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Technology Use (technology + use)
Selected AbstractsSkills, Flexible Manufacturing Technology, and Work OrganizationINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2002H. Frederick Gale This study employs a national survey of over 3000 U.S. manufacturing establishments to explore associations between worker skill requirements and use of production and telecommunications technologies, work organization, and other management practices. Ordered probit equations show an empirical link between increases in each of six types of skill requirements, as reported by plant managers, and the use of flexible technologies and work organization practices. Technology use is most strongly linked to computer skill requirements. Work organization practices were strongly associated with problem-solving and interpersonal skill increases, suggesting that new work organization practices are broadening the set of skills sought by manufacturers. Traditional academic skills (e.g., math and reading) also were linked to the use of flexible technologies and work organization practices, but increases in these skill requirements were reported less frequently than were requirements for computer, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. [source] Technology use in campus crisisNEW DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT SERVICES, Issue 124 2008Jeanna Mastrodicasa College students are connecting with peers and college administrators in different ways in times of crisis. Lessons learned from the impact of Hurricane Katrina and the mass shooting at Virginia Tech have shifted the methods of response in the event of campus crisis to newer technologies. [source] GOING ONLINE WITHOUT EASY ACCESS: A TALE OF THREE CITIESJOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 5 2008KAREN MOSSBERGER ABSTRACT:,Building on a national study that showed that concentrated poverty matters for the "digital divide," this research compares the influence of the neighborhood-level context in three cities that vary in racial composition and income. We use a 2005 random digit-dialed survey of respondents in Northeast Ohio communities, and find unexpectedly that residents in areas of concentrated poverty demonstrate efforts to go online despite lacking home or work access. We analyze the results using regression models that include contextual "buffers" that create a unique geography for each respondent within a half-kilometer radius. Respondents who live in areas with a high percentage of African Americans or college graduates are more likely to go online even if they lack convenient Internet access, although the percentage of college graduates has a greater effect. At the neighborhood level, race and education influence the context for technology use. [source] 35-Quad market possible with proactive policies and technology useNATURAL GAS & ELECTRICITY (PREVIOUSLY : NATURAL GAS), Issue 10 2000William F. Martin [source] Students' technology use and the impacts on well-beingNEW DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT SERVICES, Issue 124 2008Shelia R. Cotten This chapter reviews technology use patterns and the social impacts of technology on well-being among college students. It provides empirical evidence delineating the processes through which Internet use affects well-being among college students, and provides suggestions for ways to advance future studies in this area and for higher education faculty and staff as they work with technologically savvy students. [source] The co-evolution of functional and numerical flexibility: do technology and networking matter?NEW TECHNOLOGY, WORK AND EMPLOYMENT, Issue 3 2007Irini Voudouris This study explores the relationship between functional and numerical flexibility and the moderating effects of information and communication technology use and networking by investigating the relative predictive power of two approaches: contingency and configuration. The direction of the relationship between the two modes of flexibility depends on the type of flexible staffing arrangement used. Contractors and temporaries are shown to serve different aims and to have different opportunities for evolution. [source] Cyber Bullying Behaviors Among Middle and High School StudentsAMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY, Issue 3 2010Faye Mishna Little research has been conducted that comprehensively examines cyber bullying with a large and diverse sample. The present study examines the prevalence, impact, and differential experience of cyber bullying among a large and diverse sample of middle and high school students (N = 2,186) from a large urban center. The survey examined technology use, cyber bullying behaviors, and the psychosocial impact of bullying and being bullied. About half (49.5%) of students indicated they had been bullied online and 33.7% indicated they had bullied others online. Most bullying was perpetrated by and to friends and participants generally did not tell anyone about the bullying. Participants reported feeling angry, sad, and depressed after being bullied online. Participants bullied others online because it made them feel as though they were funny, popular, and powerful, although many indicated feeling guilty afterward. Greater attention is required to understand and reduce cyber bullying within children's social worlds and with the support of educators and parents. [source] Consumer acceptance of online auctions: An extension and revision of the TAMPSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 7 2008Barbara B. Stern The study extends and revises the original Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) by applying it in the context of online auctions and introducing three new consumer-oriented variables: affinity with the computer, impulsiveness, and risk tolerance. It begins with an examination of eBay, the first and most successful online auction site, to show that its business is the technology that fuels growth and increased profits. The paper then addresses the original cognitive TAM variables, used mostly in business contexts, and then the revision designed to add emotional antecedents suitable to the consumer context. Hypotheses that incorporate all of the variables and the relationships among them are tested in a study of online auction consumer behavior, and support is found for the extended TAM. Findings thus reveal that the TAM is stable across contexts and that additional user variables help explain the acceptance of consumer technology use in personal scenarios. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Health Care Information Technology in Rural America: Electronic Medical Record Adoption Status in Meeting the National AgendaTHE JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, Issue 2 2008James A. Bahensky MS ABSTRACT:,Continuing is a national political drive for investments in health care information technology (HIT) that will allow the transformation of health care for quality improvement and cost reduction. Despite several initiatives by the federal government to spur this development, HIT implementation has been limited, particularly in the rural market. The status of technology use in the transformation effort is reviewed by examining electronic medical records (EMRs), analyzing the existing rural environment, identifying barriers and factors affecting their development and implementation, and recommending needed steps to make this transformation occur, particularly in rural communities. A review of the literature for HIT in rural settings indicates that very little progress has been made in the adoption and use of HIT in rural America. Financial barriers and a large number of HIT vendors offering different solutions present significant risks to rural health care providers wanting to invest in HIT. Although evidence in the literature has demonstrated benefits of adopting HIT such as EMRs, important technical, policy, organizational, and financial barriers still exist that prevent the implementation of these systems in rural settings. To expedite the spread of HIT in rural America, federal and state governments along with private payers, who are important beneficiaries of HIT, must make difficult decisions as to who pays for the investment in this technology, along with driving standards, simplifying approaches for reductions in risk, and creating a workable operational plan. [source] Technology, Monitoring, and Imitation in Contemporary News WorkCOMMUNICATION, CULTURE & CRITIQUE, Issue 1 2009Pablo J Boczkowski This paper addresses two related changes in contemporary journalistic practice. First, there has been an increase in journalists' use of technology to learn about the stories competitors and other players are working on and a parallel decrease in the reliance on face-to-face encounters with colleagues to gather this information. Second, this greater technology use has been tied to an intensification of monitoring and an expansion of imitation in the newsroom. Drawing upon an ethnographic study of editorial work in the leading online and print newspapers of Argentina, these changes are analyzed to make scholarly contributions about the role of technology in monitoring and imitation. This analysis also provides a window into the intersection of communication, culture, and critique in contemporary journalism by showing how recent forms of technological appropriation in the newsroom have shaped how journalists gather information and make meaning out if it in a way that affects their ability to be critical. [source] | ||||||||||||||||