scholarly journals The phenomenon of contemporary state's digital sovereignty in the context of global technological transformations: content and features

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
S. Volodenkov
Keyword(s):  
Current Practice ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
Economic Practice ◽  
Reported Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Structure And Functions

The purpose of this work is to study the content, structure and functions of the phenomenon of digital sovereignty, which is primarily associated with the active introduction of digital communication technologies into the current political and socio-economic practice, acting as an influential factor in transforming modern approaches to understanding and ensuring national sovereignty as in political, and in the economic dimensions, as well as generating global challenges and risks in the field of geopolitical security of modern states. The object of the research was modern extraterritorial and distributed digital technologies, which are currently actively used in socio-political and socio-economic practice. The subject of the research - peculiarities of the transformation of the structural, functional and substantive content of the phenomenon of national digital sovereignty in the context of digitalization of the socio-political and economic spheres of its life vital for the state. The paper analyzes the current practice of digitalization of modern states and societies, based on which the key risks, challenges and threats are identified that are of most significant importance in the formation and provision of national digital sovereignty in the context of modern technological transformations. Acknowledgments: The reported study was funded by RFBR and EISR, project number 20-011-31396. Acknowledgments: The reported study was funded by RFBR and EISR, project number 20-011-31396.

scholarly journals The Undesired Effects of Digital Communication on Moral Response

Comunicar ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (44) ◽  
pp. 149-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isidoro Arroyo-Almaraz ◽  
Raúl Gómez-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Defining Issues Test ◽  
Moral Response ◽  
Real People ◽  
Validation Procedure ◽  
Pencil And Paper

The current paper is based on the hypothesis that communication through the new digital technologies modifies the moral response of users, and therefore reduces social capital. This approach has been contrasted by designing and conducting an experiment (N=196) using our own adaptation of the Spanish version of the Defining Issues Test on subjects who have been socialized by Internet and who constitute the representative samples of this study. This test on paper was adapted to our research following an expert validation procedure and then transferred onto two types of digital audiovisual formats. Finally, The use of digital communication technologies and students’ fluid intelligence response were evaluated in order to establish whether their response was significant and if it modified moral response. The results confirm the hypothesis and show that the quality of moral response decreases when digital technologies are used instead of pencil and paper. This difference is greater when virtual images of people designed by animation are used rather than visual images of real people. In addition, the results show that fluid intelligence mitigates these modifications. Se investiga cómo la comunicación mediada por tecnologías digitales modifica la respuesta moral de los usuarios, y por tanto, varía el capital social. Se diseña y realiza un experimento con 196 sujetos que se sirve de una adaptación de diseño propio del «Defining Issues Test» en papel, a partir de la versión española, sobre una muestra representativa del universo de sujetos que se han socializado con Internet. Se valida la adaptación del test sometiéndolo a juicio por un panel de expertos, se amplía el mismo a otros dos formatos digitales audiovisuales diferentes: con imágenes reales de personas o con imágenes virtuales de personas a través de animación, y se comprueba si la inteligencia fluida de los sujetos es significativa en la modificación de la respuesta moral. Los resultados confirman las hipótesis y demuestran que la calidad de la respuesta moral disminuye cuando se usan tecnologías digitales respecto a cuando se usa papel y lápiz. Esta diferencia es mayor cuando se usan imágenes virtuales de personas a través de animación que cuando se usan imágenes audiovisuales de personas reales. En todos los casos la inteligencia fluida es un atenuante de estas modificaciones.

scholarly journals Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the COVID-19 crisis: the sociomaterialities of home-based communication technologies

2020 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2096156
Author(s):  
Ash Watson ◽  
Deborah Lupton ◽  
Mike Michael
Keyword(s):  
Digital Communication ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Video Ethnography ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Physical Isolation ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Domestic Lives ◽  
Video Calling

Significant restrictions on movement outside the home due to the global COVID-19 pandemic have intensified the importance of everyday digital technologies for communicating remotely with intimate others. In this article, we draw on findings from a home-based video ethnography project in Sydney to identify the ways that digital devices and software served to support and enhance intimacy and sociality in this period of crisis and isolation. Digital communication technologies had an increased presence in people’s domestic lives during lockdown. For many people, video calling software had become especially important, allowing them to achieve greater closeness and connection with their friends and family in enacting both everyday routines and special events. These findings surface the digital and non-digital materialities of sociality and intimacy, and the capacities opened by people’s improvisation with the affordances of home-based communication technologies at a time of extended physical isolation.

Internet-Enabled Activism and Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis E. Hestres ◽  
Jill E. Hopke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Movement Organizations

The past two decades have transformed how interest groups, social movement organizations, and individuals engage in collective action. Meanwhile, the climate change advocacy landscape, previously dominated by well-established environmental organizations, now accommodates new ones focused exclusively on this issue. What binds these closely related trends is the rapid diffusion of communication technologies like the internet and portable devices such as smartphones and tablets. Before the diffusion of digital and mobile technologies, collective action, whether channeled through interest groups or social movement organizations, consisted of amassing and expending resources—money, staff, time, etc.—on behalf of a cause via top-down organizations. These resource expenditures often took the form of elite persuasion: media outreach, policy and scientific expertise, legal action, and lobbying. But broad diffusion of digital technologies has enabled alternatives to this model to flourish. In some cases, digital communication technologies have simply made the collective action process faster and more cost-effective for organizations; in other cases, these same technologies now allow individuals to eschew traditional advocacy groups and instead rely on digital platforms to self-organize. New political organizations have also emerged whose scope and influence would not be possible without digital technologies. Journalism has also felt the impact of technological diffusion. Within networked environments, digital news platforms are reconfiguring traditional news production, giving rise to new paradigms of journalism. At the same time, climate change and related issues are increasingly becoming the backdrop to news stories on topics as varied as politics and international relations, science and the environment, economics and inequality, and popular culture. Digital communication technologies have significantly reduced the barriers for collective action—a trend that in many cases has meant a reduced role for traditional brick-and-mortar advocacy organizations and their preferred strategies. This trend is already changing the types of advocacy efforts that reach decision-makers, which may help determine the policies that they are willing to consider and adopt on a range of issues—including climate change. In short, widespread adoption of digital media has fueled broad changes in both collective action and climate change advocacy. Examples of advocacy organizations and campaigns that embody this trend include 350.org, the Climate Reality Project, and the Guardian’s “Keep It in the Ground” campaign. 350.org was co-founded in 2007 by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben and several of his former students from Middlebury College in Vermont. The Climate Reality project was founded under another name by former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. The Guardian’s “Keep It in the Ground” fossil fuel divestment campaign, which is a partnership with 350.org and its Go Fossil Free Campaign, was launched in March 2015 at the behest of outgoing editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger.

scholarly journals Usage of digital technologies in the area of corruption prevention

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-63
Author(s):  
Artur Georgievich Kravchenko ◽  
Aleksei Igorevich Ovchinnikov ◽  
Aleksei Yur'evich Mamychev ◽  
Sergei Alekseevich Vorontsov
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Corruption Prevention

The subject of this article is certain anti-corruption trends that utilize digital technologies and can be taken into account in setting the priorities of anti-corruption legal policy of the Russian state. The author examines new opportunities for corruption prevention in the conditions of systematic implementation of information and communication technologies in the area of public administration. The goal of this work is to outline new opportunities for corruption prevention using digital technologies in public administration and various spheres of social life. The scientific novelty lies in the generalization and comprehensive analysis of digital technologies in the area of corruption prevention. The conclusion is made that the new digital technologies create unprecedented opportunities for modification of the model of anti-corruption policy, shifting the focus from administrative, criminal and other mechanisms of bringing to responsibility the participants of corruption relations to the benefit of development of the mechanisms for technical incapability, economic insolvency and inexpediency of corruption actions, ties and relationships. The information and communication technologies on their own are the tool of legal policy; not self-standing and without reference to the general principles of corruption prevention, they are able to generative destructive occurrences of technocratic bureaucracy, totalitarian political control, and systemic violations of human rights and freedoms.

The glorious jubilee of Rujero Sergeevich Gilyarevsky

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
M. Dvorkina
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cloud Technologies ◽  
Information Sciences

The author offers the brief biographical information on Rujero Sergeevich Gilyarevsky whose 90-th anniversary is celebrated. She reviews the main stages of his academic and pedagogical career, in particular, his scholarly works, his two theses studies (candidate’s and doctoral), numerous publications that have been contributing to the librarianship, library and information sciences. The author emphasizes the scope of Gilyarevsky’s professional interests and retraces expanding of the subject scope of his publications – from catalog structuring (1954) to cloud technologies, information management and scientometrics. Rujero Gilyarevsky analyzes the problems of the libraries (and e-libraries, in particular), their future, professional values of the librarians within the digital communication environment, bibliography as an element of information culture. R. Gilyarevsky has complete mastery of several foreign languages. The selected bibliography of R. Gilarevsky’s publications, including those co-authored by his colleagues, is appended.

Program-Target Budgeting as a Tool for Investment Stimulation of Business

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Masterov
Keyword(s):  
Current Practice ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Program Budgeting ◽  
Large Investment ◽  
Stimulation Of

The paper discusses the use of the program-targeted budgeting methodology in the investment stimulation of business in the most problem sectors of the economy. The subject of the study is the dynamics of business activity in key economic sectors adversely affected by factors of the economic and geopolitical nature. The purposes of the study were to identify the key factors that have a negative impact on economic growth and seek options for investment stimulation of business activities in the most problem sectors of the economy using state budget funds. It is concluded that the current practice of budget investment is associated with significant risks and poor justification of investment decisions. Therefore, the American practice of the program budgeting in the implementation of large investment infrastructure projects using budget funds seems to be advantageous. Based on the research findings, methods for increasing the effectiveness of program-target budgeting tools under the Russian conditions are proposed.

Digitalization of Competition in the Insurance Market

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
D. V. Bryzgalov
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Sales Channels ◽  
Channel Competition ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Subject

The subject of the research is the influence of the insurance market digitalization on competition forms in insurance. The purpose of the research was to study the forms of competition and factors of competitiveness in the process of digitalization of insurance activities. The research findings revealed the specifics of competition between insurance companies in digital sales channels of insurance services, and identified groups of new factors in the competitiveness of insurance programs. The paper describes two models of the policyholder behavior typical for traditional and digital sales channels in the insurance market — classical and digital. It is concluded that the digitalization of the insurance market influences the competition between insurance companies making a shift towards the channel competition and contributing to the emergence of new competition factors for insurance programs developed with digital technologies.

scholarly journals Moral education of students in the cultural and educational space of the high school

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 211-216
Author(s):  
Sergey Victorovich Pupkov
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
The World ◽  
Practical Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Education Of Students

The necessity of the moral education of students of high school students as an initiation to the values of which are in the teacher-written cultural and educational space. Amended scientific understanding of the concept of educational space and proved that the substantive content of the notion of cultural and educational space gets through the involvement of the term culture. The essence of cultural and educational space of the university lies in its multi-dimensionality, which is expressed in infinity broadcast through the channels of education and training culture as the experience of, the experience of spiritual and practical development of the world in the moral experience moral, value relationships according to the criterion limit it (experience) of the base (value of a person), by which the subject-object, object-subject and subject-subject relations are optional. The content of the cultural and educational space, formed the subject-object and subject-subject relationship, the relationship between them becomes dialectical by the object-subject relationship in which there are values that are axiological nucleus of activity, axiological form of culture. Determine the purpose of the subject-object and subject-subject relations as the content of the image of cultural and educational space, and on the basis of this mission revealed features of pedagogical activity of the teacher conducting the moral education of students: to provide storage, reproduction, broadcast culture as the experience of concluded (experience) in ostensive, imperative, axiological forms of culture, its forms-principles; organization of the work of students with cultural forms; student organization ascent from axiological forms of culture its forms-principles; transfer of experience of spiritual and practical development of morality in the world, the experience of behavior and activity, experience, moral, value relations.

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