Emergence Of Online Platforms Research Articles

Enhancing dance education through convolutional neural networks and blended learning

This article explores the evolving landscape of dance teaching, acknowledging the transformative impact of the internet and technology. With the emergence of online platforms, dance education is no longer confined to physical classrooms but can extend to virtual spaces, facilitating a more flexible and accessible learning experience. Blended learning, integrating traditional offline methods and online resources, offers a versatile approach that transcends geographical and temporal constraints. The article highlights the utilization of the dual-wing harmonium (DWH) multi-view metric learning (MVML) algorithm for facial emotion recognition, enhancing the assessment of students’ emotional expression in dance performances. Moreover, the integration of motion capture technology with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) facilitates a precise analysis of students’ dance movements, offering detailed feedback and recommendations for improvement. A holistic assessment of students’ performance is attained by combining the evaluation of emotional expression with the analysis of dance movements. Experimental findings support the efficacy of this approach, demonstrating high recognition accuracy and offering valuable insights into the effectiveness of dance teaching. By embracing technological advancements, this method introduces novel ideas and methodologies for objective evaluation in dance education, paving the way for enhanced learning outcomes and pedagogical practices in the future.

Democratizing the Access of Romanian Investors to Trading Financial Instruments through Specialized Platforms

By writing this paper, we aim to follow the evolution of Romanian retail investors’ access to trading financial instruments and cryptocurrencies through online platforms or specialized applications. We will follow the historical evolution of the participation of Romanian retail investors in trading on the capital market, the way in which access to trading is achieved, focusing in particular on the impact brought by the emergence of online platforms and mobile applications on the field. We will analyze the increase in the number of individuals using these specialized trading platforms, the cost of trading, but also the impact that this wave of new investors has generated on the prices of financial instruments and cryptocurrencies traded. We will also follow the reaction of the financial supervisory authorities in relation to the phenomenon, on a wider European and American level. Last but not least, we will also analyze the recent reaction of the Romanian legislator to this new reality as well as the simplification attempts from the point of view of the declaration of taxable income resulting from the trading of financial instruments, indicating the financial advantages and disadvantages generated by the current legislation for the Romanian investor, natural person.

Репрезентация этничности кольских саамов в киберпространстве

Cyberspace provides digital tools for creating virtual ethnic communities and distributing information content reflecting ethnocultural traditions and values, which contributes to the formation of new technologies for representing ethnicity. The emergence of online platforms and web communities, as well as the use of digital media to preserve and broadcast ethnocultural heritage, has opened up new opportunities for indigenous peoples facing the threat of losing their unique culture in the era of globalization. The Sami of the Murmansk region are one of the indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation, demonstrating successful adaptation to modern information technologies and creating their own cyber communities. They use various online platforms, including social networks and instant messengers, not only to communicate and expand social contacts, but also for the purpose of ethnic manifestation. This article examines the virtual practices of representing the ethnic culture of the Kola Sami in the cyber community. Analysis of the content of the most popular Sami web community on the social network VKontakte (“Sām olme vkontakte.ru / Sami VKontakte”) made it possible to identify key topics that are actively discussed within this virtual group and serve the purpose of updating ethnic identity.

Digitized Terms: The Regulation of Standard Contract Terms in the Digital Age

Abstract Digital transformation is also transforming standard contract terms. With the emergence of online platforms, supported by algorithmic data analysis and self-enforcing technologies, platform terms are becoming increasingly common. The article argues that this type of terms differs from traditional standard terms in a number of ways, and it considers whether the existing unfair contract terms regime is still appropriate. The regulatory tools once developed for standard terms in bilateral agreements – transparency requirements, fairness review, and restrictions on contracting around – seem inadequate to meet the new challenges of digital transformation. In order to preserve – or rather recreate – the architecture of choice for private contracts, the paper argues for a new regulatory strategy: In order to strike the right balance between protecting private autonomy and avoiding significant imbalances, the regulatory objective should be to ensure the impartiality of platforms by focusing on the structural conditions of their rule-making.

Impact of New Digital Media on Conventional Media and Visual Communication in Jordan

The purpose of the present research was to assess the impact of new digital media on conventional media and visual communication has been significant. Digital media has transformed how information is created, distributed, and consumed, and has profoundly affected traditional forms of media such as print newspapers, magazines, and television. One of the main ways that new digital media has affected traditional media is through the emergence of online platforms and social media. These platforms have allowed individuals and organizations to publish and share content with a global audience, often bypassing traditional gatekeepers such as editors and broadcasters. This has led to the democratization of media, as anyone with an internet connection can now potentially reach a large audience. Digital media has also led to the rise of new forms of visual communication, such as digital graphics, video, and animation. These forms of media allow for more interactive and immersive experiences and have become increasingly popular with audiences. In addition, digital media has also had an impact on the business models of traditional media organizations. Many have struggled to adapt to the shift towards digital advertising and subscriptions, leading to a decline in revenues and layoffs in some cases. It may be the case that the impact of new digital media on conventional media and visual communication has been significant and wide-reaching and will likely continue to shape the media landscape for years to come.

'If I Can Make it There, I'll Make it Anywhere'. Online Platforms Meet the European Union

For many years, the European Union (EU) has treated online platforms like any other business, using existing policy tools and regulatory approaches whenever it interacted with them. More recently, but especially during the Juncker Commission (2014-2019), this position has evolved significantly. In fact, the EU should be credited for being the first political system to have developed legislation exclusively targeting online platforms. This transition has been incremental and is far from concluded. But as the emergence of online platforms has called for dedicated regulation, it has also exposed the limits of the EU to deal with them, especially in terms of competence. While neither the EU nor its Member States have, on their own, the necessary tools and resources to regulate online platforms effectively and holistically, they cannot avoid working together if they are to preserve the integrity of the single market, one of Europe’s greatest assets.

The Performance of Marketplace Lenders: Evidence from Lending Club Payment Data

Direct financing of consumer credit by individual investors or non-bank institutions through an implementation of marketplace lending is a relatively new phenomenon in financial markets. The emergence of online platforms has made this type of financial intermediation widely available. This paper analyzes the performance of marketplace lending using proprietary cash flow data for each individual loan from the largest platform, Lending Club. While individual loan characteristics would be important for amateur investors holding a few loans, sophisticated lenders, including institutional investors, usually form broad portfolios to benefit from diversification. We find high risk-adjusted performance of approximately 40 basis points per month for these basic loan portfolios. This abnormal performance indicates that Lending Club, and similar marketplace lenders, are likely to attract capital to finance a growing share of the consumer credit market. In the absence of a competitive response from traditional credit providers, these loans lower costs to the ultimate borrowers and increase returns for the ultimate lenders.

To Be a Star Is Not Only Metaphoric: From Popularity to Social Linkage

The emergence of online platforms allowing to mix self publishing activities and social networking offers new possibilities for building online reputation and visibility. In this paper we present a method to analyze the online popularity that takes into consideration both the success of the published content and the social network topology. First, we adapt the Kohonen self organizing maps in order to cluster the users of online platforms depending on their audience and authority characteristics. Then, we perform a detailed analysis of the manner nodes are organized in the social network. Finally, we study the relationship between the network local structure around each node and the corresponding user’s popularity. We apply this method to the MySpace music social network. We observe that the most popular artists are centers of star shaped social structures and that it exists a fraction of artists who are involved in community and social activity dynamics independently of their popularity. This method based on a learning algorithm and on network analysis appears to be a robust and intuitive technique for a rich description of the online behavior.