Age Of Digital Technology Research Articles

E-Commerce and the Factors Affecting Its Development in the Age of Digital Technology: Empirical Evidence at EU–27 Level

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors influencing e-commerce and to evaluate the long and short-term impacts on the development of e-commerce activity. After establishing the hypotheses to verify, we use multiple panel regressions to test the influence of education level, consumer’s residence, consumer’s labour market status, internet banking, mobile and non-mobile users on the development of e-commerce. For this matter, in this paper, by adopting the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) method and a vector error correction model (VECM), we performed an empirical analysis of the nexus between education level, consumer’s residence, consumer’s labour market status, internet banking and mobile and non-mobile users and e-commerce, based on panel data for EU–27 countries from 2011 to 2020. The results of the study indicate that all the variables involved in the two econometric models and associated with education level, consumer’s residence, labour market status, internet banking, mobile and non-mobile users, all have significant impacts on the development of e-commerce. Most of the variables positively influence the development of e-commerce except for internet purchases by individuals un-employed and for internet purchases by non-mobile users that are negatively correlated with e-commerce activity.

Curating Women’s Business: A Feminist Publishing Perspective

This article takes the form of an interview with Polly Russell, the Lead Curator for Contemporary Politics and Public Life in the Manuscripts and Archives department at the British Library 2015–20, who is also British Library partner to the Business of Women’s Words project, led by interviewer Margaretta Jolly. Russell discusses if and how archival practices capture radical business histories and how they could be developed to further connect and communicate them. This includes debates over enhancing collection records, privacy, law and reputation management, and links with professional and social movement networks. She points to the creative use of archival materials from Virago, Spare Rib and other feminist publishing businesses in a digital map, radio programmes, schools and professional training workshops, and a major public exhibition at The British Library. We conclude by considering the future of the radical business archive in an age of digital technology.

Digital Capitalism and Coal Mine Workers

One hundred and seventy-five years ago, in his book titled The Condition of the Working Class in England, Engels wrote about the ways in which the mine workers were exploited within the capitalist system. Classical economists believed that with the improvements in technology, capitalism would create egalitarian employment opportunities for everyone. In their opinion, the coal which served as a catalyser for the classical modernization had no place in the age of digital technology. However nowadays, especially in various developing countries such as Turkey, in the production of coal mines, the existing working conditions are the same as the ones that were applicable one hundred and seventy years ago and the exploitation of the labour of the workers continues. Notwithstanding, digital technologies serve for the control of capitalist production instead of the wellbeing of the workers. Coal has always had an important role in the historical continuity and discontinuity periods of capitalism. Considering the unbreakable link between the exploitation of nature and capitalist accumulation of capital, giving up coal and switching to renewable energy sources does not seem possible. The dialectical link between technology consumption and technology production is also one of the most important reasons for coal production to continue. This article argues that in Turkey today, the technology used in coal mine craft prioritises the control of labour rather than prioritizing the working comfort of the mine workers.

The Level of Readiness among Rural School Teacher in Improving the Language Skills of Preschool Children by Using the Multimedia

All children have their right to go to school and learn regardless of who they are. Having an education helps people to access all of their other human rights. Therefore, Ministry of Education in Malaysia made early childhood education compulsory. Literacy development has contributed to the knowledge in early childhood education. In the age of digital technology, 21st century learning is an era of change and innovation in education. Rural preschools in Malaysia have shown their dedication to make 21st century learning a prime medium in increasing literacy. The use of multimedia during preschool children's learning sessions is more interactive by relying on the integration of various media including audio, video, graphics and others to enhance children's language development. This research objective is to find out the level of readiness of pre-school teachers in the development of early childhood literacy based on 21st century learning. The questionnaire has been distributed to 30 samples of respondents in third grade rural primary school teachers in Kapit District, Sarawak was selected randomly. The findings of this study showed that teachers in rural areas are ready to apply the multimedia in teaching literacy. Hence, it is hoped that the findings of this study will assist certain parties, especially the Malaysian Ministry of Education to conduct special training in order to solve the problems that occur in rural primary schools.

The Magic and Metaphysics of Shit: The Production of Space and Digital Technology

ABSTRACT Reading Henri Lefebvre alongside Bernard Stiegler, this paper explores the changes that have taken place to the production of space in our age of digital technology. Lefebvre sensed the radical changes taking place in society through the implementation of computational technologies. He asked a prescient question: How is this space being produced? Lefebvre was unable to foresee the significant changes to the actual mechanics of the production of space brought about by the third industrial revolution. A thinker who does do this is Bernard Stiegler who is interested in how new digital technologies change memory via tertiary mnemotechnical devices – memory storage devices that are external to the human body. Reading Lefebvre alongside Stiegler might seem unusual, however I will demonstrate that implicit in Lefebvre’s argument regarding the production of space is memory and implicit in Stiegler’s argument regarding the exteriorization of memory in technics is space.

Course Overview Note: Public Sector Innovation and Leadership in the Age of Digital Technology

This course is based on the hypothesis that digital technology will transform the way government operates, and (if properly implemented) these technologies have the potential to create significant public value. However, digital technology in the public sector often does not reach its full potential due to some combination of: bad and/obsolete implementation, poor design, and so on. To take advantage of this opportunity, and prevent continued failures, we need public sector leaders who (while not necessarily digital experts) know how to ask experts the right questions, have a vision of what can be achieved with these technologies, and the skills to lead innovation. This semester-long survey course is intended for Masters of Public Policy, and Masters of Public Administration, students who (although not technology specialists) will likely be called on: to supervise, provide advice about, or otherwise be involved with, digital technology projects in the public or not-for-profit sectors.

Role of Public Libraries in Providing Community Information Services

The goal of this paper is to analyze the role played by public libraries in driving community education and promoting information literacy in digital society. Public libraries being storehouses of knowledge, they have always supported user education while undertaking active part in community information services. We design a simple model to explain and analyze the effects of public libraries on user education and community literacy drive. We also discuss the relevance and value of public libraries in this age of digital technology. Our findings reinforce the claim that public libraries are still relevant even in this digital age, and they indeed support user education for the progressive improvement of society.

Developments in the Scholarly Use of Digital Archive Material

In order to analyse ordinary scholarly practices in the age of digital technology, we are obliged to explore the route of digital archives, whose number of users, volume of documents, and range of content have increased considerably in the past decade. Two studies carried out five years apart on users of the Gallica digital library, the digital archive of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (France’s national library) and its partners, alongside other analysis (semi-structured interviews; ethnographic video observations; and analysis of access logs) have enabled conclusions to be drawn from changes in recent years in our relationship to digital archive material and its user interfaces regarding the growing role of personal research and the development of close reading online.

The changing role of the marketing researcher in the age of digital technology: Practitioner perspectives on the digitization of marketing research

After years of hype, marketing researchers are now facing the challenge of integrating new digital technologies into their work. Based on an analysis of 44 key informant interviews with marketing research practitioners, the study develops a framework to describe the main benefits and challenges of digital technologies in marketing research, as perceived by marketing researchers themselves. It highlights successful strategies that have been employed to exploit digital technologies and suggests that the role of the market researcher is changing in the age of digital data. The marketing researcher of the future must fulfill the roles of being a social scientist and a storyteller. In both cases, although researchers may need to develop technical skills, it is also essential that they develop the ability to engage their clients, add value, and interpret data. Implications for industry and academia are discussed.

Digital Commons and Citizen Coproduction in Smart Cities: Assessment of Brazilian Municipal E-Government Platforms

Good governance practices through electronic government (eGov) platforms can be suitable instruments for strengthening the outcomes of smart city policies. While eGov is the application of information and communication technologies to public services, good governance defines how well public authorities manage public and social resources. Contemporary public management views, such as ‘new public service’, include citizen participation as a critical factor to sustainable government in smart cities. Public services, in the age of digital technology, need to not only be delivered through eGov platforms, but also need to be coproduced with the engagement of social players, e.g., citizens. In this sense, eGov platforms act as digital commons, and conceived as digital spaces, where citizens and public agents interact and collaborate. In this paper, we presented the Municipal eGov Platform Assessment Model (MEPA), which is a model specifically developed to evaluate eGov platforms regarding their potential to promote commons in smart cities. The study applied MEPA to 903 municipal websites across Brazil. The results revealed that the majority of investigated Brazilian eGov platforms have only a low level of digital commons maturity. This finding discloses less citizenship coproduction, and fewer opportunities for city smartness. As the MEPA model offers public authorities an instrument to depict weaknesses and strengths of municipal eGov platforms, its adoption provides an opportunity for authorities to plan and manage their platforms to act as promoters of digital commons and citizen coproduction.

Legal Protection for Urban Online-Transportation-Users’ Personal Data Disclosure in the Age of Digital Technology

This study aims to describe the protection of personal data of online transportation customer from the perspective of legal protection for privacy. Although online transportation services enable users to travel with low-cost easily, they also pose new challenges. The challenges include the absence of standards of protection for both passengers and drivers, especially the protection of the user’s privacy rights. The issue of personal data protection and the privacy rights has arisen after some drivers intimidate their customers because the customers give bad ratings that the drivers do not desire. The types of intimidation are, among others, determining the work time, travel route, house condition, workplace condition, etc. Criminal individuals can expose all weaknesses in customers’ personal data protection to commit acts of crime. In addition, the users’ personal data can be transferred to other parties outside the jurisdiction of Indonesian law. This study uses normative legal research with prescriptive character. The legal approach used in this study is the conceptual and the regulatory approaches. The results show that, until now, there is no guarantee of the protection of privacy rights for online transportation users. The consumers’ efforts to make legal remedies for compensation claims also face problems due to the existence of standard clauses in the provisions of the privacy policy. Perlindungan Hukum terhadap Pengguna Transportasi Daring terhadap Keamanan Privasi Data Pribadi Digital Abstrak Artikel ini meneliti tentang bagaimana pemetaan keamanan data pribadi digital pelanggan moda transportasi online di Indonesia dalam perspektif perlindungan hukum atas privasi. Meski layanan moda transportasi online memudahkan pengguna untuk bepergian dengan tawaran tarif murah, namun moda transportasi daring berbasis aplikasi juga menimbulkan tantangan baru, yaitu belum adanya standar keamanan baik bagi penumpang maupun driver moda transportasi berbasis online, khususnya keamanan hak atas privasi data pribadi digital. Persoalan keamanan data pribadi sudah muncul mulai dari pelanggan yang diintimidasi oleh driver karena memberikan penilaian buruk, sms atau chat whatsapp yang tidak dikehendaki dari driver atau pihak ketiga lainnya, sampai pada mendeterminasi waktu berangkat kerja, rute perjalanan, kondisi rumah, kondisi tempat kerja. Semua kelemahan keamanan data pribadi pelanggan dapat dimanfaatkan oleh oknum kriminal untuk melakukan aksi kejahatan, bahkan penjualan data-data penting yang bersifat pribadi itu ke pihak lain. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa sampai saat ini belum ada jaminan keamanan perlindungan hak atas privasi bagi pengguna transportasi daring dan upaya pengguna sebagai konsumen dalam melakukan upaya hukum gugatan ganti rugi juga menghadapi persoalan karena adanya standar klausula baku pada ketentuan kebijakan privasi DOI: https://doi.org/10.22304/pjih.v5n3.a5

Newly generated ritual in the age of digital technology

Abstract This study aims at re-constructing the philosopher Walter Benjamin’s celebrated contention from his 1936 article, ‘The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction’, regarding the disappearance of aura and ritual within widely replicated artworks. By introducing artworks that circulate within virtual space, I will demonstrate how, in the era of digital technology, numerous examples show us that mass reproduction helps aura to exist; leads to the creation of new ritual phenomena; and both recuperates and transforms the idea of the ‘disappearance’ of rituals. In this article, transformation of these newly generated rituals appears via the generation of online fan fiction. First, the article details rituals created by the character, Spock, in the television series, Star Trek (Roddenberry, 1966–69), followed by the phenomenon of 1990s Korean popular culture, fan fiction. In addition, the scope expands to include an example of ‘after school programs’ incorporating K-pop, allowing digital spaces to produce and foster new forms of ritual via online artworks. This article references sociocultural examples from film and aura in American television, and then highlights two Korean fan communities to suggest an extended interpretation of Benjamin’s ideas to include artworks circulating in digital environments.

Learning Effects: The Role of Digital Technology on Platforms

Platforms that interconnect people, organizations and resources into a generative ecosystem of value creation and capture are becoming increasingly important to compete in the age of digital technology. Yet, the role of digital technology for the design and management of platforms is not well understood, and oftentimes black-boxed, in the literature on strategic management and related fields concerned with platform competition. The recent phenomenon of the rise of machine learning and related advancements in digital technology on platforms highlights the need for extending platform research beyond the concept of network effects. While this established concept has been very useful to understand the rapid scaling of platform user bases, it does not shed light on the nature of the interactions that occur within those user bases and on platforms themselves through applications of digital technology such as machine learning. To shed light on this important topic, we examine the role of digital technology on platforms and introduce the novel concept of learning effects as a complementary concept to our existing understanding of network effects. Based on the alternative assumption of platform self-tuning, which contrasts with established assumptions in the literature, we define learning effects as the impact that the acquisition of new data, information or knowledge by users or machines on a platform has on the value created for each participant, and build a conceptual model that details the various types of intended and unintended learning effects that occur in the relationship between humans and machines on platforms. Our model contributes to literature with a more integrative perspective on platform dynamics.

Ethical Questions for Anatomical Body Programs in an Age of Digital Technology

Digital technology is influencing how many teaching institutions use bodies donated to science, with medical imaging procedures, photographs, 3D printing, and genomic information all being increasingly utilized. The increasing use of digitization raises new ethical considerations about how such bodies are used. Elements of information acquisition and communication that were not previously relevant, including ease of data sharing, size and type of data bases, authorization of information transfer, commercialization of information, and incidental findings arising from exome analysis, must now be considered. At present there is a lack of empirical evidence to guide appropriate utilization of this digital information including how acquisition, utilization, distribution, and destruction of such data should take place. The increasing use of digital technology with bodies donated to science raises questions on the nature of informed consent in a digital age, how family involvement in consent processes should be shaped, about anonymity and information sharing, and how potential commercialization of data should be addressed to facilitate the additional benefits such technology may bring to anatomical education.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.

The borderless designs in the age of digital technology: The shifting and reinvention of kebaya designs in Indonesia

<p class="Abstract">People, products, technology, and information have influenced each other since life began. History has shown that the work of art as a man-made product in the society receives influence from many different angles such as power and technology. That influence has grown bigger and wider as globalization expands. The development in the world of technology and information gives a different yet significant impact to people’s lives. What has happened in the increased global world leads to the formation of borderless society. The intertwined cultural identities became the root of the revolutionary changing in the reinvention of <i>kebaya</i> designs. The reproduction of <i>kebaya </i>designs shows that the designs have shifted from the main stream designs to the borderless designs. The old patterns of <i>kebaya</i> are modified by combining materials and new patterns that have never been appeared in the main stream <i>kebaya </i>designs.  Based on the above explanation, this paper explores the reinvention of <i>kebaya</i> by Anne Avantie (Indonesian remarkable designer) and the rapid distribution of the copies in this digital technology era. The result of this study shows that the borderless <i>kebaya</i> designs are well accepted by the society.<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
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This Customer is Complicated and Tedious!!!: Investigating Maxim Flouting and its Functions in Business E-mail Correspondence

Email correspondence is a significant part of business transactions in the age of digital technology. Writers of business emails should therefore conform to the widely accepted etiquettes such as clarity, conciseness, politeness and relevance (Gimenez-Moreno, 2011). This can contribute to the success of business partnership in the long run. Interestingly, in the real world communication, all the etiquettes are not always observed because of different circumstances. Based on the framework of Grice’s Cooperative Principle and maxims (1975), the purpose of this research was to examine the functions of maxim flouting done by the relevant parties while discussing their business transactions. The data came from email correspondence among the three business partners: a Thai export company, a European sales representative and two European clients. The findings suggested that the correspondents flouted the four maxims to serve specific purposes: to prompt actions, to show sincerity, to show strong intimacy, and to exercise solidarity. I therefore concluded that breaking the maxims did not necessarily jeopardise business partnership. In contrast, it could even be beneficial to the parties involved.

Media hype: Patient and scientific perspectives on misleading medical news.

In this age of digital technology, Internet, and social media we are increasingly subjected to an information and disinformation overload. This includes not only political and economic information but also medical news, which is often presented as a "new discovery", "miracle cure" or some other press hyperbole. In this viewpoint article we present patient and scientific perspectives some recent episodes of medical hype related to Parkinson's disease research, including proposed therapies such as nilotinib, marijuana, stem cells and other controversial therapies that have attracted the mainstream and social media. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of vigilance on the part of patients and physicians when interpreting these often exaggerated and/or unfounded health claims. © 2017 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

From Linear Industrial Structures to Living Systems: A Design Shift in Education for Sustainability

If sustainability is to be an integral part of rethinking education organization, it is necessary to redesign mental models that shape present curricular structures. Assumptions underlying the design of most schools and curricula are based on linear industrial models, which raises an essential question: How can we use opposite concepts of systems dynamics and living structures to create a shift in our present thinking about curriculum and learning for sustainability? From this, we can begin a dramatic design shift toward innovative curriculum to prepare future students and teachers. This article begins with a critique of modern industrial education, then moves into an overview of sustainability concepts and structure through systems thinking. The article then presents the research of an original sustainability curriculum that structures assessment to measure systems thinking. From the results, the article then explores a conceptual design framework for a 21st century curriculum that bio-mimics living systems and organic molecular structure, based on systems thinking and mechanistic principles. By placing assessment on competency relationships and not solely assignment completion, this new framework encourages students and educators to develop emerging 21st century skills in the age of digital technology and communication. This essay and framework, which emerged from the author’s dissertation research and findings, offers a new conceptual tool to the field of sustainability education while challenging educators to adopt living systems into their own instructional designs.

Transformation of photojournalism practice in the Czech Republic in the age of digital technology

This study investigates the impact of digitalization on the photojournalistic profession and its transformation during the last two decades. The development of digital technology and the Internet by the end of the 20th century has brought several questions to the field of photojournalism and impacted the entire process of photojournalistic material production. Taking the example of the Czech Republic, we examine how photojournalists and photo editors perceive the changes brought on by the adoption of digital technology and how news routines, photojournalistic practices, image content, and professional identity have been reshaped. We conducted in-depth interviews and surveys with 48 photojournalists and photo editors from different Czech news media and magazines. The findings show how Czech photojournalists evaluate the state of their profession after digitalization. We also discuss a new way of image taking, so-called ‘cinematic shooting’, the ‘myth of acceleration’, and new responsibilities laid upon visual news professionals.

Pedagogic dilemmas to flows of knowledge in the age of digital technology

The main purpose of this paper is to argue why we adopted the socio-technical system as a heuristic device. We understand it is a good methodological resource to interpret what is happening in education systems with the progressive introduction of digital technologies, helping us to understand the changes that are occurring, and documented here, concomitant with the technological innovation, also involved political factors and economic modeling ending the “new education”.