Search results for "information society"

Data Protection, Social Networks and Online Mass Media

2012

The public communication has suffered in the era of the digital information society a undeniable paradigm shift among whose manifestations highlights the presence of media online in social networks and the outstanding participation of citizens by providing views, information and personal data. The guarantee of the right to the protection of personal data in the digital environment of the pages on social networks managed by media communication requires analyzing the legal relevance and impact of these standards and, very specially, the allocation of responsibilities between those who interact in these digital spaces. To that end, this article will take into account the doctrine oriented by t…

Audiovisual accessibility on the web: subtitling in the European Parliament

2020

El presente trabajo pone de relevancia la importancia de la accesibilidad en la sociedad de la información actual, en concreto, en Internet, por lo que analizaremos el cumplimiento de los requisitos de accesibilidad a los contenidos audiovisuales establecidos por las Pautas de Accesibilidad al Contenido Web (WCAG) 2.0 en el canal de televisión online EuroparlTV. Asimismo, trazaremos el vínculo inherente entre la accesibilidad web y la audiovisual y describiremos los subtítulos generados por profesionales de la traducción en el ámbito institucional, concretamente en el Parlamento Europeo. Para llevar a cabo nuestro objetivo y poder realizar el estudio sistemático y exhaustivo de distintos as…

Collaborative Learning and Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments

2008

A focus on purely individual cognition has set a stage to social construction of knowledge. New learning environments, in many cases supported by computer technology, are often based on collaborating and sharing expertise. As a result research on Computer Supported Collaborative learning (CSCL) environments is a significant and growing field, which actively seeks new methods to resolve the challenges of human learning across diverse levels of interaction in a modern information society. In this chapter we will discuss the concept of collaborative learning and the issues involved in using information and communication technology to support collaborative learning. We begin with the definition…

Challenges of the Information Society to Entrepreneurial and Technology Education in the Finnish Comprehensive School

2004

Even if the concept Information Society has versatile menings for its details, there is an approximate agreement about its general essence. There is an understanding e.g. about its emphasis on utilizing the computers, software and networks diversified and about the participatory, self originated activity culture of the citizens. As a result of these the central essence of Work has been changed from reproduction to thinking, understanding and planning. This is seen e.g. in many industries as transfer of the route works to the countries of cheap labour as increasing focus for research and development of new products in the home country. Today emphasized are teamwork, spontaneous, self-directe…

Mobilities in Finland's Information Society Strategies from 1995 to 2010

2012

Abstract The article explores Finland’s national information society strategies and uses the Finnish case as an example to identify the limitation of the so-called ‘methodological nationalism’ and to explicate the advantages of the mobility paradigm. The research material consists of the Finnish national strategies published between 1995 and 2010. The article identifies two trends from the studied strategies; a further intermingling of physical movement of objects and virtual mobility, and a tendency to reduce corporeal mobility. The study also shows that most mobility-related challenges require international cooperation and multinational solutions, although state-centred thinking was preva…

Accessibility of Public Web Services: A Distant Dream?

2013

Part 1: Long and Short Papers; International audience; Today, many public services are available online through Web sites. The accessibility of the sites, also to people with disabilities, is important because the accessibility concerns equality of citizens, a cornerstone of democracy. In the current study we carried out a meta-analysis of 17 studies concerning the accessibility of the Web sites of public administration. Furthermore, we assessed the accessibility of Web pages of 12 ministries of the Finnish government. The assessments were based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The results showed that in terms of the WCAG guidelines, the average accessibility of public We…

Monitoring Accessibility of Governmental Web Sites in Europe

2008

Web accessibility is an important goal of the European i2010 strategy. Several one-off surveys of eAccessibility have been conducted in the past few years. In this paper, we describe an approach to supplement the results of such surveys with automated assessments, that can easily be repeated at regular intervals. The software basis is provided by the European Internet Accessibility Observatory (EIAO). We analyse how the data collected by EIAO can be compared to other surveys.

Podziały cyfrowe jako skutek działania technologii informacyjno-komunikacyjnych

2014

2020

Current debates on online privacy are rooted in liberal theory. Accordingly, privacy is often regarded as a form of freedom from social, economic, and institutional influences. Such a negative perspective on privacy, however, focuses too much on how individuals can be protected or can protect themselves, instead of challenging the necessity of protection itself. In this article, I argue that increasing online privacy literacy not only empowers individuals to achieve (a necessarily limited) form of negative privacy, but has the potential to facilitate a privacy deliberation process in which individuals become agents of social change that could lead to conditions of positive privacy and infor…

Digital Risks. Case Study on Digitization Projects of the LBUS Library

2019

Abstract Digital technologies changed all the social life domains in society, as we are now living in the digital era, in the information society or in an interconnected world. Besides the improvements in every day life, digital changes also brought inherent risks, from cyber-security, hacking, cyber-bullying, to the vulnerability of personal data, or the mental health consequences of information explosion. This article reviews the risks of the changes brought by the digital transformation on libraries in general, with examples of the LBUS Library, drawing from the last 10 years of development experience of informatic book management systems (electronic catalogue) and of the digital library…