scholarly journals Why the Internet is Good for Music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Michael Malone
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
Good Music ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Detrimental Impact ◽  
Intellectual Disciplines ◽  
The Web

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to challenge the common notion that the internet has had a detrimental impact on the music industry, and on musicians’ ability to generate a viable income while still producing good music. Note, that the following arguments do not automatically extend to the effect that the web has had on books, patents, films, journalism or any other medium. The reason for this is because these different disciplines have individual characteristics that make them respond differently to the same socio-economic pressures. However, on the same token, it does not necessarily follow that the conclusions reached here are inapplicable to other activities: perhaps what is true for music in the following pages is also true for e.g. photography. Furthermore, I am not advocating for a free-for-all internet where behemoths like Google, Amazon and Facebook get to do whatever they wish. Although I am intrigued by such matters, the constraints of both time and space allow me only the possibility to focus on the subject that I am most familiar and passionate about. Furthermore, because I am painting a broad picture which encompasses many intellectual disciplines, many of which I am not an expert in, this work is to be considered more on the consistency of the overall argument rather than the minutia of its individual parts.</p>

scholarly journals Why the Internet is Good for Music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Michael Malone
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
Good Music ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Detrimental Impact ◽  
Intellectual Disciplines ◽  
The Web

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to challenge the common notion that the internet has had a detrimental impact on the music industry, and on musicians’ ability to generate a viable income while still producing good music. Note, that the following arguments do not automatically extend to the effect that the web has had on books, patents, films, journalism or any other medium. The reason for this is because these different disciplines have individual characteristics that make them respond differently to the same socio-economic pressures. However, on the same token, it does not necessarily follow that the conclusions reached here are inapplicable to other activities: perhaps what is true for music in the following pages is also true for e.g. photography. Furthermore, I am not advocating for a free-for-all internet where behemoths like Google, Amazon and Facebook get to do whatever they wish. Although I am intrigued by such matters, the constraints of both time and space allow me only the possibility to focus on the subject that I am most familiar and passionate about. Furthermore, because I am painting a broad picture which encompasses many intellectual disciplines, many of which I am not an expert in, this work is to be considered more on the consistency of the overall argument rather than the minutia of its individual parts.</p>

scholarly journals Opowieść transmedialna jako przykład kreacyjnych możliwości fandomu

2018 ◽  
pp. 191-202
Author(s):  
JAKUB CZOPEK
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Web

Jakub Czopek, Opowieść transmedialna jako przykład kreacyjnych możliwości fandomu [Transmedia story as an example of creative possibilities of fandom]. Interdyscyplinarne Konteksty Pedagogiki Specjalnej, nr 23, Poznań 2018. Pp. 191-202. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/ikps.2018.23.11 The subject of the article is the creative activity of fan communities (fandom), with particular emphasis on the transmedia storytelling, i.e. the story told simultaneously within various media. The development of the Internet in the Web 2.0 formula has opened a number of possibilities for the creation of fandoms centered around a particular series, movies, books or games. The main manifestations of the activity of these groups can be reduced on the one hand to analyzing and commenting on a given text of culture, and on the other hand, to develop it, by adding new stories, often using other medium than the one originally used.

scholarly journals Going Back in Time to Find What Existed on the Web and How much has been Preserved: How much of Palestinian Web has been Archived?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaer Sammar ◽  
Hadi Khalilia
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Time Range ◽  
The Internet ◽  
National Library ◽  
Internet Archive ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Web

The web is an important resource for publishing and sharing content. The main characteristic of the web is its volatility. Content is added, updated, and deleted all the time. Therefore, many national and international institutes started crawling and archiving the content of the web. The main focus of national institutes is to archive the web related to their country heritage, for example, the National Library of the Netherlands is focusing on archiving website that are of value to the Dutch heritage. However, there are still countries that haven’t taken the action to archive their web, which will result in loosing and having a gap in the knowledge. In this research, we focus on shedding the light on the Palestinian web. Precisely, how much of the Palestinian web has been archived. First, we create a list of Palestinian hosts that were on the web. For that we queried Google index exploiting the time range filter in order to get hosts overtime. We collected in 98 hosts in average in 5-years granularity from the year 1990 to 2019. We also obtained Palestinian hosts from the DMOZ directory. We collected 188 hosts. Second, we investigate the coverage of collected hosts in the Internet Archive and the Common-Crawl. We found that coverage of Google hosts in the Internet Archive ranges from 0% to 89% from oldest to newest time-granularity. The coverage of DMOZ hosts was 96%. The coverage of Google hosts in the Common-Crawl 57.1% to 74.3, while the coverage of DMOZ hosts in the Common-Crawl was in average 25% in all crawls. We found that even the host is covered in Internet Archive and Common-Crawl, the lifespan and the number of archived versions are low.

Introduction of Blockchain and Usage of Blockchain in Internet of Things

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandrasekar Ravi ◽  
Praveensankar Manimaran
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Data Centers ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Access Management ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
The Web

Since the advent of the web, the number of users who started using the internet for everyday purpose has increased tremendously. Most of the common purposes are to access their data whenever they want and wherever they want. So many companies have started providing these services to normal users. These companies store huge volume of data in the data centers. So protecting the integrity of the data is the main responsibility of these companies. Blockchain is one of the trending solutions that gives storage immutability to the users. This chapter starts with the working of blockchain and smart contracts and advantages and disadvantages of blockchain and smart contracts and then goes on to explain how blockchain can be integrated into the internet of things (IOT). This chapter ends with an architecture based on the proof-of-concept for access management, which is blockchain-based fully distributed architecture.

Strategic Elements for the Mobile Enablement of Business

2009 ◽  
pp. 94-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Sherringham ◽  
Bhuvan Unhelkar
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Transaction Processing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Mobile Business ◽  
Industry Sector ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Web

The Internet wave that swept through business is likely to be seen as a ripple in a pond compared to the changes that are predicted from the adoption of mobility into business. Irrespective of industry sector, the mobile enablement (wrapping business around mobility) of business is expected to bring many opportunities and rewards; and like the Web enablement (wrapping business around the Internet) of business, a few challenges as well. Across all business areas, mobile business will need to support a mobile workforce, the operation of call (service) centres, and transaction processing and collaboration of virtual teams. Mobile business will also impact product offerings, the management of consumer choice and the focusing of communications with a sticky message. Mobile business will drive changes in management, revisions of business operations and the alignment of Information Communication Technology (ICT). This chapter discusses some of the common but important strategic elements to the successful mobile enablement of business.

A Short History of Designing for Communication on the Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 118-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon B. Heilesen
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
Web Design ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Short History ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Web

Web design is important for how we communicate on the Internet, and it also has an in?uence on computer interface design in general. Taking a very literal view of the theme of “designing for communication”, this chapter examines the development of Web design as a prerequisite for understanding what it has become today, and it concludes by offering some re?ections on the future of Web design. In the ?rst part of the chapter, the history of Web design is outlined in terms of the complex interplay of various social, cultural, economic, technological, and communicative factors. This section concludes with the presentation of a framework for Web design that allows for—if not actually reconciles—the many existing approaches to the subject. In the second part of the chapter, it is suggested that Web design, as it has developed so far, may be facing major changes as the requirements of users and the technologies employed to meet them are changing.

scholarly journals Ordinary Man / Common Man: Conceptual Subject’ Projections of Everyday Discourse

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (32) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Helena Kardashova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
National Corpus

This paper seeks to formalize the structures of everyday discourse. The search for factors ensuring the unity and autonomy of everyday discourse is based on the assumption that the integrity of the discourse as such is guaranteed by the instance of discursive subject. The article deals with the common notion of collective subject/common subject popular in lingua-cultural approach in the Russian discourse analysis. The article on the material of the Russian National Corpus analysed the statements containing an identifier “common / ordinary man”, specified the values in this model, and reconstructed the paradigm of conceptual meanings significant to the speaker as the subject of ordinary discourse. Two aspects of the concept are considered: one model focuses on semantic structures of a subject positioned as a member of a community; another model is related to the subject projecting one in opposition to the other. The author of this article argues that the constitutive force of each discursive practice lies in its provision of subject positions. While the everyday discourse makes available to take up both positions for subjects, the discourse analysis reveals the synergistic nature of everyday communication.

scholarly journals 'Digital fluency': towards young people's critical use of the internet

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Miller ◽  
Jamie Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mouse Click ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Digital Fluency ◽  
The Web ◽  
Acute Challenge

The rise of the internet as the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today poses an acute challenge to the information literacy (IL) community. The amount and type of material available a mouse click away is both liberating and asphyxiating. There are more e-books, trustworthy journalism, niche expertise and accurate facts at our fingertips than ever before, but also mistakes, half-truths, propaganda and misinformation. This article presents research on how well young people are being equipped to meet the challenge of sorting good information from bad. It reviews current literature on the subject, and presents a new poll of over 500 teachers. With analysis supplemented by additional correspondence from librarians and other IL professionals, it argues that there is strong evidence that the web is fundamental to pupils’ learning and lives, but that many are not careful, discerning users of the internet. They are unable to find the information they are looking for, or they trust the first thing they see. This makes them vulnerable to the pitfalls of ignorance, falsehoods, cons and scams. The article proposes the appropriate response to be to embed ‘digital fluency’ – a tripartite concept constituting critical thinking, net savviness and diversity – at the heart of learning, in order to create a pedagogical framework fit for the information consumption habits of the digital age. It should be noted that both authors recognise the importance of non-teaching information literacy professionals in these debates. They recognise that the poll’s focus on teachers was too narrow, and have endeavoured, subsequent to the poll, to consult more widely in their research.

scholarly journals Sposoby pozyskiwania życzliwości odbiorców w prośbach o wsparcie na podstawie portalu Siepomaga.pl

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Dorota Szagun
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Proper Selection ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Selection Of

The subject of the study is a series of advertisements – requests from the Siepomaga.pl website in terms of the method of acquisition of recipients (using Cicero’s captatio benevolentiae principles), convincing and persuading to act through proper selection of rhetorical arguments. The main procedure is to create statements taking into account the common auditorium, bearing the hallmarks of ordinariness. Language structures, toposes, arguments explicitly referring to pathos; the most typical strategies are modesty and raising the value of recipients as a last resort; and toposes: unequal fight against disease, time passing relentlessly as well as causative reasons (support is only a means to obtain priceless values: health and life). A characteristic feature of the requests posted on the Siepomaga.pl website is the presence of various semiotic codes typical for the Internet space, a kind of multimodality of communication in which verbal communication and image coexist. In addition, interaction is an important persuasive element, giving the recipients – the donors – an immediate effect of reward for taking action in the form of satisfaction with the real contribution visible in the account balance bar.

Self-Portrait

2017 ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Gian Maria Annovi
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
The Self ◽  
Abstract Art ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

Pasolini’s less well-studied paintings and drawings, particularly his self-portraits, are the subject of chapter Four. I provide new critical and theoretical perspectives on his visual work and follow its development in parallel with Pasolini’s other creative endeavors, interpreting them as one way of delineating an public authorial performance. I analyze Pasolini’s drawing as wounded self-portrait, that is the graphic manifestation of a torn self-image, produced by the violent clash with society. In Chapter Four, I also look at Pasolini’s relationship to abstract art, focusing on the parallels between his cinema and his experimentation with materials and forms in painting. Challenging the common notion of Pasolini’s hatred for modern art, I argue that in his portraits and self-portraits, he actually used abstraction to deform or disfigure the self, as a result of the pressure of history and society. Finally, in this chapter I consider some of Pasolini’s photographic portraits as a part of his authorial self-fashioning, and as a necessary component of his multimedia practice and his authorial performance during the last phase of his career.

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