Digital Technology: Implications for Organizations
Implications for Organizations: Digital Technology

Media evolution

Explain the concept of a digital or media revolution. What are the differences between digital and media technology? Which type or types of media are changing the way businesses and individuals are conducting themselves?

The term, 'digital revolution' is used to refer to the advancement of technology from mechanical, analog devices to digital devices such as smart phones, and digital computers (Couldry, 2012). The digital revolution began way back in the 1950s and 60s, when the invention of the transistor paved way for the development of the World Wide Web. Since then, it has been a step-by-step process, which has seen new inventions come up, and analog devices be gradually replaced with digital formats. Today, personal computers are being taken over by tablets and smart phones, and it is all part of the digital revolution.

This introduction prompts the question: what exactly is…...

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References

Couldry, N. (2012). Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice. Cambridge, Polity.

Fitzgerald, M., Kruschwitz, N., Bonnet, D. & Welch, M. (2013). Embracing Digital Technology: A New Strategic Imperative. MIT Sloan Management Review. Retrieved January 29, 2016 from  http://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/embracing-digital-technology/ 

Gray, D. (2012). The Connected Company. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media Inc.

Kerr, M. & Kurtz, J. (2011). Canadian Small Business Kit for Dummies (3rd ed.). Toronto, Canada: John Wiley & Sons.

Technology
Is digital technology a "natural" consequence or product of human evolution?

Over the last several years, technology has been a major part of most peoples' lives. As, it has transformed how everyone is entertained, works and the way business is conducted. However, depending upon each individual their views as to: if this is a natural consequence or one of human evaluation will vary. The reason why, is because these transformations have occurred so fast that most people are unsure about what they mean or how to understand them. Instead, they will see the changes as something that they are enjoying. When this happens, it means that they will often forget about how the way things were before these shifts. To fully appreciate the changes requires determining if they were from natural consequences or human evolution. Once this occurs, is when we can be able to offer specific insights about how…...

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Bibliography

Cox, D, 1989, 'The Tao of Postmodernism,' Leonardo, vol. 2, pp. 7 -- 11.

Dynes, O. 2006, The Psychology of Technology, Blackwell Publishing, Malden.

Dynes, O, 1994, 'The Emotion of Cyberspace," Leonardo, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 327 -- 333.

Loughran, M, 2009, How to Start a Home-Based Jewelry Making Business, Globe Pequot Press, Guilifofd

This is a valuable social and interpersonal skill, which will help kids to grow into effective and cooperative adults.
Goals:

The approach of the Kids n Clicks program will function on a personal, educational, and technological platform.

Personal assets kids can expect to gain from the program include:

Increased self-confidence, self-esteem, and independence;

Respect for each other, the community, and technological equipment;

The ability to work effectively as team members and leaders;

The ability to give and receive constructive feedback;

A more positive attitude towards education.

Educational benefits associated with the Kids n Clicks program will include:

For kids:

Creative self-expression and learning by means of visual media.

Cultivating marketable skills like digital image production, graphic design, web page design, digital and online publishing.

Small groups, including no more than eight children in a singles session.

A combination of classroom and field work.

Collaborative learning.

Quality output.

Potential income from creative products.

For educators and schools:

Two-day training session to optimize the learning process.

Potential promotion and fund raising…...

We owe our engineers a pat on the back for the part they have played in creating, designing, implementing, and perfecting these new technologies. Technologies that many people take for granted works because of good digital design. Digital cameras, wireless networking hubs, and digital voice recorders all work because of digital logic. Video game consoles and game boy technologies would be absolutely unthinkable without digital design wherewithal. Even cars come with digital circuitry. Next-generation smart technologies such as wired kitchen appliances, home electrical systems, security systems, and entertainment systems, are also becoming commonplace in many countries, testimony to the vast strides we have taken to improve consumer technology for the better.
Critics of digital design usually make two main claims about the way digital design has failed the modern consumer. The first camp claims that digital technologies have made life more complicated. Pointing to the frustration they feel when their…...

Most importantly, that problem may also be somewhat transitory and merely a function of the fact that computer gaming environments are still relatively new phenomena. Ultimately, it is quite probable that the next generation of young people will not be as interested in those types of recreation for the exact same reasons that contemporary teenagers are so much less interested in television than previous generations: because television is no longer novel.
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Evans, H. (2004). They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine

Two Centuries of Innovators. New York: Little Brown & Co.

Gelernter, D. "Computers and the Pursuit of Happiness" Commentary, (Jan/1991).

Healey, J.F. (2009). ace, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group

Conflict and Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge.

Henslin, J.M. (2006). Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach. Boston:

Allyn and Bacon.

Turkle, S. "Constructions and econstructions of Self in Virtual eality: Playing in the MUD." Mind, Culture and Activity. Vol.…...

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References

Evans, H. (2004). They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine

Two Centuries of Innovators. New York: Little Brown & Co.

Gelernter, D. "Computers and the Pursuit of Happiness" Commentary, (Jan/1991).

Healey, J.F. (2009). Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group

technology have been leading to transformations in the way people are interacting with each other. This is taking place, through various stakeholders using these tools to effectively communicate and collaborate. As a result, a new digital society has emerged. This means that there are both benefits and drawbacks that will have an impact upon how everyone is connecting with one another. To understand the long-term impact of these changes, a comparison was conducted surrounding the merits and demerits of these transformations. The results are that this is creating new opportunities and challenges that must be addressed in the future.
Over the last several decades, advancements in technology have led to a major shift in daily life. This is because a host of solutions are being used to provide everyone with different products and services. The impact is that everyone has changed how they are interacting with others and staying informed.…...

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References

Becker, S. (2010). Opportunity for All: How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at U.S. Libraries. Washington D.C: Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Bell, G. (2007). A Digital Life. Scientific American, 85 (3), 105 -- 117.

Byman, D. (2012). Regime Change in the Middle East. Political Science Quarterly, 127 (1), 25 -- 46.

Cullen, R. (2001). Addressing the digital divide. Online Information Review, 25 (5), 311-320

technologies redefining notion literature?
The story of literature is a long and well told one, as the written form used to produce it to some degree always transforms its definitions and defining characteristics at least incrementally. Each and every time a new novel, poem or article is put to press it changes what literature is to some degree, some more than others but still at least a small change each time. Yet, more recently a new written format is the source of the potential and real change associated with literature. Prior to the 20th century even the smallest written message, a short poem or just a sentence had to be written in some form on paper that was then only limitedly transferable, to allow for the dissemination of the message it developed. Yet, with the development of word processing, the orld ide eb and various other technologies came change. The…...

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Epstein, Jason. "What's Wrong with the Kindle." Technology Review 111.2 (2008): 12. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Oct. 2011.

Harper, Eliot. "You've Got Literature!" Publishing Books in E-Installments." Seybold Report: Analyzing Publishing Technologies 8.23 (2008): 10. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Oct. 2011.

Heater, Brian. "India's Government Unveils $35 Tablet Prototype." PC Magazine 29.9 (2010): 1. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Oct. 2011.

As a result, the variables that can be extracted from this information, is that there needs to be a wide variety of solutions made available to educators. At the same time, there must be more support in helping them to reach out to these students. Once this occurs, it will provide the greatest amounts of learning comprehension. This helps to make the Action Research Project more effective by: understanding how this can improve the student's grasp of the materials and what are the underlying weaknesses in using this technology. (Zimmerman, 2009, pp. 3356 -- 3362)
This resource that was written by Freeman (2008) is significant, because it is highlighting how using technology to teach English language learners can improve the overall amounts of learning comprehension. The reason why, is because a host of different ideas are being presented in format that is using the various language skills of the student…...

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Bibliography

Black, R. (2009). English Language Learners, Fan Communities and 21st Century Skills. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 52 (8), 668 -- 697.

Freeman, B. (2008). Creating a Middle School Mathematics Curriculum. Remedial and Special Education. 29 (1), 9 -- 19.

Lopez, O. (2010). The Digital Learning Classroom. Computers and Education. 54 (4), 901 -- 915.

Moore, S. (2009). Uses of Technology in the Instruction of Adult English Language Learners. Centers for Applied Linguistics. 1 -- 4.

One authority describes the transition in telephony thusly: eally smart engineers advanced technology to evolve phones from wall hanging boxes with an operator making phone connections to little, fold-up cellular devices. Now the world of everything integrated - computer chips, display screens and communicating - has spawned the age of smartphones" (Oppenheim, 2011, p. 17).
Written methods

Written messages were passed through a variety of media, including circulars, memoranda, policy letters, notices, forms, and reports.

All of the 1991 methods as well as e-mail, facsimile machines, and SMS together with the above-mentioned wireless "look-at" devices that are internet enabled.

Visual methods

Manually prepared bar graphs; tape-based video recordings

PowerPoint presentation, digital video recordings, clip art, stock graphics and pictures; user-friendly touch-screen devices (Gentry, 2011).

Audio and/or sound methods

Tape recordings (20mm et al.), vinyl disks, CB

VoIP, stock sounds, computer-based recordings and editing

As can be readily discerned from the changes identified in Table __ above, the various managerial…...

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Ahmed, Z., Shields, F., White, R. & Wilbert, R. (2010). Managerial communication: the link between frontline leadership and organizational performance. Journal of Organizational

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This is a constant that is hardly unique at all to the shipping or wholesale industries; it has been consistently documented in connection with virtually every significant technological change, irrespective of the value-added and convenience to users. There is always a period of adjustment necessitated by any shift to technological innovations. Certain individuals welcome those changes and look forward to the opportunity to learn new processes. However, other individuals become uncomfortable with change, especially when change is mandatory and the old systems are no longer available. For precisely that reason, both Fed-Ex and UPS added dedicated Customer Service representatives to assist existing customers whose business systems were not yet compatible with the requirements of digital-based ordering systems at the time of their initial introduction (Brewster & Dalzell, 2007).

Examples from Personal Experience

The narrative history of the transition to digital systems in the shipping industry immediately recalled for me the typical experience…...

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References

Brewster, M. And Dalzell, F. (2007). Driving Change: The UPS Approach to Business.

New York: Hyperion.

Byrne, P.M. "RFID: Not just for Wal-Mart anymore." Logistics Management, Vol. 43,

No. 9; (2004): 31-2.

Turkish Youth Protests

"The rise of a global youth culture in recent decades suggests greater convergence of the experiences of young people in global cities. In Turkey, mass-based youth subcultures with links to the diaspora are emerging, paralleling the fragmentation of Turkish society…Turkish youth are torn between hopes of constructing a more participatory public sphere and disillusionment with the nation-state as the embodiment of modernity…" (Neyzi, 2001, 412).

At no time in the recent past has the world been able to see the raging protests of Turkish youth like what has been viewed over the past few days and weeks. However, many citizens with television sets in Turkey did not see the mass demonstrations by youthful protesters in Istanbul because journalists were afraid to show the live clashes with police on television. According to journalist Barak Ravid, "…many Turkish television channels hesitated to report on the protests for many long hours" (Ravid,…...

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Arvizu. S. (2009). Creating alternative visions of Arab society: emerging youth publics in Cairo.

Media Culture Society, Vol. 31, 385-408.

Darici, Haydar. (2011). Politics of privacy: forced migration and the spatial struggle of the Kurdish youth. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 13(4), 457-474.

Giroux, H.A. (2011). Fighting for the Future: American Youth and the Global Struggle for Democracy. Cultural Studies -- Critical Methodologies, 11(4), 328-340.

technology has taken over globally, there maybe yet a few organizations trying to store their documentation in the traditional manner. But a large number of enterprises have chosen an alternative, which provides them to secure all their electronic documents in database. here a vast area of an office floor would occupy endless files, creating an urgency to retrieve any information, its been shortened by technology. Different types of electronic documents have created a paperless strategy, making filing easier for the HR Heads and other departments in most firms. The paperless dilemmas may have occurred, and there are firms who still refer to that process, but the vital information is mostly secured in the database systems.
Paperless Human Resource lot of people are still applying the paper-base documentation method, even though maintaining such an operation is more costly. "Traditionally, paper documents are produced, photocopied and then mailed or faxed around as…...

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Smith, Del, Decision Support: Consider these five issues when choosing a document-imaging strategy, 4th (Sept 2003), Available at  http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6262-1058083.html 

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New media can seem threatening at first, as it signals deep and meaningful changes in the ways information is created and shared in the society. In "Mind Over Mass Media," Steven Pinker (2010) argues that new technologies are typically perceived as threatening until they become commonplace. Early hysteria and fear about new media soon subsides, as the actual effects of the new media are not as adverse as was initially believed. Even the printing press was considered evil in its day, according to Pinker (2010). New media has improved scientific research and has made vast amounts of quality information available more quickly to more people. One of the reasons why new media is not threatening is that the brain tends to keep information fragmented. Learning how to condense one's thoughts into a PowerPoint presentation does not imply that the same person will consistently condense his or her thoughts in other,…...

Tristan HarrisTristan Harris makes the point that everything in our world has been downgraded as a result of our technology addictionour attention spans, our empathy, our sense of truth, of having a common connection with others. Because of technology, smart phones, social media, and infinite scrolling, our self-control has been obliterated and we no longer know when to stop.In \\\"Transforming the Attention Economy,\\\" Harris argues that technology companies are using persuasive techniques to capture and hold our attention, leading to negative consequences for society and democracy. He suggests that we need to re-examine the way technology is designed and used to ensure it serves the public interest. Harris suggests that technology can be made to better align with human values and reduce the negative effects of attention capture, such as the spread of misinformation, polarization, and addiction. He calls for greater transparency and accountability from technology companies, as well as…...

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Works CitedHarris, Tristan. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Transforming the Attention Economy.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" WHICH EDIS FO HISTORY? HOW TECHNOLOGY IS RESHAPING DEMOCRACY AND OUR LIVES, ed. James P. Steyer, Chronicle Books, 2020, pp.239-248.

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     Dive into the role of data analytics in digital marketing and how it unlocks insights into consumer behavior. Examine the various tools and methods used by businesses to gather and analyze customer data, and assess the ethical implications of using such data in tailoring marketing strategies.

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