Interactivity and the Information Society Technological Imaginary

Interactivity in Society: Locating an Elusive Concept

Interactivity has been identified as a core concept of new media, yet despite nearly three decades of study and analysis, we scarcely know what interactivity is, let alone what it does, and have scant insight into the conditions in which interactive processes are likely to be consequential for members of a social system. This article attempts to address this deficiency by critiquing three self-...

The control revolution: Technological and economic origins of the information society

Estimating the Future of Electronic Health Information System in Society

Background: The health information system provides an integrated platform and an information connection between the actors of the health system regardless of temporal and spatial limitations. Objective This study aims to investigate the factors affecting the development of electronic health record (EHR) system and predict the future of this system in Iran. Methods: In this descriptive study, ...

Social Networks as a Phenomenon of the Information Society

Social networks, which emerged due to the rapid development of modern telecommunications and information technologies that led to the emergence of the Internet, can be viewed as a phenomenon of the information society. In a short time, there has been both quantitative and qualitative growth of social networks, which have become a common phenomenon in our life and the dominant way of communicati...

Visual Information for Inducing Interactivity and Presence

One of the most important goals in the design of virtual environments (VE) is to give the user the feeling of existence within the VE, known as presence. There have been numerous studies on presence, and it has been known that interaction with virtual objects plays a significant role in enhancing presence. Taken out of context, however, such a statement can be confusing, because interactions ar...