Digital Information Age Research Articles

The Commodification of Dr. King, or What Intellectual Property Rights Did to Civil Rights

While a large body of scholarship has emphasized the "Santa Clausification" of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, or King as a "harmless dreamer," most scholars neglect the legal apparatuses that enable (or disable) his image, likeness, speeches, and voice to circulate in the public sphere. This essay argues that intellectual property plays a vital yet undertheorized role in the whitewashing of King's legacy. Offering an interdisciplinary study of cultural history, visual analysis, and legal discourse, this essay shows that one unrecognized feature of the intellectual property system is its ability to manage civil rights discourse. It demonstrates how the structural commitments of the law—economic incentives for innovation, corporate licensing regimes, and copyright's possessive-individualist model of authorship—contribute to racial hierarchy and economic inequality. By thinking through the social justice implications of managing civil rights discourse, and by offering a model for what I call "counterstorytelling" on digital media where communities on YouTube and Twitter strategically reappropriate commercial uses of King's image, likeness, speeches, and voice on television and redeploy them for social justice causes, this essay creates space for engaging and resisting the power dynamics that structure the flow of knowledge production in the digital information age.

Research on User demand and Development countermeasures of archives service enterprises

With the rapid development of the digital information age, China's archives socialization service awareness steadily improved, related policies have been introduced, archive information service demand continues to expand, the domestic archives service enterprises also rushed to emerge. This paper selects the archival service industry main body, that is, the archival service industry enterprise, analyzes its service scope and service object, obtains the data through the questionnaire survey, analyzes the needs of the current user, further makes the judgment of the user needs expectation, and puts forward countermeasures for industry development, in order to provide a more efficient and high-quality archival information service for the archival user.

Unmanned Aerial Systems as a Driving Force in the Digital Information Age

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), while no longer viewed as a disruptive technology, are still in their infancy regarding how this form of technology fits within the digital information age. This commentary review examines the history of UAS technology and how the rapid growth of UAS driven primarily by hardware in the form of centralized controllers, IMUs, and GPS, getting smaller, lighter, and cheaper. While the growth of UAS demonstrates itself as an outcome of the modern digital age, we argue that it now has the potential to drive the information age forward in four primary areas: cloud-based technology, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data.

The Impact of the Internet News on the Political Awareness of the Youth

The Internet is an interesting source of information for many people today. Many studies investigated the Internet as a means of communication but little attention was given to its role in enhancing political awareness and civic engagement among the youth. Recently the interest in politics is noticeably on the increase, especially among the youth in several countries. This article aims at describing and explaining the role of exposure to the Internet news in promoting political awareness and citizenship among the youth, by providing the Moroccan context as a case study. Over the last decades, communication has become much easier, smoother and less expensive thanks to the Information Communication Technologies (ICT). The Internet as a valuable public sphere provides several avenues that encourage the youth to involve in different disciplines such as education, economics, and politics. Moreover, the advancement of technology has invaded different areas in life; a case in point is the irresistible dominance of the Internet use in the age of digital news and information. Roughly all different types of traditional media, such as television news, radio news programs, magazine advertorials and newspaper articles have extended its version into this new sophisticated field, namely the Internet. Thus, based on an exhaustive review of literature, this article addresses some interesting issues related to civic engagement, the Internet use and political awareness among the youth. Eventually the article ends with some critical insights and directions for prospective research. Keywords: The Internet, political awareness, the youth, democracy, online journalism DOI: 10.7176/NMMC/103-04 Publication date: December 31 st 2022

Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

An Anomaly Detection Algorithm Based on Ensemble Learning for 5G Environment.

With the advent of the digital information age, new data services such as virtual reality, industrial Internet, and cloud computing have proliferated in recent years. As a result, it increases operator demand for 5G bearer networks by providing features such as high transmission capacity, ultra-long transmission distance, network slicing, and intelligent management and control. Software-defined networking, as a new network architecture, intends to increase network flexibility and agility and can better satisfy the demands of 5G networks for network slicing. Nevertheless, software-defined networking still faces the challenge of network intrusion. We propose an abnormal traffic detection method based on the stacking method and self-attention mechanism, which makes up for the shortcoming of the inability to track long-term dependencies between data samples in ensemble learning. Our method utilizes a self-attention mechanism and a convolutional network to automatically learn long-term associations between traffic samples and provide them to downstream tasks in sample embedding. In addition, we design a novel stacking ensemble method, which computes the sample embedding and the predicted values of the heterogeneous base learner through the fusion module to obtain the final outlier results. This paper conducts experiments on abnormal traffic datasets in the software-defined network environment, calculates precision, recall and F1-score, and compares and analyzes them with other algorithms. The experimental results show that the method designed in this paper achieves 0.9972, 0.9996, and 0.9984 in multiple indicators of precision, recall, and F1-score, respectively, which are better than the comparison methods.

Visual Planarization in Oil Painting Techniques in Digital Information Age

The arrival of the digital information age has realized the transformation of people’s production and lifestyle, which has also promoted the vigorous development of the art field. At present, the application of informatization in oil painting techniques is increasing. The purpose of this paper is to realize the research on the visual planarization of oil painting techniques in the digital information environment to promote the ecological development of the computer and art field. By using the advanced methods and technologies of its information display, this paper proposed the use of image processing algorithms in the digital information age to guide the integration of digital information technology and oil painting techniques. This helped to analyze and solve objective problems such as the profound meaning of the objective existence in the art field and the inability to understand the emotion in it. It can be seen from the analysis of the oil painting color model that, in the RGB model, when the wavelength is within a certain range, it can be used. But when the wavelength is between 444 nanometers and 526 nanometers, the red intensity is too low. That is to say, it can not effectively express its corresponding color in this wavelength range. This model is very challenging. In the XYZ color model, when the wavelength is in a certain region, the output of red light becomes a value less than 0. Any color in this space can be well represented by a linear combination of X, Y, and Z. Therefore, the study of visual flattening of oil painting is very important in the field of art.

Movies in the Metaverse Perspective

The year 2021 is the year of metaverse. Ever since mankind moved towards the digital information age, people have been living, playing and working in the digital world. More than twenty years have passed since the movies "The Matrix" and "Avatar" unknowingly. Watching these two movies again today, there is no lack of seeing the metaverse, and the world envisioned by the metaverse can find traces in the movies. In addition to the human and mechanical, real world and virtual reality that the movies themselves are about, the metaverse movies to a certain extent give the meta-universe a figurative and deeper meaning.

Movies in the Metaverse Perspective

The year 2021 is the year of metaverse. Ever since mankind moved towards the digital information age, people have been living, playing and working in the digital world. More than twenty years have passed since the movies "The Matrix" and "Avatar" unknowingly. Watching these two movies again today, there is no lack of seeing the metaverse, and the world envisioned by the metaverse can find traces in the movies. In addition to the human and mechanical, real world and virtual reality that the movies themselves are about, the metaverse movies to a certain extent give the meta-universe a figurative and deeper meaning.

Angiosarcomas of the head and neck: Impact of large data analysis on clinical management.

Angiosarcoma is a rare but often fatal malignancy from blood and lymphatic vessels that can arise anywhere in the body and often affects the head and neck region. Although its dismal prognosis is predominantly explained by its aggressive biology, several secondary factors contribute to poor outcomes. These include a phenotypic resemblance to innocuous blood vessel lesions, which contributes to a significant degree of late diagnosis. Another important factor is the rarity of angiosarcoma, which has impaired scientific determination of its optimal treatment significantly. As a result, treatment of angiosarcomas has largely been guided by information derived from the study of sarcomas at large, themselves a highly heterogeneous group of mesenchymal cancers both from a diagnostic as well as therapeutical perspective. The Digital Revolution and resultant Information Age promise to transform the clinical management of rare cancers from a generic to a more customized approach. In this paper, we review the current understanding of head and neck angiosarcomas within the context of this process.

Workforce Development to Meet the Need for Grid Modernization [President’s Message

The power grid has nurtured the growth of our society since the late 19th century. While the grid is a technological marvel, it is also reaching the limits of its ability to meet the demands of the 21st century and beyond due to aging infrastructure, climate change, and the demand for high-quality and reliable power in the digital information age. Americans are witnessing the results of this conflict in an increasing number of regional blackouts. A massive power shortage in Texas due to a winter storm in February 2021 served as a wake-up call for this urgent situation. In another textbook example, recent wildfire-induced power outages in California have driven high-tech industries to look for states with more reliable power systems where they can relocate their facilities.

Enterprise Governance and Management of Information Technology Based on COBIT 2019

In the age of digital transformation, information and technology (I&T) have become critically important for enterprise support, sustainability and growth. Stakeholder value creation (i.e. realizing the benefits of optimal cost of resources while optimizing risk) is often driven by a high degree of digitalization in new business models, efficient processes, successful innovations, etc. Digitized businesses are increasingly dependent on I&T for survival and growth. Given the centrality of I&T in corporate risk management and value generation, special attention has been given to Enterprise Governance of Information and Technology (EGIT) over the last three decades. EGIT is an integral part of corporate governance. Over the years, the best practice frameworks have been developed and promoted to support the process of understanding, designing and implementing EGIT. COBIT is a framework for the governance and management of enterprise information and technology. COBIT® 2019 builds on and integrates more than 25 years of development in this field, not only incorporating new science knowledge, but also bringing these insights into operational practice. The features and structure of COBIT and the innovations in this version of the framework are discussed. A business case for the effective implementation of COBIT as an approach to improve information and technology management in a corporate environment is also presented.

Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information

Historical concerns over the exploitation of the Global South’s genetic biodiversity framed the importance of creating global governance mechanisms to ensure fair access to and benefit-sharing of genetic resources worldwide. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Plant Treaty) came into existence over the past three decades to redress the centuries of genetic exploitation of the Global South. Both of the treaties explicitly regulate and facilitate the exchange of physical genetic material. The recent emergence of relevant digital technologies, such as digital sequencing information (DSI), could make both treaties irrelevant. This article analyses the current state of the CBD and Plant Treaty as it relates to global agricultural research in light of DSI. I argue that DSI presents less of a threat to exacerbating historical gene flows than it does to the further displacement of public sector research by the private sector. The article then suggests looking at the lessons from open-source approaches to counter the privatisation of DSI and related gene flows. I draw on 11 key informant interviews with country negotiators involved with the CBD and Plant Treaty as well as a review of official reports from both frameworks.

Digital Protection and Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage Relying on High-Performance Computing.

The protection of intangible cultural heritage has gradually attracted people's attention. In today's digital information age, the use of digital technology in the protection of intangible cultural heritage has become the focus of research in the field of intangible cultural heritage protection. For the protection of intangible cultural heritage to become the key goal of the continuous inheritance of China's traditional culture, this paper fully analyzes the problems existing in the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage, and applies the high-performance computing method to the digital protection and development of intangible cultural heritage, which provides a strong basis for the protection of intangible cultural heritage. The accurate identification and protection of intangible cultural heritage can be achieved by using high-performance computing methods. In addition, the digital protection and development system of intangible cultural heritage is also designed. Finally, the example results show that the digital protection and development system of intangible cultural heritage proposed in this paper can effectively protect intangible cultural heritage and promote the continuous development of domestic local economy. At the same time, it can also strengthen the public awareness of the protection of intangible cultural heritage and effectively promote the inheritance and development of the protection of intangible cultural heritage.

Visual Communication Design Using Machine Vision and Digital Media Communication Technology

The dynamic design of graphic language can be seen everywhere in life as the digital media era progresses. Graphic designs, such as product packaging, poster design, book binding design, and logo design, are examples of traditional visual design. The print media is the most important factor. Graphic design that is aided by digital media technology is not limited to print but also includes network media. The teaching research of China’s visual design specialty is still in its early stages, the relevant teaching system reform of various colleges and universities is still being explored, and there is no unified standard in the digital information age. As a result, it is critical to conduct in-depth research using scientific and systematic methods in order to pave the way for the development of a domestic visual design specialty in the information age. Simultaneously, the popularization and development of new media have had a significant impact on traditional printing media, breaking the monotony of traditional visual communication and making modern visual design more vivid and intuitive. Visual perception in psychology is introduced into design thinking in this paper. Apart from its expression in art culture, the concept of space also encompasses the physics concepts of time and space, as well as the scientific research theory of visual perception in psychology, which transcends the perceptual cognition level of space in art design.

ICT, trade openness and economic growth in Tunisia: what is going wrong?

In the age of digital globalization, information and communication technologies (ICT) and international trade seem to have become the engines of economic growth. In this study, we investigate the impacts on Tunisia’s economic growth of using ICTs and greater trade openness. We employ a cross-section augmented autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) model and apply Dumitrescu and Hurlin Granger causality test to panel data for 14 economic sectors in the period 1995–2018. The empirical findings suggest that use of ICTs has a long-term relationship with value added and increased economic growth in Tunisia. In addition, trade openness and gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) have a positive and significant effect on economic growth. We also examine the relationships among these variables in the short and long run. The Dumitrescu and Hurlin test reveals four bidirectional and two unidirectional causal relationships between the variables.

A Review on Network Security and Cryptography

Cryptography is the science of information security. Information security is the most extreme basic issue in guaranteeing safe transmission of data through the web. Also network security issues are now becoming important as society is moving towards digital information age. The word cryptography is derived from Greek kryptos, meaning concealed as more and more users connect to the internet it attracts a lot of cyber-attacks. Its required to protect computer and network security i.e. the critical issues. The pernicious hubs make an issue in the system. It can utilize the assets of different hubs and safeguard the assets of its own. In this paper we provide an overview on Network Security and various techniques through which Network Security can be enhanced i.e. Cryptography.

A Review Paper on Cryptography and Network Security

With the explosively growing internet that has been merging with our lives for the past few decades, data and network security has been of utmost importance as society moves towards the age of digital information. As the number of users connected to the web increases, the threat faced by the network because of attackers also increases. Cryptography, the science of information security derived from the inherent needs of humans to converse and share information or communicate selectively at times, has the primary function of sending correct data over the network without any undesirable modifications. In cryptography, the original message is masked or encrypted by the sender and has to be decoded or decrypted by the receiver using a predefined set of algorithms decided before the commencement of the data transmission. Thereby, successfully avoiding redundant people from accessing or understanding the message as it is converted to content unreadable by the human eye.

Chinese Electronic Media: Social Evolution and Social Change in the Digital Information Age

ABSTRACT The digital information age has ushered in a new set of rules for media and media users to transform society overtime. This special issue on Chinese electronic media presents an interesting case of that transformation, by contextualizing the interactions between media content, processes, and consumption as well as identifying variables of social constrains in Chinese society. While some of the topics studied are more uniquely Chinese, other topics examined are broadly generalizable to a global setting. Our goal is to foster additional scholarly research to further advance our theoretical under- standing of these socially important topics in the future.

Profiling the digital divide of the elderly based on Internet big data: evidence from China

The integrated development of population aging and digital information age has brought an insurmountable “digital divide” to the elderly. We propose a method to profile the digital divide of the elderly by text mining, Baidu index and principal component analysis. The top ten scenarios related to the digital divide of the elderly are extracted, which are mobile, payment, phone, QR code, technology, WeChat, Alipay, cash, insurance and medical. The attention distribution of different scenarios in major cities in China was investigated and classified. The results suggest that the health code, social media, and online insurance need higher policy attention to promote narrow digital divide measure. And an inconsistency between netizens' attention and news reports makes Internet search behaviors have the potential to be a real-time supplement to narrow the digital divide among the elderly. The problem states of different cities reflect spatial heterogeneity and temporal asynchrony. The proposed method timely tracks the scenarios of the elderly's digital divide, providing effective insights and references to policy making and services and products improvement, and also providing suggestions for optimizing the development of “Internet +” aging.