Post-information Age Research Articles

The Challenges, Motivations and Countermeasures of Higher Vocational Teacher Cultivating in the Post-information Age

Global mega-trends such as automation, digitalization, green transformation and ageing population are bringing structural changes to labour markets around the world. However, most of existing researches are functional and cannot deal with the structural issue of vocational teacher training in the post-information age. This study focuses on the cultivation of higher vocational education teachers, analyzes the specific impact of the challenges and motivations of the cultivating of higher vocational teachers in the post-information age, and further discusses the countermeasures of the training path. The study proposes that the rapidly changing labour market, the aging of the teachers, the profound linkage with the labor market, and the increasingly complex system of higher vocational teachers' skills are all challenges to the cultivation of higher vocational teachers in the post-information era. The methods of enhancing teachers' motivation, focusing on teachers' teaching skills, fostering their innovative pedagogical methods and strengthening the top-level design of their human resources will promote the cultivation and development of vocational teachers' resources.

Parody in Literature: A Culture-Determined View

The integration of the author into the cultural context is a two-faceted problem. In the post-information age, literary parody is regarded as a way of socio-cultural communication. The article features the congeniality of two chronologically distant works of science fiction against their contemporary context, namely Edgar Allan Poe’s Ligeia and Loss of Breath vs. Ray Bradbury’s Emissary and There Was an Old Woman. This pioneering research is an attempt to trace how the genre of science-fiction short story changed from the age of European Gothic to the era of mass literature, as well as to define the role of the cultural and social context of the New World in this process. The author reduced the short stories into two conditional pairs to demonstrate the hidden connections between the two sets. The methods of narrative analysis, literary comparison, and the theory of intertextuality revealed a multiple latent presence of other texts. In his Ligeia, E. A. Poe borrowed the genre conventions of the English Gothic novel while parodying the grandiloquent style of the French Romantic literature and the rhetoric of fear typical of the German Gothic style. R. Bradbury, in his turn, imitated the style and subject matter of Poe-esque extravaganzas while parodying the plot composition and artistic language employed by his older contemporary H. P. Lovecraft. Ultimately, the study revealed the evolutionary similarity of the two poetics of parody. In their early career, both Poe and Bradbury mocked the style of popular magazines. Later, both writers came to the parody of the literary classic and focused on high examples of parody art. Poe and Bradbury contributed to the development of the genre of parody in the XIX and XX centuries, respectively. The article marks the ten-year anniversary of Ray Bradbury's death.

On the Growing Transformational Role of AI Technologies for the Future Cyber Diplomacy in the Post-Information Age

On the Growing Transformational Role of AI Technologies for the Future Cyber Diplomacy in the Post-Information Age

The impact of digitalization on the formation of subject-spatial environment meaning in the postinformation age

The impact of digitalization on the formation of subject-spatial environment meaning in the postinformation age

ДИСКУРСИВНА ЛЕКСИКОГРАФІЯ У ПРОСТОРІ ЗАХІДНОЇ НАУКИ

The development of discursive lexicography in modern Ukrainian linguistics, which corresponds with similar American and Western European practice is conceptually argued in the article. A new lexicographic search based on the proposed scientific problem allows to understand the challenges facing modern linguistics in its adequacy to the needs of modern societies in the information age, and to create new dictionaries that will meet the requirements of time and communicative space. The authors analyze the factors that led to the development of discursive lexicography in the modern world. The model of dictionaries of a new type represents neolinguistic directions of modern humanitarian knowledge and as a result is considered in the context of social needs of the post-information age. Media and legal linguistics, business and political linguistics, imageology and linguistic expertise, communicative directions of advertising, branding, PR, etc., — in these modern sciences research methods, models, characteristics, conceptual scope of terminology intersect in order to optimally provide linguistics with new search ideas and lexicographic practices. The structure and peculiarities of the lexicographic description in the dictionaries of the discursive type «Medialinguistics: dictionary of terms and concepts» and «Legal linguistics: dictionary of terms and concepts» — innovative scientific editions in Ukrainian linguistics of the 21st century — are considered and justified. The dictionaries were created with attention to American and Western European studies in media and legal linguistics, communicative studies, functional stylistics, which allows correlating the lexicographic experience in compiling of the discursive dictionaries. The authors conclude that the tasks of modern discursive lexicography are focused on the formation of a holistic scientific cognition and systematic professional knowledge in the process of language communication.

Discovery and Opportunities With Integrative Analytics Using Multiple-Omics Data.

In our era of post-information age, the generation of data increases at an astronomical pace. This progress has led to doubling the sum of medical knowledge to every 73 days in 2020 from every 50 years in 1950.(1) For example, recent efforts with large genomic datasets have allowed for unraveling unknown genetic associations with disease risk, and fueled therapeutic options.

Understanding ICT’s impacts on urban spaces: a qualitative content analysis of literature

Since the 1980s, a considerable amount of research has dealt with the spatial impacts of services and devices related to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In answering the question of “what are the ICT’s spatial impacts?”, a literature review reveals that a major part of the research is trapped in dualities such as the “centralization-decentralization” and “substitutionary-complementary” effects of ICT. Other studies have investigated the ICT’s spatial impacts regarding the discourses of the industrial age rather than the post-information age. Moving beyond the technology-centered and deterministic presumptions, this paper deals with a more fundamental question on defining the variables which play a role in the process through which ICT impacts urban spaces. We have conducted a qualitative content analysis in order to gain an understanding of these variables. Based on the review of 242 texts in the literature, 175 codes were extracted and organized into 18 subcategories, four generic categories, two main categories and one theme. The extracted theme points to a quadripartite dynamic co-evolution between the ICT, agents, societies and cities. This co-evolution—and considering the long history of technological changes in cities—mean that cohesive policies toward predetermined visions are needed for effective use of ICT in creating desired spatial impacts. In absence of such policies, the spatial impacts of ICT remain unpredictable.

Quantification of Command and Control Approaches - Model Based Evaluation

The Post-Information Age brings new challenges into the military operational environment. The current approach of the extreme hierarchical command and control cannot be sustained in this complex and dynamic environment. Thus, making the search for new command and control approaches is a critical activity. The description and classification of command and control approaches is expressed in a very abstract way. The article describes a unique, quantification technique of command and control approaches. The quantification is demonstrated by Use Case with self-synchronization as the selected command and control approach. In the Use Case, the deterministic dynamic model is implemented. The results achieved from the model demonstrate a variance of a single parameter, on which the quality of the selected Command and Control approach in the given operational scenario quantifies.

Technology as a driver of skills obsolescence and skills mismatch: Implications for the labour market, society and the economy

The aim of this paper is to synthesise and build on the discourse of technological implications for the workforce in a post-information age. It has found that throughout history, the advance of technology is correlated with social issues, particularly issues of rising unemployment as a result of skills obsolescence and mismatch. However, as long as appropriate measures to adjust to technological changes are taken, unemployment will only remain as a temporary phase. The pursuit of lifelong learning and adoption of strategic human resource management is found to be an effective solution in bridging the gap and slowing down the rate of skills mismatch. Individuals can also pursue the increasing job opportunities emerging within knowledge-intensive and technology sectors. Furthermore, talent brokers have a growing role as an intermediary to the supply and demand of skills.

Proliferating Ephemera in Print and Digital Media

IN JANUARY 2011, LATE-NIGHT HOST DAVID LETTERMAN marked the tenth anniversary of Wikipedia by announcing that the world is about to implode. At that time, the idea of graduate students messing up Wikipedia entries was so commonplace it was a bit of a cliche: the kind of thing that Sheldon, Leonard, and the boys would do for fun on a Saturday night. Letterman humorously insisted that the predictable result of all the misinformation that is circulating and re-circulating thanks to Wikipedia and other popular crowd-sourced content providers is that we will eventually find ourselves without any concrete facts left to stand on: an information implosion of sorts. Five years later, the Wikipedia model has become more or less normalized. Today, it seems that making has more social capital than knowing, and the sprawling digital universe seems to ask us to put less stock in quality than in quantity, or influence, as measured by views, likes, or citations. In the Postinformation Age, content-of-uncertain-quality proliferates and sometimes exerts remarkable influence. And just where does all this content come from? It comes from all of us. Whether or not we think of ourselves as artists or experts, we are always already positioned as makers, as reviewers, and as content providers. I am fascinated by the quality problems that this model creates, both as a researcher, seeking quality content, and as a contributor who has fewer and fewer options for distinguishing between my own expert and non-expert contributions. I will get back to these issues later, but for now I am going to set aside questions about quality and speak to you less as a critic than as a book historian, a bibliographer, and a special collections librarian. In this hat, I am interested in the material nature of the digital content that today is proliferating exponentially. I am a teaching librarian in a rare book library at University of Alberta, so it may surprise you that I want to talk to you about digitization. It may also surprise you to learn that the proliferation of digital surrogates of primary, historical, and foundational documents in virtually every field of study has led to renewed interest in studying the original print documents not just in the humanities but in the sciences as well. With this comes the more urgent need to understand the conditions and historical contexts of print production. This is one of the many ways in which digital formats have opened up new areas of research and teaching in almost every discipline. As an aside, it has also led to an exponential increase in the demand for my time, so much so that I can only accommodate a small percentage of the hundreds of class requests I routinely receive from professors each year. Although my primary function is to teach book history as it relates to the print objects housed in special collections, increasingly I find myself--of necessity--addressing a wide range of misconceptions about the sprawling digital universe. For one thing, a lot of people observe the rapid proliferation of digital content and exaggerate it beyond all reason. It is not uncommon for students, and occasionally for professors, to imagine that all print materials--especially older materials--have been, or soon will be, digitized by libraries or by scholarly projects. …

Envisioning engineering education and practice in the coming intelligence convergence era — a complex adaptive systems approach

AbstractSome of the recent attempts for improving and transforming engineering education are reviewed. The attempts aim at providing the entry level engineers with the skills needed to address the challenges of future large-scale complex systems and projects. Some of the frontier sectors and future challenges for engineers are outlined. The major characteristics of the coming intelligence convergence era (the post-information age) are identified. These include the prevalence of smart devices and environments, the widespread applications of anticipatory computing and predictive / prescriptive analytics, as well as a symbiotic relationship between humans and machines. Devices and machines will be able to learn from, and with, humans in a natural collaborative way. The recent game changers in learnscapes (learning paradigms, technologies, platforms, spaces, and environments) that can significantly impact engineering education in the coming era are identified. Among these are open educational resources, knowledge-rich classrooms, immersive interactive 3D learning, augmented reality, reverse instruction / flipped classroom, gamification, robots in the classroom, and adaptive personalized learning. Significant transformative changes in, and mass customization of, learning are envisioned to emerge from the synergistic combination of the game changers and other technologies. The realization of the aforementioned vision requires the development of a new multidisciplinary framework of emergent engineering for relating innovation, complexity and cybernetics, within the future learning environments. The framework can be used to treat engineering education as a complex adaptive system, with dynamically interacting and communicating components (instructors, individual, small, and large groups of learners). The emergent behavior resulting from the interactions can produce progressively better, and continuously improving, learning environment. As a first step towards the realization of the vision, intelligent adaptive cyber-physical ecosystems need to be developed to facilitate collaboration between the various stakeholders of engineering education, and to accelerate the development of a skilled engineering workforce. The major components of the ecosystems include integrated knowledge discovery and exploitation facilities, blended learning and research spaces, novel ultra-intelligent software agents, multimodal and autonomous interfaces, and networked cognitive and tele-presence robots.

Emerging interdisciplinary fields in the coming intelligence/convergence era

Abstract Dramatic advances are in the horizon resulting from rapid pace of development of several technologies, including, computing, communication, mobile, robotic, and interactive technologies. These advances, along with the trend towards convergence of traditional engineering disciplines with physical, life and other science disciplines will result in the development of new interdisciplinary fields, as well as in new paradigms for engineering practice in the coming intelligence/convergence era (post-information age). The interdisciplinary fields include Cyber Engineering, Living Systems Engineering, Biomechatronics/Robotics Engineering, Knowledge Engineering, Emergent/Complexity Engineering, and Multiscale Systems engineering. The paper identifies some of the characteristics of the intelligence/convergence era, gives broad definition of convergence, describes some of the emerging interdisciplinary fields, and lists some of the academic and other organizations working in these disciplines. The need is described for establishing a Hierarchical Cyber-Physical Ecosystem for facilitating interdisciplinary collaborations, and accelerating development of skilled workforce in the new fields. The major components of the ecosystem are listed. The new interdisciplinary fields will yield critical advances in engineering practice, and help in addressing future challenges in broad array of sectors, from manufacturing to energy, transportation, climate, and healthcare. They will also enable building large future complex adaptive systems-of-systems, such as intelligent multimodal transportation systems, optimized multi-energy systems, intelligent disaster prevention systems, and smart cities.

China after the WTO

China’s WTO accession was a landmark event bringing one of the world’s major trading economies fully into the international rules-based system. The major features and implications of China’s accession agreement are reviewed and, given China’s success in trade and investment outside the framework of the WTO, China’s motives for accession are explored. The economic impacts of WTO are reviewed, including the impacts on China’s global competitors in areas such as textiles. Areas where adjustment pressures are thought to be the greatest (agriculture, banking and the labor market) are discussed in some detail. The paper argues that the Gordian Knot of reform in China is the non-performing debt in the banking system, resolution of which is inextricably bound up with the fiscal reforms that China needs to make. With political transition imminent, the anticipated “fourth generation” leadership team of Hu and Wen faces the challenges of leading China in a period that is not only post-WTO, but also post-September 11th, post-Asian Crisis, and post-information age revolution. WTO accession is thus but one of many sources of change for today’s China.

Understanding Educators as Adult Learners in Transformation: Facing the Professional Development Challenges of Educational Technology

School leaders can benefit by considering their faculty as adult earners in transformation while they are learning educational technology. In this article a Journey of Transformation model is presented to assist school leaders in meeting the challenges of the postinformation age. The model is grounded in transformational learning research and presented utilizing the descriptions of participating teachers. Faculty members’ strategies and processes for coping with educational technology learning are discussed. The article concludes with suggestions for school leaders as they address challenges posed by technology for education.

Imagined Cyber Communities, Iranians and the Internet

The post information age will remove the limitations of geography.—Nicholas Negroponte, Being DigitalThe internet has been a continually changing forum for communicating that has been taken up by diaspora communities to maintain connections with their countrymates all over the world. In that capacity, the technology has been an easy and innovative avenue for cultural expression. Iranians, for instance, have established on-line magazines, newsgroups, media and business directories, human rights organizations, student groups, academic organizations and book publishers for a transnational community. Who goes to these sites and why?

The post-information age: New horizons for business and education

The post-information age: New horizons for business and education

The Co-evolution of Mind and Machine

The Post-Information Age will see the merger of humans and their technologies, perhaps creating an entirely new species.