Digital Transformation of Radio Broadcasting: An Exploratory Analysis of Challenges and Solutions for New Digital Radio Services

Like other media industries before, radio broadcasting is increasingly facing competition from new media platforms and changing consumer expectations. Many broadcasters are experimenting with possible solutions and are changing their production processes. While this is necessary, research is needed to capture the whole phenomenon of digital transformation of radio broadcasting. We conducted exploratory qualitative content analysis on talks of radio practitioner to identify current challenges, possible solutions, and specific aesthetics that shape current and future radio experience. We conceptualize the case of digital transformation of radio from the perspective of service-dominant logic and digital service innovation and discuss relevant areas of service innovation. We thus offer orientation for practitioners and contribute to a rather new, yet fruitful area of research for the information systems discipline

Managing Temporal Dynamics of Filter Bubbles

Filter bubbles have attracted much attention in recent years in terms of their impact on society. Whereas it is commonly agreed that filter bubbles should be managed, the question is still how. We draw a picture of filter bubbles as dynamic, slowly changing constructs that underlie temporal dynamics and that are constantly influenced by both machine and human. Anchored in a research setting with a major public broadcaster, we follow a design science approach on how to design the temporal dynamics in filter bubbles and how to design users' influence over time. We qualitatively evaluate our approach with a smartphone app for personalized radio and found that the adjustability of filter bubbles leads to a better co-creation of information flows between information broadcaster and listener

Making Filter Bubbles Understandable

Recommender systems tend to create filter bubbles and, as a consequence, lower diversity exposure, often with the user not being aware of it. The biased preselection of content by recommender systems has called for approaches to deal with exposure diversity, such as giving users control over their filter bubble. We analyze how to make filter bubbles understandable and controllable by using interactive word clouds, following the idea of building trust in the system. On the basis of several prototypes, we performed explorative research on how to design word clouds for the controllability of filter bubbles. Our findings can inform designers of interactive filter bubbles in personalized offers of broadcasters, publishers, and media houses

M2M Communications for E-Health and Smart Grid: An Industry and Standard Perspective

An overview of several standardization activities for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is presented, analyzing some of the enabling technologies and applications of M2M in industry sectors such as Smart Grid and e-Health. This summary and overview of the ongoing work in M2M from the industrial and standardization perspective complements the prevalent academic perspective of such publications to date in this field

Tax Compliance and Enforcement: New Research and Its Policy Implications

This paper reviews recent economic research in tax administration, compliance, and enforcement and discusses the implications of the results of this research for realistic policy options.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/117359/1/1302_Slemrod.pd

From diversity to cross-culturalism: the evolution of human resource training within the canadian broadcasting corporation

The objective of this master's thesis is to investigate the transformation of human resource management regarding a particular area of professional training and development. Specifically, the evolution of diversity training to incorporate facets of culture, like heritage, language and cross-cultural interactions, will be detailed an analyzed. Within the literature review, this will consist of a deductive examination of the past, present and future of three organizational elements: human resource management, diversity training and cross-cultural training. Through the lens of fluctuations and advancements in globalization, internationalization and immigration, shifts in theoretical premises and actual practices will be discussed. This will then be coupled with a history of public service broadcasting and, eventually public service media, as well as their relevant tenets and techniques. The following section will present a broad history of the case, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It will also contain relevant information on the current market position, internal mechanisms and external efforts of the CBC. The overall method of case study was implemented with open-ended interviewing via a semi-structured questionnaire previously utilized in a similar study by Lorraine Gutierrez, Jean Kruzich, Teresa Jones and Nora Coronado in their 2008 article Identifying Goals and Outcome Measures for Diversity Training, found in the journal Administration in Social Work. The purposive sample (N=7) was interviewed at the CBC headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in February 2014. The major findings of the study were portrayed in a timeline format spanning 6 generations (1970s/1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010 to present [2014] and future) because each era strongly reflects patterns found in the literature embodying the theme of diversity and cross-cultural training and management. Finally, the concluding chapter will introduce implications, caveats and ideas for future research. Most importantly, it is the ambition of the entire document that these implications will generate insights regarding the entangled nature of internal and external elements of diversity and culture within organizations; the future of human resource training as more organic and casual; the expansion of internationalization beyond surface-level topic selection; and the fluid nature of diversity in an ever-changing media landscape