Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Five years ago, these terms were meaningless to the vast majority of people in the world. Today, they and many like them dominate the news and keep policymakers, security experts, and military and intelligence officials up at night. These groups and individuals are enabled and empowered by digital technology to confound and provoke the state in a way not possible before the Internet revolution. They are representative of a wide range of 21st century global actors and a new form of 21st century power: disruptive power. In Disruptive Power, Taylor Owen provides a sweeping look at the way that digital technologies are shaking up the workings of the institutions that have traditionally controlled international affairs: humanitarianism, diplomacy, war, journalism, activism, and finance. The traditional nation state system and the subsequent multinational system were founded on and have long functioned through a concentration of power in the state, through the military, currency controls, foreign policy, the rule of law, and so on. In this book, Owen argues that in every aspect of international affairs, the digitally enabled are changing the way the world works and disrupting the institutions that once held a monopoly on power. Each chapter of Owen's book looks at a different aspect of international affairs, profiling the disruptive innovators and demonstrating how they are challenging existing power structures for good and ill. Owen considers what constitutes successful online international action, what sorts of technologies are being used as well as what these technologies might look like a decade from now, and what new institutions will be needed to moderate the new power structures and ensure accountability. With cutting edge analysis of the fast-changing relationship between the declining state and increasingly powerful non-state actors, Disruptive Power is the essential road map for navigating a networked world.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are recognized as the backbone of today's world economy. However, SMEs are well known for having limitations and acceptance barriers in adopting new technology even though the internet and communications channel's revolution has changed the way people conduct business today. Further, the COVID-19 pandemic has disturbed the operations of SMEs and increased the burden on social media application globally. It is essential that SMEs utilize social media to strengthen their performance. Strengthening SME Performance Through Social Media Adoption and Usage explores experiences in different technological, managerial, organizational, and entrepreneurial environmental issues. It focuses on different conceptions of factors and consequences influencing social media usage and SME performance. Covering topics such as corporate social responsibility, marketing frameworks, and social media adoption, this premier reference source is a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, business leaders and managers, human resource managers, marketers, consultants, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand how these media have come to profoundly affect our experience of online sociality. The first stage of their development shows a fundamental shift. While most sites started out as amateur-driven community platforms, half a decade later they have turned into large corporations that do not just facilitate user connectedness, but have become global information and data mining companies extracting and exploiting user connectivity. Author and media scholar Jose van Dijck offers an analytical prism to examine techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects of this transformation. She dissects five major platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Each of these microsystems occupies a distinct position in the larger ecology of connective media, and yet, their underlying mechanisms for coding interfaces, steering users, and filtering content rely on shared ideological principles. At the level of management and organization, we can also observe striking similarities between these platforms' shifting ownership status, governance strategies, and business models. Reconstructing the premises on which these platforms are built, this study highlights how norms for online interaction and communication gradually changed. "Sharing," "friending," "liking," "following," "trending," and "favoriting" have come to denote online practices imbued with specific technological and economic meanings. This process of normalization, the author argues, is part of a larger political and ideological battle over information control in an online world where everything is bound to become social. Crossing lines of technological, historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry, The Culture of Connectivity will reshape the way we think about interpersonal connection in the digital age.

The revolution in digital communications has altered the relationship between citizens and political elites, with important implications for democracy. As new information ecosystems have evolved, as unforeseen examples of their positive and negative consequences have emerged, and as theorizing, data, and research methods have expanded and improved, the central question has shifted from if the digital information environment is good or bad for democratic politics to how and in what contexts particular attributes of this environment are having an influence. It is only through the careful analysis of specific cases that we can begin to build a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the role of digital media in democratic theory and practice. The essays in Digital Media and Democratic Futures focus on a variety of information and communication technologies, politically relevant actors, substantive issues, and digital political practices, doing so from distinct theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Individually, each of these case studies provides deep insights into the complex and context-dependent relationship between media and democracy. Collectively, they show that there is no single outcome for democracy in the digital age, only a range of possible futures. Contributors: Rena Bivens, Michael X. Delli Carpini, Jennifer Earl, Thomas Elliott, Deen Freelon, Kelly Gates, Philip N. Howard, Daniel Kreiss, Ting Luo, Helen Nissenbaum, Beth Simone Noveck, Jennifer Pan, Lisa Poggiali, Daniela Stockmann.

On 5 February 2014, world-renowned scientist Tim Noakes fired off a tweet allegedly dispensing dietary advice to a young mother into a highly volatile media space; the fallout threatened to destroy his career. This is the untold backstory.

Veteran journalist and writer Daryl Ilbury unveils, layer by layer, a combustible mix of scientific ignorance, academic jealousy, the collapse of media ethics, and the interests of a world-renowned scientist in highlighting the intricacies of human nutrition and exposing those he believes have vested interests in regulating it.

Featuring interviews with people who have worked closely with Noakes, including former Springbok coach Jake White and polar swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh, as well as award-winning journalists and fellow scientists and academics, some of whom now consider Noakes dangerous and out of control, this book is bound to be as controversial as the man himself.

Die Optimierung des Web-Auftritts ist fur Entscheider und Mediengestalter ein wesentliches Ziel ihrer Tatigkeit. Anhand von Erkenntnissen der Ergonomie und Arbeitswissenschaft erklart der Autor, was Besucher auf Internetseiten fesselt und zum Kauf anregt, aber auch, was abschreckt. Fur die Planung eines erfolgreichen E-Business-Auftritts vermittelt das Buch wichtige Grundsatze. Fur das Design einer Informationsseite werden Internet-spezifische Prasentationsregeln erlautert, deren Ziel ein Internet-Auftritt ist. Ein Uberblick uber die grundlegenden Internet-Konzepte rundet das Werk ab."

Das Internet stellt eine interessante und bedeutende Herausforderung an die Rechtswissenschaften dar. Die rasante technische Entwicklung dieses Mediums fiihrte zunachst zu der Erfahrung, daB es zu jeder Regel eine technische Umge hungsmOglichkeit zu geben schien, die diese ihrer Wirkung beraubte. Sowohl der Gesetzgeber als auch die mit der Thematik bescWiftigten Juristen haben Schwie rigkeiten, sich auf diese Situation einzustellen. Gleichwohl ist die Vorstellung von Rechtssicherheit im Internet zu einem entscheidenden Gesichtspunkt fUr dessen positive Fortentwickiung geworden. Der elektronische Geschliftsverkehr und die Bereitschaft von Unternehmen, neue Marketing-und Distributionswege zu bege hen, hangt ma6geblich von der zu erzielenden Rechtssicherheit abo Aber auch der in der Presse in den Vordergrund gespielte Mi6brauch des Mediums erfordert angemessene rechtliche MaBnalunen. Allerdings sind LOsungen fur derartige Pro blemlagen nicht mehr alleine durch Rechtsregeln zu erreichen, sondern miissen von technischen Rahmenbedingungen wie etwa die "Digitale Signatur," Sicher heitskonzepte etc. flankiert werden. Dieses Handbuch verfolgt das Ziel, dem Nutzer in der juristischen oder unter nehmerischen Praxis ebenso wie an Universitat oder Fachhochschule einen Weg durch dieses neue Rechtsgebiet zu schlagen. Obschon es fUr dieses junge Rechts gebiet noch keine festgelegten systematischen Strukturen gibt, wird ein vorsichti ger Versuch unternommen, eine Gliederung zu entwerfen, die sich an die Gege benheit der Materie anIehnt. Dazu ist das Werk in vier Abschnitte unterteilt. 1m ersten Abschnitt werden "Grund/agen" behandelt. Den Einstieg bildet ein Kapitel fiber "Europarechtliche und Internationalrechtliche Regelungen.""

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Information Hiding, IH 2009, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in June 2009.

The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on steganography, steganalysis, watermarking, fingerprinting, hiding in unusual content, novel applications and forensics.

ThisLectureNotesinComputerScience(LNCS)volumecontainsthepapersp- sentedatthe ThirdInternationalWorkshoponComputationalForensics(IWCF 2009), held August 13-14, 2009 at The Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague, The Netherlands. Computational forensics is a research domain focusing on the investigation of forensic problems using computational methods. Its primary goal is the d- covery and advancement of forensic knowledge involving modeling, computer simulation, and computer-based analysis and recognition in studying and so- ing forensic problems. The Computational Forensics Workshop series is intended as a forum for researchers and practicioners in all areas of computational and forensic s- ences. This forum discusses current challenges in computer-assisted forensics and presents recent progress and advances. IWCF addressesa broadspectrum of forensicdisciplines fromcriminal inv- tigation. The NAS report "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward," published in 2009, already concluded that: "With the exc- tion of nuclear DNA analysis, no forensic method has been rigorously shown to havethecapacitytoconsistentlyandwithahighdegreeofcertaintydemonstrate aconnectionbetweenevidenceandspeci?cindividualorsource."Computational methods can assist with statistical methods using, for example, likelihood ratios to strengthen the di?erent ?elds of forensic science. The organization of such an event is not possible without the e?ort and the enthousiasm of everyone involved. We thank all the members of the P- gram Committee for the timely reviewing process and the adherence to high standards. June 2009 Zeno J.M.H. Geradts Katrin Y. Franke Cor J. Veenman IWCF2009 Organization IWCF2009 was jointly organized by The Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands and the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Praktischer Leitfaden fur die Informationssuche: Die Autorin berucksichtigt insbesondere die Datenbanken und Ressourcen des National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), mit dem sie eng zusammenarbeitete. Beispiele und Ubungen aus dem Laboralltag veranschaulichen den sicheren Umgang mit biowissenschaftlichen Datenbanken und Sequenzanalyse-Programmen. Eine praktische Orientierungshilfe fur alle, die effizient recherchieren wollen."

Explore the best tricks and techniques for Adobe After Effects by creating highly contextual real-world projects that will take your skills to the next level Key Features * Master After Effects by creating small projects and following the best practices * Exploit the settings and hidden options in After Effects optimize the workflow * Learn the skills and techniques that will set you apart from other graphic designers Book Description Visual effects and motion graphics are everywhere: film, TV, games, websites, applications... the list is never ending. It's a competitive field, so even if you have used some of the many tools out there, you need to stand out to get ahead. Adobe After Effects Tips, Tricks, and Techniques is the guide you need. Not only will it provide the skills and techniques you need to stand out from the crowd, it will also take you through real projects that you can add to your portfolio. In this book, you'll learn by doing. Once you've got to grips with the UI and workflow, you'll undertake projects in text animation, shape layers, and rotoscoping, to name a few. You'll take your graphic design and post production skills to the next level with chroma keying, particle simulations, and 2D and 3D tracking. You'll progress faster than someone taking a formal course in Adobe After Effects! And it's not all about creating; you'll import graphics from Illustrator and Photoshop and apply post production effects to them to give them a new life, and once you've finished, you'll be shown how to export and manage your projects. It's a complete, end to end journey. By the end of the book, you'll have a comprehensive knowledge of Adobe After Effects and will have the skills and practice you need to forge ahead with your career in graphic design. What you will learn * Import media files to create compositions * Create new text layers and import text from Photoshop * Add audio and audio effects to shape layers * Create Motion Graphics templates that can be edited in Premiere Pro * Correct and grade colors in your projects * Remove and mask objects with rotoscoping * Create rain, fire, and smoke effects with particle simulations * Use Media Encoder when exporting your projects Who This Book Is For This book is for someone who has a basic level of understating in After effects and wants to learn the capabilities of After effects for motion graphics, VFX, composting, etc. Graphic Designers, UX & UI designers, Motion Graphics artists, Video Editors, VFX artists would benefit the most from this book. Basic understanding of After Effects and knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop will be an added advantage.

Das Buch bietet sowohl Medizinern und Biologen als auch Informatikern einen umfassenden und verstAndlichen Einstieg in die Medizinische Informatik und Bioinformatik. Die Darstellung der Themen ist abgestimmt auf die Studieninhalte dieser neuen Fachrichtungen.
In den ersten Kapiteln werden die Grundbegriffe der Medizin (z.B. Anatomie, Biochemie, Physiologie, Genetik, Gesundheitswesen) und der Informatik (z.B. Algorithmen, Datenbanken, Internet, Software Engineering) erlAutert. Dies ermAglicht dem Informatiker bzw. Mediziner einen schnellen Zugang zum jeweils komplementAren Fachgebiet. In den folgenden Kapiteln werden alle relevanten Themen der Medizinischen Informatik (z.B. Krankenhausinformationssysteme, PACS, Datenschutz, ICD, DRG, Computer-based-Training) und der Bioinformatik (z.B. Sequenzanalyse, Gen-Datenbanken, Proteomics, Genomics, Genexpressionsanalyse) anschaulich dargestellt.

Social media platforms are one of the main generators of textual data where people around the world share their daily life experiences and information with online society. The social, personal, and professional lives of people on these social networking sites generate not only a huge amount of data but also open doors for researchers and academicians with numerous research opportunities. This ample amount of data needs advanced machine learning, deep learning, and intelligent tools and techniques to receive, process, and interpret the information to resolve real-life challenges and improve the online social lives of people. Advanced Applications of NLP and Deep Learning in Social Media Data bridges the gap between natural language processing (NLP), advanced machine learning, deep learning, and online social media. It hopes to build a better and safer social media space by making human language available on different social media platforms intelligible for machines with the blessings of AI. Covering topics such as machine learning-based prediction, emotion recognition, and high-dimensional text clustering, this premier reference source is an essential resource for OSN service providers, psychiatrists, psychologists, clinicians, sociologists, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Datenanalyse geht heute weit uber die Ermittlung einfacher Mittelwerte, Varianzen und Signifikanztests hinaus. Ein Grossteil der experimentellen Untersuchungen erfordert aufwandige mathematische Methoden. Der Autor stellt besonders bemerkenswerte und elegante Analysestrategien aus der Forschungsliteratur der letzten zehn Jahre vor. Drei wesentlichen Techniken der fortgeschrittenen Datenanalyse sind Einzelkapitel gewidmet: nichtlineare Zeitreihenanalyse, Methoden der fraktalen Geometrie und Analyse von Daten mit raumzeitlicher Dynamik."

Durch die zunehmende Digitalisierung bildgebender Systeme in der medizinischen Diagnostik gewinnt die digitale Bildverarbeitung eine immer starkere Bedeutung fur die Medizin. Die Themen des Workshops umfassen alle Bereiche der medizinischen Bildverarbeitung, insbesondere Algorithmen, eingesetzte Hard- und Softwaresysteme sowie deren klinische Anwendung."