Development Of Digital Communication Research Articles

Understanding Age-Related Differences in the Development of Digital Communication and Information Skills in Polish Adolescents

Research objectives: This study examines the role of digital skills in the personal and social development of young people. It aims to measure and understand these skills among the younger generation, while identifying ways to improve their development.
 Research methods: The data comes from the ySkills project under Horizon 2020, a longitudinal study conducted in six countries, including Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland and Portugal. Specifically, we have analyzed data on Polish youth from 2021 and 2022. The sample includes 609 individuals aged 11 to 18, i.e. in the entire age range. Self-report scales assess digital skills, including technical abilities, information handling, interaction, communication and content creation. Results from the entire first wave in Poland (N=1161) are also included.
 Context: In today’s digital world, digital skills are essential for personal development and social engagement. This study focuses on Poland, where digital literacy is crucial for young people. It aims to shed light on the digital competences of Polish youth.
 Findings: The study found that teenagers use the Internet mainly for social interaction and are comfortable using digital communication tools, such as email, instant messaging and social media. However, it stresses the need for further education in evaluating information available on the Internet and identifying reliable sources. Gender differences were observed, with boys demonstrating greater skills in navigating and processing information, which highlights the need for additional research to address gender disparities in digital skills.
 Conclusions and Recommendations: This study highlights the importance of digital skills for young people’s development and integration into society. To bridge the digital literacy gap, we recommend targeted educational interventions that improve critical thinking and source evaluation skills. Further research and objective assessments are key to comprehensively eliminating the gender gap in digital skills. It is important to be aware of the limitations of the study, including the reliance on self-reporting and the potential impact of COVID-19 on the sample. Future efforts should aim for more robust and objective means of assessing digital skills among young people in Poland.

Influencer’s era–the role of experts in the digital world. Do we still need their forecasts and advice?

Influencer’s era–the role of experts in the digital world. Do we still need their forecasts and advice? We live in an information society. Estimates show that by 2025 global data production will increase to over 180 zettabytes. Along with the dissemination of the Internet, the development of digital communication and the reduction of digital exclusion, we are facing a serious crisis of expert culture. Over the years, it is experts who played an important role in society, today we ask where the border between professionals and specialists with specific knowledge, and experts-soremen, who gather hundreds of thousands of thousands of users in front of the screens of mobile devices in front of the screens of mobile devices in front of the screens of mobile devices. In the course of consideration of the above issues, the authors decided to develop a new expert definition based on a review of literature together with the use of the syncretic method and the original research model. The latter was successfully used in previous studies. As part of the considerations on the indicated issues, the authors focus on four key phenomena: Influencer marketing development–as a new variety of the so -called expert sector; virtual exhibitionism in the context of surveillance capitalism; functioning of the expert sector in the Bigdata era; The role of experts- futurists reaching for the models of forecasting the future. Is there still room for experts in the thicket of data? The answer to this question is the key to defining who the expert of the future will be.

Club Goods, Club Decisions and Social Welfare

Club goods are a variety of public goods. They are consumed by individuals with homogeneous preferences who are voluntarily associated in clubs. Club members derive mutual benefit from the collective consumption of club goods, which improves their well-being and therefore enhances social welfare to a certain extent. The private initiative underpins the creation of the classic clubs. Later, the state adopted and implemented club decisions in order to increase the efficiency in the supply and collective consumption of certain private and divisible public goods. Examples of state-regulated clubs are maintaining cleanliness in settlements, supply and consumption of utilities, maintaining the national road network with vignettes and tolls, and others that are analyzed in the paper. The development of digital communications has led to the emergence of thousands of online club formations, including a global one. The final conclusion: with private or government initiatives club activities are expanded, and consumers of club goods grow in number, which in turn increases the level of social welfare.

Transformation of corporate law: quasi-corporate and quasi-public structures

The purpose of the research is to study certain aspects of transformation of corporate relations and corporate law, in the light of blurring of company boundaries and development of digital communications and startup culture. The results and conclusions are obtained based on general scientific and private scientific methods of research. Research studies examples of quasi-corporate and quasi-public structures created through (1) deferred share transfer agreements (SAFE), (2) crowdfunding agreements, (3) public market intermediary companies (SPAC), (4) exchanges for private companies. With the emergence of cross-border hybrid corporate structures at intersection of debt and equity, public and private financing, the current debates on the objectives of corporate law and the purpose of the corporation acquire a new perspective, as the very boundaries of the corporation become fluid. At the same time, decision-making procedures are mediated by third parties and digital technologies, with the prospect of conflict of interest, and are regulated, among other things, by standards emerging so to say from below. In the digital era, flexibility in the choice of elements of the structure allows to detach from the current state corporate regulation and attach to it in the right place and at the right time. It is concluded that the explosive growth of hybrid structures forms new areas of development of legal regulation by rejecting the dichotomy of soft and hard law. Among the vectors of transformation, the growing importance of private law unifications, the development of theoretical apparatus based on the concept of transnational law, the emergence of its subsystems, including lex corporatoria are noted. Among the tasks of lex corporatoria the formation of standards and customs in the field of corporate finance is also postulated as a regulatory framework for functioning of the hybrid structures under study.

The Research Process, Application, and the Future Development of Pulse-Position Modulation

With the development of digital communication, pulse-position modulation technology has become an important technology in wireless communication due to its efficient bandwidth utilization and sensitive detection efficiency. This study aims to provide some basic information on PPM. In the trend of rapid development of PPM, researchers have found that PPM plays an irreplaceable role, no matter in daily life or scientific research and development. To arouse people’s interest in PPM research, more people are attracted to participate in the study. It began with an introduction to the development process of PPM, and briefly lists the advantages and disadvantages of PPM and the development trend to help readers quickly understand its background knowledge of it. The second part started to work on different modulations based on the previous research on PPM. Various modulation methods are related to each other, and the proposal of each modulation method is based on the shortcomings of existing modulation methods. This study discusses how PPM is used in experiments. Moreover, each experiment’s measurement values and corresponding advantages are analyzed through charts, like Bit Error Rate (BER) and Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) conducted in each experiment. This study draws a conclusion by discussing the application and the broad horizon for future developments mainly used in communication engineering led by light communication. However, in recent years, PPM has been introduced in many other fields, such as detection and mechanic.

Development of digital communication and information technologies in the training of indigenous and quilombola nurses

Objetivo: relatar o desenvolvimento de Tecnologias Digitais de Comunicação e Informação como mediador no processo de formação de discentes indígenas e quilombolas em Enfermagem. Método: relato de experiência sobre o desenvolvimento de tecnologias de um projeto de extensão de uma universidade da região Norte. Utilizou de repositório de uma mídia social e relatório. O recorte temporal foi de março de 2020 a março de 2021 realizado no percurso da modalidade do ensino remoto. Realizou-se o desenvolvimento de 38 postagens. Resultados: o projeto usou dos recursos tecnológicos para diminuir os impactos da pandemia na formação acadêmica e neste percurso foram identificadas duas categorias para sua implementação: uso de tecnologias no processo de divulgação e disseminação da informação na extensão universitária; e tecnologias para efetivação das políticas afirmativas na Enfermagem. Considerações finais: as tecnologias são mediadoras no processo de formação em Enfermagem e na implementação da formação de discentes oriundos de políticas afirmativas nos espaços acadêmicos. Esses recursos tecnológicos podem proporcionar, de forma clara e objetiva, a disseminação de conhecimento para a comunidade, em geral, a partir da transformação social, e sobre temáticas do processo saúde-doença e cotidiano, além de diminuir as desigualdades com grupos tradicionais.

Digital Technologies in Arctic Oil and Gas Resources Extraction: Global Trends and Russian Experience

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the current and the forecast of the prospective state of introducing digital technologies into the oil and gas mining industry of the Russian Arctic. The authors of the paper analyzed the global trends that define the process of digital technologies’ introduction into the oil and gas mining industry. They also reviewed the Russian companies’ experience in this sphere. The main trends and prospects for the development of oil and gas resources extraction in the Russian Arctic in the digitalization sphere were identified. Together with this, the researchers considered prospects for digital technologies’ introduction into the oil and gas industry, observing their competition with RES. As a result, the authors have come to the following conclusions: (1) in Russian companies, digitalization is being more actively introduced into the processes of general enterprise management. (2) The main purpose of Russian oil and gas sector digitalization is to increase the efficiency of business process management, while the key constraining factors of digitalization are the lack of qualified personnel, lack of material and technical base and cyber-security threats aggravation. (3) The prospects of introducing a new package of sanctions can become both an incentive for a qualitative leap in Russian software development/implementation and an obstacle to the development of Arctic projects due to their rise in price. (4) The COVID-19 pandemic factor is one of the incentives for the widespread introduction of production and various business processes automation in the oil and gas industry, as well as the development of digital communications. (5) The leader in the digital technology development industry among Russian oil and gas companies is “Gazprom Neft” PJSC, followed by “NK Rosneft” PJSC. (6) “Gazprom” PJSC continues to lag behind in the sphere of digitalization; however, qualitative changes here should be expected in 2022. (7) The “sensitivity parameters” influencing the industry digitalization process in the Arctic region are the high dependence on foreign technological solutions and software, characteristics of the entire Russian oil and gas industry, and the problem of ensuring cybersecurity in Arctic oil and gas projects and power outages. (8) For the Arctic regions, the use of RES as the main source of electricity is the most optimal and promising solution; however, hydrocarbon energy will still dominate the market in the foreseeable future.

FAMILY MEMORY OF THE RUSSIA’S CITIZENS IN THE CONTEXT OF ACTUAL SOCIAL CHALLENGES

Applying to the sociological data, the author examines the Russians’ perception of the family memory as a source of historical knowledge and proves that the memory about relatives and friends who have become participants and witnesses of the state’s key events seriously “feeds” the emotional citizens’ attitude towards symbols of the state identity and national pride. The actuality of the article is determinated by the global development of digital communication that seriously influences on the interest towards the reconstruction of family history and allows persons today to lift the veil of secrecy over the history of many families. Contemporary internet resources give wide opportunities for many modernized citizens to receive objective historical knowledge about their families. The purpose of this article is to study the specifics of the preservation and reproduction of family memory by the Russia’s citizens. In order to achieve this goal the author implement some research tasks. The author study as the place of the family memory among a number of various historical sources as the demand for family historical knowledge that the persons from different socio-demographic groups has. The special attention is paid to the study of the social media mechanisms that are using in order to reconstruct and reproduce the family memory.

Conscious Consumption Ideology and Brand Values Perception

In modern terms, a new view of consumption is being formed, its impact on human health and the natural environment surrounding it, the commitment to the principles of a healthy lifestyle and a conscious attitude to the surrounding world is growing. As a reflection of these ideas, the trend for conscious, ethical consumption is actively developing. In response to the rapid development of digital communications of consumers and the formation of new demand parameters, there are changes in the market positioning of brands of companies around the world, so it is important to understand the vectors of these changes and the intensity of their impact. It is necessary to assess the real relevance of these issues, in particular, for the Russian markets. including representatives of various, especially youth, consumer audience. The purpose of this study is to obtain evidence of the use of the ideology of conscious consumption in the promotion of leading domestic and foreign brands represented on the Russian market on the example of clothing brands, as well as to test the perception of this ideology among young consumers. The applied methodology for analyzing the marketing content of leading foreign and Russian brands on the Internet showed a slight use of social and ethical parameters in marketing, and the survey of representatives of the youth audience of consumers of premium brands on the examples of clothing brands demonstrated that the parameters of conscious consumption are important for the surveyed youth audience, but differently affect their perception of the brand value.

Tourism in the Age of Digital Communications

The article considers various aspects of digital communication in tourism marketing, the intensive modern development of which has become a reflection on the realities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By analyzing and synthesizing the study of various scientific sources and statistics, the purpose of the work was achieved – to understand the phenomenon of innovative forms and manifestations of digital marketing in the field of tourism. The novelty lies in the study of prospects for further interaction and development of digital communication in marketing and tourism.

Research on the factors of consumer satisfaction with the development of digital communications: expectations and reality

The authors of this article proceed from the fact that, as a result of the intensive development of digital technologies, a digital society has formed an understanding of life, in which many habitual social practices have been transformed into digital ones. In particular, digital technologies have contributed to the fact that communication on personal, social and commercial issues has moved to a different, virtual level. However, in a number of areas, digital communication causes problems and communication disruptions. For example, previous studies have highlighted high levels of consumer dissatisfaction with companies using digital communication tools. Especially a lot of criticism is caused by answerphones, recently widely popular and used increasingly by public and commercial institutions. The article examines the new ways companies use to deliver their message to an existing or potential customer, as well as the quality and customer ratings of some of these solutions. In addition, the authors tried to identify factors that influence consumer satisfaction when communicating with companies in the digital environment. The main research methods are analysis of previous projects results, interviews and online survey. The article is based on the results of the research conducted in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. The city residents expectations for the automated communication system used in the modern world between the user and the service provider in case when communication is initiated by the consumer to solve his problems were studied on the example of telecommunications companies. These expectations were divided into six groups, and a comparative quantitative assessment of consumer expectations and the actual quality of communication was made. A low level of satisfaction with new ways of communication between companies and consumers was detected, and factors influencing consumer attitudes were identified. In general, the study showed that the formed factors determine the priority directions of transformation of the communication practices of companies and are the basis for the balance of technologies and human resources at the enterprise.

Цифрова дипломатія в інформаційному просторі.

The paper is devoted to the emergence of digital diplomacy in the informational space and its public side. Talking into account the development of information technology and the accelerated growth of social networks, a new reality is being considered in the development of the informational space not only for organizations and citizens, but also for states. The idea is substantiated that along with changes in the sphere of public life, the transformation of diplomacy can also take place in the digital age. It is shown how foreign affairs agencies use social networks and other tools to communicate with the public. The author comes to the conclusion that with the objective development of means of communication in the informational space, the evolution of diplomacy takes place, while maintaining its significance in interstate interaction.Problem statement in general and its relation to important scientific and practical tasks. With the development of new technologies in diplomatic practice and with the advent of the concept of “digital diplomacy”, works began to appear in many information sources that raise questions of the broad understanding of the potential of the digital network for the needs of foreign policy. The diplomats had the opportunity to directly, live, monitor various international events, in contrast to the traditional models of diplomatic communication between countries and heads of state. There is an opportunity to analyze foreign audiences, handle and exchange data, develop new formats for multilateral cooperation to provide international assistance to developing countries. One of the main tasks for digital diplomacy is the task of adapting the ministries of foreign affairs to new achievements in the informational and technological field. This problem has been little studied and requires modern research.Formation of research objectives (goals). To trace how the development of digital communication in the information space affects the evolution of diplomacy in the interstate interaction.Statement of the main results and their justification. To indicate an innovative way of influencing foreign society using the Internet, the following is used: Internet diplomacy, social networks diplomacy (Twitter diplomacy), public diplomacy Web 2.0 Public diplomacy, using new technologies, is constantly improving foreign policy mechanisms both to meet the country's foreign affairs needs and to strengthen its position in the information space. It is about improving the interaction of diplomats with foreign Internet users using digital diplomacy, the main tool of which are social networks.Initially, the term “digital diplomacy” was used in relation to US public policy, relying on digital technologies to promote foreign policy interests, the impact of information propaganda via the Internet, social networks and mobile phones on the mass consciousness and the political elite . At the same time, social media make it possible to carry out this task in real time and cover a wide radius of action.For the future of digital diplomacy, the issue of adapting the state information policy to the new tasks and challenges of the information technology sphere is important. It is important to understand that modern diplomacy has evolved and will change along with the objective development of means of communication in the informational space, while retaining its significance in the interstate interaction.Conclusions and prospects for further research. Information technologies can transform and change, but at the same time they represent one of the key technological products of current society, introducing into the global world order the increasingly pronounced element of the concentration of the Network. For effective and innovative development of Ukraine, new foreign policy projects in the digital sphere of the informational space are needed. When implementing modern projects, the state should take into account the opportunities offered by the informational environment. These opportunities are provided by the promising toolkit of digital diplomacy.It is necessary to consider the potential of digital diplomacy for Ukraine taking into account the potential for further development of the informational sector for the domestic economy, national security, and public administration. It is important to try to find a balance between informational security and active foreign policy in the informational space aimed at increasing the attractiveness of Ukraine in the world. It is necessary to involve civil society representatives in the implementation of foreign policy goals with the coordinating role of the state, which is a prospect for further research.

ETUDIANTS SANS FRONTIERES: FACILITATING ONLINE INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE THROUGH MUSIC TECHNOLOGY

Cultural exchange and internationalization—the process of integrating an international, intercultural, or global dimension into the functions and delivery of higher education—have increased markedly in significance within higher education in the last few years. In the broadest sense, this agenda is about preparing students for living in and contributing to an increasingly connected global society. At a time when the political and social trend seems to be toward exclusionism, exposing students to a vibrant blend of ideas, opinions, and experiences within the stimulating, yet safe, space of university resonates all the more strongly. However, historically it has been difficult to encourage students to participate fully, particularly with regard to student mobility and studying abroad. Socioeconomic and cultural factors play an important role here. This case study investigates the design and rollout of an innovative online international exchange program carried out between Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, and DePaul University in Chicago, IL. As part of their core mission, both institutions are committed to widening participation, and both have a high proportion of first-generation students from the lowest socioeconomic groups. Consequently, the student mobility rate at both universities is low, which limits opportunities for students to situate their learning within a global context. Recent developments in digital communications and platform sharing technologies have allowed universities to explore online collaboration and virtual exchange, but this raises new challenges. In particular, how do you embed a sense of genuine cultural exchange and collaboration between students who are geographically remote, very possibly in different time zones, and—crucially—still enmeshed in their local culture? This paper outlines an innovative and practical response to that problem, using a collaborative project in which students must serve as both directors and clients in the production of creative sound works to facilitate a profound and meaningful cultural exchange. The paper outlines the design and implementation of this online student exchange program; discusses the challenges, benefits, and drawbacks to the approach; and concludes by generalizing from this particular case to discuss how discipline-specific skills can be used as a mechanism to build cohesive and outward-looking cohorts of students, even when they are not co- located on campus.

Median ilmaisuvoimaisuus pörssiyhtiöiden sijoittajille suunnatussa viestinnässä

Inspired by the development of digital communication, listed companies are constantly developing new ways to serve and attract interested audiences on their Investor Relations websites. This paper focuses on the types and variety of multimodal semiotic resources employed on Investor Relations websites of Finnish listed companies with specific focus on the use of videos. The aim of the paper is to explore how videos are used, what form they take and which affordances they offer as a presentation form from the perspective of financial communication. The data is derived from the IR websites of three Finnish industrial companies. The results of the study show that the three companies have somewhat different numbers of videos on their IR websites, but the most common type of video, a webcast announcing periodic results of the companies is the same for all companies. The webcasts seem to have an established format combining audio, still pictures or video with PowerPoint slides embedded on the websites, indicating that a hybrid genre is developing. Video is used as part of the webcasts because it allows a rhetorical use of nonverbal cues, such as tone of voice, gestures and facial expressions, targeted focus and clarity of language. These are features of a rich communication medium generating affect, delivering an image of openness and creating trust and thus potentially influencing decisions. However, two central features of rich media, the degree of interaction and possibility of feedback are limited because they cannot easily be controlled by the company.

The (Anti)Social Life of a Digital Journal in the Era of Global Info-Capitalism

By reflecting on running the open-access online “race” journal darkmatter, the author examines the crisis of academic journal publishing. This crisis is manifested by the transformations in the economics of journal production, especially with the rise of open-access publishing and the neoliberalization of the academy; the developments in digital communications; and the global consolidation of Western corporate publishing power in “info-capitalism.” The evolution of darkmatter is poised in terms of negotiating this crisis as opportunity and risk. The digital journal is able to produce a range of multimedia outputs addressing the interdisciplinary fields of race and postcolonial study. The challenge of emerging Web projects and the proliferation of online information potentially repositions darkmatter as the privileged site for the publication of scholarly research. The essay speculates on this critical journal in a time of “information overload” as a site of “autonomous resistance” in the increasing commodification of knowledge.

TV digitalisation in Serbia: Myth or reality

Contemporary researchers believe that, in the near future, a convergence will be developed towards all portable networks having sufficient capacity to transmit all kinds of massages - from data to video, in real time, and towards a choice of devices allowing certain contents to be followed depending on circumstances. In other words, all content will be available on all types of terminals. News will be followed on PCs, e-mails sent from TV receivers and databases will be searched on mobile phones. Moreover, it seems that viewers will create their programmes, programme schedules and receive information when suitable to them. 'On demand' services will be dominant services in future. This situation leads towards the division of the audio-visual sphere into two categories: on the one side, there are creators and owners of content and on the other there are transmitters of content. If we know that each portable channel and terminal device has its own characteristics, we can conclude that a producer and an owner of content have to process it in such a way that it can be adapted i.e. easily adapted for distribution over various channels and reception at various terminals. At the moment, televisions and production houses still have a certain type of monopoly over the production of audio-visual programmes. Exploiting and sustaining this advantage is one of the important challenges imposed by the development of digital communication. Due to everything mentioned above, the authors of this paper are conducting a survey on consumers of the media content. So far the pilot survey is carried out only in Vojvodina, and the purpose of the survey is to find out whether respondents are familiarized with the digitalization process.

Steganography: Dct Coefficient Replacement Method andCompare With Jsteg Algorithm

Steganography is a method for hiding secret data in another media which is called cover. The selection of cover and techniques for hiding data is for caching less attention and visual distortion. The outlet of steganography system is called Steganograme which has the similar characteristics to the cover, and also it contains our hidden information. Steganography is not a new subject which is considered nowadays, its history can be traced in 440 BC. In the first usage of this knowledge the secret messages were written on the shaved head of Greek soldiers, when their hair grew up, the messages were concealed from the others. By development of digital communication and multimedia technology, steganography is being entered to a new season. These days images, audio and video files can be used as a cover media. In this paper, a digital image is used for this reason. By changing the way of data embedding in JSteg algorithm a new method can be achieved, which has higher signal to noise ratio and also its coefficient histogram is more similar to the cover image histogram. Most of the steganography techniques; which hide the data

An anthropologist in the world revolution

Keith Hart argues that the rapid development of digital communications has triggered a world revolution that anthropologists must join. Everyone's trajectory through this transition is particular to them, so he tells the story through his own personal experience over the last two decades. He shows how a recent initiative, the Open Anthropology Cooperative, expresses the potential of our moment in history. Anthropologists have a lot to gain, professionally and as human beings, from opening up to this revolution.

Intra-vehicle digital communications: characterization and simulation of the electromagnetic environment

Abstract Most of the studies on electromagnetic noise and the potential sources of interference were conducted to protect analog communications and have now appeared to be insufficient given the widespread development of digital communications. New approaches appropriate for digital communications are currently under development. We have chosen to illustrate these recent approaches by focusing on the particular application of intra-vehicle transmission. In this article, we consider two examples of data transmission: wire transmissions over a power line network, better known as power line communication, and wireless links inside the vehicle's passenger cell. We focus on characterizing the electromagnetic environment but we also highlight the potential of reverberation chambers for reproducibly simulating multi-path environments. To cite this article: F. Rouissi et al., C. R. Physique 10 (2009).

Recent developments in digital communications

Several techniques have been developed recently for increasing the reliability of digital communication systems. Of particular importance are innovations in detection procedures and the introduction of a feedback channel from the receiver to the transmitter for purposes of error control. It is shown that benefit accrues from the combined use of coding, null-zone detection, and feedback