Digital Epoch Research Articles

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF THE COMPANY IN THE EPOCH OF DIGITALIZATION

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF THE COMPANY IN THE EPOCH OF DIGITALIZATION

Philosophy in the digital epoch: potential development and challenges

The world of digital technologies is reformatting socio-humanitarian knowledge, in which digital humanities are actively developing, bringing together the hard sciences and humanities. It began to take shape form in the middle of the XXth century, and due to digital humanities, traditional philosophical questions received new perspectives also. The huge amount of digitized information does not simplify, but often complicates the search for true knowledge, pushing to epistemological pessimism. Blurring the boundaries between the physical world and the computer virtual environment in a new way raises the ontological question of reality itself and its boundaries. The ability to create a new person (s) in a virtual environment often causes not only psychological, but also axiological problems, contributes to the crime of ethical norms, and leads to alienation between people. In the field of philosophical anthropology, the gradual cyborgization of society modifies the question of the essence of man (Transhumanism, etc.). A new branch of philosophical knowledge, digital philosophy, is developing actively. It can be interpreted in two directions: simple digitization of philosophical texts and visualization of philosophy or an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of metaphysics and cosmology. All the above allows us to speak about the formation of new vectors of philosophical knowledge: media philosophy, digital philosophy, etc.

Educational Systems and the Need to Review Traditions in Order to Respond to Labour Market Demands

This article attempts to present the challenges facing modern educational systems in the EU, and particularly that of Bulgaria, and which are the result of the dynamics of both the digital epoch, and a labour market without borders. The paper brings forward arguments in favour of reviewing and reconsidering the concept of educational policies addressing adequate employee skills for a competitive labour market. Conclusions and suggestions are made on the basis of research into the national regulatory framework and the recommendation of EESC.

Щодо питання правомірності використання біометричних даних особи у цифрову добу

Щодо питання правомірності використання біометричних даних особи у цифрову добу

Документальное кино как средство политической пропаганды: классические и инновационные подходы в цифровую эпоху

Документальное кино как средство политической пропаганды: классические и инновационные подходы в цифровую эпоху

Трансформация религиозных практик в информационную эпоху

Трансформация религиозных практик в информационную эпоху

Networking as the basic factor of library education innovative development

The libraries’ functional objectives in the epoch of digital technologies and knowledge society are examined, along with the role of librarians of the new generation in increasing social status and relevance of the libraries. The author introduces the professional model of modern library professional and substantiates the necessity for innovative transformation of library education. She argues that networking makes an efficient organizational and technological instrument in the higher quality education process. The networking resource units are defined, namely - personnel, learning and teaching, information, logistical, and social resources, - as well as the basic networking principles: voluntariness, coordination, reciprocity, shared responsibility for the final result. The experience of networking in implementing large-scale education projects in advanced training and professional retraining is discussed. The author argues that the advanced professional library information education makes the most efficient application for the networking principles. The author concludes that networking cooperation as the innovative technology in advanced professional training facilitates building professional competences of the new generation of librarians who are to contribute to increasing libraries’ social status in the digital epoch.

Libraries and the global informatization: Transformation problems

The author examines the problem of transformation of libraries as a social institution; changing functions in the circumstances of society informatization; chances for library’s keeping its social mission when changing functionality; social and ethical aspects of changes in libraries. Positive and negative aspects of such events as Biblionight and similar, are highlighted. The author argues that the digital epoch could not wipe out the book culture but it has transformed it and provided new opportunities for development. She also focuses on training librarians and current problems of the profession. The quality of education must be measured by actual competences of the alumni rather than the set of continuously changing standards and newly invented competences. To fill the gap between theory and practice, internships in the best libraries, master classes delivered by library experts, their enrollment in teaching library disciplines, introduction to technological novelties at the universities’ libraries will help. She also argues that, instead of spontaneous optimization, the libraries need a structured strategy of development while preserving all the best experience.

Robust Watermarking of Polygonal Meshes Based on Vertex Norms Variance Distortion

The three-dimensional (3D) mesh is moderately novel media type that realizes a rising success in various applications through data transfer via the Internet, which requires security approaches. Technological copyright protection of digital contents has become a challenging task in the current digital epoch. In this work, a robust watermarking algorithm of polygonal meshes for copyright protection purposes is proposed. The watermark insertion was achieved by quantization of the vertex norms variance in order to insert the watermark bits. In addition, this method is based on a blind detection scheme, so the watermark can be extracted without referring to the original mesh. The experimental results established the quality of the watermarked object as well as the inserted watermark robustness against various types of attacks, which were evaluated to prove the validity of the proposed algorithm. The results proved the proposed method efficiency in terms of robustness and imperceptibility against several signal processing distortions. A comparison with other reported method with similar purposes is also provided. The comparison depicted the outstanding robustness of the proposed method compared to the other reported method.

Тенденции и особенности развития компаний в цифровую эпоху

Тенденции и особенности развития компаний в цифровую эпоху

In the Wake of Globalization: Exploring the Teaching of English Civilization To Non-Native Speakers of English in the Digital Age

The current research paper is an empirical study to ponder over English civilization instruction in this era of fast achievements. Being ourselves a novice teacher of English civilization module, and in collaboration with an expert of the course for thirty-years, we noticed that digital equipment is indispensable to teach the English civilization courses to English as a Foreign Language ( EFL) students, most of whom are brilliantly manipulating most of modern technologies. This study aims at answering two main questions such as whether or not teachers of English civilization at the Department of English ( Batna 2, Algeria) use computer-assisted language learning (CALL), and how CALL approach can be constructively used in delivering the same courses to digital natives. The primary goal of this work is to find out the optimal way of teaching English civilization module to EFL students in the digital (D) epoch. We opted for the ‘mixed methods’ approach to proceed the present study. This can be achieved through administering a questionnaire to EFL students at the Department of English at the University of Batna-2, Algeria, and through interviewing teachers whose field of specialization is civilization at the same department. In doing so, consistency of results can be ensured. The findings showed that the CALL approach is vitally important in teaching civilization courses to EFL students who were born digital. And most interviewees were aware of the insistent inexorableness of CALL in teaching American and British civilization lessons to EFL students under the dominance of electronic brains.

Post-Non-Classical World View in the On-Screen Reality of the Digital Epoch

The article analyzes the correlation between the screen reality and the first-order reality in the digital culture. Specific concepts of the scientific paradigm of the late 20th century are considered as constituent principles of the on-screen reality of the digital epoch. The study proves that the post-non-classical cultural world view, emerging from the dynamic “chaos” of informational and semantic rows of TV programs and cinematographic narrations, is of a fractal nature. The article investigates different types of fractality of the TV content and film plots, their inner and outer “strange loops” and artistic interpretations of the “butterfly effect”.

Infonomics and the Value of Information in the Digital Economy

Abstract Globalization and integrated development of the economy significantly expands the possibilities of business. The world has entered a new digital epoch: here the activity of the organizations is mainly in the production and use of information technologies and accumulated information to make all other forms of production more efficient and thereby ensure a new quality of economic growth, and creating greater wealth of information (information products and services). Distinctive feature of a new science “infonomics” is: information obtains a measurable economic value and other features that qualify it as any other kind of asset, significant strategic, operational and financial reasons to do so exist. It is noteworthy that the information may meet accounting standards, but nevertheless it is not reflected in any public balance sheet of a company. Based on the data obtained during the research the author comes to the conclusion that the era of major information transformations in order to remain competitive and profitable, management of the enterprises must learn to use the information of their companies to create new products and services or even a new market. The results of the study expand the notion of infonomics: shows the methods of accounting information as well as factors affecting the information assets and their economic value, noted that infonomics it is a discipline that deals with the determination of the value of information, however, at present this phenomenon raises more questions than it answers, but the more interesting it becomes his study.

The Economy of the Digital Epoch in Russia: Development Tendencies and Place in Business.

It is indicated in the article that the informational conversion processes in the world are irreversible, and Russian is approaching to proceed to the information technological progress of the economy due to the great number of developed objective programs and statutory acts. It is defined that the informational technologies are actively implemented in all Russian business areas, and due to this process enterprises have to redesign their structure, endeavors, communications, resources for the purpose of making all production forms more effective to provide the new quality of economic growth. The major benefits of applying information communicative technologies for the stable development of companies and organizations in the modern Russia are revealed.

The study of nurses’ technology acceptance model in the on-line learning for the on-job training courses

In the 21st century, high digital, web-based, and virtual epoch information technology (IT) has become the main strength of companies to improve their competitiveness. Meanwhile, more and more people have tried to utilize IT in education, and advanced different theories in each learning field. The purpose of this study is to explore the Nurses’ Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in online learning for on-the-job training courses. The relationship between external variables and attitudes towards using technology is proposed by developing the Nurses’ Technology Acceptance Model through the approach of Structural Equation Modelling. Three paths that enable nurses to participate in online learning courses are generated as: (1) the best path includes basic computer competence, the perceived usefulness of online learning, attitudes towards online learning, and willingness to learn online; (2) the second best path include the factors of learners’, ease of use, attitudes towards online learning, willingness to learn online; (3) the third path includes, learners’ factors, the perceived usefulness of online learning, attitudes towards online learning, willingness to learn online.