Digital Revolution Research Articles

Bitcoin, techno-utopianism and populism: Unveiling Bukele’s crypto-populism in El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin

In 2021, President Nayib Bukele introduced Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador. This paper examines the relationship between right-wing populism and Bitcoin. Through textual and visual analyses, the paper shows how Bukele weaves the promises and techno-utopian ideology surrounding Bitcoin into classic populist narratives. Adopting Bitcoin adds the promise of technology-driven development and the realization of a techno-utopia to the populist narrative template, allowing Bukele to construct a populist myth of himself as a tech-savvy visionary. This brand of crypto-populism represents a novel addition to the right-wing populist repertoire, capitalizing on the promises of an ongoing digital revolution.

Journalism in the Digital World: The Confl ict of Institutional Logics

With the entry of humanity into the stage of digital development, all social institutions are undergoing profound changes. Journalism as an institution that arose as a result of information technology development in the XVI–XVII centuries, as a result of the digital revolution, is losing its dominant role in the new media space. The main core of the media system’s existence, its institutional nature, is undergoing signifi cant changes in the context of increasing technological convergence and the development of the economic phenomenon of platform capitalism. The appeal to the problem is actualized by the need for updates in substantiating the ontological and functional characteristics of the institutionality of journalism in the context of rapid digitalization of the social environment. The purpose of the article is to study journalism as a transforming social institution in a competitive institutional environment. The methodology of the article is based on a dialectical approach in understanding the current state of the Institute of journalism, considering the existing contradictions and collisions as a moment in progressive development. One of the methods of analysis chosen is the direction of institutionalism, which is relevant to the sphere of functioning of social institutions – institutional logic. The system-structural and system-functional methods are used as an analysis tool. The results of the study indicate the identifi ed ontological and functional changes in the state of the Institute of journalism. It is established that the loss of the status of a monopoly entity by journalism is caused not only by the impact of exogenous factors: a technological explosion, the emergence of new institutional and non-institutional subjects but also endogenous ones: structural changes, as well as a crisis of normative and value foundations. The novelty of the article is revealed in the understanding of journalism as a convergent ontological model, which forms the basis of its changing institutional status at the digital stage of its development. Keywords: journalism as a social institution, institutional approach, institutional and non-institutional subjects, institutional logic, media system, functional complex, digital platform

Digital health in your hands: A narrative review of exploring Ayushman Bharat's digital revolution

Background: “The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)” is a revolutionary initiative started in India in September 2021 that aims to digitalize the country's healthcare industry. Initiatives like Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, CoWIN App, Aarogya Setu, e-Sanjeevani, and e-Hospital provide healthcare services and facilities that reach every corner of India. This narrative review focuses on the mission's goals, objectives, innovations, significant features, progress, and worldwide scenery for digital health practices—India's healthcare scene by delivering universal health coverage and improving health outcomes. The assessment finds that ABDM is an important step toward a digitalized healthcare system that requires attention and assistance to overcome obstacles and reach its full potential. Methods: The research utilized various databases including Research Gate, PubMed, Google Scholar, and government portals to conduct a comprehensive literature review. This review article provides a critical analysis and offers essential suggestions, ideas, and recommendations for the effective and rapid implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Program. Furthermore, it includes information about the program's ability to transform India's healthcare sector and achieve universal health coverage. Conclusion: The revolutionary Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) aims to digitalize India's healthcare industry. It has made major achievements in improving healthcare access, increasing system effectiveness, improving care quality, and promoting teamwork amongst stakeholders in the healthcare system. By implementing strong data privacy and security protocols and developing infrastructure for India's diverse population, ABDM can play a key role in achieving national health coverage and improving health outcomes. ABDM may be vital in attaining national health coverage and greatly enhancing health outcomes with persistent work and strategic assistance.

ТЕОРИЯ НЕЧЕТКИХ МНОЖЕСТВ В ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНОМ АНАЛИЗЕ ДАННЫХ

The article is devoted to the application of data mining (KDD) and fuzzy sets to work with large amounts of data. The digital revolution has led to a significant increase in the volume and speed of data, which makes traditional analysis methods ineffective. Data mining covers the stages of purification, integration, transformation and extraction of knowledge from data. Fuzzy logic, which extends Boolean logic, allows for uncertainty and approximate reasoning, which makes it especially useful for processing complex and noisy data. The article discusses in detail the applications of fuzzy sets in tasks such as clustering, associative rule detection, data generalization, time series analysis, and web applications. Fuzzy logic helps solve problems related to incomplete or inaccurate data by providing more flexible and understandable solutions. The author also notes that the use of fuzzy sets improves the adaptation of systems to specific data requirements and features, which contributes to more accurate analysis and decision-making in areas such as healthcare, finance and telecommunications. These advantages make fuzzy sets an important tool for improving the efficiency of data mining and improving user interaction.

IMPACT OF DIGITALISATION ON BANKING SECTOR

The banking sector has been substantially changed by the fast development of digital technology. The effect of digitalisation on general financial services, client contacts, and banking operations is investigated in this article. In banking, digitalisation has brought about the automation of formerly manual procedures, therefore improving client happiness, efficiency, and operating expenses while lowering running costs. Offering 24/7 access to financial services from anywhere in the globe, services such internet banking, smartphone apps, and digital payment systems have transformed the way consumers connect with banks. Furthermore, digitalisation has helped fintech to emerge, therefore undermining established banking structures and encouraging more innovation and competitiveness. Advanced technologies such artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and blockchain have been embraced by banks to guarantee better security in transactions, provide tailored services, and help to guide decisions. Although digitalisation has many advantages, it also brings problems like cybersecurity threats, data privacy issues, and the necessity of large technological infrastructure investment. This study also addresses its function in financial inclusion by enabling underprivileged groups to use banking services. Banks have to strike a mix between innovation and regulatory compliance, risk control, and client confidence as the digital revolution unfolds. The results of this research imply that banks must embrace digital transformation if they are to stay competitive in an economy becoming more and more digital and also meet the changing demands of tech-savvy customers.

Enhancing Human Capital Management through DevOps Practices

In the current era of digital revolution, one of the main factors influencing an organization's performance is human resources. This is because HR is an important asset that determines the productivity and efficiency of organizational performance. This study's goal is to create and construct an integrated human resources application using the DevOps (Development and Operations) approach. The DevOps method is a collabo rative approach that combines the process of software development and operations in a sustainable, fast, and integrated manner. The human resources application developed in this research includes various important functions, including HR management, job grade promotion planning, employment contract termination notification, and promotion notification. This research also provides solutions to the problems experienced by the Palembang Region Office of PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia in human resource management. By using the DevOps method as a method of designing human capital applications, it is expected to increase employee efficiency and productivity through integrated and effective human resource management. The DevOps approach also allows organizations to respond quickly to changing needs and provide sustainable added value to the organization.

DIGITAL REVOLUTION: HOW SOCIAL COMMERCE TRANSFORMS ALGERIAN ART CRAFTS

The craft sector, in addition to constituting an invaluable cultural, social and historical heritage, is a leading niche with high added value, which, associated with the power of ICT, is experiencing a major ascent like never before. Social networks are today the most widespread communication media in the world. Having as main vocation to develop the reputation of others, craft enterprises have also taken advantage of these tools to take advantage of the actions and network that each of them offers, this allows them to include handmade items in a strategy of artisanal renewal. The objective of this article is to observe, through a quantitative study with artisans’ entrepreneurs but also Algerian consumers, the impact of social commerce on the motivation and behavioral intention of Algerian consumers towards artisanal products.

Power and Governance in the Context of Globalization

Introduction. Issues of power and management in the context of globalization are one of the most pressing topics in Western social sciences, affecting a wide range of branches of scientific knowledge – from sociology, political science, social and political philosophy to economics and jurisprudence. The prospect of the disappearance of the state as a sovereign subject of legal relations, declared by globalists, or a radical transformation of this established political and legal phenomenon, the rapid development of non-governmental and non-profit organizations, the digital revolution, an increase in the level of informatization of society and many other factors of reality that did not take place in previous centuries, raise natural questions about the exercise of power and control in the new prevailing conditions. The study of this issue is new for domestic legal science, since this topic has not yet been considered by Russian legal scholars. Methods. In this study, dialectical, sociological and hermeneutical methods are applied. The above methods are used in conjunction to obtain a synergistic effect. Results. As a result of a comprehensive analysis of power and management in the context of globalization, the main aspects of this concept in relation to modern times have been identified, and forecasts have been made regarding the described situation in the near future. Discussion and Conclusion. This article, unlike other articles related in topic and purpose, offers a comprehensive analysis of power and management in the context of globalization in their modern and relevant form. The author takes into account the close relationship of globalization, power and power relations with the historical heritage, regional characteristics and objective factors of legal reality.

Legal Information Culture in the Context of Digital Transformation of Society and the State

Introduction. Technosocial transformations resulting from the industrial and digital revolution Industry 4.0 initiate multiple changes in the organization of social life, culture, law, ways of thinking, activities, values, and worldview. There is reason to believe that there is a process of formation of a new kind of culture, which is not a subspecies or part of information or legal culture. Theoretical Basis. Methods. Information, technological, and digital transformations have become general social factors that are not localized at the level of tools, auxiliary means of organizing human activities and thinking. Culture is undergoing a change as a social phenomenon. The stage of development of the pre-digital legal culture has been completed. The conceptual range: culture, law, information, information culture, legal culture is complemented by a new concept: legal information culture. The methodological tools of interdisciplinarity only partially meet the needs of studying the changing statuses of culture and law. Conceptual, analog, and comparative thinking is in conflict with the so-called “digital thinking”, which is not related either to the new methodology or to its search. Results. Technological innovations given to man as a result of the industrial and digital revolution are not accompanied by the formation of an adequate culture and are capable of transforming the ontological status of man as a rational being, thinking independently, setting goals, making decisions and being able to bear responsibility for his actions. Law as a socio-valuable institution is experiencing the risks of its preservation on the same axiological and moral grounds. One of the risks is its replacement with a set of algorithmic functions for regulating relations. A person who owns a legal information culture is able to contribute to the preservation of rights focused on legal equality, freedom, justice, implemented under the condition of goal-setting, creative, conscious human activity. Discussion and Conclusion. The necessity of forming a legal information culture as a set of principles, values, knowledge, and competencies that ensure participants in information relations to achieve a model of lawful/ unlawful behavior based on awareness of the value of law and the priority value of a person is argued.

Navigating ethical challenges in Indonesian digital public relations practices

<p>The emergence of Digital Public Relations (PR) management has revolutionized the way in which corporations communicate with their public, utilizing digital platforms to provide more dynamic and interactive communication. Nevertheless, this digital revolution has also resulted in a multitude of ethical dilemmas and challenges. This study aims to analyze the ethical dimensions of Digital Public Relations management in Indonesia, with a particular focus on the challenges encountered and the approaches employed for navigating them. This qualitative study employs in-depth interview as data collection method with two experienced Indonesian PR practitioners to gain comprehensive and detailed observations. The findings highlight various notable challenges in digital PR management, encompassing the need to uphold transparency in communications and guarantee social responsibility in every PR strategy. This study suggests an Ethical Digital Public Relations model that includes three fundamental ethical values: transparency, privacy management, and social responsibility, based on the aforementioned findings. Ultimately, the study recommends PR practitioners to adhere to these three values in order to successfully address ethical dilemmas and strengthen the credibility as well as reliability of their digital PR management. By upholding these values, PR practitioners can effectively handle ethical challenges and make a beneficial impact on the growing field of digital public relations.<strong></strong></p>

Peace and the digital revolution: Toward “cyberpeace?”

AbstractThis article will explore challenges posed by the digital communications revolution to some long‐standing concepts and assumptions around security, warfare, and peace. It will demonstrate the obsolescence of the traditional state‐focused national security paradigm with regards to matters of cybersecurity, as well as the limitations of conventional collective security approaches. It will also outline the Internet's potential as a peacebuilding medium, and the crossroads we currently face between a new era of cyberwarfare or an Internet for “cyberpeace.”

The Legitimacy of Didactic Philosophizing for Children in Light of the Digital Revolution

The cognitive and digital explosion in Western thought makes it imperative to reflect on the project of creating a young philosopher, by anchoring a strategy to establish critical thinking from childhood—in Algerian society. This approach reflects the sociocultural orientations of the learner, where the teacher plays a crucial role in shaping the child’s consciousness, while addressing the challenges that hinder this process. For this, it is crucial to exploit Western experiences such as that of Matthew Lipman in the United States and Michel Tozzi in France. Algeria has the potential to become a model in the didactic, pedagogical, and cognitive foundations of philosophy for children. The philosophical project aims to develop critical thinking according to criteria of truth and falsity, by encouraging a culture of questioning based on children's skills and orientations. It is also about opening specific educational programs for children and improving their performance based on the principles of philosophy: problems, understanding, argumentation.

Disjoint paths construction algorithm in the data center network DPCell

Abstract With the development of the fourth industrial revolution, the importance of data centers has significantly increased. Data centers are widely used in many fields due to their ability to provide efficient, secure, and reliable data storage and processing services. However, with the increasing amount of data, traditional data center networks (DCNs) are currently facing various challenges, prompting academia and industry to propose new DCN architectures. As a dual-port server-based DCN, DPCell has excellent scalability and bisection width, enabling it to meet the demands of large-scale data storage, processing, and computation in the digital revolution. In order to ensure the secure and reliable data communication in the DPCell, this paper designs a disjoint paths communication scheme based on the actual DCN routing requirements. This scheme constructs the optimal number of disjoint paths in DPCell, with a maximum path length of $2^{k}+3$, where $k$ represents the dimension of the DPCell. Furthermore, experiments have verified that the time complexity of this scheme is sublinear, making it more efficient than the current optimal maximum flow algorithm. To a certain extent, this scheme provides DPCell with the required high bandwidth, fault tolerance, and security for data communication.

Enrollment strategies in the era of digital revolution: Experience from a remote health management program

We describe the strategies used to identify and enroll participants in a remote health management program aimed at optimizing diabetes care in patients at high cardiovascular and kidney risk. Using a combination of digital and traditional outreach methods, including patient portals, emails, mailed letters, and provider referrals, we successfully enrolled 200 participants. Our experience highlights the effectiveness of a hybrid approach in achieving enrollment targets, addressing the challenges of identification of eligible candidates and engagement while integrating traditional methods for inclusivity.

From Barista to Bytes: How Starbucks Brewed a Digital Revolution

This study examines Starbucks' digital transformation journey, analyzing its strategies, implementation, and impact on performance and competitive positioning. Using a qualitative case study approach, the article explores how Starbucks leveraged an interconnected ecosystem of mobile applications, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data analytics to enhance customer engagement and optimize operations. The research investigates how these technologies synergistically contribute to Starbucks' "Digital Flywheel" framework, driving personalization, streamlining operations, and creating a seamless omnichannel experience. Drawing on company reports, academic literature, and industry analyses, this study provides a comprehensive view of Starbucks' digital initiatives and their collective impact. Findings reveal that Starbucks' success stems from a holistic approach to digital transformation, encompassing technological implementation, organizational restructuring, and cultural change. The study critically examines the effectiveness of the "Digital Flywheel" framework, comparing it with similar models in digital transformation literature. While highlighting the significant impact of these initiatives on Starbucks' financial performance, customer engagement, and operational efficiency, the research also explores challenges in data privacy, technology investment costs, and potential risks associated with digital transformation. The study provides a nuanced analysis of how Starbucks navigated these challenges, offering valuable insights for practitioners. This research contributes to the growing literature on digital transformation in retail, offering a balanced perspective on both the opportunities and challenges of digital innovation. By examining Starbucks' journey, the study critically assesses how traditional retailers can adapt to the digital age, while acknowledging the variability in outcomes across different sectors.

Self-Perception About Digital Skills of Pre-Service Teachers in a Thailand University Context

The digital revolution has significantly impacted education, with digital technology becoming an integral part of teaching and learning, resulting in the emergence of a digital society. Educational institutions at all levels currently demand new qualifications and knowledge from modern-day teachers, including digital skills for effectively transmitting knowledge to learners to ensure that learning outcomes align with societal needs. Developing pre-service teachers poses a challenge in being educators who effectively transfer knowledge to learners. This study examined the digital skills competence required for future teachers, linking these skills with Thailand’s National Qualifications Framework for Higher Education, Professional Teacher Standards, and National Educational Standards. A total of 36 competencies across six areas have been identified. This paper analyzed 360 responses from a convenience sample of undergraduate education students in Thailand based on this validated instrument. The research findings indicated that users prioritize information technology and communication skills, necessitating a diverse range of skills, including search, tool usage, communication, and collaboration through technology. This data can be used to design learning management systems to develop digital skills aligned with the evolving needs and essential skills of future teachers.

Navigating the Digital Revolution in the Food Industry: Consumers' Perceived Environmental Risks and Purchasing Decisions

Navigating the Digital Revolution in the Food Industry: Consumers' Perceived Environmental Risks and Purchasing Decisions

How the Smart Energy Can Contribute towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 7

Against the backdrop of the digital technology revolution, smart energy offers significant opportunities to achieve the Energy Sustainable Development Goals (SDG7). However, the theoretical and empirical exploration of how smart energy can achieve SDG7 remains incomplete. This study investigates deeply into the influence and mechanism of smart energy on SDG7. Utilizing China’s smart energy pilot policy, it adopts the synthetic difference-in-difference method and China’s provincial data to estimate the influence of smart energy on SDG7. The results show the following: (1) Smart energy is beneficial to achieving SDG7, and smart energy promotes the realization of SDG7-1 by enhancing energy service accessibility, affordability, and reliability; SDG7-2 by enhancing the renewable energy absorption level and consumption ratio; and SDG7-3 by enabling real-time monitoring, accurate matching, and highly intelligent coordination to improve energy efficiency. (2) Among the quantitative findings, smart energy has notable implications for the SDG7, SDG7-1, and SDG7-3 indexes but has a more limited influence on the SDG7-2 index. (3) The single pilot tests indicate certain differences in effects due to the project scale and program design. Finally, this study provides a theoretical basis and empirical evidence for the region to search for a digital approach to realize SDG7 and smart energy construction planning.

Pilot Study on Enhanced Detection of Cues over Malicious Sites Using Data Balancing on the Random Forest Ensemble

The digital revolution frontiers have rippled across society today – with various web content shared online for users as they seek to promote monetization and asset exchange, with clients constantly seeking improved alternatives at lowered costs to meet their value demands. From item upgrades to their replacement, businesses are poised with retention strategies to help curb the challenge of customer attrition. The birth of smartphones has proliferated feats such as mobility, ease of accessibility, and portability – which, in turn, have continued to ease their rise in adoption, exposing user device vulnerability as they are quite susceptible to phishing. With users classified as more susceptible than others due to online presence and personality traits, studies have sought to reveal lures/cues as exploited by adversaries to enhance phishing success and classify web content as genuine and malicious. Our study explores the tree-based Random Forest to effectively identify phishing cues via sentiment analysis on phishing website datasets as scrapped from user accounts on social network sites. The dataset is scrapped via Python Google Scrapper and divided into train/test subsets to effectively classify contents as genuine or malicious with data balancing and feature selection techniques. With Random Forest as the machine learning of choice, the result shows the ensemble yields a prediction accuracy of 97 percent with an F1-score of 98.19% that effectively correctly classified 2089 instances with 85 incorrectly classified instances for the test-dataset.

Perspectives on cities of the global south

This article offers a critical assessment of the present state of discourse on cities of global south. It identifies and examines five major themes found in the literature and shows both their cope and limitations, i.e. northern bias in the literature, informality, precarity and social disprity, fractured spatial organization, and inadequacies of planning in those cities. The article argues that there is some convergence in cities of north and south on account of globalization, large scale migration and digital revolution. With the example of Lahore, a mega city of the south, it argues that global south is too braod a category. Cities of global south differ by income levels, culture and social organization. The search for common bases of these cities should be focussed on generalizing by regions, economic conditions and cultural/religious uniformities.