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Book Theories of Communication

Download or read book Theories of Communication written by Armand Mattelart and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides students with a concise introduction to the development of communication theory. Written in an engaging style, it offers an account of the development of all the major theoretical approaches in communication and media studies. The book summarizes clearly and methodically the range of existing theories; explains how and why the diverse currents and schools of thought emerged; and contextualizes all the major approaches, including those of cultural studies and political economy, in their historical, social and intellectual setting. Theories of Communication is an essential text for all students of media, communication and cultural studies. It will also be welcomed by anyone seeking to understand the changes that have accompanied the rise of the so-called information society'.

Book Social Learning in Technological Innovation

Download or read book Social Learning in Technological Innovation written by Robin Williams and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the social processes involved in technological innovation, particularly in relation to the Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).

Book Digital Transformation and Global Society

Download or read book Digital Transformation and Global Society written by Daniel A. Alexandrov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two volume set (CCIS 858 and CCIS 859) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2018, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in May/June 2018. The 75 revised full papers and the one short paper presented in the two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 222 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on e-polity: smart governance and e-participation, politics and activism in the cyberspace, law and regulation; e-city: smart cities and urban planning; e-economy: IT and new markets; e-society: social informatics, digital divides; e-communication: discussions and perceptions on the social media; e-humanities: arts and culture; International Workshop on Internet Psychology; International Workshop on Computational Linguistics.

Book Hyperconnectivity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dominique Carré
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2018-10-08
  • ISBN : 1119557011
  • Pages : 139 pages

Download or read book Hyperconnectivity written by Dominique Carré and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of digital information and communication technologies would be the traces of a social acceptability of the exploitation of all data, in the context of negotiations of uses. This is the reason why the users present themselves actors and contributors of the hyperconnectivity. We would thus witness a new form of dissemination, inviting user experience and social innovations. It is thus the victory of subordination by negotiated renunciation; A new form of serving, no longer that of the 1980s, with the counters and other services, which have become uncontrolled services - excepted when the users are overcome by restrictive ergonomics, revealing too much the subordination device - which joins the prescription apparently without an injunction. The lure is at its height when users and broadcasters come together to produce the services and goods, composing the business model, until the very existence of the companies, in particular the pure players. Crowdsourcing becomes legitimate: consumers create the content, deliver the data, the basis of the service sold (in a painless way because free access most of the time, indirect financing), the providers make available and administer the service, networks , Interfaces (representing considerable costs), also reputation to attract the attention of other consumers or contributors. In these conditions, the environmental stakes are considerable, so we propose another way of considering them, not as they are dealt with - material and pollution - but according to the prism of the relational practices analyzed in this volume.

Book Community Informatics  Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies

Download or read book Community Informatics Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies written by Gurstein, Michael and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Informatics is developing as an approach for linking economic and social development efforts at the community level to the opportunities that information and communication's technologies present. Areas such as SMEs and electronic commerce, community and civic networks, electronic democracy and online participation are among a few of the areas affected. Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies is an introduction to the discipline of community informatics. Issues such as trends, controversies, challenges and opportunities facing the community application of information and communications technologies into the millennium are studied.

Book Digital Health Communications

Download or read book Digital Health Communications written by Benoit Cordelier and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECHNOLOGICAL PROSPECTS AND SOCIAL APPLICATIONS SET Coordinated by Bruno Salgues There are many controversies with respect to health crisis management: the search for information on symptoms, misinformation on emerging treatments, massive use of collaborative tools by healthcare professionals, deployment of applications for tracking infected patients. The Covid-19 crisis is a relevant example about the need for research in digital communications in order to understand current health info communication. After an overview of the challenges of digital healthcare, this book offers a critical look at the organizational and professional limits of ICT uses for patients, their caregivers and healthcare professionals. It analyzes the links between ICT and ethics of care, where health communication is part of a global, humanistic and emancipating care for patients and caregivers. It presents new digitized means of communicating health knowledge that reveal, thanks to the Internet, a competition between biomedical expert knowledge and experiential secular knowledge.

Book Urban Planning in the Digital Age

Download or read book Urban Planning in the Digital Age written by Nicolas Douay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological changes have often produced important social changes that translate into spatial and planning practice. Whereas the intelligent city is one of the unavoidable and even dominant concepts, digital uses can influence urban planning in four different directions. These scenarios are represented by a compass composed of a horizontal axis opposing institutional and non-institutional actors, and a second axis with open and closed opposition.

Book Handbook of Critical Information Systems Research

Download or read book Handbook of Critical Information Systems Research written by Debra Howcroft and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Although critical research represents a small portion of all IS research, it has always posed insightful challenges to more conventional approaches. This volume assembles a wide array of contributions by leading researchers in the field. The editors clarify the broad range of critical research beyond the seminal contributions that appeared early in IS research, making this an essential guide to contemporary approaches as well as a summation of prior contributions.' – Daniel Robey, Georgia State University, US 'This indispensable book provides an excellent overview of the variety of perspectives that characterize critical research in the information systems field.' – Michael D. Myers, University of Auckland, New Zealand This important Handbook provides a unique overview of information systems (IS) research by focusing on the increasing interest in critical-related issues. Representing a significant step forward in the development of critical perspectives on the IS field, the Handbook draws together original contributions from leading authors who offer alternatives to the current mainstream approaches to IS research. In order to accommodate the various strands of critical understanding, a broad range of views and theoretical standpoints are encompassed, thereby combining theory with practical applications, and offering a valuable source of reference for this emerging area of research. Recent years have witnessed a more explicit focus on critical research and, continuing in that vein, the editors adopt an inclusive approach which considers alternative insights that can arise from critical IS research. Topics explored include, amongst others: • management trends and IS • flexibility, freedom and women's emancipation • 'consuming passions' in the global knowledge economy • critical discourse analysis for the study of information systems • evaluation of e-governance projects in India • rationalities and emotions in IS innovation • capital, information technology and enterprise development • mediated work in global business organizations. Reflecting on key themes and emergent issues in critical information systems research, this Handbook will be invaluable reading for both academics and practitioners with an interest in a critical understanding of information systems from a variety of perspectives.

Book Advanced Web Applications and Progressing E Learning 2 0 Technologies in Higher Education

Download or read book Advanced Web Applications and Progressing E Learning 2 0 Technologies in Higher Education written by Pelet, Jean-Éric and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the relevant use of internet technologies such as Web 2.0 tools, e-learning can be a way to teach students anywhere at any time. Quality internet connection and a mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet, offer students the capacities to grow along with knowledge, lectures, and helpful advice for learning in good conditions. Advanced Web Applications and Progressing E-Learning 2.0 Technologies in Higher Education is an essential reference source providing relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in e-learning and mobile learning in modern higher education and its applications in other professional fields such as medical education. Featuring research on topics such as m-learning, knowledge management technologies, computer graphics, image processing, and web-based communities, this book is ideally designed for professionals and researchers seeking coverage on education, adult education, sociology, computer science, and information technology.

Book Connecting Canadians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Clement
  • Publisher : Athabasca University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1926836049
  • Pages : 519 pages

Download or read book Connecting Canadians written by Andrew Clement and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting Canadians examines the role of community informatics, or community-based ICT initiatives, in this process of transition. The Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN) set out to study how civil society groups--in locations ranging from Vancouver to Labrador and from remote Northern communities to Toronto and Montréal--sought to enable local communities to develop on their own terms within the broader context of federal and provincial policies and programs. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives, from sociology to library and information sciences to women's studies, the essays not only document specific local initiatives but analyze the overall trajectory of the government's vision of a digitally inclusive Canada.

Book The Uncertain Digital Revolution

Download or read book The Uncertain Digital Revolution written by André Vitalis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital information and communication technologies can be seen as a threat to privacy, a step forward for freedom of expression and communication, a tool in the fight against terrorism or the source of a new economic wealth. Computerization has unexpectedly progressed beyond our imagination, from a tool of management and control into one of widespread communication and expression. This book revisits the major questions that have emerged with the progress of computerization over nearly half a century, by describing the context in which these issues were formulated. By taking a social and digital approach, the author explores controversial issues surrounding the development of this "digital revolution", including freedom and privacy of the individual, social control, surveillance, public security and the economic exploitation of personal data. From students, teachers and researchers engaged in data analysis, to institutional decision-makers and actors in policy or business, all members of today's digital society will take from this book a better understanding of the essential issues of the current "digital revolution".

Book Competence Based Curriculum and E Learning in Higher Education

Download or read book Competence Based Curriculum and E Learning in Higher Education written by Keengwe, Jared and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education is characterized by ubiquitous digital technologies and e-learning that are inevitably influencing the development of core competencies and professional skills requirements. There is a need to focus on the synergy between responsive curriculum implementation and e-learning delivery in the context of effective pedagogical practices and optimal integration of digital technologies. Similarly, we need to reexamine higher education practices towards innovative pedagogies and effective e-learning design. Competence-Based Curriculum and E-Learning in Higher Education brings together researchers in the field of education and professionals who design and deliver online learning in higher education to share paradigms, perspectives, insights, contextualized experiences, challenges, and best practices. Covering topics such as mobile learning activities, student interaction promotion, and social media technologies, this major reference work is a comprehensive resource for instructional designers, faculty, administrators and educators of higher education, students in teaching programs, IT managers, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Book Organizational Communication and Sustainable Development  ICTs for Mobility

Download or read book Organizational Communication and Sustainable Development ICTs for Mobility written by Hallin, Anette and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering advantages as well as disadvantages, explores how mobility meets sustainability in contemporary organizational communication.

Book Communications   Strategies

Download or read book Communications Strategies written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book M  dias  pouvoir et identit  s

Download or read book M dias pouvoir et identit s written by and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A l'aire de la mondialisation, le fait linguistique est marchandisé de manière croissante. Ainsi, le marché des feuilletons brésiliens (telenovelas) s'est brusquement élargi et tend à devenir un phénomène lusophone majeur. Si personne ne nie l'influence croissante que le géant brésilien acquiert dans l'aire dessinée par la pratique du portugais - la quatrième langue européenne la plus parlée dans le monde -, le phénomène produit-il une uniformisation tendancielle des pays de langue portugaise ? L'analyse des médias dévoile certes des phénomènes de rapprochement provoqués par la communauté de langue, mais renforce aussi l'impression que chaque pays reste surtout influencé par son aire d'insertion propre. La lusophonie demeure une aire spécifique d'intersection avec d'autres identités, et n'est pas, en tant que telle, une aire culturelle. Partout, les médias sont un enjeu de pouvoir, et c'est par le biais de ces enjeux que s'expriment les identités ethniques ou politiques, les trajectoires professionnelles des journalistes, les techniques de reportage, les traditions cinématographiques émergentes, etc. Bien entendu, la vitalité des médias sera plus forte là où le mouvement social a imposé une réelle pluralité politique : c'est, en négatif, pourquoi l'Angola n'est pas directement présent dans ce dossier, même si certaines initiatives (le plus souvent restreintes à la capitale) sont prometteuses. En revanche, les vitalités portugaise, brésilienne, capverdienne et même mozambicaine, apparaissent pleinement, qu'il s'agisse de la télévision, de générations journalistiques, du développement d'internet notamment au Cap-Vert, l'archipel de tous les réseaux. Introduit par un beau texte de l'écrivain mozambicain Luis Carlos Patraquim, ce dossier ne prétend pas à l'exhaustivité. Mais, en une dizaine d'articles d'auteurs de nationalités brésilienne, britannique, française, mozambicaine et portugaise, il offre une clé supplémentaire d'approche du puzzle lusophone.

Book 2001 Bogues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gaëtan Tremblay
  • Publisher : Presses Université Laval
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9782763780023
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book 2001 Bogues written by Gaëtan Tremblay and published by Presses Université Laval. This book was released on 2003 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce colloque constitue une réflexion, dans une perspective communicationnelle, sur les transformations qui affectent nos sociétés. Le premier tome porte sur la place ou le rôle des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC). Le 2e porte sur les usages sociaux et les usagers des TIC ; le troisième, sur les rapports entre technologie, économie, communication et éducation, sur les campus virtuels, le marché du savoir et le dernier oppose globalisation, rapports de force et démocratie.

Book Annales des t  l  communications

Download or read book Annales des t l communications written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: