Technology in Rural Appalachia: Cultural Strategies of Resistance and Navigat…

Existing research on technology in rural, low-income communities has focused primarily on financial obstacles and lack of infrastructure. We use a sociocultural framework for understanding technology in rural Appalachia, using a mixed-methods study of focus groups and interviews. Eight focus groups were held with a total of 65 people (58% female) from low-socioeconomic-status communities in rur…

RFID: new technology on the horizon for it majors (E-Journal)

Educators have an ongoing challenge as they strive to stay up-to-date with new technology. One emerging technology, RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, has the potential to impact information systems in businesses as well as in our lives. Educators responsible for planning curriculum need to consider how to incorporate topics pertaining to RFID technology into a wide variety of technolo…

Community factors in technology adoption in primary education: perspectives f…

The role of information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly in the domain of education (ICTE), has been recognized to benefit learning. This article aims to investigate the influential factors that affect the introduction of technology in an Indian rural primary school. The objective was to address current gaps in research by illuminating specific community factors that influenc…

Literature and technology: nature's "lawful offspring in man's art."(Technolo…

Edisi

Vol. 64, Issue 3

ISBN/ISSN

0037-783X

Deskripsi Fisik

12hlm;

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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Cyberethics: social ethics teaching in educational technology programs. (E-Jo…

Technology is bringing postmodernism down to earth itself; the story of technology refuses modernist resolutions and requires an openness to multiple viewpoints. Multiple viewpoints call forth a new moral discourse. The culture of simulation may help us achieve a vision of a multiple but integrated identity whose flexibility, resilience, and capacity for joy comes from having ac…

The Role of The Gatekeeper in Strengthening the Professionalism of Investigat…

This research paper aims, based on its survey methodology, to research the study of the gatekeeper in investigative journalism, specifically in the Nereh network in investigative journalism, how the latter influenced his media tasks and roles, and how he became in control of the media implications in light of the new media. The researcher relied on the questionnaire tool distributed to the gate…

Technology: the emergence of a hazardous concept (E- Journal)

The obscure meaning of the term technology is a threat to society because people have turned technology into something that exists apart from the people who lay behind the innovations that comprise it. Technology is seen as something outside of society's control that acts upon the world, thus giving power to a term instead of people. People become inactive and pessimistic about the future when …

Implementation of information technology: a time-space perspective (E-Journal)

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Vol. 18, Issue 2

ISBN/ISSN

0170-8406

Deskripsi Fisik

15hlm

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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The politics of technology: on bringing social theory into technological desi…

New approaches in the design of information technologies for work practices are drawing upon theories from sociology, anthropology, and social philosophy. Under the labels of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Participatory Design (PD), work is done to "return" to design insights gained in the social study of the use of technological artifacts. After a brief introduction of these de…

The Degree of Acquisition of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) C…

This study aimed to demonstrate/identify the extent/degree to which faculty members at Kuwait University possess information and communication technology (ICT) competencies from their point of view, in addition to revealing the impact of some independent variables (i.e., gender, specialization, and years of professional experience) on the acquisition level. The study adopted the analytical, exp…