The Digital Environment

The Digital Environment
Author: Pablo J. Boczkowski
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0262046199

Understanding digital technology in daily life: why we should think holistically in terms of a digital environment instead of discrete devices and apps. Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long march toward the digitization of everyday life made possible by innovations in media, information, and communication technology. In The Digital Environment, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein offer a new way to understand the role of the digital in our daily lives, calling on us to turn our attention from our discrete devices and apps to the array of artifacts and practices that make up the digital environment that envelops every aspect of our social experience. Boczkowski and Mitchelstein explore a series of issues raised by the digital takeover of everyday life, drawing on interviews with a variety of experts. They show how existing inequities of gender, race, ethnicity, education, and class are baked into the design and deployment of technology, and describe emancipatory practices that counter this--including the use of Twitter as a platform for activism through such hashtags as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. They discuss the digitization of parenting, schooling, and dating--noting, among other things, that today we can both begin and end relationships online. They describe how digital media shape our consumption of sports, entertainment, and news, and consider the dynamics of political campaigns, disinformation, and social activism. Finally, they report on developments in three areas that will be key to our digital future: data science, virtual reality, and space exploration.

Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration

Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration
Author: John Chryssavgis
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0823251446

Can Orthodox Christianity offer unique spiritual resources especially suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case that yes, it can. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues from the Orthodox point of view, this volume with contributions from the most highly influential theologians and philosophers in contemporary world Orthodoxy will engage a wide audience, in academic as well as popular circles--resonating not only with Orthodox audiences but with all those in search of a fresh approach to environmental theory and ethics that can bring the resources of ancient spirituality to bear on modern challenges.

Toward a Unified Ecology

Toward a Unified Ecology
Author: Timothy F. H. Allen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2015-06-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0231538464

The first edition of Toward a Unified Ecology was ahead of its time. For the second edition, the authors present a new synthesis of their core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management. The book now places greater emphasis on post-normal critiques, cognizant of ever-present observer values in the system. The problem it addresses is how to work holistically on complex things that cannot be defined, and this book continues to build an approach to the problem of scaling in ecosystems. Provoked by complexity theory, the authors add a whole new chapter on the central role of narrative in science and how models improve them. The book takes data and modeling seriously, with a sophisticated philosophy of science.

Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Public Service, Economic Management and Sustainable Development (PESD 2023)

Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Public Service, Economic Management and Sustainable Development (PESD 2023)
Author: Zhikai Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 761
Release: 2024-02-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9464633441

This is an open access book. 2023 2nd International Conference on Public Service, Economic Management and Sustainable Development (PESD 2023) will be held from Oct. 27 to 29 in Xiamen, China. It dedicates to create a platform for academic communications between specialists and scholars in the fields of Public Service, Economic Management and Sustainable Development. PESD 2023 is the Public Service, Economic Management and Sustainable Development conference aimed at presenting current research being carried out. Economic development provides the basic material basis for public services, and public services create a good social foundation for economic development. At the same time, social and economic aspects need to jointly promote sustainable development. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers, and students from Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, establish business or research relations, and find global partners for future collaboration.

Roadmap to Successful Digital Health Ecosystems

Roadmap to Successful Digital Health Ecosystems
Author: Evelyn Hovenga
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2022-02-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0128236396

Roadmap to Successful Digital Health Ecosystems: A Global Perspective presents evidence-based solutions found on adopting open platforms, standard information models, technology neutral data repositories, and computable clinical data and knowledge (ontologies, terminologies, content models, process models, and guidelines), resulting in improved patient, organizational, and global health outcomes. The book helps engaging countries and stakeholders take action and commit to a digital health strategy, create a global environment and processes that will facilitate and induce collaboration, develop processes for monitoring and evaluating national digital health strategies, and enable learnings to be shared in support of WHO's global strategy for digital health. The book explains different perspectives and local environments for digital health implementation, including data/information and technology governance, secondary data use, need for effective data interpretation, costly adverse events, models of care, HR management, workforce planning, system connectivity, data sharing and linking, small and big data, change management, and future vision. All proposed solutions are based on real-world scientific, social, and political evidence. - Provides a roadmap, based on examples already in place, to develop and implement digital health systems on a large-scale that are easily reproducible in different environments - Addresses World Health Organization (WHO)-identified research gaps associated with the feasibility and effectiveness of various digital health interventions - Helps readers improve future decision-making within a digital environment by detailing insights into the complexities of the health system - Presents evidence from real-world case studies from multiple countries to discuss new skills that suit new paradigms

Valuing Ecosystem Services

Valuing Ecosystem Services
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2005-05-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 030909318X

Nutrient recycling, habitat for plants and animals, flood control, and water supply are among the many beneficial services provided by aquatic ecosystems. In making decisions about human activities, such as draining a wetland for a housing development, it is essential to consider both the value of the development and the value of the ecosystem services that could be lost. Despite a growing recognition of the importance of ecosystem services, their value is often overlooked in environmental decision-making. This report identifies methods for assigning economic value to ecosystem servicesâ€"even intangible onesâ€"and calls for greater collaboration between ecologists and economists in such efforts.

Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities

Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities
Author: Charles Travis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2022-09-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000635848

The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields. Employing historical, philosophical, linguistic, literary, and cultural lenses, this handbook explores how the digital environmental humanities (DEH), as an emerging field, recognises its convergence with the environmental humanities. As such, it is empirically, critically, and ethically engaged in exploring digitally mediated, visualised, and parsed framings of past, present, and future environments, landscapes, and cultures. Currently, humanities, geographical, cartographical, informatic, and computing disciplines are finding a common space in the DEH and are bringing the use of digital applications, coding, and software into league with literary and cultural studies and the visual, film, and performing arts. In doing so, the DEH facilitates transdisciplinary encounters between fields as diverse as human cognition, gaming, bioinformatics and linguistics, social media, literature and history, music, painting, philology, philosophy, and the earth and environmental sciences. This handbook will be essential reading for those interested in the use of digital tools in the study of the environment from a wide range of disciplines and for those working in the environmental humanities more generally.

Innovation

Innovation
Author:
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2024-03-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1837689962

Investments in research and development are crucial for the innovation process in modern societies. There are more perspectives through which innovation can realize important results, including the knowledge creation source, the digital innovation relative to artificial intelligence (AI), the sustainable transition from traditional technology to renewable technology, and the role of the concept of entrepreneurship linked to innovation. Economic operators need different skills to cope with high degrees of competitiveness and achieve the highest profit levels. The analysis carried out in this book considers the interactions among innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship. This in-depth investigation identifies the relevant forces useful for the transformations of modern economies and suggests appropriate support policies.

OECD Digital Education Outlook 2021 Pushing the Frontiers with Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Robots

OECD Digital Education Outlook 2021 Pushing the Frontiers with Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Robots
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9264904646

How might digital technology and notably smart technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI), learning analytics, robotics, and others transform education? This book explores such question. It focuses on how smart technologies currently change education in the classroom and the management of educational organisations and systems.

Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems

Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems
Author: Baumann, Sabine
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2022-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839107197

This timely Handbook on Digital Business Ecosystems provides a comprehensive overview of current research and industrial applications as well as suggestions for future developments. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the Handbook includes rigorously researched contributions from over 80 global expert authors from a variety of areas including administration and management, economics, computer science, industrial engineering, and media and communication.