Technological utopianism is any ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia,or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal.
E-democracy,also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy,uses information and communication technology (ICT) in political and governance processes. The term is credited to digital activist Steven Clift. By using 21st-century ICT,e-democracy seeks to enhance democracy,including aspects like civic technology and E-government. Proponents argue that by promoting transparency in decision-making processes,e-democracy can empower all citizens to observe and understand the proceedings. Also,if they possess overlooked data,perspectives,or opinions,they can contribute meaningfully. This contribution extends beyond mere informal disconnected debate;it facilitates citizen engagement in the proposal,development,and actual creation of a country's laws. In this way,e-democracy has the potential to incorporate crowdsourced analysis more directly into the policy-making process.
The UCLA School of Education and Information Studies is one of the academic and professional schools at the University of California,Los Angeles. Located in Los Angeles,California,the school combines two departments. Established in 1881,the school is the oldest unit at UCLA,having been founded as a normal school prior to the establishment of the university. It was incorporated into the University of California in 1919.
Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find,evaluate,and communicate information using typing or digital media platforms. It is a combination of both technical and cognitive abilities in using information and communication technologies to create,evaluate,and share information.
Douglas Kellner is an American academic who works at the intersection of "third-generation" critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research,or Frankfurt School,and in cultural studies in the tradition of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies,or the "Birmingham School". He has argued that these two conflicting philosophies are in fact compatible. He is currently the George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California,Los Angeles.
Identity tourism refers to the ways in which travel ties into different dimensions of identity. It covers travel motivated by interest in ones own or others' racial,ethnic,socioeconomic,sexual or gender identity. It also concerns the construction of cultural identities and re-examination of one's ethnic and cultural heritage via tourism.</ref>
The sociology of the Internet involves the application of sociological or social psychological theory and method to the Internet as a source of information and communication. The overlapping field of digital sociology focuses on understanding the use of digital media as part of everyday life,and how these various technologies contribute to patterns of human behavior,social relationships,and concepts of the self. Sociologists are concerned with the social implications of the technology;new social networks,virtual communities and ways of interaction that have arisen,as well as issues related to cyber crime.
The term digital citizen is used with different meanings. According to the definition provided by Karen Mossberger,one of the authors of Digital Citizenship:The Internet,Society,and Participation,digital citizens are "those who use the internet regularly and effectively." In this sense,a digital citizen is a person using information technology (IT) in order to engage in society,politics,and government.
Evgeny Morozov is a writer,researcher,and intellectual from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology. He was named one of the 28 most influential Europeans by Politico in 2018.
Robin Benville Boast is the Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam,Department of Media Studies. Until the end of 2012 Prof. Boast was an Associate Professor and Curator for World Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,University of Cambridge. In December 2021,Prof. Boast retired from the University of Amsterdam where he taught for nine years on Cultural Information Science,Neo-colonial information governance,and the history and sociology of digitally and collecting.
Carlos Alberto Torres Novoa is a distinguished professor.
Philip E. Agre is an American AI researcher and humanities professor,formerly a faculty member at the University of California,Los Angeles. He is known for his critiques of technology. He was successively the publisher of The Network Observer (TNO) and The Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). TNO ran from January 1994 to July 1996. RRE,an influential mailing list he started in the mid-1990s,ran for around a decade. A mix of news,Internet policy and politics,RRE served as a model for many of today's political blogs and online newsletters.
Access Now is a non-profit organization headquartered in Brooklyn,New York City,in the United States. It was founded in California in July 2009 and focuses on digital civil rights. The organization issues reports on global Internet censorship,and hosts the annual RightsCon human rights conference. It is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Its headquarters moved to New York at the beginning of 2022.
Philip N. Howard is a sociologist and communication researcher who studies the impact of information technologies on democracy and social inequality. He studies how new information technologies are used in both civic engagement and social control in countries around the world. He is Professor of Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute and Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He was Director of the Oxford Internet Institute from March 2018 to March 26,2021. He is the author of ten books,including New Media Campaigns and The Managed Citizen,The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy,and Pax Technica:How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up. His latest book is Lie Machines:How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies,Deceitful Robots,Junk News Operations,and Political Operatives.
Victoria Vesna is a professor and digital media artist. She is known for her feminist video,computer and internet art and has been active since the early 1980s. Along with collaborator Jim Gimzewski she is thought to have created one of the first interactive artworks related to nanotechnology and defines her art practice as experimental research.
Gina Neff is the Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. Neff was previously Professor of Technology &Society at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Neff is an organizational sociologist whose research explores the social and organizational impact of new communication technologies,with a focus on innovation,the digital transformation of industries,and how new technologies impact work.
The Digital Cultures Lab (DCL) is a University of California research group based in Los Angeles,California. The lab is directed by Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan,an associate professor of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education &Information Studies at the University of California,Los Angeles. The group was founded in the fall of 2013,and has steadily grown to include members of nearly every UC campus.
Safiya Umoja Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies,African American Studies,and Information Studies at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the UCLA Center on Race &Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech &Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She currently serves as Interim Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative,leading work in critical data studies.
Anne Jervois Gilliland is an archivist,scholar,and professor in the field of archival studies. She is Associate Dean for Information Studies at the University of California,Los Angeles Graduate School of Education &Information Studies.
Sarah T. Roberts is a professor,author,and scholar who specializes in content moderation of social media. She is an expert in the areas of internet culture,social media,digital labor,and the intersections of media and technology. She coined the term "commercial content moderation" (CCM) to describe the job paid content moderators do to regulate legal guidelines and standards. Roberts wrote the book Behind the Screen:Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media.
