Essays about: "Technology and democracy"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 49 essays containing the words Technology and democracy.
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16. Improving data-driven decision making through data democracy : Case study of a Swedish bank
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för informatik (IK)Abstract : Nowadays, becoming data-driven is the vision of almost all organizations. However, achieving this vision is not as easy as it may look like and there are many factors that affect, enable, support and sustain the data-driven ecosystem in an organization. READ MORE
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17. Up next: Recommended for you by YouTube : A case study analysis on the implications of YouTube’s advertising-based business model on the US 2016 presidential elections.
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : The information technology revolution has completely changed the world economy. This industry that has revolutionized many aspects of social life, created an incredible amount of jobs, and generated an enormous amount of wealth, has been growing exponentially fast since the beginning of this century. READ MORE
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18. Technological Salvation or Orwellian Panopticon? : A Case Study on Social Labelling, Governance, and Social Control in China´s Social Credit System
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : The international governance discourse has seen radical changes in both trends and understandings in recent years, from the global dominance of liberal democracy after the Cold War, to the current movement towards authoritarianism. The modern autocracy has progressed its reach by the use of new applications in technology, which has resulted in a digital authoritarianism, also known as E-governance. READ MORE
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19. The role of perceived risk in the behavioral intention to use and accept algorithm-based news aggregators
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikationAbstract : The purpose of this research was to examine whether the opportunities or the risks are most significant for consumers when they are using algorithm-based news aggregators, this was accomplished by using an expanded Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 model (UTAUT2). In addition to examining the significance of the original UTAUT2 parameters, we sought to reveal if our additional parameter - perceived risk - was significant for the use and acceptance of news aggregators. READ MORE
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20. In (H)Arm's Way : A Look Into the Culture of the Defense and Security Industry
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : Through an examination of the businesses and people that support war-making, collectively known as the defense and security industry, this thesis reveals the controlling processes at work that make the business of war palatable to those who work within the industry. Three controlling processes are examined: (1) The industry’s culturally specific language; a barrier built with syntax, preventing both entry from outsiders and exit by insiders, allowing for institutionalized insanity to set in while also legitimizing the business pursuits of these companies as normal and acceptable; (2) The scientific pursuit and technology itself, supported and maintained by the exalted position the pursuit of science holds in Western society, and the assumption that technological innovation is always an intellectual and noble pursuit, which is critical to the industry’s survival; (3) The ideologies of Western liberal democracy that buttresses the industry; defined primarily by insecurity, assumed moral authority, and neoliberal capitalism/short-term self-interest. READ MORE
