{"title":"Technological Evolution and the Political Agency of Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of General Organology and Universal Organicism","authors":"Kamila Kwapińska","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"The question of political agency with respect to artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly relevant insofar as we can observe efforts to regulate it. Some policy proposals link the problem of the advance of AI to the concept of technological evolution. However, it is still not quite clear what they mean by this concept. This paper explores conceptualisations of technological agency and evolution in Bernard Stiegler’s general organology and Friedrich Schelling’s universal organicism. I argue that organicism proposes a more ‘naturalised’ approach to agency formation and a more ‘organic’ explanation of technology than general organology. General organology considers technological evolution from a human perspective, whereas universal organicism can accommodate a theory of technological evolution independently from its social dimensions. While technology already has a strong impact on the organisation of our societies, recognition of technological agency as at least partially independent serves to recognise them as non-human beings that impact politics.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48820802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bálint Szabó, J. Olle, Szandra László, Vanda Harmat, Balázs Vaszkun, Sarolta Tóvölgyi
{"title":"Pilot study on applying various research methodologies to investigate the effectiveness of e-learning materials","authors":"Bálint Szabó, J. Olle, Szandra László, Vanda Harmat, Balázs Vaszkun, Sarolta Tóvölgyi","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.6","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on higher education. Students were required to adopt a more independent way of learning, and instructors had to redesign courses to fit the digital space. Increasingly frequent e-learning research provides substantial support for the expansion of online education. The aim of this article is to investigate the effectiveness of e-learning materials among university students using a variety of research methodologies (Groningen Sleep Quality Scale, psychomotor vigilance task, verbal fluency and digit span tests, NASA Task Load indeX and eye tracking). In a pilot study conducted in a laboratory environment, 15 participants were divided into three groups and assigned to study from prepared course pages using content-equivalent e-learning materials. The results demonstrated that the applied research methodologies were appropriate for investigating the issue, allowing the pilot study to reveal a set of criteria encompassing the preferences of students for course structures and e-learning materials.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49509283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The techne as producer of outdated humans","authors":"Filippo Ursitti","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims at showing how the philosopher G. Anders develops his ontology of technology as described in his Outdatedness of Mankind, volumes I and II. The article is structured in the following manner: first, there will be a discussion on the role played by the machine in the Andersian philosophy of technology. Second, there will be an analysis on the mechanism through which radio and television alter the traditional anthropomorphic notion of ‘experience’ through the creation of phantoms and matrices. Third, there will be an exemplification of the consequences of humanity’s progressive detachment from the awareness of its praxis through the Andersian notion of the ‘Promethean Gap’.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":"47 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41244300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What are the conditions to become smart?","authors":"Máté Csukás, Roland Zs. Szabó","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Smart cities (SCs) became a key mission in the European Union’s biggest research programme (Horizon Europe). The urban transition to smartness, making smart decisions and strengthening capabilities for resilience are appreciating today, with such external shocks as the COVID-19 pandemic. Finding the way to become smart is more important than ever. Since literature is mostly engaged with excellent cases, in this paper we analyse the SC strategy of a less-well-performing city: Budapest in Hungary, Central Eastern Europe, using a case-study methodology. We reveal that in the case of Budapest the SC strategy uses a top-down approach that overweighs the deployment of technological solutions to manage urban sustainability issues rather than using a bottom-up and holistic approach. The framework conditions for implementing the SC strategy are rather neglected. In the case of the model for cooperation, Budapest adopts a double-helix model rather than a triple- or quadruple-helix model.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41329822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Internet as an Epistemic Agent (EA)","authors":"R. Krzanowski, Polak Paweł","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"We argue that the Internet is, and is acting as, an EA because it shapes our belief systems, our worldviews. We explain key concepts for this discussion and provide illustrative examples to support our claims. Furthermore, we explain why recognising the Internet as an EA is important for Internet users and society in general. We discuss several ways in which the Internet influences the choices, beliefs, and attitudes of its users, and we compare this effect with those of psychological conditioning and brainwashing techniques. Finally, we present examples where the Internet’s epistemic agency acts at scale, affecting large portions of society rather than individuals.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41674226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health equity and health data protection related to telemedicine amid the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"M. Julesz","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"The correlation between health equity and health data protection in the area of telemedicine has been put into relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the right to health data protection is not only a personal right but also a human right. Health equity cannot be maintained without an adequately functioning system of health data protection in telemedicine, yet, in many countries, health equity remains a mere dream. The United States and the European Union are the flagships of both health equity and health data protection, with HIPAA (in the US) and the GDPR (in the EU); however, some gaps do exist, as demonstrated by the practice of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic. While US and EU regulations on telemedicine do provide legal certainty, fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has created a new legal climate, with new priorities superseding health data protection, which had been paramount beforehand.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44013896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pedagogue students’ opinions on ideal teacher interaction","authors":"P. Tóth, K. Horvath","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"Based on Leary’s interpersonal model (Interpersonal Circumplex), Wubbels elaborated the scheme of interpersonal behaviour that was completed by questionnaires (Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI)). Our research involved 336 students of four teacher training institutions of the Carpathian Basin. In our survey, we searched for the answer to the question of what opinions students held about the ideal interpersonal behaviour. The reliability of the Hungarian version of the QTI query proved to be similar to that of the English version. According to the students, the main characteristics of the ideal interpersonal behaviour are decisive, directive, helpful and understanding; it is less characterised by doubt and emotionality. In terms of imposing and compliant manner, opinions are rather divided. It is preschool teachers and teachers of lower primary school classes who prefer cooperation with the children the most, while teachers of upper classes tend to emphasise the importance of directive behaviour.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48387070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mihály Héder, Erno Rigó, Dorottya Medgyesi, R. Lovas, Szabolcs Tenczer, Ferenc Török, Attila Farkas, M. Emődi, J. Kadlecsik, György Mező, Ádám Pintér, P. Kacsuk
{"title":"The Past, Present and Future of the ELKH Cloud","authors":"Mihály Héder, Erno Rigó, Dorottya Medgyesi, R. Lovas, Szabolcs Tenczer, Ferenc Török, Attila Farkas, M. Emődi, J. Kadlecsik, György Mező, Ádám Pintér, P. Kacsuk","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"This review article summarizes the history the Hungarian Scientific Cloud Infrastructure project. This research infrastructure was launched officially on 1 October 2016, funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. With the support of ELKH, the infrastructure’s capacity has been substantially boosted; the features and workflows that it offers to scientists were significantly expanded to celebrate the arrival of the year 2022. The article reviews the types of work Hungarian researchers implemented on the infrastructure, thereby providing an overview of the state of cloud-computing enabled science in Hungary.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49657166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fejleszthetők-e a pedagógusok online oktatással kapcsolatos kompetenciái online tanulási környezetben?","authors":"Lenke Major, Zsolt Námesztovszki, Cintia Kovács, Dorottya Urbán, Orsolya Boros","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"A tanulmányunkban a Web 2.0 – Online eszközök használata a tanórán és azon kívül kurzust mutatja be, illetve az azon részt vevő pedagógusok tevékenységét elemzi. A kurzus 5 hétig tartott (2020 decembere és 2021 januárja között), 255 pedagógus jelentkezett rá, és 204-en teljesítették sikeresen. Az online képzés elsősorban azzal a céllal indult el, hogy univerzális és ingyenes segítséget nyújtson a pedgaógusoknak az online oktatás terén.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46134632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Z generáció turisztikai információkeresési szokásai a Covid–érában","authors":"Tamás Iványi, István Veres","doi":"10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xxii.2022.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"A Covid–19 2019. évi megjelenése és gyors világméretű szétterjedése a hazai turizmus közel tízéves dinamikus növekedését törte meg. 2020-ban a világ valamenynyi országában jelentős korlátozásokat, járványügyi intézkedéseket hoztak, amely a turisztikai ipar kínálati és keresleti oldalát is jelentős kihívások elé állította. Tanulmányunk elsődlegesen a fogyasztói, keresleti oldalra fókuszál a turisztikai információgyűjtést segítő digitális technológiai alkalmazások vizsgálatán keresztül, valamint a pandémia okozta változásokat mutatja be a turisztikai döntéshozatal folyamatában. Számos digitális platform szerepe egyértelműen felértékelődött a járvány alatt, azonban a képet árnyalják a tanulmány primer kutatási részében bemutatott három fogyasztói csoport közötti jelentős eltérések az információgyűjtésben. Az eredmények rávilágítanak arra is, hogy számos fi atal igen tudatosan gyűjti az információkat az utazást megelőzően, azonban sokak számára még mindig nem ismertek és kevésbé fontosak az utóbbi években felértékelődött, utazási területre fókuszáló közösségi oldalak, platformok.","PeriodicalId":41114,"journal":{"name":"Informacios Tarsadalom","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45909356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}