Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine a single day's exposure to media and news, to determine if the information contained in a particular story has been disseminated and how it has been disseminated to others. The paper discusses the story itself, theories on media, and the dissemination of information. It concludes that subjective opinions and a lack of common guidelines for disseminating information prevent most people from becoming involved in the vast majority of news stories.
Abstract This paper makes the policy claim that condoms should be disseminated in public high schools to students aged 15 and older. The author stresses that condom dissemination should be a part of a comprehensive sex education program. The paper relates that this policy will lower the risk of teen pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. portrayal
From the Paper "Teens today live in a world that is much different than the society inhabited by their grandparents. Changes in family values, greater access, portrayal of sexual imagery and other factors have challenged today's the sexual behavior of today's teens.
Abstract This paper examines the ongoing and evolving process of selling and disseminating music through the Internet. The author discusses how such activity has provoked a number of economic as well as artistic debates for the music business and for the computer and technology businesses that allow such technology to be accessed. This paper particularly focuses on the anti-trust issues that have arisen over the course of this debate.
From the Paper "First of all, the issue of disseminating music over the Internet provokes the perplexing question of who really "owns" the commercial product of a pieces of music, anyway? Is the owner the person or persons who simply hear the tune and keep humming it? Is the owner the musician who produces the product? Or are the owners the music companies musicians have signed artistic rights to? Clearly, to survive musicians must be able to charge for the product they produce, and the companies have control over the specifics of how to market that product. But once a song is in the public sphere, do not consumers have a right to "pass on" that music product in ways that they see fit, even if those ways may inhibit the sales of recordings of that music?"
This paper discusses a new category of workers, "knowledge workers", who are classified this way because of their close association with information systems.
Abstract This paper explains that anyone who makes a living out of creating, manipulating or disseminating knowledge is a knowledge worker. The paper points out that knowledge workers need not be solely associated with computer related fields as programming or software development but also can be doctors, attorney, accountants, and almost every professional who uses information products or technological tools. The author states that the demand for knowledge workers is rapidly increasing world wide because of the steady shift in the economic structure from industry to information technology.
From the Paper "Information specialists are quickly taking over most business activities as it was reported that California alone has 25% of the workforce classified as knowledge workers. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also expects ?a net increase of more than 10,000 information professionals in the U. S. labor force by 2006" (Bender 1998, p. 35). This shows how knowledge is now the most important factor in determining the success or failure of corporations and their workforce. Countries and companies where knowledge is still being treated as a second citizen and industrial power is considered more important are headed for disaster. In coming few years, knowledge will take over all other ways of working because of the rapid advancement in technology and the convenience that brings along."
Abstract This paper examines how state control over the dissemination of information in Soviet Russia was almost total, at least until the mid-1980s, and not only because of literal state control. It looks at how, before Gorbachev, when glasnost, or openness, began, journalists were educated in Marxist-Leninist theories and the current Communist Party policies and how, even after the loosening of government censorship in the 1980s, there were more pressures than just the Soviet censor keeping some of the news from being printed.
From the Paper "In 1987, a Pravda editor told the ASNE delegation, ?We once did not write about such things as crime or earthquakes, but now we have no taboos.? Perhaps he should more accurately have said that they no longer had those official taboos. In Samarkand that year, the ASNE delegation found the local newspaper Lenin's Path under fire for publishing an article about suicide among young Muslim women. The editor, Boris Shegolikhin, said that while the story had not been censored"after all, by then even Pravda was writing about the sale of stale bread in city bakeries and the pitiful performance of the city's streetcars"but it had been criticized by readers who were displeased."
Abstract The paper discusses how an unfettered media can sometimes give terrorists an advantage by revealing security information and by giving them the publicity that their actions thrive upon. The paper shows, however, how the media can also be used during and following a terrorist action as a means of building connections amongst society and disseminating important information. The paper concludes that the media must play a balanced role in the case of terrorism.
Outline:
Introduction
Terrorism and the Media - A Balancing Act between the Freedom of the Press and National Security
Terrorism and the Media - Fostering Community Connections and the Dissemination of Important Information
Terrorism and the Media - The Future
Conclusion
From the Paper "The roles and responsibilities of the media when covering a terrorist event varies depending on whose perspective one considers. Whether it is the terrorists, the government, or the media themselves being considered, three different sets of answers are often found, and these differing viewpoints often drive behavior during a terrorist action, which can result in both a tactical and strategic gain for the terrorists themselves. For this reason, it is important "to develop policy options designed to serve the interests of government, the media and the society" (Perl)."
Abstract The writer presents a research paper that analyzes the literature on ADHD medication overuse. The research paper is categorized into the primary components of clinical judgment analysis, research designs and approaches, data collection, researchable topics, study dissemination and research findings in practice application.
Outline:
Introduction
The Analysis Research Processes & Clinical Nursing Judgment
The Research Designs & Approaches
Basic Methods of Data Collection
Researchable Problems in Nursing: Research Hypotheses
Ethical & Legal Considerations
Dissemination of Research Findings
The Practice of Research Findings
Summary and Conclusion
From the Paper "Medication misuse, abuse and overuse have been a major trend of consequence not only for those who are presently suffering from the condition of ADHD but also those who are evidently negative in the condition statement. ADHD patients tend to overuse the utilization of these drugs due to their freedom of intake, granted with no proper and adequate supervision. The prevalence of the research findings are, indeed, discreet yet overwhelming as for those who adhere to ADHD drugs as means of their drug dependence. Particularly adults and adolescents in high school and college levels, these groups are the major prevalent individuals who utilize these drugs as their means of satisfying their needs, not as for medication purposes, but rather for substance use."
Abstract This paper presents the theories of the evolutionists regarding evolution and progress and compares them to the criticism presented by Frank Boas on the theory of human progress.
From the Paper "Herbert Spenser, Lewis Morgon and Taylor all depended strictly on the theoretical dimensions of the theory of evolution and social progress and did not take into account the statistics that would have upheld their theories. They suggested that the theories were infallible on their own but Boas had other thoughts. In the earliest years of anthropology, words and things were treated as objects to be collected: the Linnaean concept of material objects as natural history specimens parallels the folklorist's notion of narrative plots as collectible, mappable, comparable things (Chapman 1985). Boas, early on, considered them to be 'pre-existing' attributes of culture, somehow pure because they seemed to him less influenced by the ethnographic observer than other aspects of culture. While the evolutionary theorists depended on cultural changes for proof of development Boas demanded statistical evidence and therein lay the main point of dissent for without evidence the evolutionists became just another fragment of society offering a theory with no evidence."
This paper discusses how the Christian scriptures make use of an intensely personal, narrative form of story that gives that religion its unique quality.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, 2001, $ 57.95
Abstract This paper shows how the Christian scriptures use of an intensely personal, narrative form of story that gives that religion its unique quality, as distinct from Judaism, the religion Christianity evolved and sprung from. It suggests that because of the fact that Jesus? believes were disseminated in a narrative structure, the confession and the personal became the dominant Christian mode of understanding the world, rather than the collective and the tribal.
From the paper:
"The New Testament, or Christian Bible, is divided into three basic sections, that of the Gospels, the Epistles, and lastly the Book of Revelation. The latter two sections were composed long after the death of Jesus. The last has a strikingly a similar form to apocalyptic books of that period. However, the first section, the section that is the founding core of the Christian story, could be entitled ?Jesus speaks.? Although these books were written considerably after the actual life and death of Jesus, the gospels thus attempt to convey a certain sense of accuracy, of reported testimony of the life of Jesus. "
Abstract This paper addresses the wide range of studies which indicate that rates of violent crime have increased signigicantly within Western society since the 1960s. The author argues that the fluid nature of violence over time are not taken into account in these studies and looks at possible reasons why.
From the paper:
"Open any newspaper, or tune in to any news broadcast today, and you will receive accounts of many incidents of violence. Over time these incidents will take on any number of forms. Any specific incident, which occurs, especially in the case of murder, will almost certainly be disseminated on the news. These incidents will include homicides, violence against women, violence by and against children, labour violence and violence in the workplace, violence perpetrated by police officers, and non-culpable forms of violence such as car accidents, and wars (Ross, 1995). This coverage is conducive in adding to the position held by many in the media that violence in Canada is more widespread than it was fifty years ago. They would argue that ?Canada of the early twenty-first century is a more violent place in which to live than Canada in the 1950s."
Abstract This paper discusses the issue of buying music over the Internet and the problems with it. It discusses the anti-trust issues that have arisen and how to deal with them. It also examines the issue of who really "owns" the commercial product which is music, whom does this belong to? How can musicians and record labels receive benefits from their works if the music is bought over the Internet from an e-commerce site. It discusses music downloads over the Internet and its problematic issues as well.
From the Paper "One of the most controversial issues in the music business today is the issue of selling music through the Internet. The ongoing and evolving process of selling and disseminating music through the Internet has provoked a number of economic as well as artistic debates for the music business and for the computer and technology businesses that allow such technology to be accessed. This paper will address some of these concerns with a particular focus on the anti-trust issues that have arisen over the course of this debate. First of all, the issue of disseminating music over the Internet provokes the perplexing question of who really "owns" the commercial product of a pieces of music, anyway? Is the owner the person or persons who simply hear the tune and keep humming it? Is the owner the musician who produces the product? Or are the owners the music companies musicians have signed artistic rights to? Clearly, to survive musicians must be able to charge for the product they produce, and the companies have control over the specifics of how to market that product. But once a song is in the public sphere, do not consumers have a right to "pass on" that music product in ways that they see fit, even if those ways may inhibit the sales of recordings of that music?"
Abstract An explanation of the process, culture, and technology in an expert locator format that are required to facilitate true collaboration and tacit knowledge reuse. This KM initiative proposes the process, culture, and technology required to capture the experts within Raytheon Electronic Systems into an expert locator to facilitate and expedite knowledge transfer between organizations and employees. This set of processes, cultural model, and technology assist in the capture, storage, and dissemination of expert locator data to all business units within Raytheon Electronic Systems. Effectiveness of the expert locator system are also captured through Oregon Productivity Matrix method of organizational performance measurement.
From the Paper "Raytheon Electronic Systems, a business within Raytheon Company, employs over 50,000 in disciplines across engineering, manufacturing, sales, business, information technology, and many others. These 50,000+ employees are spread over a dozen locations within the United States and several foreign countries. There is a need for a standard, simplified, easily accessible expert locator system to improve knowledge transfer and reuse in major projects and initiatives."
Tags: expert, km, knowledge, locator, management, transfer, Raytheon
Abstract This paper examines the philosophies of Plato, Nietzsche and Marx, with respect to the relationship between power and knowledge. It discusses the question of who should control knowledge and disseminate it in society, the faculty of reason and justifications for certain concepts of power.
From the Paper "The relation between 'Power' and 'Knowledge' is indispensable, it is very often that Knowledge is had by some and others do action. Knowledge without action makes things static, it becomes of no use and action without knowledge leads to nowhere. Action is the way, in which knowledge progresses, to the good or to the detriment of people, societies and the future. These actions have always given way to some sort of power structure. What is in our power to do, is to analyze the social practices' in operation within our society. The more we gain knowledge of things the more powerful we become. As the human beings gained knowledge of things in the course of history, about the world and about themselves, they gradually gained control of things. But generally knowledge of certain things has always resulted in using that knowledge to gain power and control our others. This can be seen in religion, the knowledge about god, and other doctrines of religion has been used by people who claim to have knowledge of the absolute to oppress and gain control over the masses in the history of human civilization. Where ever there is knowledge there has to have power.
In this paper I will examine the issues which arise as a result of the relationship between knowledge and power and specifically to the aspect as to who should control knowledge and disseminate it in society. Of course power has always been exercised in different political and social practices, to analyze the operations of social practices in our society, the relationship between the faculty of reason and the justification of certain concepts that work within our society. The fact that the faculty of reason is also a social practices and has been used to justify many power relationships. In our society the thirst for abstract knowledge first began with the ancient Greeks, the first philosophers who were the lovers of wisdom or knowledge and knowledge for them was the search for truth."
Abstract This paper attempts to show that e-government overall has a positive effect on democracy and society as a whole. It demonstrates how . the expansion of information technology into government practices provides a much-needed remedy for voter apathy, societal indifference to political concerns and the expensive and time-consuming dissemination and acquisition of information. It also discusses how the cost savings to the government and hence the taxpayers, as a result of this technology can be quite significant.
From the Paper "The birth of e-democracy has been the most widely noted force for the transformation of governance. The term e-democracy is closely associated with efforts at broadening political participation through online debate, for example through the Minnesota E-democracy project. When Minnesota E-democracy began in the 1994 election season as an e-mail discussion list for state politics, it seemed incredible that candidates would answer voter questions online (Ham, et al, 1995). Seven years later, Minnesota E-democracy is a thriving and multi-faceted political forum."
From the Paper "As the personal computer has become more widely available in the last decade, computer art has made great strides. The effect of computers in the art world has been and continues to be very profound. The computer has radically changed the way that art is produced and disseminated. A controversy has arisen over whether computer-generated art or computer-assisted art is true art. Computer-generated and computer-assisted art works are true art. The computer is just another tool at the disposal of the artist. The use of the computer as a tool or medium is the choice of each individual artist working in the realm of visual arts. The time-honored art practices of putting pigment on canvas with a brush, cutting images into copper plate with a burin, and welding, whittling, and forcing materials into shape to form three-dimensional forms will not be completely replaced.."
