Redefining “expansion” in congressional communication: Homestyles for a digital constituency

The ship follows the trade, meaning that transportation (ship) follows the development of trade, which is an appropriate term for current urban practices. The conservative arrangement of the city structure might no longer be feasible to define the actual urban planning practice in the digital platform era. The premier corridor within the city has always been privileged for economic activity thanks to its high accessibility. This research discusses how digital platforms have given a new meaning to urban practices and their environmental impact. The digital mobility platform enabled the less favorable urban hierarchy to take economic advantage thanks to the omnipresence virtue of the platforms to interconnect customers and producers. This research employed quantitative analysis using a multitemporal Land use map combined with a series of questionnaires conducted within the educational area of Diponegoro University and its surrounding area. The findings provided a new statement on urban practices that corroborate with the behavior transformation led by Digital Platforms. Thus, the transformation toward urban digital platform services has significantly impacted the concept of the new urban structure.

The concept of publicness in public spaces traditionally refers to physical environments that are accessible, inclusive, and open to all, fostering social interaction, community engagement, and democratic practices. However, in the digital era, especially in the Chinese context, digital platforms have redefined publicness by extending participation and civic interaction beyond physical spaces. This paper examines how digital technologies, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, are reshaping public spaces in China. It explores the role of digital tools in extending the conceptualisation of public space by democratising place-shaping processes, fostering community-led micro-regeneration, and enhancing social cohesion while also addressing challenges such as digital exclusion and platform commercialisation. Through case studies in Shanghai, the research highlights four dimensions of publicness enabled by digital platforms in a process-oriented perspective: foundational, collaborative, experiential, and sustained. By demonstrating how digital platforms integrate with each phase of public space creation, this study underscores the evolving nature of publicness and argues for an integrated approach that blends physical and digital realms. In doing so, it advances theoretical discourse and offers actionable insights, seeking to foster more inclusive and dynamic public spaces in the digital era.

Digital transformation has the potential to improve consumers’ lives by providing new opportunities for business firms to create business value. This phenomenon forces the telecommunications industry to become one of the leading industries in digital transformation as the main digitalization mover and to be able to adapt to the changing trends of the digital transformation era. The increasing trend of digitization and consumption of digital media platforms by global and domestic customers has led to a demand for higher bandwidth with high-speed connectivity. This phenomenon creates new business opportunities for the telecommunication industry. With all the developments in the digital era, the telecommunications industry must adapt to achieve new opportunities in transformation and digital ecosystems that are rapidly developing by increasing the economic value and services of more data-oriented companies. This study aims to determine what factors influence customer purchase intention in B2B telecommunication companies, namely the DWS Telkom division under PT Telkom Indonesia, which plays a role and focuses on carrying out wholesale business portfolio management activities. The division’s mission is to provide sustainable value to wholesale customers through digital connectivity solutions, digital platforms, and communications. This research was conducted using qualitative methods by interviewing 7 existing customers of Telkom DWS using question guidelines to determine B2B product purchasing factors. Results from interviews with customers were analyzed using the triangulation method. The results show that the factors influencing purchasing decisions in the B2B industry are product quality, service quality, relationship commitment, trust, customer satisfaction, and loyalty.

This study addresses the complex relationship between copyright and digital music platforms in the digital era. As digital platforms become the primary means of music distribution, significant challenges arise concerning the protection and fair compensation of authors. The article explores the evolution of the music industry, from the early days of the phonograph to modern streaming platforms, highlighting the technological changes that have shaped the relationship between music and technology. The copyright system in Brazil is also discussed, influenced by the French dual protection model, encompassing both economic and moral rights. The text also analyzes the role of the Central Office for Collection of Copyright (ECAD) and its seven Associations in the collective management of copyright, as well as the issue of transparency in the distribution of economic rights. One point of debate is whether music transmission through streaming platforms should be considered public or private performance, directly impacting copyright revenue collection. Therefore, this study aims to present the relevant panorama of this new context of copyright associated with digital music platforms (streaming). Adopting a deductive methodology with exploratory research, the article concludes that the landscape of copyright in Brazil and its relationship with digital music platforms is a complex and challenging topic that requires careful consideration and appropriate regulation to ensure authors are adequately protected in a constantly evolving digital environment. It emphasizes the need for greater transparency and clarity in the collection, calculation, and distribution system of economic rights by digital music platforms.

In a complex information environment, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine presents a major challenge to the communication of political leaders throughout the world. The objective of this article is to analyse the frames and sentiments used by German chancellor Olaf Scholz, employing a novel data set of his Twitter communication (N = 612) during the Russian invasion of Ukraine between 24 February 2022 and 24 February 2023. A combination of computational text analysis approaches with natural language processing (NLP) techniques was used, including the Valence Aware Dictionary and the sentiment Reasoner (VADER) model for sentiment analysis and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for topic modelling. This research investigates the prevalent frames and emotions in the chancellor’s communication, providing valuable insights into the German government’s stance and strategic communication during this critical geopolitical event. The results of the study revealed that the chancellor used the frames ‘effects of the Ukraine invasion’, ‘climate & environment’, ‘solidarity’ and ‘Russian aggression’ and communicated with positive sentiments. By examining the chancellor’s Twitter communication, this study contributes to the understanding of political communication in the digital era, particularly in the context of international crises, and offers implications for policymakers, scholars and the broader public.

Twitter‐based information distribution during the 2009 Red River Valley flood threat

In the digital era, the application of new technology tools has reshaped the original work pattern, changed the way employees accomplish tasks and interpersonal communication, and provided sales employees with more autonomy. As a result, self-leadership has become increasingly important.To investigate the impact of self-leadership on employee turnover in the digital era and its mechanism, this paper uses both qualitative and quantitative methods based on the sample of sales employees. First, using structured interviews, we discover that sales employees’ self-leadership behaviors are empowered by digital platform and manifested in active information seeking and internal social network building. Second, based on the self-control theory and the job embeddedness theory, we propose a theoretical model with the sales performance as a mediator. Using the behavior records of sales employees from a digital platform, we employ the survival model and Monte Carlo methods to analyze the data and find that sales performance plays a mediating role in the relationship between self-leadership and turnover. That is, the more self-leadership behaviors of sales employees on the digital platforms, the higher their sales performance; and the higher their performance, the less likely they turnover.The theoretical contributions of this paper are as follows: Firstly, this paper provides an in-depth understanding of the specific behaviors of successful self-lead sales employees in the digital era, and contributes to the scarce results on self-leadership in the Chinese context. Secondly, this paper enriches the research on the impact of self-leadership on employee turnover in the digital era. It expands the understanding of employee turnover by explaining the causes of turnover at the individual level from the perspective of self-leadership. Finally, this paper pioneers the use of objective employee behavior records from a mobile work platform as the data source for the empirical study, which is a very useful exploration. The findings also provide practical insights for sales performance and turnover management from the self-leadership perspective in the digital era.

How does data-driven supply chain analytics capability enhance supply chain agility in the digital era?

We approach the conference topic of industry through four studies that explore a new media landscape where value and power are increasingly produced through the operalisation of machinic and affective relations and subjectivities. We explore technologies of automation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic regimes and the new possibilities for enacting and imagining political futures that they afford. The papers focus on four case studies: WeChat posts related to the Australian referendum for Indigenous voice to Parliament; perceptions of bias in texts generated by ChatGPT; TikTok videos of affective time management through curated playlists, and time synchronisation protocols used in industrial warehouses. These four cases reveal the ways in which automated media technologies enable complex interactions between humans and machines that impact practices of political subjectification, trust and notions of truth, and weave a particular relationship between affect, aesthetics and temporalities of labour. The panel analyses the role of networks and algorithms in shaping the parameters of emerging forms of expression and participation that are enacted through the interrelation between users and digital platforms. The four papers adopt a platform- and infrastructure-specific research approach, building on research into the infrastructural turn in media studies (Plantin and Punathambekar 2019). Seeing media infrastructures as a complex arrangement of digital platforms, databases, algorithms and protocols, we look at the political effects produced by these infrastructures. These effects are analysed in their material situatedness in the logic of the particular digital platform. In their paper, Toija Cinque and Allan Jones illuminate the interplay between AI agency, human cognition, and digital media platforms, thereby contributing to discourse on ethical AI use, sociotechnical systems, and information integrity in the digital age. Their paper explores the interconnections between generative AI, digital platforms, and cognitive biases, striving to deepen our understanding of technology’s capacity to engender a truth-centric, empathetic digital society. By delineating ethical pathways for the coexistence of humans and machines within the information realm, the study aims to contribute significantly to the ongoing discourse surrounding ethical AI use, the development of sociotechnical systems, and the maintenance of information integrity in the digital era. Through its findings, it aspires to influence future technological developments, regulatory frameworks, and policy formulations, thus paving the way for a more balanced and equitable digital future. Fan Yang, Robbie Fordyce and Luke Heemsbergen analyse messages related to the recent referendum for political representation of Indigenous Australians posted on the Chinese-owned platform WeChat. The authors argue that, while posts largely follow the rhetoric of mainstream Australian media in their sentiments, the cases in which they divert, indicate the catalyzation of diaspora affects which influence the position towards race and Indigenous issues. Tsvetelina Hristova explores the technopolitical implications of network time synchronisation protocols in warehouse automation. The logic of digital infrastructures imposes a notion and practice of time that is radically different from the universalising time synchronisation of industrial capitalism. Instead, network time protocols rely on the exchange of messages and data packages through which a measure and notion of time is negotiated and agreed upon in a networked environment. This imposes a particular technopolitical context of technological interpellation where structures of time are constituted through the participation of nodes in the network. This technological context of temporality has important implications for how hierarchies and enclosures are enacted in industrial networks and, importantly, for the role of cloud computing platforms in organising new forms of privatised time. Alexandra Anikina analyses the assembly line aesthetics in videos that promote personal productivity and time management on Tik Tok, YouTube and Twitch. This panel is proposed by members of two research groups on critical infrastructure studies across the Atlantic that explore how new digital, automated and intelligent media technologies are impacting social and political life. Trying to understand criticality as both an analytical approach and a characteristic of the objects we research, we interrogate the aspects of digital media infrastructures that add new layers to how datafication acquires subtle cultural and technopolical inflections. Through the focus on affect in the panel, understood as both social emotional charge (Ahmed 2013) and as the potential for connection and interaction (Massumi 2002) in the network, we try to see the infrastructure of data systems and automated platforms as the product of different cultural, political and technological drives. These drives give rise to situated and embodied logics of automation that are platform-dependent but also dependent on cultural and social affects imbued through their provenance, producers and users. The panel blends different disciplinary perspectives and approaches, seeking a dialogue between media and communication studies, cultural studies and critical art research.

TILEC appreciates the opportunity to submit some observations to DG Competition on 'Shaping competition policy in the era of digitization'. The observations contained in this document, which are based on the research work of TILEC members, are organized around the three main themes identified by the Commission in its call for observations, namely (1) competition, data, privacy, and AI, (2) digital platforms' market power, and (3) preserving digital innovation through competition policy.

Since the 1990s, scholars working in disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, law, information studies, and medicine have been investigating what it means to grow up in a digital era. Much of the earliest research published on children and youth in a digital era focused on the potential dangers of digital technologies and online life. Persistent themes included the Internet’s potential to put children and adolescents at risk of being prematurely exposed to pornography, sexual predators, extremist politics, and deviant subcultures. Yet, as American media studies scholar Henry Jenkins observed in an early article on growing up in a digital era published in Radical Teacher, “There has been no point in the twentieth century when childhood was not seen as under threat from one or manifestation of other of mass culture (comic strips, joke books, pulp fiction, radio, comic books, rock music, television, video games, etc.) (p. 33).” Jenkins didn’t simply argue that the moral panic about children’s access to the Internet may be woefully predictable but also suggested that young people’s access to emerging digital technologies and platforms was inevitable and would ultimately prove to be “central to their political participation” (p. 33). By the early 2000s, it was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore Jenkins’ position that there was no way or legitimate reason to stop children and adolescents from exploring the Internet and embracing new digital tools and platforms. As children, tweens, and teens came to dominate many online spaces, including most emerging social media platforms, earlier calls to censor the Internet for minors waned, new concerns and research questions arose, and a more nuanced perspective in growing up in a digital era began to emerge. Although some researchers continue to grapple with the dangers online networks pose to children and adolescents, in the 2020s, there is widespread recognition that digital technologies and platforms have transformed young people’s lives for the better. Indeed, much of the research on growing up in a digital era now focuses on how digital technologies and platforms have given rise to a generation of children and teen influencers, activists, media makers, and entrepreneurs who are using their unprecedented social, political, and even economic capital to reposition young people as critical power brokers in the world.

The development of digitalization has significantly changed people's consumption behavior, especially in the digital economy era. Rapid and widespread access to information through digital platforms allows consumers to make more data-driven decisions. This change also involves the use of personalization algorithms and big data technologies that influence consumer preferences, creating more personalized and relevant consumption patterns. Despite offering convenience, digitalization faces challenges such as potential data privacy breaches and unequal access to technology. This research uses a qualitative approach to explore the impact of digitalization on changes in consumption behavior, involving subjects from active consumers, digital businesses, and digital economy experts. The results show that data-driven personalization can improve shopping convenience, but requires a balance between convenience and privacy protection. By understanding these dynamics, this research aims to provide deep insights into people's consumption patterns in the digital era and provide recommendations for adaptive policies and business strategies.

The aim of the study is to study the main challenges of marketing processes in the era of digitalization. It has been proven that life in the era of digitalization, when the number of wearable mobile devices and personal devices is growing rapidly, people are ready to openly share information about themselves, as well as consciously use content created by others. It is logical to imagine that every day people and devices jointly generate huge amounts of data that can now be effectively analyzed and used. This actualizes the chosen problem. It is characterized that digital technologies are developing at a significant pace, which means that in the near future everything that happens in the real world will be digitized and turned into a digital asset, whether we like it or not. In a decade, digital platforms will become an integral part of every economic process. It has been determined that modern digital technologies make it possible to make faster management decisions based on the analysis of sales results, to model various options for interacting with the consumer at all stages of this path. It has been proven that the Internet and the era of digitalization in general have unique advantages that allow companies to expand the boundaries of the market for their products, reduce the length of marketing channels and create all conditions for purchasing products with maximum customer value. As a result, itshould be noted that marketing process management in the era of digitalization is a kind of analysis, planning, implementation and control over the implementation of programs aimed at creating, maintaining and expanding profitable relationships with the buyer to achieve the goals of the socio-economic system. At a tactical level, marketing process management is linked to demand management, which in turn is linked to managing consumer relationships in the era of digitalization. Marketing processes cannot be implemented using old technologies. Marketing is now closely associated with the era of digitalization.

The rapid transformation of education in the digital era has created an urgent need to reexamine history teaching methods to ensure their relevance to the needs of today’s learners. This study aims to investigate the implementation of digital technology in history education in secondary schools in Pontianak, focusing on its impact on student engagement, the challenges encountered, and the opportunities that can be leveraged to enhance learning effectiveness. The research subjects consisted of history teachers and students from four public high schools, selected through purposive sampling based on their experience in integrating technology into history instruction. This research employed a qualitative phenomenological design, with data collected through in-depth interviews, classroom observations, and learning documentation. The findings indicate that the use of technologies such as documentary videos, historical simulations, and digital learning platforms enhances students' engagement with historical content, enabling them to learn more interactively and independently. Identified challenges include inadequate infrastructure, limited digital literacy, and unequal access to technological resources. Nevertheless, digital platforms and technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) offer considerable opportunities to enrich historical learning experiences through their flexibility and immersive potential. The study recommends enhancing technological infrastructure, offering ongoing professional development for teachers, and implementing policies that promote equitable access to technology to optimize the digital transformation of history education.

In the digital era, the investment landscape has been transformed by the proliferation of online platforms and fintech solutions, creating new opportunities and challenges for younger generations. This study investigates the influence of financial literacy on the investment decisions of Millennials and Gen Z, two cohorts that are increasingly participating in financial markets through digital channels. Using a mixed-methods approach, we combine quantitative analysis from surveys conducted with 600 individuals across these age groups with qualitative insights gathered from in-depth interviews. The results show that financial literacy significantly affects investment behavior, with those possessing higher levels of financial knowledge demonstrating a more strategic approach to portfolio diversification, risk management, and long-term financial planning. Furthermore, the study finds that digital tools and platforms, such as robo-advisors, investment apps, and online trading platforms, play a crucial role in shaping the investment choices of Millennials and Gen Z, especially as they seek accessible, low-cost options for managing their investments. Key factors influencing these investment decisions include risk tolerance, trust in digital platforms, and the impact of social media influencers on financial decision-making. The research highlights the need for targeted financial education programs that can enhance financial literacy, improve investment outcomes, and encourage responsible investing behaviors among younger generations. These findings provide valuable insights for policymakers, financial institutions, and educators aiming to promote sustainable financial habits and improve the overall financial well-being of Millennials and Gen Z in the digital age.