Follow the Pathfinders: a Case Study Approach to Production, Use, and Readership on Scalar

This born-digital article examines the multimodal academic publication Pathfinders (Moulthrop and Grigar). Through a combination of interviews with readers and the author, textual analysis of the book, and literature review of Scalar, I trace the affordances of the platform, appropriation by scholars, the media text, and readership of Pathfinders. I distill themes that are key in the multimodality of the book, including platform adoption, institutional embedding, technological context and research values. Throughout the article, which is also written on Scalar, I reflect on my own use of Scalar and the various considerations that come with it in terms of software sustainability, accessibility, and transparency of research context. I conclude with a reflection on the media specificity of Scalar as an academic platform.

Analysis of the productivity of the copra sector in the municipality of Comalcalco, Tabasco for the design of a development proposal

Productivity is very important in any economic sector of any country, since it is fundamental within an organization, the higher productivity, the greater the probability that an organization will grow economically over time, therefore, it will be able to remain stable and survive to any situation, change or circumstance within it. This research seeks to analyze the productivity of the copper sector, through applied research, in the municipality of Comalcalco, Tabasco in the city of Villahermosa. In which a correlational, descriptive and field research methodology is used. The productivity of the copper sector is analyzed considering the relationship with the variables of the environmental, cultural, economic, political, social and technological context. Considering the behavior of the research variables in the different international, national and local contexts, the appropriate formats are designed to be able to collect information the TIEP (Comprehensive Productivity Evaluation Technique) which serves as a basis to know the current situation of said sector and to be able to determine the opportunities for improvement through the contribution of a development proposal which helps to increase productivity and allows the improvement of the retail sector and can be competitive.

Information Science: Fields and Technological Issues & Challenges in Developing & Developed Nations

<p>Information is the power and Technology is the driving force for the development of all the facets. Information Science and Technology as a field of study and professional practice is therefore responsible for providing information and technology solutions to different organizations, institutions, sectors, fields, and even to individuals. Information Science and Technology is an emerging field and interdisciplinary in nature that has already been gathered from previous sources and chapters. Information Science and Technology is very diverse and treated in different perspectives viz. information, technological solutions, domain-specific solutions, and so on. Regarding the technologies, it also holds wider coverage in tools, techniques, systems, and technologies. Though Information Science and Technology is available with different names there are certain reasons for the development of each nomenclature/ subject. This paper has discussed the issues and suggestions regarding Information Science in its educational and technological context. <strong></strong></p>

Pengaruh Konteks Teknologi, Lingkungan, Organisasi Dalam Penggunaan Media Sosial Dan Dampaknya Pada Kinerja Usaha Bakery

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of Technological Context, Environmental Context, Organizational Context on Social Media Usage of MSME Bakery in Jakarta and analyzing the influence of Social Media Usage on Business Performance of UMKM Bakery in Jakarta.The sample used in this study amounted to 48 respondents who have a bakery in Jakarta. The results show that there is a significant influence between Environmental Context on Social Media Usage and there is a significant effect on Social Media Usage on Business Performance. There is no significant effect between Techological Context and Organizational Context on Social Media Usage. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh Konteks Teknologi, Konteks Lingkungan dan Konteks Organisasi dalam Penggunaan Media Sosial pada usaha Bakery di Jakarta dan mengetahui pengaruh Penggunaan Media Sosial terhadap Performa Bisnis usaha Bakery di Jakarta. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 48 orang responden yang memiliki bakery di Jakarta. Hasil menunjukkan terdapat pengaruh signifikan antara Konteks Lingkungan terhadap Penggunaan Media Sosial dan terdapat pengaruh signifikan terhadap Penggunaan Media Sosial terhadap Performa Bisnis. Tetapi tidak terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan antara Konteks Teknologi dan Konteks Organisasi terhadap Penggunaan Media Sosial.

Inleiding. Karaktermoord is een tijdloos wapen

Introduction. Character assassination, a timeless weapon Character assassination is the deliberate destruction of an individual’s reputation or credibility. While the term itself is relatively new, the practices it describes can be found in virtually all cultures and historical epochs. Despite their great variety, character attacks share five common aspects or pillars: they involve an attacker, a target, a medium, an audience and they take place in a particular cultural, political and technological context. In recent times there has been a surge in scholarship on character assassination from a range of academic disciplines, including political science, rhetoric and communication studies. This thematic issue will explore the historical dimensions of character assassination and the challenges and opportunities that come with it. It will focus in particular on the role that various media – ranging from Roman histories and medieval chronicles to nineteenth-century cartoons – have played in shaping practices of character assassination throughout the ages.

Beyond culture: Advancing the understanding of political and technological contexts in crisis communication

This study aims to theoretically advance the context-oriented tradition in crisis communication by highlighting the political and technological contexts for understanding organisational crises. Using China as a case, the study proposes a broader analytical framework that investigates the societal contexts’ impact on crisis communication from political and technological domains. The analytical framework includes, first, the examination of the authoritarian regime with a divided power structure as the political context in China. Assessing political ideology, political structure, and political history as political contexts allows for a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of political contexts on crisis communication temporally and structurally; second, the investigation of internet users’ voices in a government-regulated commercial space as the technological context in China. Online participation and internet language thereby emerge as prominent parts of the technological contexts for understanding crisis communication in China. The implications and directions of research are also discussed.

Worldviews of science teachers in educational-technological context as a key factor in digitalization of teaching practices

Background: This research deals with science teachers' worldviews in the educational-technological context. Obtaining a deeper insight into teachers' discourse regarding school digitalization and understanding teachers' worldviews in the educational-technological context may be viewed as crucially important since the latter tends to play a central role in the process of digitalization of teaching practices. Methods: This study addresses the following questions: (1) Was there a difference between the teachers regarding their foci of attention expressed via personal pronouns? (2) Was there a difference between the teachers in terms of the quality and degree of their emotional immersion in the discussed topic expressed through the use of emotion words? (3) What are the semantic fields of the word clusters that include the lexemes technology and digital, and do they implicitly convey differences in teachers' understanding of school digitalization? The data were extracted by means of in-depth interviews with 38 Israeli science teachers. The linguistic analysis was employed to examine teachers' language behavior. Results: The results point out the differences in teachers' worldviews, manifested through language behavior. In particular, the differences between the three groups of teachers (outside observers, circumspect participants, and conscientious participants) were found regarding their foci of attention, the level of emotional immersion, and their implicitly conveyed understanding of the digitalization of teaching practices. Conclusions: The teachers' worldviews are the key element for understanding what it means to be or not to be a teacher in a digital society. In addition, our study demonstrates that linguistic analysis in educational research is a promising methodological approach that can render an in-depth and comprehensive picture of the explored phenomenon.