The digital dilemma

Erfaringsbasert master, 90 studiepoengDigital teknologi har hatt ei enorm utvikling dei siste ti- åra, og har gjort sitt inntog i private hus og heimar. Datateknologi er i dag ein stor del av vårt liv og vår kvardag. Fleire og fleire nyttar i dag datateknologi til vanlege gjeremål, til dømes pengeoverføringar, kjøp av varer og tenester, som tilgang på informasjon og underhaldning. For mange er dette ikkje noko ein tenkjer over, men for nokre kan det vera ukjent terreng. Og det er desse som har danna utgangspunkt for denne oppgåva. Den gruppa av innbyggjarar som ikkje kjenner seg som ein del av den digitale revolusjonen. Dei som har ei kjensle av at dei står utanfor, til tross for eit offentleg inkluderingsmål. Oppgåva har altså hatt fokus på den digitale utviklinga sett frå desse brukarane sitt perspektiv. Ein har konsentrert seg om personar som føler dei står utanfor ”det digitale”. Det er deira oppleving av å det å ikkje vera ”ein del av”, som har vore undersøkt. Undersøkinga er gjort med offentlege styringsdokument og målsetjingar som bakteppe. Årsaka til det er at det offentlege sin agenda dannar bakteppet for kva samfunn ein lever i, og kva forventningar samfunnet har til innbyggjarane. Den offentlege agenda og ståstad set ein del premissar for innbyggjarane sine. Det å ikkje vera digitalt kompetent i eit samfunn der ingen er det, er ikkje det same som å vera det i eit samfunn der ”alle” er det, og der det er venta at du skal vera det.Engelsk samandrag (abstract) In the last decades the digital revolution has has expanded enormously, making its way into private homes and households. Digital technology is today a significant part of our daily life. An increasing number of people usesdigital technology when performing everyday tasks such as transfer of money, purchase of goods and services, and the access of information and entertainment. For many of us these are easy tasks, while others may find them challenging. These people are the main focus of this paper: the part of the population who do not feel they are a part of the digital revolution and feel they have been left out, despite of public inclusion plans. The paper explores the digital development from the point of view of these users. Focus is given to persons who feel left out and their experience of not being a part of this new development. The study has been performed on the basis of public documents and objectives, as it is the public agenda that makes the premises for our society and for the society`s expectations towards its citizens. A society's public agenda sets certain premises for its citizens. Not being digitally competent in a society where everybody else is competent and where it is highly expected that you also are may be challenging to many people

The Digital Dilemma: Ten Challenges Facing Minority-Owned New Media Ventures

Minority-owned companies competing in print publishing, radio, broadcast television, cable, and telecommunications industries have had no shortage of challenges, setbacks, and failures. Minority-owned companies are struggling to stake a claim in the new media frontier. Some challenges they face are unique to the underlying technology, uncertainty, and international reach of the Web. There should be a sense of urgency with respect to minority participation on the Web. If the promise of broadband leads to new media outlets that are profitable and more dynamic than traditional media, then minorities cannot afford to be left out. Forum: New Approaches to Minority Media Ownership, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University

The Digital Dilemma: Ten Challenges Facing Minority-Owned New Media Ventures

Minority-owned companies competing in print publishing, radio, broadcast television, cable, and telecommunications industries have had no shortage of challenges, setbacks, and failures. Minority-owned companies are struggling to stake a claim in the new media frontier. Some challenges they face are unique to the underlying technology, uncertainty, and international reach of the Web. There should be a sense of urgency with respect to minority participation on the Web. If the promise of broadband leads to new media outlets that are profitable and more dynamic than traditional media, then minorities cannot afford to be left out. Forum: New Approaches to Minority Media Ownership, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University

The Digital Dilemma: Counterfeit Culture And Brand Protection Reform In The E-Commerce Era

In recent decades, the Internet’s growth has revolutionized the modern shopping experience. With the rise of e-commerce platforms, consumers can now instantly access thousands of products. Unfortunately, the ease of online shopping has also supported the development of counterfeit culture and fueled a coinciding increase in trademark infringement. Furthermore, given the expected expansion of e-commerce, brand identity conveys substantial value in online marketplaces. This backdrop, coupled with a surge in trademark litigation since Tiffany v. eBay, demonstrates the importance of trademark reform. The current framework for assessing trademark infringement in e-commerce settings disproportionately burdens small businesses, and this Comment proposes a solution that aims to balance the interests of rightsholders, online marketplaces, and consumers. Moreover, additional safeguards like artificial intelligence and blockchain technology provide an extra layer of protection for businesses. Through better legislation and improved regulations, Congress can ensure that online marketplaces adapt to challenges posed by the digital age and advance the public good

Cyberscience and the Knowledge-Based Economy, Open Access and Trade Publishing: From Contradiction to Compatibility with Nonexclusive Copyright Licensing

Open source, open content and open access are set to fundamentally alter the conditions of knowledge production and distribution. Open source, open content and open access are also the most tangible result of the shift towards e-Science and digital networking. Yet, widespread misperceptions exist about the impact of this shift on knowledge distribution and scientific publishing. It is argued, on the one hand, that for the academy there principally is no digital dilemma surrounding copyright and there is no contradiction between open science and the knowledge-based economy if profits are made from nonexclusive rights. On the other hand, pressure for the ‘digital doubling’ of research articles in Open Access repositories (the ‘green road’) is misguided and the current model of Open Access publishing (the ‘gold road’) has not much future outside biomedicine. Commercial publishers must understand that business models based on the transfer of copyright have not much future either. Digital technology and its economics favour the severance of distribution from certification. What is required of universities and governments, scholars and publishers, is to clear the way for digital innovations in knowledge distribution and scholarly publishing by enabling the emergence of a competitive market that is based on nonexclusive rights. This requires no change in the law but merely an end to the praxis of copyright transfer and exclusive licensing. The best way forward for research organisations, universities and scientists is the adoption of standard copyright licenses that reserve some rights, namely Attribution and No Derivative Works, but otherwise will allow for the unlimited reproduction, dissemination and re-use of the research article, commercial uses included

The American Assembly: Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property

Examines intellectual property issues as the arts sector joins other sectors in the race to deal with an increasingly information-driven economy

Appraising the Digital Past and Future

Archivists, and others working in the digital realm, need to reconsider archival appraisal approaches and concepts as a means of exercising rational and strategic control over what they select for digitization and select from the digital documentary universe. Control has been a defining aspect of the contemporary Information Age, and it is not something archivists and digital curators should shun. This paper briefly discusses the notion of archival appraisal and several contributions it might make to the digital curation schema

The digital dilemma: L1 and L2 technology use, language learning, and motivation among US university students studying abroad

The study abroad (SA) experience now involves increased learner access via technology to the home (in the L1) and to the host culture (in the L2). L1 technology use could detract from host culture integration and language learning by allowing SA participants to remain immersed in the L1, while L2 technology use could aid in host culture integration by connecting participants to L2-speakers. Given this, it is urgent to determine the nature of the impact of L1 and L2 technology use abroad on motivation, language gains, and host culture integration. In the present study, we analyzed daily technology logs, learner motivation and L2 gains, and guided reflections on host culture engagement and L2 learning goals by 11 U.S. university students studying abroad in Argentina. Motivation and L2 abilities increased significantly, and were significantly correlated. Also, L1 and L2 digital contact showed important qualitative relationships with motivation and host culture integration