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Towards a systems-based framework for understanding the diffusion of technology: A case study of a modest technological innovation in the multi-agency context of policing
Technological innovation in policing is being given greater emphasis. In public discourse about technology and policing, there is often a focus on large-scale projects that are known to fail, sometimes at significant cost. The implementation of smaller innovations are often overlooked. This thesis examines practice of innovation and adoption in the context of multi-agency working.
The literature review in this thesis reveals that little is known about contexts where decision making does not rest with the police and exposes potential limitations in the use of diffusion and adoption frameworks/models. The research question is: In the context of multi-agency diffusion and adoption of a technology to enhance policing, can systems thinking techniques enhance, or even replace, existing frameworks and models?
This empirical research study looks at the adoption of a relatively simple technology that scans identification documents. However, the decision to adopt and implement an ID scanner takes place within a complex setting. Tracking an adoption decision requires understanding of the various actors and their roles. The research includes 48 semi-structured interviews with police officers, premises owners and managers and other stakeholders involved in the decision to adopt an ID scanner. Their perceptions of the history leading to an adoption decision, their own role and that of other key actors is examined.
Initial analysis takes place using spray diagrams and further analysis is made through the lenses of existing diffusion and adoption frameworks/models. Subsequently systems thinking techniques are deployed and the additional insights they provide are highlighted. This research finds that systems thinking can extend understanding of multi-agency diffusion and adoption decisions when compared with solely utilising existing frameworks/models. Finally, the research proposes a systems-based framework for collaborative diffusion and adoption analysis
UMSL Bulletin 2023-2024
The 2023-2024 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1088/thumbnail.jp
Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies across Europe: Understanding Sharing and Caring
"Sharing economy" and "collaborative economy" refer to a proliferation of initiatives, business models, digital platforms and forms of work that characterise contemporary life: from community-led initiatives and activist campaigns, to the impact of global sharing platforms in contexts such as network hospitality, transportation, etc. Sharing the common lens of ethnographic methods, this book presents in-depth examinations of collaborative economy phenomena. The book combines qualitative research and ethnographic methodology with a range of different collaborative economy case studies and topics across Europe. It uniquely offers a truly interdisciplinary approach. It emerges from a unique, long-term, multinational, cross-European collaboration between researchers from various disciplines (e.g., sociology, anthropology, geography, business studies, law, computing, information systems), career stages, and epistemological backgrounds, brought together by a shared research interest in the collaborative economy. This book is a further contribution to the in-depth qualitative understanding of the complexities of the collaborative economy phenomenon. These rich accounts contribute to the painting of a complex landscape that spans several countries and regions, and diverse political, cultural, and organisational backdrops. This book also offers important reflections on the role of ethnographic researchers, and on their stance and outlook, that are of paramount interest across the disciplines involved in collaborative economy research
The regulation of digital platforms: the case of pagoPA
How can EU regulation affect innovation. Digital revolution: How big data have changed the world and the legal landscape. The regulation of digital platforms in Europe. Digital revolution: How distributed ledger technologies are changing the world and the legal landscape. Regulation of digital payments: the case of pagopa
Enabling changeability with typescript and microservices architecture in web applications
Changeability is a non-functional property of software that affects the length of its lifecycle. In this work, the microservices architectural pattern and TypeScript are studied through a literature review, focusing on how they enable the changeability of a web application.
The modularity of software is a key factor in enabling changeability. The micro-services architectural pattern and the programming language TypeScript can impact the changeability of web applications with modularity. Microservices architecture is a well-suited architectural pattern for web applications, as it allows for the creation of modular service components that can be modified and added to the system individually. TypeScript is a programming language that adds a type system and class-based object-oriented programming to JavaScript offering an array of features that enable modularity.
Through discussion on relationships between the changeability of web applications and their three key characteristics, scalability, robustness, and security, this work demonstrates the importance of designing for change to ensure that web applications remain maintainable, extensible, restructurable, and portable over time. Combined, the micro-services architecture and TypeScript can enhance the modularity and thus changeability of web applications
Tradition and Innovation in Construction Project Management
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue 'Tradition and Innovation in Construction Project Management' that was published in the journal Buildings
The Politics of Platformization: Amsterdam Dialogues on Platform Theory
What is platformization and why is it a relevant category in the contemporary political landscape? How is it related to cybernetics and the history of computation? This book tries to answer such questions by engaging in multidisciplinary dialogues about the first ten years of the emerging fields of platform studies and platform theory. It deploys a narrative and playful approach that makes use of anecdotes, personal histories, etymologies, and futurable speculations to investigate both the fragmented genealogy that led to platformization and the organizational and economic trends that guide nowadays platform sociotechnical imaginaries
The Shape of Agency: Fostering Agency in Qualitative Research through Data Visualization
Qualitative data analysis is important to the field of healthcare since it allows researchers to understand the lived experience of patients, practitioners, and everyone in between. However, qualitative data requires time and effort, which is not always available. A potential way to overcome this barrier is to use artificial intelligence as a tool to help researchers with data analysis. However, many qualitative researchers do not have the programming skills to use AI and are reluctant to lose their sense of agency when conducting research. As a potential way to bridge this gap, we explored the use of data visualizations to foster researcher agency and make using AI more accessible.
We used Design Science Research and developed a datavis tool prototype to map out how researchers perceive agency. A user centered design approach was used to design a non-functional data visualization tool with the assistance of 5 qualitative heath researchers. Two semi-structured interviews were used to facilitate the user centered design, the first to provide guidelines for the prototype and the second for testing the tool and altering any features considered confusing or lacking.
The results showed that qualitative researchers have a wide range of cognitive needs when conducting data analysis and for that, need a variety of visualizations to best accommodate their needs. Additionally, they place high importance upon choices and freedom, wanting to feel autonomy over their own research and not be replaced or hindered by AI. Despite this, participants were open to the idea of delegating tasks, so long as they could maintain the final choice on results.
Seven barriers were identified for the fostering of agency when conducting research with AI: full AI delegation, lack of transparency with results, no choice in how results are reached, excessive freedom with no guidance, lack of ability to make edits, no guidance on how a tool works, and restricted movements.
As potential solutions for these issues, five facilitators were found during the interviews. Those being: providing choices for different kinds of data visualization, explaining the AI process in simple language, the addition of co-creation tools, addition of guidance in navigation, and the ability to enable free movement
2023-2024 academic bulletin & course catalog
University of South Carolina Aiken publishes a catalog with information about the university, student life, undergraduate and graduate academic programs, and faculty and staff listings
How Government Organizations Can Sustain Remote Work Post COVID-19
AbstractGovernment organizations are unprepared to sustain remote work post-COVID-19. Even though COVID-19 seems to be under control, organizations are still struggling with the aftermath of the pandemic and the need to sustain remote work. Challenges include lack of necessary information technology tools, software, technological skills, strategies for remote work, leadership skills, real-time communication; activity planning and program implementation, scheduling meetings, organizing child care, managing caseloads, fostering team work, and effective supervision. A conceptual framework based on organizational adaptation theory was used to guide this qualitative case study. Since the study was to ascertain how government organizations can sustain remote work post-COVID-19, semi- structured interviews were used to collect data from 12 government employees in Dallas Texas who worked remotely during COVID-19. Thematic analysis was conducted and the modified van Kaam method was used to 9 themes. Three major themes that morphed from the study included: (a) challenges of remote work; (b) employees’ training needs; and (i) strategies for achieving positive social change. Understanding how government organizations can sustain remote work post COVID-19 can contribute to positive social change by teaching managers of government organizations how to strategize remote work, effectively manage organizational change, improve technological skills of employees, and foster employee productivity
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