852.
Full textÅström, Joachim. "Mot en digital demokrati? : teknik, politik och institutionell förändring /." Örebro : Univ.-bibl, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-70.
Full textOrticio, Gino C. "Towards configuring the Internet for social development in the Philippines." Thesis, University of the Philippines, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/57711/3/Towards_Configuring_the_Internet_for_Social_Development_in_the_Philippines.pdf.
Full textEdgerton, Dustin W. "The Role of Deception in Mediating Relationship Involvement of Cmuples Interacting on the Internet: Stages of lntimate Formation." DigitalCommons@USU, 2004. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2635.
Full textPapsdorf, Christian. "Chemnitzer Internet- und Techniksoziologie (CITS) : Working Papers." Technische Universität Chemnitz, 2016. https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A20442.
Full textThe Working Paper Series „Chemnitz Sociology of the Internet and Technology“ focusses on current research issues in de realm of Internet studies and Sociology of Technology. Both theoretical and empirical contributions in the analysis of current technology use, technology development and computer-mediated communication are published. The focus is particularly on the the relationship between humans and technology while using qualitative social research methods.
Brumatti, Vitor Pachioni [UNESP]. "A utilização da internet nos espaços de acesso livre sob a perspectiva dos estudos culturais latinos-americanos." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89408.
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Buscar a compreensão sobre o uso dos meios de comunicação é um processo que permite aprofundar a relação entre a própria comunicação e a sociedade, possibilitando entender a cultura não somente como resultado, mas também como mediadora das ações dos indivíduos dentro de suas ações midiáticas, principalmente ao se considerar a Sociedade de Informação como o espaço de troca de mensagens e veículo da informação. Por isso, o objetivo deste estudo é compreender como se dá o processo de utilização da internet nos espaços de acesso livre a partir das perspectivas dos estudos culturais latino-americanos. Dessa forma, desenvolveu-se o escopo teórico do trabalho, tendo por base a conceituação da cultura e o surgimento dos estudos culturais, bem como sua vertente latino-amerciana, na qual reside o foco da análise do trabalho. Posteriormente, desenvolveu-se um estudo sobre a sociedade da informação com destaque para a internet como formatação de um espaço midiático, até se chegar ao processo de inclusão digital proporcionada por algumas ações existentes na sociedade atual. Como enfoque prático, desenvolveu-se uma pesquisa por meio de entrevista semi-aberta com questões semi-estruturadas aplicadas aos usuários do infocentro do Programa Acessa São Paulo, localizado na Oficina Cultural Gláucio Pinto de Moraes - Bauru/SP, com a finalidade de compreender o uso da internet em um espaço de acesso livre e como essa utilização faz referência aos preceitos dos estudos culturais latino-americanos abordados anteriormente. Os resultados alcançdos mostram uma significativa presença do processo de formação e afirmação cultural durante o uso das ferramentas disponíveis na internet, bem como a importância desses espaços de acesso livre como forma de democratizar e garantir o acesso à informação, assim como sua construção cultural
Seeking the comprehension on the use fo the means of communication is a process which allows to deepen the relationship between the communication itself and society, allowing to understand culture not only as a result, but also as a mediatior of the actions of the individuals within their mediatic actions, specially as a mediatic space when considering the Information Society as the space to exchange messages and a information vehicle. Therefore, this study aims at understanding how people use the Internet in free access public spaces under the perspectives of Latin American cultural studies. Thus, the theoretical scope was development based on the conceptualization of culture and the emergence of culturais studies as well as their Latin American axis, which is the focus of analysis in this investigation. Later, a study was developed on the Information Society focusing on the Internet and the process of digital inclusion provided by some actions developed in current society. The practical approach consisted of a research with a semi-open interview containing semi-structured questions targeted at the inforcenter users of a Brazilian programme called Acessa São Paulo. This programme is located at the cultural workshop Glauco Pinto de Moraes - Bauru/SP and its purpose is to comprehend the use of the Internet in a free access public space and how such use refers to the precepts of the Latin American cultural studies previously approached. The results show a significant presence of the culture formation and affirmation process during the use of available tools on the Internet and the importance of these free access public spaces as a way of democratizing and ensuring the information access as well as its ongoing cultural construction
Wu, Jun-deh. "Repression, Civic Engagement, Internet Use, and Dissident Collective Action: the Interaction Between Motives and Resources." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115186/.
Full textAlonzo, Anthony T. "A Pilot Study Considering the Impact of Husband's Internet Based Pornography Use Upon Marital Adjustment, Satisfaction, and Intimacy Within a Clinical Sample." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd881.pdf.
Full textBrumatti, Vitor Pachioni. "A utilização da internet nos espaços de acesso livre sob a perspectiva dos estudos culturais latinos-americanos /." Bauru : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89408.
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Banca: Thales Haddad Novaes de Andrade
Resumo: Buscar a compreensão sobre o uso dos meios de comunicação é um processo que permite aprofundar a relação entre a própria comunicação e a sociedade, possibilitando entender a cultura não somente como resultado, mas também como mediadora das ações dos indivíduos dentro de suas ações midiáticas, principalmente ao se considerar a Sociedade de Informação como o espaço de troca de mensagens e veículo da informação. Por isso, o objetivo deste estudo é compreender como se dá o processo de utilização da internet nos espaços de acesso livre a partir das perspectivas dos estudos culturais latino-americanos. Dessa forma, desenvolveu-se o escopo teórico do trabalho, tendo por base a conceituação da cultura e o surgimento dos estudos culturais, bem como sua vertente latino-amerciana, na qual reside o foco da análise do trabalho. Posteriormente, desenvolveu-se um estudo sobre a sociedade da informação com destaque para a internet como formatação de um espaço midiático, até se chegar ao processo de inclusão digital proporcionada por algumas ações existentes na sociedade atual. Como enfoque prático, desenvolveu-se uma pesquisa por meio de entrevista semi-aberta com questões semi-estruturadas aplicadas aos usuários do infocentro do Programa Acessa São Paulo, localizado na Oficina Cultural Gláucio Pinto de Moraes - Bauru/SP, com a finalidade de compreender o uso da internet em um espaço de acesso livre e como essa utilização faz referência aos preceitos dos estudos culturais latino-americanos abordados anteriormente. Os resultados alcançdos mostram uma significativa presença do processo de formação e afirmação cultural durante o uso das ferramentas disponíveis na internet, bem como a importância desses espaços de acesso livre como forma de democratizar e garantir o acesso à informação, assim como sua construção cultural
Abstract: Seeking the comprehension on the use fo the means of communication is a process which allows to deepen the relationship between the communication itself and society, allowing to understand culture not only as a result, but also as a mediatior of the actions of the individuals within their mediatic actions, specially as a mediatic space when considering the Information Society as the space to exchange messages and a information vehicle. Therefore, this study aims at understanding how people use the Internet in free access public spaces under the perspectives of Latin American cultural studies. Thus, the theoretical scope was development based on the conceptualization of culture and the emergence of culturais studies as well as their Latin American axis, which is the focus of analysis in this investigation. Later, a study was developed on the Information Society focusing on the Internet and the process of digital inclusion provided by some actions developed in current society. The practical approach consisted of a research with a semi-open interview containing semi-structured questions targeted at the inforcenter users of a Brazilian programme called Acessa São Paulo. This programme is located at the cultural workshop Glauco Pinto de Moraes - Bauru/SP and its purpose is to comprehend the use of the Internet in a free access public space and how such use refers to the precepts of the Latin American cultural studies previously approached. The results show a significant presence of the culture formation and affirmation process during the use of available tools on the Internet and the importance of these free access public spaces as a way of democratizing and ensuring the information access as well as its ongoing cultural construction
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Karpf, Brandon Allan. "Dead reckoning : where we stand on privacy and security controls for the Internet of Things." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111231.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218).
This thesis provides an analysis of privacy and security controls for internet-connected data-driven systems, known as the Internet of Things (IoT). The grounding theory is that numerous pre-existing privacy and security control methods -- not necessarily crafted for IoT -- will bear on the future of IoT privacy and security. This thesis covers fifteen case studies across six different control categories: Individual Choice, Command and Control Regulations, Operational Standards, Technical Standards, Compliance Frameworks, and Federal Authorities. These case studies reveal major deficiencies in current IoT privacy and security controls. IoT privacy and security controls lack a domain or contextual-use focus. Further, most current controls also fail to specify the risks or harms they intend to resolve. Therefore, the current IoT privacy and security controls induce a significant privacy and security market failure. This market failure is evident in recent IoT privacy and security events such as the Federal Trade Commission's cases against the IoT system developers TRENDnet and D-Link. I define three necessary paradigm shifts needed to improve IoT privacy and security controls. I also recommend a specific research endeavor to develop domain-, risk-, and harms-centric privacy and security standards. The realization of these paradigm shifts, and the products from this research endeavor, will navigate the IoT ecosystem towards more effective privacy and security control.
by Brandon Allan Karpf.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
Psyhojos, Marika A. "Aging, empathy, and the Internet of Things : a measure of physician readiness to treat older adults." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111222.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-156).
Aging is an increasingly disruptive force in the US -- nearly 1 in 5 Americans will be at least 65 years old by 2030. Largely due to the high incidence of chronic disease among older adults, health care spending is larger in magnitude for older adults than it is for any other age group. To treat older adults and reduce the prevalence of chronic disease more effectively and efficiently, health professionals may likely incorporate patient-generated health data (PGHD) from the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT devices can help providers to evaluate treatment options, compliance, and overall patient well-being. Critics of PGHD integration in the health care space cite challenges such as poor interoperability of devices and electronic health record systems, a lack of standards, a host of liability concerns, workflow interruptions, and a lack of reimbursement models. There is little research, however, that explores how the inclusion and analysis of PGHD may affect provider empathy and the physician-patient relationship. We were interested in understanding how the integration of wearables, smart devices, and other connected health devices would affect the physician-patient (or provider-patient) relationship and how those changes might affect both providers and patient health and well-being. We conducted two surveys, one of health care providers and one of patients, to understand current and expected uses of connected health devices to examine how the collection and analysis of PGHD will affect provider empathy and the physician-patient relationship. We subsequently examine across different age groups, how the provision of health care and individual health management is projected to change as a result of PGHD analysis. Finally, we evaluate the socio-technical barriers to connected health devices and discuss the entities which could successfully mitigate these barriers, as perceived by health care providers and patients.
by Marika A. Psyhojos.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
Silva, Reissoli Venâncio da. "Cursos de especialização à distância (no campo da educação) pela internet : caminhos trilhados por universidades brasileiras." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/17447.
Full textThis work has for objective to analyze the courses of Specialization in the distance in the distance offered by the Coordenadoria de Educação (CED) of the Federal University of Mato Grosso of Sul (UFMS). As the courses of specialization EAD/UFMS of Pedagogical Orientation in Education and Education and Art and the New Technologies are presented in the distance, in relation to the intention revealed for the pupils and in relation to the orientation of the programmatical summaries of the courses, having present the informacional process in the society. Which the interests declared for the pupils who had in the distance entered each one of editions of the courses of "Pedagogical People who orientates in Education" and of "Education in Arts and the New Technologies", in its letters of intentions presented in the selective process. Declared interests for the pupils exist in common who had entered each one of editions of the courses. Which (which) (s) the orientation (ões) of the courses of specialization in the distance directed toward the technologies, from the offered programmatical summaries in two editions, through the CED/UFMS, in terms of market in the globalizado and/or social informacional world. The oferecimento of the modality in courses of specialization in Brazilian universities was studied in the distance, through studies of statistical data of the Ministry of Educação Cultura (MEC) and of the Statistical Brazilian Yearbook of Open Education and in the distance (ABRAEAD). The analyses had been inserted in the context of documents, plans and to seem of approval of the courses, as well as of the digital informacional world. They had been considered, as you arrive in port theoretical, authors as Castells, Vianney, Medeiros and Faria, Pretti, Niskier and Franco and Sacristán. The results of the study allow-in affirming them that: (a) the world has tried, from years 1990, a significant change in the relationship form politician, social, economic and cultural; (b) the virtual computerization of the society, environments and the nets of information have proportionate changes of habits in the daily one of the human being; (c) the Law of Lines of direction and Bases Nacionais (LDBN), approved in 1996, in the distance granted opening to the oferecimento of courses of specialization in the modality; e (d) the increase of the specialization courses in the distance reached acceptance for the pupils through the Virtual Environment use of Learning, facilitating its access to the courses. The interests of the pupils are dirigem for the knowledge (Knowledge of the informatizado environment, knowledge for update and knowledge better to give lesson); professional qualification (Requirement of the market, improvement of the performance and professional qualification); professional ascension (increase of the incomes, searchs of new jobs and improvement of resume). The summaries converge in such a way to the knowledge guided for the market how much for the knowledge guided for the social one. Also it is possible to infer that the informatizada and hardwired society in nets has effect on the dinamização of several of its activities, and one of them is the education.
Seridório, Daniele Ferreira [UNESP]. "Comunicação, participação política e deliberação na internet: uma análise do Vote na Web." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/144369.
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
A expansão do ambiente on-line possibilitou às assembleias de praça pública alcançar fóruns, sites e outras plataformas digitais de interação. Para o processo deliberativo foi cunhado um novo termo, a deliberação on-line. Esta pesquisa reflete sobre a deliberação on-line e os processos comunicativos e interativos que a envolvem, aplicados à análise do debate poder definir a qualidade de um ambiente deliberativo on-line. O objeto de estudo é o website Vote na Web - criado em 2009 pela empresa Webcitizen - que tem como objetivo aproximar os cidadãos do ambiente deliberativo da Câmara dos Deputados. A análise se constitui da descrição das ferramentas de arquitetura do website, da qualidade do resumo apresentado e do debate em torno do projeto de lei 7633/2014 no vote na Web. As categorias que utilizamos foram: inclusividade, respeito mútuo, tópico, provimento de razão, reciprocidade e reflexividade. O estudo indicou que o Vote na Web, como experiência de uso político da internet, é arena participativa, mas não deliberativa. O potencial de deliberação - que não se efetiva - está justamente em permitir que as pessoas participem em torno de determinado tópico, mas essa participação não leva à deliberação, esses usuários conversam, em sua maioria, sozinhos, ou somente leem os outros comentários e se posicionam, mas sem aprofundar-se na reciprocidade e na reflexividade. O Vote na Web é uma complementação para os temas que estão em discussão na esfera pública.
The expansion of the online connection had come to the public spaces meeting and took them to online forums, sites and other digital interactive platforms. From deliberation process it was shaped a new concept, online deliberation. This research aims to reflect about online deliberation and the communicative and interactive process that it involves, applying to the analyses of the messages to be able to determinate the quality of an online deliberation space. The object of the study is the website “Vote na Web”, which principal propose is to approximate Brazilian citizens to the deliberation area that is the National Legislative Assembly. The investigation was based in the description of the website's architecture tools, the quality of the abstract and the debate around the law project 7633/2014 presented in the website. The categories that we used were: inclusivity, mutual respect, rational provision, topic, reciprocity and reflexivity. This study indicated that the website “Vote na Web” it is a participative arena, but not deliberative. The deliberative potential it is in allowing that people participate around as specific topic, but this participation doesn’t achieve deliberation level, most of the users talk alone, without going deep into reciprocity and reflexivity. “Vote na Web” offers a complementation to the topics that are in discussion in the public sphere.
FAPESP: 2014/12307-6
FAPESP: 2015/18826-8
Junior, Amadeu Cardoso. "A dimensão geográfica da internet no Brasil e no mundo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-24112009-144158/.
Full textA study of the geographic contexts materialized by the world-wide nets of computers, a characterization of the informational scientific technical medium in its interface with the called Society in Net and of the Information, the relations between technology and society, communication and space, as well as its more sensible effects for the world of the cities, in special for the Brazilian cities. We analyze the creation of the technical and material mediums that allow the circulation, the storage and interchange of data. We could call it concrete infrastructure of the virtual space. This work searches to understand the concept and update of the net notion delimited by history and geography of the digital nets and the Internet in the world and its implantation and development in Brazil detaching the main responsible ones for the construction of its structure, as well as of its current functioning and perspectives in improvement, mainly in its social aspect, a conscientious digital inclusion, using the technologies of the Information through politics favorable to the Society, the cultural diversity and bigger economic equality between the countries and social classes.
Aswalap, Supaluk Joy. "Tsunami disaster response: A case analysis of the information society in Thailand." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12075/.
Full textGatto, Raquel Fortes. "O impacto da governança da internet sob o prisma da soberania." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/8130.
Full textThe Information Society has been changed by the Technological Revolution and its main element: Internet, which leads to the revision of the traditional social and legal standards, such as the sovereignty and international players, facing the virtual reality challenges. The Internet is an international public good or an space with no borders that reaches all mankind. The Internet Governance claims that all countries set a consensus about the cyberspace having multiple sovereignties but none in particular, such as the Sea Convention (Montego-Bay Agreement). The Internet Governance mechanisms includes technical (Internet standards and protocols), social (social boundaries, virtual communities, digital divide), economical (electronic commerce, technology access), legal, and others. The Internet Governance players are: governments, private sector, civil society and international organizations. This research has the objective to discuss the sovereignty concept all the way through the history of Internet Governance mechanisms. The methodology concerns the bibliographical review. The scientific literature available is short, due to the fact that Internet is a recent phenomenon. Data resources are documents from the international events (World Summit on Information Society and Internet Governance Forum); Internet governance organizations (Internet Engineering Task Force and ICANN); and interviews with Internet specialists. In conclusion, there is no break face the actual sovereignty concept, although there is some new characteristics such as the multistakeholder participation throughout the soft law
A Sociedade da Informação, marcada pela Revolução Tecnológica cujo ápice é o surgimento da Internet, demanda a revisão das instituições jurídico-sociais tradicionais, como os conceitos de soberania e atores no cenário internacional, adequando-se aos novos desafios impostos pela realidade virtual. Constata-se que a Internet é um domínio público global, ou seja, um espaço sem fronteiras que a todos afeta. A governança da Internet demanda que os países estabeleçam um consenso no qual o espaço cibernético comporte as múltiplas soberanias sem pertencer a uma só, nos moldes da Convenção do Mar. Os mecanismos de governança da Internet abarcam os aspectos técnicos (padrões e protocolos da rede de computadores), sociais (vínculos sócio-afetivos, comunidades virtuais, inclusão digital), econômicos (comércio eletrônico, acesso à tecnologia), jurídicos, dentre outros. Participam da governança da Internet os diversos atores: governo, iniciativa privada, sociedade civil e organismos internacionais. O presente trabalho tem por objetivo discutir sobre o conceito de soberania e sua aplicabilidade na trajetória evolutiva dos mecanismos de governança da Internet. Como metodologia de pesquisa foi utilizada a revisão bibliográfica. A literatura científica disponível é reduzida, salientando a escassez de trabalhos acadêmicos justificada por se tratar de um fenômeno recente. Ainda como fonte dos dados foi incluídos os documentos produzidos em eventos internacionais, tais como a Cúpula Mundial da Sociedade da Informação e o Fórum Mundial da Governança da Internet; relatórios de organismos de gestão da Internet (a Força Tarefa da Engenharia da Internet e a ICANN); e entrevistas verbais com especialistas. Conclui-se que não houve a ruptura com o conceito atual de soberania, mas a inclusão de algumas características como a governança pluralista (ou multistakeholder), realizada através de normas flexíveis (ou Soft Law)
Gamero-Garrido, Alexander M. "Characterizing performance of residential internet connections using an analysis of measuring broadband America's web browsing test data." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103571.
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This thesis presents an analysis of F.C.C.-measured web page loading times as observed in 2013 from nodes connected to consumer broadband providers in the Northeastern, Southern and Pacific U.S. We also collected data for multiple months in 2015 from the MIT network. We provide temporal and statistical analyses on total loading times for both datasets. We present four main contributions. First, we find differences in loading times for various websites that are consistent across providers and regions, showing the impact of infrastructure of transit and content providers on loading times and Quality of Experience (QoE.) Second, we find strong evidence of diurnal variation in loading times, highlighting the impact of network and server load on end-user QoE. Third, we show instances of localized congestion that severely impair the performance of some websites when measured from a residential provider. Fourth, we find that web loading times correlate with the size of a website's infrastructure as estimated by the number of IP addresses observed in the data. Finally, we also provide a set of policy recommendations: execution of javascript and other code during the web browsing test to more adequately capture loading times; expanding the list of target websites and collecting trace route data; collection of browsing data from non-residential networks; and public provision of funding for research on Measuring Broadband America's web browsing data. The websites studied in this thesis are: Amazon, CNN, EBay, Facebook, Google, msn, Wikipedia, Yahoo and YouTube.
by Alexander M. Gamero-Garrido.
S.M. in Technology and Policy
Koundinya, Satyoki. "Patent Pools: An ‘Industry Solution’ to SEP disputesin 5G and Internet of Things : A quest for a successful Digital Single Market." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413144.
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