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Using Web 2.0 Applications to Transform Analog Government into the Digital Age

This study analyzes how Web 2.0 solution tools can enable government agencies to enter the digitally interactive era. Operational effectiveness can be improved and governmental responsibilities achieved.

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Thomas Hobbes’s Sovereign Man: Is he the First Democrat or does Sartre Show him to be a Fascist in Waiting?

Thomas Hobbes' characterization of capitalist man as democrat founders on capitalism's embrace of recent developments in promotional technologies which show Hobbesian man to be less democrat than fascist.

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Programmable Toys and their Re-Presentation as Computer Programs: An Introduction to Programming Paradigms

Using play, this workshop demonstrates procedural and object-oriented computer programming paradigms using of-the-shelf toys, then re-presents the toys as computer animations in the Alice programming environment. Bring laptops and imagination!

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Executable Texts: Programs as Communications Devices and Their Use in Shaping High-Tech Culture

Software source code: the shared text of programming culture.

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Examining Student Technology Ownership and Use: Generational Differences and Pedagogical Challenges

We present research about generational differences in technology ownership and use among students at one university. We then examine characteristics of an effective technology integrated learning environment.

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Schools as Digital Competent Organizations: Developing Organisational Traits to Strengthen the Implementation of Digital Founded Pedagogy

This paper systematically builds four core indicators on the digitally competent school based on Norwegian school-leaders’ survey data. The four indicators are analyzed separately and with other known organizational factors

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Technology Acceptance: An Analysis of the Social and Personal Influences that Affect Human Reaction to Disruptive Technological Change

This paper outlines, how a person’s sense making influences action in context of technological change; how the conception of who one is in the world influences one's reaction towards technology.

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The Impact of Perceived Innovation Characteristics on Technology Adoption

This research aims to deepen understanding technology adoption phenomena by examining the impact of perceived innovation characteristics.

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Technology as Other: A Bakhtinian Perspective on the Dialogic Relationship of Man, Nature, and Technology

This paper will explore the dialogic triumvirate of self, technology and nature through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of dialogue, answerability, and finalizability.

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Global Media and Communication: New Time, New Space, New Social Relationships

This paper explores ways globalized media creates new possibilities for social connection and the impact on existing social structure of these emerging types of interaction.

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