Rhythms of moving in and between digital media: a study on video diaries of young people with physical disabilities

This article develops a new framework for analysing digital media use and access by drawing on the concepts of ‘rhythm’ and ‘wayfaring.’ It unravels how young people with physical disabilities move in and between digital media devices, online sites and activities in an embodied and rhythmic way that happens at a fast or slow pace. The framework is used to analyse the video diaries of three male secondary school students with physical disabilities on their use of digital media at home. We propose methodological advances in studying digital media use as dynamic movement and provide alternative insights on digital inequalities.     

Strategic monitoring of port authorities activities: Proposal of a multi-dimensional digital dashboard

Abstract

The consequence of port evolution is that port authorities (PA) around the world are modifying their nature and their role, acquiring more and more an active role in the governance of logistic systems and are often adopting managerial and entrepreneurial behaviours. This new role of PA requires the adoption of a complex approach to monitoring the performance of the single stakeholders and of the whole port. Existing studies on port performance consider only specific indicators of port performance such as operational and financial efficiency neglecting aspects like customer satisfaction, port security and port sustainability. This paper tries to fill this literature gap: (i) outlining an integrated multi-dimensional dashboard to monitor port performance in a strategic perspective; (ii) analysing the role of digital technology to support the PA in the implementation of the monitoring dashboard; (iii) defining the evolutionary stages of tools implementation in the strategic monitoring of PAs.     

The Effects of Agglomeration and National Property Rights on Digital Confidentiality Performance

In recent years, instances of organizations failing to maintain digital confidentiality performance have greatly increased in frequency and monetary damage. While the global sourcing of activities in the development of digital assets is widespread, very little is known about how location‐related factors may affect confidentiality outcomes. Addressing this, we empirically investigate two factors with rich theoretical bases and logical linkages to confidentiality: industrial agglomeration and national property rights protections. We conduct a large‐scale, empirical study at the product level of analysis, and treat the confidentiality of a digital product as a performance outcome that is affected by the locations of the two key organizational entities involved in the product's development. We leverage modern, web‐crawling methods to harvest secondary data from a major, illicit distribution channel for these products and combine these data with other secondary data involving legitimate commerce to derive a secondary measure of confidentiality performance. We find robust results, and demonstrate practical significance of our findings through scenario analyses based on actual data from our sample.     

Digital media responses to a feminist scholarly article: a critical discourse analysis

In this critical discourse analysis, I identified the linguistic tools and discourses used in the articles, blog posts, discussion forums, and tweets published in response to my article on STEM in Higher Education that identified gendered discourses in instructional language. Beginning from the standpoint of the author of the journal article, I examined digital media publications to understand how linguistic tools such as stance and deixis were used to convey meaning, emotion, and power and negotiated through language. Analysis suggested that linguistic tools and trolling strategies seen throughout the corpus were used to generate support for calls to denounce the research and silence me, as the author of the journal article. These findings provide insight into how opposition to academic feminist work builds, in many cases, in reaction to the recontextualization of the research instead of responding to the research itself.     

Smart phone is a expectation-laden trophy: adolescent girls–adults’ mobile phone tensions and changing sexuality negotiation

This article is based on a study conducted in Nigerian Christian and Muslim neighborhoods on the intrigues that characterized adults-adolescent girls’ relations about how and when adolescent girls could use smart phones. Questionnaires, ethnographic interviews, school debates, observations, and focus group discussion methods were used to study the influence of smart phones on adolescent girls’ identity construction, adults-adolescent girls’ tension as regards ownership and use of smartphones, and new dynamics in adolescent girls-male friends’ relationship caused by smart phone uptake. For this population, smart phones display contextual symbolism that transcends their technological meaning, shifting girls’ social dependence from adults to peers and technology. Smart phone use has given adolescent girls a new way of identity construction, empowered them subtly in sexuality negotiation and assigned new roles to them. Adults’ concern about adolescent girls’ use of smart phones is rooted in their fears about the possible negative influences of smart phone use, which they see as entertainment driven and inimical to adolescent girls’ development. Findings of this study revealed that tensions between adults and adolescent girls over smart phone uptake originated from role reversal and expectation-laden nature of smart phones acquired by male friends, which effective mutual sharing of knowledge and resources could address. Adolescent girls should justify their craving for smart phones morally, socially, and psychologically. Adults and social institutions also need to rediscover their new roles in a world where digital innovations are necessities.     

赛博空间无产阶级数字劳动的出场及命运展望

赛博空间是一个人造的空间,是数字化、网络化和人工智能化时代的产物。数字劳动是在赛博空间中形成的一种新的劳动形式,正如马克思描绘的机器大工业时代劳动异化那样,赛博空间数字劳动也存在严重的异化。数字时代的劳动异化既涵盖赛博无产阶级与自己的数字成果、劳动行为、类本质的异化,也包含人与人关系的全面异化。异化不应该是人类永恒的命运,人类需要彻底扬弃资本主义数字时代的劳动异化。因此,我们需要展开对数字资本主义的理论批判,建构人类数字命运共同体,树立“数字自由人的联合体”的目标。     

数字赋能促进制造业绿色转型的实证检验

数字赋能成为当前制造业企业实现绿色转型的关键路径。结合企业生命周期视角,以中国2012—2019年沪深A股制造业上市公司为样本,实证检验数字赋能对制造业企业绿色转型的影响及内在机制。研究显示,数字赋能显著正向影响制造业绿色转型,其中成熟期的影响效果最显著,成长期次之,衰退期则不显著;数字赋能通过提高双元创新能力、内部控制能力和运营能力助推制造业绿色转型;外部环境中政府财政科技支出正向调节制造业绿色转型进程。     

全媒体背景下国内数字博物馆的 问题分析与改善策略研究

目前实体博物馆已经很难满足大众对博物馆体验的需求,全媒体化是当下博物馆转型发展的必然选择。我国的数字博物馆普遍存在浏览量低、对外影响力弱等问题。针对这些问题,提出从拓宽传播渠道、完善用户体验设计和树立民族品牌形象三个方面推进我国数字博物馆的发展,使其承担起向大众提供知识服务、传播中华文化的重要角色。     

互联网时代影视艺术创作与传播机制的变革

网络技术和数字技术极大地丰富了影视艺术的创作形态,同时,给影视作品的传播方式带来了革命性变革。面对技术的快速发展,我们必须积极扩大视野去了解相关艺术与技术的实践, 站在兼容并包的角度来重新审视互联网环境下影视艺术的创作模式,用互联网思维做电影,找出适合新媒体的影视创作方法和传播途径。     

数码传播本质属性的辩证分析

人类的传播行为,随着数码媒介的加盟,呈现出一种奇异的二元对立形态:真实与虚假、自由与反自由、大与小、动与静,两种极端相反的概念,在数码世界里矛盾而又统一地存在。这是一个非常奇异的现象,正在对现实生活产生着深刻的影响。目前,人们对数码传播尤其是网络传播的高效、快速和方便、自由有着广泛的认同,却在相当程度上忽略了对其另外一面的认识。文章对其本质属性进行了辩证的探讨和梳理,有助于人们加深对数码传播的全面理解。