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Informatica
Informatica -the updated
edition of Alex Wright's previously published Glut-continues the
journey through the history of the information age to show how
information systems emerge . Today's \"information
explosion\" may seem like a modern phenomenon, but we are not the
first generation-or even the first species-to wrestle with the
problem of information overload. Long before the advent of
computers, human beings were collecting, storing, and organizing
information: from Ice Age taxonomies to Sumerian archives, Greek
libraries to Christian monasteries.
Wright weaves a narrative that connects such seemingly far-flung
topics as insect colonies, Stone Age jewelry, medieval monasteries,
Renaissance encyclopedias, early computer networks, and the World
Wide Web. He suggests that the future of the information age may
lie deep in our cultural past.
We stand at a precipice struggling to cope with a tsunami of
data. Wright provides some much-needed historical perspective. We
can understand the predicament of information overload not just as
the result of technological change but as the latest chapter in an
ancient story that we are only beginning to understand.
eBook
The Success of Information Systems and Sustainable Information Society: Measuring the Implementation of a Village Financial System
The purpose of this study is to advance the information society literature research by examining and developing the adoption of information systems within the Village Financial System (SISKEUDES) to improve the sustainable information society (SIS). The models include the DeLone and McLean model and trust theory, which involves eight variables: system information quality, information quality, service quality, trust in government organizations, trust in technology, usage, user satisfaction, net benefits, and sustainable information society. A survey questionnaire was used, and data was collected from SISKEUDES users in Bali, Indonesia, which were statistically analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) to understand the phenomena of Information System (IS) adoption and sustainable information society. The research findings reveal that system information quality, information quality, and trust in technology have a significant impact on usage and user satisfaction, whereas service quality and trust in government organizations do not have such an effect. The usage and user satisfaction variables have a significant effect on net benefits, and they have a significant effect on the sustainability of the SIS. This study’s findings can provide e-government practitioners with deeper insights into how to overcome problems with user satisfaction and increase trust in mandatory e-government services in realizing SIS and the “smart village”.
Journal Article
The Wealth of Networks
With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice. But these results are by no means inevitable: a systematic campaign to protect the entrenched industrial information economy of the last century threatens the promise of today's emerging networked information environment.
In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing-and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront us and maintains that there is much to be gained-or lost-by the decisions we make today.
eBook
The Other Side of the Digital
A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world
affects our humanity Our tech-fueled economy is often
touted as a boon for the development of our fullest human
potential. But as our interactions are increasingly turned into
mountains of data sifted by algorithms, what impact does this
infinite accumulation and circulation of information really have on
us? What are the hidden mechanisms that drive our continuous
engagement with the digital?
In The Other Side of the Digital , Andrea Righi argues
that the Other of the digital acts as a new secular God, exerting
its power through endless accountability that forces us to
sacrifice ourselves for the digital. Righi deconstructs the
contradictions inherent in our digital world, examining how ideas
of knowledge, desire, writing, temporality, and the woman are being
reconfigured by our sacrificial economy. His analyses include how
both our self-image and our perception of reality are skewed by
technologies like fitness bands, matchmaking apps, and search
engines, among others.
The Other Side of the Digital provides a necessary,
in-depth cultural analysis of how the political theology of the new
media functions under neoliberalism. Drawing on the work of
well-known thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Ludwig
Wittgenstein, as well as Carla Lonzi, Luisa Muraro, and Luciano
Parinetto, Righi creates novel appraisals of popular digital tools
that we now use routinely to process life experiences. Asking why
we must sign up for this sort of regime, The Other Side of the
Digital is an important wake-up call to a world deeply
entangled with the digital.
eBook
Organic creativity for well-being in the post-information society
The editorial dwells upon the technology-driven evolution from the Industrial to the Post-Information Society, indicating that this transition will bring about drastic transformations in our way of living, starting from the job market and then pervading all aspects at both individual and social levels. Great opportunities will come together with unprecedented challenges to living as we have always known it. In this innovation-filled scenario, it is argued that human creativity becomes the distinctive ability to provide dignity at first and survival in the long term. The term organic creativity is introduced to indicate those conditions, attitudes, and actions that bear the potential to be at the same time productive in socio-economic terms and conducive to human well-being. As a consequence, the role of psychologists in an open cooperation with sociologists, economists, computer scientists, engineers and others, will be as central as ever in establishing healthy collaboration modes between humans and machines, and large investments in related multidisciplinary scientific research are advocated to establish organic creativity as a discipline that should permeate every educational level, as well as our professional and everyday lives.
Journal Article