Informational Environments

Informational Environments
Author: Jürgen Buder
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2017-10-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 331964274X

This book provides a multidisciplinary view into how individuals and groups interact with the information environments that surround them. The book discusses how informational environments shape our daily lives, and how digital technologies can improve the ways in which people make use of informational environments. It presents the research and outcomes of a seven-year multidisciplinary research initiative, the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Tübingen Informational Environments, jointly conducted by the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Book chapters from leading international experts in psychology, education, computer science, sociology, and medicine provide a multi-layered and multidisciplinary view on how the interplay between individuals and their informational environments unfolds. Featured topics include: Managing obesity prevention using digital media. Using digital media to assess and promote school teacher competence. Informational environments and their effect on college student dropout. Web-Platforms for game-based learning of orthography and numeracy. How to design adaptive information environments to support self-regulated learning with multimedia. Informational Environments will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners in various fields of educational psychology, social psychology, education, computer science, communication science, sociology, and medicine.

Environments of Intelligence

Environments of Intelligence
Author: Hajo Greif
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1315408082

What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In his take on that family of views, Hajo Greif first defends and refines a concept of information as primarily natural, environmentally embedded in character, which had been eclipsed by information-processing views of cognition. He continues with an inquiry into the cognitive bearing of some artefacts that are sometimes referred to as 'intelligent environments'. Without necessarily having much to do with Artificial Intelligence, such artefacts may ultimately modify our informational environments. With respect to human cognition, the most notable effect of digital computers is not that they might be able, or become able, to think but that they alter the way we perceive, think and act. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence

The Changing Information Environment

The Changing Information Environment
Author: John McHale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429727933

A revolution has occurred during our lifetime in the collection, storage, and communication of information, a revolution whose full significance is scarcely understood even by those responsible for its development. At the core of this revolution, and its most visible component, is electronic data processing via the computer. The computer has shown an impressive ability to handle increasing complexity at greater speeds while decreasing its use of power, cost, and space. In this book, however, John McHale shows how the impact of the information revolution stretches far beyond these specific developments. It lies (1) in the expansion and interlinkage of computer-based systems and their extension into larger areas of automated control; (2) in the convergence and relationship of such systems with concurrently developing communications technologies; and (3) in the ways in which these combine together to create a radically new information environment, whose major impacts will be felt most critically within the next ten to twenty years. Mr McHale believes that the emergence of information and knowledge as our basic resources signifies profound consequences that will affect the structure of society itself and the institutional and value premises upon which it operates: The increased dependence upon information as key societal resource will move society, within the next ten to twenty years, from industrially based forms to post-industrial forms whose possible configurations of institutions, governance and value systems are still open to conjecture. In society in general, with the new social wealth generated by information and communications technologies, the whole character of the survival game is being changed. It is now more clearly a non-zero-sum game in which success or gain is predicated on all winning.

Information Environmentalism

Information Environmentalism
Author: Robert Cunningham
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2014-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857938444

øInformation Environmentalism applies four environmental analytical frameworks _ ecology, Šthe commons�, public choice theory, and welfare economics _ to the information environment. The book neatly captures the metaphorical relationship between the ph

Handbook of Research on Information Architecture and Management in Modern Organizations

Handbook of Research on Information Architecture and Management in Modern Organizations
Author: Jamil, George Leal
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2015-08-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466686383

Information is considered both an essential element of organizational design and an asset to be processed and managed. Further research on and application of topics relating to the architecture, management, and use of information is imperative to organizational success. The Handbook of Research on Information Architecture and Management in Modern Organizations focuses on information as an essential element of organizational design and emphasizes the strategic role of knowledge transfer and management in organizations across industries. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach to information architecture and management, this publication draws on research essential to diverse organizations and is designed for use by business professionals, researchers, academicians, and upper-level students. This comprehensive reference work features key research and concepts on topics related to information functionality, information modeling, information overload, information retrieval, innovation management, organizational architecture, informed governance, and relevant applications across industries.

The Human Environment

The Human Environment
Author: Valentin Matcas
Publisher: Valentin Leonard Matcas
Total Pages: 142
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

You are born in this world believing everything to be accurate, reliable, and unique, just as you learn in school, and then as you grow up, this world shows itself in its true meaning. Parents have secrets at home and politicians lie and cheat throughout the media, while these might be the first inconsistencies that you notice in your perfect world. The rich become richer not exactly through their true abilities, but through their lies and illegalities, and this might be the first injustice that you ever notice in this world. Authorities replace authorities endlessly only to do the same, this harms you throughout life while authorities never admit it, yet you can see it well, everybody knows it, and this is your true, actual environment. But can you pinpoint exactly what goes on in this world and what goes wrong in your environment? Because lies, inconsistencies, and illegalities are everywhere, and there is nothing significant enough offering you an accurate point of reference, an accurate perspective defining this altering environment, helping you understand this world as it is. Because the knowledge found at the base of your understanding of this world is missing, as it is erroneous, or it is misleading on purpose, since this is how authorities strive to offer it to you. This alters your reasoning now, and consequently, it alters your inner, outer, and social behavior. Coincidentally, your entire behavior is altered in this manner, determining you now to be part of these lies and illegalities yourself, directly or implicitly, determining you to create in this manner on your own this Consensual Matrix found all around, affecting and harming everybody, just as everybody’s altered behavior creates the same Consensual Matrix affecting you and the entire world. Because the rich and the politicians never force you in any manner, but they only expect and accept your behavior to fall in this exact consensual pattern, coincidentally having all favorable outcomes turn in their favor. Because this enforced consensual environment that you create through your consensual behavior might be unfavorable and harmful to you and to those around, but it is certainly profitable for those controlling this world. Because you must consider all environments when you study this world, as your natural, consensual, constructed, social, inner, cognitive, informational, higher, and spiritual human environments, forming your actual world. This defines your surroundings, it patterns your behavior and it gives meanings to your existence, it gives you a place and role in society and it challenges your existence, it constrains you to act and develop, to help and harm those around, it is there when you are born, and it always kills you in the end. And if you fail understanding your real and consensual environments for what they truly are, you end up missing a significant part of your existence, of what life truly represents to you and to everyone around, of what you should have always experienced, and of what you should have always been. Throughout this book, we study the human environment in its entirety, natural, social, cognitive, spiritual, and consensual, since only through an accurate research of your entire environment you may find the accurate knowledge helping you structure and define your meaning and place in life and in this world.

The Ethics of Information

The Ethics of Information
Author: Luciano Floridi
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191023272

Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, health care, industrial production and business, social relations, and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our moral lives and on contemporary ethical debates. Privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, responsibility, technological determinism, the digital divide, and pornography online are only some of the pressing issues that characterise the ethical discourse in the information society. They are the subject of Information Ethics (IE), the new philosophical area of research that investigates the ethical impact of ICTs on human life and society. Since the seventies, IE has been a standard topic in many curricula. In recent years, there has been a flourishing of new university courses, international conferences, workshops, professional organizations, specialized periodicals and research centres. However, investigations have so far been largely influenced by professional and technical approaches, addressing mainly legal, social, cultural and technological problems. This book is the first philosophical monograph entirely and exclusively dedicated to it. Floridi lays down, for the first time, the conceptual foundations for IE. He does so systematically, by pursuing three goals: a) a metatheoretical goal: it describes what IE is, its problems, approaches and methods; b) an introductory goal: it helps the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to computer ethics; c) an analytic goal: it answers several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of the ethical implications of ICTs. Although entirely independent of The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011), Floridi's previous book, The Ethics of Information complements it as new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability

Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability
Author: R. Douglas Arnold
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400849586

Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers provide the information citizens need in order to hold representatives accountable for their actions in office? In contrast with previous studies, which largely focused on the campaign period, he tests various hypotheses about the causes and consequences of media coverage by exploring coverage during an entire congressional session. Using three samples of local newspapers from across the country, Arnold analyzes all coverage over a two-year period--every news story, editorial, opinion column, letter, and list. First he investigates how twenty-five newspapers covered twenty-five local representatives; and next, how competing newspapers in six cities covered their corresponding legislators. Examination of an even larger sample, sixty-seven newspapers and 187 representatives, shows why some newspapers cover legislators more thoroughly than do other papers. Arnold then links the coverage data with a large public opinion survey to show that the volume of coverage affects citizens' awareness of representatives and challengers. The results show enormous variation in coverage. Some newspapers cover legislators frequently, thoroughly, and accessibly. Others--some of them famous for their national coverage--largely ignore local representatives. The analysis also confirms that only those incumbents or challengers in the most competitive races, and those who command huge sums of money, receive extensive coverage.

Key Issues in Organizational Communication

Key Issues in Organizational Communication
Author: Owen Hargie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2004-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134508239

It is often said that the practice of management is in crisis, and that managers are now finding it harder than ever to develop strategies which withstand the shocks of the marketplace. This illuminating book cuts through these conflicting issues to show how organizational communication plays a vital role in confronting uncertainty. Arguing that many managers fail to adequately consider the communication consequences of the decision making process and its impact on organizational effectiveness, Hargie and Tourish present here numerous organizational communication insights, and show how they reveal a way through these dilemmas. Based on cutting-edge research findings and case studies, this book features contributions from the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Norway, bringing multiple perspectives to this topical subject. The result is a comprehensive guide to organizational communication useful for managers, academics and students.