Announcements
It’s all about adding an ‘s’: crafting policies of information Technologies
Participating as a formal delegate in the twelve annual meeting of the Commission for Science and technology for development in the United Nations provided me with the opportunity to reflect upon the process of crafting policies in the area of information technology in the international level. I couldn’t help noticing the main obstacles that accompany […]
Inclusiveness and Politics in the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development
It is Sunday morning, and I am writing this post in the airplane, on my way to Geneva to represent Israel in the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development in its annual meeting (May 25-29, 2009). (Thanks ISOCI-IL who supported my candidacy for this role). The first thought that crossed my mind when […]
10 Years of “Code” – Debate on Lessig book
Lawrence Lessig’s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace turns 10 this year (see an update version of the book that is interactive with users – Code: Version 2.0). The Cato Institute hosted a debate about the book for this occation. Below you can find Declan McCullagh’s article which criticizes Lessig’s approach and the response fromJonathan Zittrain, […]
Video, Virality and Political Campaigns
One of the hottest topics currently under investigation is in the area of virality and campaigns, or the role of the Internet in political campaigns. Here are several articles from a conference titled “You Tube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States” – Bob Boynton Going Viral Kevin Wallsten “‘Yes We Can’: How […]
Librarians and e-Government: Mixed Feelings?
Good papers were presented at the eGovernment track at HICSS-42. One particular paper that attracted my attention was the paper of John Bertot titled Emerging Role of Public Librarians as E-Government Providers. According to the paper libraries are becoming a central place for certain populations to access e-Government services. Some of these services you can […]
Digital Divide/s and Inclusion Minitrack – Notes from HICSS-42 Conference
Narcyz Roztocki and I chaired the digital divide/s and inclusion minitrack in HICSS-42. It was a great session. Special attention was given to Azari and Pick who tried through structural equation modeling to examine different factors that reflect digital inequality in different context in 110 countries. This paper was also nominated as the best paper […]
The Organizational Impact of Digital Natives
The last years yielded many studies in industry and academia in attempt to understand what implications young people who use technology frequently and heavily have on society. The next generation of employees in modern societies that have grown up in a world surrounded by connectivity and digital tools are called digital natives. While some researchers […]
Network Gatekeeping Theory – what is it? how can researchers use it?
Gatekeeping theories have been a popular heuristic for describing information control for years, but none have attained a full theoretical status in the context of networks. Network Gatekeeping Theory defines basic concepts like gatekeepers, gatekeeping and gatekeeping mechanisms and gated. It helps understanding relationships among gatekeepers and between gatekeepers and gated, the entity subjected to a gatekeeping […]
E-Government/E-Commerce Comparative Analysis – ready for the next phase
The E2ECA project (E-Government to E-Commerce Comparative Analysis) just concluded the cluster analysis phase. In that phase the team tried to identify the main challenges that e-governement and e-commerce are facing, how these challenges are being addressed and what these two sectors can learn from each other. The next phase will be conducted in January […]
Analysis of Network Gatekeeping in Seven Disciplines
Barzilai-Nahon Karine, 2009, “Gatekeeping: A Critical Review“, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 43, pp.433-478 This chapter on gatekeeping offers a systematic exploration of the main trends and analytical frameworks relating to gatekeeping in the literature from 1995 to 2007. The chapter looks at eight fields: library and information science (henceforth information science), […]