Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian Beau Rosser, who recently graduated with a Bachelors of Arts degree in digital technology and culture, pauses Tuesday during a design and composition class in the digital media lab at Washington State University Vancouver.
This two-part article considers how digital culture has influenced ideas about permanence. It examines the change in collecting practices in one legal deposit library. The author considers how the idea of permanence, understood in cultural heritage terms, influences digital culture, and, thus, digital technology. The first part of the article addresses the concepts associated with permanence, digital culture, digital technology, social change, and cultural institutions, in relation to collecting digital cultural material. The second part focuses on changing collecting practices of the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand for electronically published material with the benefit of legal deposit.
The Arab countries are greatly behind in terms of their levels of Internet usage. The Arab countries are under pressures to adopt and promote digital transformation. Data in Arab countries are hard to get, resulting in paucity of understanding the factors that affect the use of Internet in Arab countries. This paper combines research from academic and major international organizational literature to examine and synthesize the current use of Internet in Arab Countries. The obstacles and the factors that affect the use and growth of Internet are language, government policies, culture, cost and technology. They are discussed with their impacts.
The late author Richard Brautigan, a Washington native known for capturing the zeitgeist of the 1960s and '70s counterculture movement, may have a homecoming of sorts at the Clark County Historical Museum. The museum is working to acquire the Brautigan Library, a collection of unpublished works by unknown authors who were inspired by a fictional library in Brautigan's novel, "The Abortion." If that happens, the museum will become the epicenter of Brautigan research, and Brautigan fans from around the world are likely to make pilgrimages to Vancouver, said John Barber, co-director of Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University Vancouver and a leading Brautigan scholar.
The goal of OpenOffice.org is "to create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format." Despite being acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999, the project stays true to its roots and still provides a free office suite, though they emphasize that they offer "not only a product, but a process." Sun continues to sponsor development on... Some sites, projects, and resources are suggested that -- while outside the scope of the EContent 100 list -- are well worth taking a closer look at. 1. A9.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, can "remember" what sites a user visited and when, to the minute. 2. The Media Center was designed for those users...
... stays at the forefront of leveraging digital content to support ecommerce) can "remember" what ... First Monday is that it sets econtent technology in the context of global, social, political, and b... content, from libraries and publishers of culture, history, and technology into one place for everyo...
Brent McCrossen, CEO of Audiosocket, says his grandmother's red beans and rice and the state's lucrative digital media tax credits convinced him to move his online music licensing and technology firm's technical team from Seattle to New Orleans last year. The credits and the culture," McCrossen said. "That's what it boils down to.
The Urban Dictionary's motto is "define your world" because users can submit their own definitions. The site calls itself "a living catalog of human interaction and popular culture created by hundreds of thousands of people, and read by millions. Here are some of "slanguage" sites. The Double-Tongued database has less than 1,000 entries, but it uses a more scholarly approach. Word Spy is devoted to lexpionage: the sleuthing of new words and phrases. With the rise of digital technologies that compel users to save keystrokes, Net lingo has emerged as slang reduced to abbreviations and acronyms. A set of search results at Acronym Finder can be refined by selecting tabs that limit the acronym to usage in information technology; military and government; science and medicine; organizations an...
The development of ICT policies within developing countries in the past ten years has opened up a new area for study. These documents chart the ambitions of the countries for the use of ICT to promote rapid development. As such they are intercultural documents, developing at the interface between the culture of the country and western economic culture. This paper develops a critical approach to understanding these documents and studying their message. The approach involves the preparation of a critical dictionary which identifies relevant terms within the ICT policy document and reflects on their multiple meanings. The approach was applied to an Egyptian ICT policy document, Building Digital Bridges. A dictionary of thirty seven entries was developed. The dictionary, presented in full i...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a non-profit public-private partnership focused on cybersecurity awareness and education for all digital citizens, today announced that official sponsors Intel, eBay Inc. and partner sponsors Microsoft, Intuit, Comcast and NQ Mobile (formerly NetQin Mobile) will support Data Privacy Day 2012. Information about Data Privacy Day can be found at http:// www.staysafeonline.org/dpd. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110504/DC95016LOGO)
..."It's important to reflect on how technology impacts our lives and the benefits we get from the...NCSA works to create a culture of cyber security and safety through education and...
Steven Lane/The Columbian Andrew Chen, from Quail Homes, attends a Technology 101 workshop for nonprofits and small businesses at WSUV.
... Grigar, head of the Creative Media and Digital Culture program at Washington State University Van...
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