Interpersonal violence persists across all landscapes, yet research and efforts to prevent and regulate such harms have been focused primarily on non-urban locations. As technology infiltrates all spheres of our lives, it is increasingly used to enact interpersonal violence: this lethal and non-lethal violence occurs in both familial and care settings (including child abuse, intimate partner abuse, elder abuse) and community settings (such as bullying, harassment and assault by acquaintances, strangers or persons who may be known, in social environments
125 SIX Dementia and technology Mary Marshall Technology in the future People constantly look to modern technology to improve their lifestyles. This includes for example, personal computers, the use of the Internet, technology used in hospitals, the telephone and the television and devices such as washing machines and vacuum cleaners. One of the ways in which life could improve for older people is in the harnessing of new technology in new, imaginative and profitable ways. (Royal Commission on Long Term Care, 1999, p 2) This optimistic section of the Royal
-enter a society that is very different from the one they left when starting their sentence. The fast-paced developments in digital technologies over the last 20 years and the ubiquitousness of the Internet and digital devices has changed the way societies work, which leaves returning citizens overwhelmed by a speed-of-light society (Jewkes & Reisdorf, 2016 ; Reisdorf & Jewkes, 2016 ). Even short spans of disconnection from the Internet and digital devices have been shown to have negative effects, such as missing out on benefits or job offers (Gonzales, 2016
’s ownership of tablets rose from 2 per cent to 40 per cent over the same period (Ofcom, 2015 ). Running parallel with these changes in the available hardware, internet speeds and capacities have improved steadily, enhancing the functionality of mobile devices, with the consequence that children increasingly use these devices to access the internet (Livingstone et al, 2014 ). The UK Time Use Surveys, collected around 2000 and 2015, capture these changes in children’s access to computer technology and the internet in the home. Table 5.1 shows the proportion of children
Media technologies for play have become major industries in Japan and South Korea. Even in North Korea, citizens bypass the state to enjoy popular culture. At the same time, corporations and governments encourage people to produce economic values through play.
The first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas, this book illuminates the peculiar geopolitical relations between the three countries through their development and use of digital technologies. Drawing from political economy, cultural studies and technology studies, this book will be essential reading for researchers and students of media technologies and popular culture in Northeast Asia.
231 TEN Technology and the creative citizen Jerome Turner, Dan Lockton and Jon Dovey The starting point for our Creative Citizen research project was a question asking whether and to what extent digital communications technologies afford new civic potential. We also invited ourselves to consider how this potential might be enhanced by digital media, thereby making an assumption that agency and significance might properly be ascribed to technology in its relation to creative citizenship. As we have seen in the preceding chapters and their detailed accounts
In these closing remarks, I wish to foreground the contribution of this text to the study of pre-crime culture and associated ‘hyper-securitization’ technologies . I also wish to highlight an emerging agenda in this field, which focuses on the racial implications of data-driven AI technologies fueling the growth of the pre-crime culture. In terms of this timely volume’s fundamental contribution, it certainly provides a solid foundation on which future theorizations and empirical analysis of ‘pre-crime’ technologies can build to broaden current understanding
Technology has a significant impact – including both advantages and disadvantages – on rural criminal justice agencies and their capabilities regarding efficiency, effectiveness and supervision. Although the connectivity gap is narrowing, connectivity and communication remain limited by poor Internet access and cellular service in many rural settings. For example, the International Telecommunication Union found that 71 per cent of rural areas in the world had access to 4G mobile network coverage in 2020, compared with 95 per cent of the world’s urban locations
157 NINE NANA: a tale of ageing and technology Arlene Astell, Elizabeth Williams, Faustina Hwang, Laura Brown, Sarah Cooper, Claire Timon, Lin MacLean, Tom Smith, Tim Adlam, Hassan Khadra and Alan Godfrey Introduction Nutrition plays a key role in later life health and wellbeing. Older people face a high risk of nutrient deficiencies and malnutrition that can lead to sarcopenia, loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength. A recent review identified that sarcopenia was associated with functional decline, higher rate of falls, higher incidence of
15 CHAPTER TWO Expanding the possible: people and technologies introducing the digital I first met a computer when I began to learn computer programming as an undergraduate in 1967, and then worked as a programmer for several years after graduating from university. The change from the huge mainframe machine to my beautiful portable computer could not have been imagined in the 1960s. And I am convinced that using a computer has transformed what I can do, transformed my abilities. In the late 1980s, I bought my first portable computer and since then, all
