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The Politics of Privacy - a Useful Tautology

2020

While communication and media studies tend to define privacy with reference to data security, current processes of datafication and commodification substantially transform ways of how people act in increasingly dense communicative networks. This begs for advancing research on the flow of individual and organizational information considering its relational, contextual and, in consequence, political dimensions. Privacy, understood as the control over the flow of individual or group information in relation to communicative actions of others, frames the articles assembled in this thematic issue. These contributions focus on theoretical challenges of contemporary communication and media privacy …

9-10 gadīgu bērnu problemātiska interneta lietošana un to saistība ar opozicionāri- izaicinošu uzvedību un māšu trauksmes līmeni

2019

Pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot kādas savstarpējās saistības pastāv starp 9-10 gadīgu bērnu problemātisku interneta lietošanu, opozicionāri – izaicinošu uzvedību un māšu trauksmes līmeni. Papildus mērķis ir noskaidrot vai pastāv savstarpējās saistības starp PIL(problemātisku interneta lietošanu)un interneta lietošanas nolūkiem saistībā ar mātes trauksmes līmeni, māšu novērtējumā. Pētījumā piedalījās 70 Latvijā dzīvojošas sievietes, vecums variē no 26 līdz 60 gadiem (vidējais vecums mātēm grupā ir 39 gadi) (M=39,22, SD=8,30), kur mātes ir 9 un 10 gadus veciem bērniem. Respondentiem tika lūgts aizpildīt (3) aptaujas: Kompulsīvas interneta lietošanas aptauja (Compulsive Internet Use Scale; Meerk…

Teachers’ Use of Internet Resources for Preparing English Lessons

2011

The twenty-first century is unquestionably the age of the Internet, which is an inexhaustible source of information instantly available. Multimodal texts obtained via the Internet, cheap, authentic and varied, may be successfully used in the process of teaching foreign languages. The paper presents the results of a survey which aimed at diagnosing if and how teachers of English as a foreign language use Internet resources in their teaching. The results reveal that almost all the respondents, young of age and of teaching experience, are skilled Internet users who strongly rely on this resource also in their professional activity. They use the Internet to find teaching materials that suppleme…

2019

Abstract Peer review is not only a quality screening mechanism for scholarly journals. It also connects authors and referees either directly or indirectly. This means that their positions in the network structure of the community could influence the process, while peer review could in turn influence subsequent networking and collaboration. This paper aims to map these complex network implications by looking at 2232 author/referee couples in an interdisciplinary journal that uses double blind peer review. By reconstructing temporal co-authorship networks, we found that referees tended to recommend more positively submissions by authors who were within three steps in their collaboration netwo…

Creating Business Value from Cloud-Based ERP Systems in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

2019

Part 11: Modelling and Managing the Digital Enterprise; International audience; This qualitative study focuses on how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can realize benefits and create information technology (IT) value by investing in cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. We interviewed 19 respondents from cloud providers and cloud clients and found that their SMEs experienced both benefits and challenges when implementing cloud ERP systems. The digital value was obtained through work process automatization, fast updates of system functionalities, enhanced security of data storage, and increased access to critical business data from multiple digital units. Challenges in …

Supporting Small Medium Enterprises planning through the use of a step-by-step System Dynamics model building process

2011

This paper aims to support small medium enterprises (SMEs) in business planning through the use of system dynamics models. In particular, it has been hypothesized that through the use of a step-by-step system dynamics model building process SMEs’ entrepreneurs can better understand the net of cause-and-effect relationships underlying company financial and non-financial results. Such an approach also enables decision makers to improve their understanding about the figures portrayed in a balance sheet. In order to reach such a goal, this study has been carried out through the use of a case-study. The small company investigated is a leather handcraft operating in Indonesia. The paper makes e…

Creating a sustainable digital infrastructure: The role of service-oriented architecture

2021

Abstract The United Nations’ goal of generating sustainable industry, innovation, and infrastructure is the point of departure for our reflective paper. The paper elaborates on the concepts of digital infrastructure, service-oriented architecture, and microservices. It emphasizes the benefits and challenges of creating a sustainable infrastructure based on a service-oriented environment, in which cloud services constitute an important part. We outline the prerequisites for obtaining a sustainable digital infrastructure based on services. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and recently, microservice architecture, and cloud services, can provide organizations with the improved agility and fl…

Business Process Models and Information System Usability

2015

Abstract The paper describes the use of business process models for effective managing of information system execution processes and transparent representation of execution statuses. Contrary to traditional approaches where business process models are used only in the initial stages of information system development, the proposed approach suggests direct utilization of business process models during the use of information systems. Information system usability can be improved by using new means of representation, and business process models can serve as an efficient way to visualize execution processes in information systems.

Communication students' motives for and attitudes towards personal branding

2015

Henkilöbrändäys ja profiloituminen ovat olleet pitkään eri alojen kuuluisuuksien etuoikeus. Sosiaalinen media on kuitenkin mahdollistanut henkilöbrändäyksen hyvin laajalle yleisölle. Onkin arvioitu, että sosiaalisen median kanavat ovat nykyisin pääasiallisia areenoita henkilöbrändäykselle. Lisäksi digitaalinen viestintä ja sosiaalinen media ovat luoneet uuden viestinnän muodon: yksilöiden joukkoviestinnän. Näin ollen näyttää siltä, että sosiaalinen media on ollut sekä henkilöbrändäys-ilmiön aiheuttaja että mahdollistaja. Informaatioteknologian vallankumouksen aikana on kasvanut myös kaksi uutta sukupolvea, joiden tavat käyttää teknologiaa eroavat merkitta…

The RedTube copyright infringement affair in Germany: shame on who?

2015

Recently, tens of thousands of German Internet users were confronted with copyright infringement claims for allegedly watching porn clips on the streaming platform RedTube.com. The alleged copyright infringers received ‘Abmahnung’ cease and desist letters that gave them an opportunity to settle copyright infringements out of court by paying rights-holders €250 in compensation. While in cases relating to peer-to-peer file-sharing, the IP address of a peer can easily be identified,1 the RedTube case raises the question how consumers of a stream could be identified. In addition, it raises the question of whether the consumption of a stream is illegal under German law. Assuming that this is not…