The Negative Effects of Technology on Education: A Bibliometric and Topic Modeling Mapping Analysis (2008-2019)

This research has been developed with the support of the I+D+I Project entitled: ‘‘Gamification and ubiquitous learning in Primary Education. Development of a map of teaching, learning and parental competences and resources “GAUBI”. (RTI2018-099764-B-100) (MICINN/FEDER) financed by FEDER (European Regional Development Fund) and Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain.This study aims to analyze the scientific research that has addressed the negative impact of technology in the educational field. The research is implemented from a methodological approach based on the bibliometric mapping of the scientific production registered in the Web of Science in the period 2008-2019. To do this, indicators of growth, production, impact, topics, keywords, journal references, and analysis of co-citations of authors and co-authors are analyzed. This bibliometric approach is complemented by the analysis of the density, frequency and degree of centrality of the main terms associated with the difficulties and problems of technology in education located in the abstracts and discussion of results in the period 2016-2019. For this purpose, graph theory is developed, using the sigma, cytoscape and graphology libraries. The results show that, among the most common disadvantages linked to the use of technology in education, are: privacy problems, discerning reliable and relevant information, the time required for the preparation of educational materials, the negative impact on academic performance of the students, the lack of resources for its implementation in the classrooms and the infoxication. Finally, it should be noted that in the last three years, the negative impact of technology in the psychosocial field and its impact on teaching-learning processes are beginning to be analyzed in greater depth.Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y UniversidadesSecretaría de Estado de Investigacion, Desarrollo e Innovacion RTI2018-099764-B-100Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciónEuropean Regional Development Fun

The appraisal of Facebook online community: An exposition of mobile commerce in social media reviews

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WORK2017 - Work and Labour in the Digital Future 2017: Conference Abstracts

The routine aspect of work has emerged as a key construct in many subfields of management and organization studies. Fields such as strategic management (Felin & Foss, 2005), international management (Haleblian et al., 2009) and organization theory (Salvato & Rerup, 2011) have gained new insights by utilizing the routine construct. Despite these advances in multiple fields, the literature on routines is still riddled with ambiguities (Abell, Felin & Foss, 2008; Becker, 2004; Becker, 2008; Felin & Foss, 2009). Arguably, the ambiguity between action and potential action, the ambiguity between individual and collective level, and the ambiguity between stability and change are the most significant hindrances that deter the theoretical development of the routine concept (Becker, 2008). Recently, studying the micro-level origins of routines has been proposed as a robust candidate for answering the obstacles related to the theoretical development of the routine concept (Abell et. al., 2008; Felin & Foss, 2005; Felin & Foss, 2009; Gavetti, 2005). The need for studies on microfoundations of routines stems from the idea that many subfields of organization theory have began at some aggregate analytical level N at time t (Nt) in their early stages of development and thus implicitly assumed that micro-level (N-1t-1) phenomena have relatively uniform effects on aggregate level phenomena, for example uniformity among workforces in population ecology and culturally doped employees in institutional theory (Felin, Foss, Heimeriks & Madsen, 2012, 6–7). Consequently, by unpacking routines in microfoundational terms we will gain an understanding of routines’ different constituent components. Possibly the most comprehensive attempt to map the constituent components of routines has been Journal of Management Studies’ special issue ‘Micro-Origins of Organizational Routines and Capabilities’ (2012). Based on several recent theoretical and empirical studies that have devoted explicit attention to the micro-level origins of routines (Becker and Lazaric, 2003; Becker, Lazaric, Nelson & Winter, 2005; D’Addiero, 2009; Gavetti, 2005; Salvato, Sciascia & Alberti, 2009; Rerup & Feldman, 2011; Feldman & Pentland, 2003, Pentland & Feldman 2008; Teece, 2007) the editors of the special issue propose three constituent components of routines as a starting point for the microfoundational research agenda: 1) individuals, 2) processes and interactions, and 3) structure and design. Further, the editors conclude that the research agenda should focus on interactions between these three constituent components.The purpose of our study is to construct a model of organizational routines’ microfoundational dynamics. This model combines the constituent components  – individuals, processes and interactions, structure and design – of organizational routines (Felin et al., 2012) with the major dynamics – variation and selective retention – that shape organizational routines (Pentland, Feldman, Becker & Liu 2012). As a part of the model, we examine the role of automatic human behavior in the workers who carry out their parts in organizational routine. As a result of this study, we discuss the model of organizational routines’ microfoundational dynamics in relation to the most significant ambiguities: individual versus collective level, action versus potential action, and stability versus change.Our findings are based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches on the data collected from the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. This league has recently invested in such digital technologies as a smart puck and wearable transmitters, which have significantly transformed the way in which game statistics can be generated. From a theoretical perspective these advanced game statistics represent structures, which will contain less variance than traditional statistics or rankings. Alongside with quantitative data, namely the advanced statistics, we interview and observe professional ice hockey coaches and players to make sense of how they experience the developmental steps in the digitalization and the resultant changes in their work routines. Consequently, we hypothesize that this more detailed information will change the work of coaches and players. Team sport provides us a particularly transparent research context to observe these probable changes in routinized work.     Our study contributes the debate between studies in which routines are seen as actions (eg. Pentland, Haerem & Hillison, 2010; Salvato & Rerup, 2011) and studies in which routines are seen as potential actions (eg. Birnholtz, Cohen & Hoch, 2007; Hodgson, 2008; Knudsen, 2008) by illustrating how these two previously incompatible viewpoints can be combined in one model, which attempts to estimate the path dependency inside the routine with probabilities. Specifically, this idea – originally presented by Pentland et. al. (2012) – is applied to incorporate the path dependency between routine performances by demonstrating how different structures retain different amounts of the endogenous variance in routine. Second, we contribute the stability versus change discussion (Becker, 2004; Cohen, Burkhart, Dosi, Egidi, Marengo, Warglien & Winter 1996.) by examining how both human and non-human actors affect variation and selective retention in the iterations of the routine (cf. Pentland et. al., 2012; Turner & Fern, 2012).</p

Virtual reality tourism : the new frontier or the end of the journey?

Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the tourism industry was a mega-industry. Although virtual reality (VR) is a relatively new development in tourism, due to COVID-19 it has literally transformed and improved the industry, particularly in the fields of marketing, sustainability and virtual worlds. VR is held to provide tourists with the “ultimate” tourist experience. The reason is that tourists no longer have to experience any of the negative aspects associated with conventional tourism. Despite the benefits and popularity of VR, a key question arises: will VR be the end of conventional tourism or can it be considered as a new tourism frontier? Therefore, the main purpose of the study is to address this question by focusing on the role of VR in tourism, especially in the context of South Africa. In addition, the study provides a detailed background of VR in general and in terms of tourism; types of VR tourism; the benefits and drawbacks of VR in tourism; and finally, the study compares conventional tourism models with VR in order to highlight the similarities. It concludes that VR does not in essence substitute conventional tourism, but rather it can be considered as a tourism niche in its own right, even if only as a futuristic prospect. For this to actualise, there are three major concerns that need to be addressed in the future; physical interaction; a full sensorial experience and the question of revenue.Thesis (PhD (Heritage and Cultural Tourism))--University of Pretoria, 2021.Post grad UP fundingHistorical and Heritage StudiesPhD (Heritage and Cultural Tourism)Unrestricte

Information Management in Supply Chain Partnering: Improving Maintenance Processes in Dutch Housing Associations

From the article: "Abstract Maintenance processes of Dutch housing associations are often still organized in a traditional manner. Contracts are based on lowest price instead of ‘best quality for lowest price’ considering users’ demands. Dutch housing associations acknowledge the need to improve their maintenance processes in order to lower maintenance cost, but are not sure how. In this research, this problem is addressed by investigating different supply chain partnering principles and the role of information management. The main question is “How can the organisation of maintenance processes of Dutch housing associations, in different supply chain partnering principles and the related information management, be improved?” The answer is sought through case study research.

Responsible AI and Analytics for an Ethical and Inclusive Digitized Society

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