Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20196
Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou
{"title":"Critical aspects in research infrastructure management","authors":"Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20196","url":null,"abstract":"As the scholarly communication landscape is constantly evolving, the development of an ecosystem of infrastructures supporting digitally-oriented research practices becomes a necessity. This paper is a contribution to the ongoing discussion on the sustainability of digital research infrastructures∙ it describes four key operating principles and their interrelationships.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122800440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20185
Konstantinos C Koskinas
{"title":"Blockchain and disruptive technologies in social sciences: Interdisciplinary perspectives","authors":"Konstantinos C Koskinas","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20185","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue contains selected papers that cover a broad range of current trends and interdisciplinary approaches in the social research on Blockchain and disruptive technologies.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129530067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20192
Charalambos Tsekeris
{"title":"Surviving and thriving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Digital skills for education and society","authors":"Charalambos Tsekeris","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20192","url":null,"abstract":"This concise article maintains that, in times of structural and persistent crisis, Europe needs to effectively tackle the multiple challenges and existential fears by cultivating a strong and dynamical digital skills ecosystem, based on collective values and the fundamental liberal principles of co-creation, co-evolution, and collective intelligence, over against the obsolete principles of optimisation and top-down administration and control. This will arguably result in upgrading humanism (humanism 2.0) and democracy (democracy 2.0), and in boosting responsible innovation and, therefore, adaptiveness, as well as in translating technological progress into inclusive and sustainable economic growth, and risks into creative opportunities for all citizens.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131543192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20194
Valentini Grigoriadou
{"title":"Blockchain: A mechanism of “unorthodox” trust","authors":"Valentini Grigoriadou","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20194","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain is a revolutionary technology which is expected to cut off proxies, reduce cost and increase speed and range. It offers transparency, safety and traceability and considerable high levels of trust. In contrast with traditional hierarchical structures and central data-bases where trust lies within institutions, blockchain’s trust is technology. It could possibly constitute the core of a new type of internet. The fact that it is developing rapidly in various fields simultaneously, will inevitably change the way of communication in the future. Although, since its onset, it was mainly used for financial exchange; it becomes evident that it is applicable in every form of exchange. Thus the new digital trust through encryption could have a determining role in redeveloping higher education. In such a context, students, instructors and teachers are in direct relationship with one another; as a result new forms of interaction are generated. The main objective is to examine on the one hand blockchain’s application in the educational sector, focusing on its potential to change educational mechanisms for the better and on the other hand its reception and the influence this technology could have on the socio-psychological reality of the involved subjects. Its application on the field of education will undoubtedly be beneficial but it is an imperative that we inspect any potential dangers as well. Since people have the need of an institution that they can trust, the creation of a world of decentralised trust is a challenge.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123523475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20290
R. Mellon
{"title":"Surveillance, social punishment, and the viability of Homo Virtualis","authors":"R. Mellon","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20290","url":null,"abstract":"As emerging encryption technology results in widespread freedom from detection of online activity, Homo Virtualis might usefully be considered as Homo sapiens without a gun to its head—a highly evolved species experiencing, for the first time on a massive scale, a home environment in which the individual who engages in acts that harm others is not identifiable. This renders the punishment of antisocial behavior in this context impossible, clearing the warning signals for retribution and crippling this ancient and brutal method for limiting the occurrence of antisocial or unwanted behavior. If Homo Virtualis is to retain this newfound freedom from threat and invigilation, prosocial behavior must continue to prevail in the absence of credible threat of punishment for the antisocial. The prospects are far from certain, and an attendant spike in the frequency of misdeed would be sure to evoke a crackdown on encryption tech. On the bright side, a widespread failure of punishment to inhibit malice and malfeasance online might finally evoke serious consideration of how H. sapiens might ensure a low frequency of antisocial behavior absent the threat of dire consequence for transgression, via the positive reinforcement of prosocial conduct, rendering interpersonal and community sensitivity and service pleasurable rather than obligatory. Encryption technologies can provide valuable support for such a comprehensively humanistic effort to reduce malfeasance by eliminating threats of public censure for current and budding offenders’ own efforts to address their problematic proclivities.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"2006 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128833790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20188
C. Vassilakis
{"title":"Blockchain technologies for leveraging security and privacy","authors":"C. Vassilakis","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20188","url":null,"abstract":"The contemporary internet has developed into a complex ecosystem involving humans, services, applications, machines and applications that interact exchanging information, ranging from e-mail messages and social media content to crowdsourcing data and videoconferencing. In this context, a number of security threats such as viruses and malware exist, while additionally the users’ privacy is jeopardized by threats such as personal data leakage, usage pattern monitoring, and so forth. The IoT trend renders the Internet ecosystem even more complex, by adding a rich set of services, applications and machines, many of them backed by new user roles; these elements are weaved into everyday life and industry alike. This increases both the number of opportunities available to threat agents for exploitation and the volume and value of the underlying infrastructure and data, increasing thus the user risk level. In this paper, we explore how the Blockchain technology can be used to leverage security and privacy in the modern Internet, both by providing underpinnings for preventive measures and by facilitating digital forensic evidence collection storage, safeguarding and controlled access.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116881559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20190
M. Kostaki, A. Vatakis, Stavroula Samartzi
{"title":"Assisted spatial navigation: new directions","authors":"M. Kostaki, A. Vatakis, Stavroula Samartzi","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20190","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchain technology brings new possibilities in assisted spatial navigation. Decentralized map building enables collaboration between users around the world, while providing researchers with a common reference map for extending the capabilities of navigational systems towards more intuitive and accurate landmark navigation assistance. Research on landmark navigation has been mainly focused on the visual characteristics of landmarks. Human behavior, however, has systematically been shown to be enhanced in the presence of multisensory unified events. We propose, therefore, the enhancement of spatial assisted navigation by utilizing landmarks that are multisensory and semantically congruent. Further, our research will provide insights in terms of the auditory parameters that could be combined with a given visual landmark, so as to facilitate landmark retrieval algorithms and user satisfaction during assisted spatial navigation.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129594173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20193
Stavros Kaperonis
{"title":"Virtual networks: Why do students use Instagram?","authors":"Stavros Kaperonis","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20193","url":null,"abstract":" Instagram has become the bridge between consumers who share moments from their lives and companies that share their products and services with the users. Instagram stands out from the other social media networks thanks to user-friendly toolkit that provides photo editing, video sharing and Instagram stories. This conceptual model research investigates the impact of Instagram on user's attitude. Data were collected from young Instagram users in order to measure if there is a relationship between specific factors of Instagram and user attitude through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). In this research, will be analyzed the consumer behavior in social media and particularly on Instagram. As a first stage of our research we are going to develop the theoretical study for Instagram users (n=200) at the age of 18-34, investigating the behavior of use Instagram which is determined by social presence. This study presents a theoretical conceptual model based on the theory of social presence, perceived pleasure, perceived usefulness and perceived value on Instagram and the potential connection of those factors to the user attitude.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132000205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20191
Maria Koletsi
{"title":"Radical technologies: Blockchain as an organizational movement","authors":"Maria Koletsi","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20191","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of blockchain technology has created a debate regarding technologies’ socio-cultural symbolism. Prevailing as alternative or complementary to internet technology, blockchain’s decentralized radical architecture reflects organizational change, enhancement of degrees of freedom, for individual identities and communities, new schemes of distributed trust and privacy, transformation of power relations and social reality perception. The current paper aims to contribute to the ongoing debate, from an organizational and socio-psychological perspective, discussing the key elements of a socially grounded technology, like any other technological product within the history of humanity. Through an evolutionary lens, blockchain technology is examined as a decentralized grassroots organizational movement at birth, influencing and, at the same time, be influenced, by science, culture, as well as by other aspects of individual and collective networked life, apart from the economy. Social sciences and cyber sciences are in a crossroad where society and technology integrate creating a mixed socio-technological or techno-social reality. Therefore, it is of high importance for them, to address the new epistemological challenges by developing new methodologies and tools, independently from any utopian or dystopian predictions.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133171579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Homo VirtualisPub Date : 2019-03-27DOI: 10.12681/HOMVIR.20195
Stylianos Sykas
{"title":"Digital crime and crime within a digital environment: The child pornography case","authors":"Stylianos Sykas","doi":"10.12681/HOMVIR.20195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/HOMVIR.20195","url":null,"abstract":"The constant transition to the digital world is not simple or problem-free. Along with the remarkable progress in real time borderless communication and the broad and immediate access to any information, one cannot help but notice that delinquency and crime took their chances. Regulating cyberspace, due to its limitless nature, proved difficult and quite challenging for the lawmakers worldwide. Especially, the issue of child pornography has become one of the thorns of our times. Even though the involvement of children in pornography has been taking place for many years and in various forms, the issue only became controversial and it attracted the attention of our societies and legal regimes as soon as the Internet proliferated and software related inventions contributed in the manufacturing of child pornography. This proposal presents a brief introduction to cybercrime as defined by legal entities, addresses the controversial issue of real and virtual child pornography and proposes the involvement of social sciences in regulating the matter.","PeriodicalId":318703,"journal":{"name":"Homo Virtualis","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131411283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}