International journal of criminology and sociological theory, 2013
The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interaction with ... more The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interaction with certain social systems, led to the emergence of the phenomenon of globalization. Globalization lays on a technological infrastructure that makes it possible, by minimizing the time needed for communication and inter-systemic interactions. This also, has led to a strong support of the global financial system to the ICT industry, so that the latter can provide faster applications at any level of networking, thus putting both globalization and the ICT industry in an accelerating mutual development. This paper, examines the problems certain social systems face into this new environment, due to the structural coupling of those systems with a technological backbone that functions as a system of inclusion (and thus exclusion as well) of those social systems which do not conceive of the ICT as a prerequisite for their own continuation. That situation is challenging the political subsystems, as t...
Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2005
To assess the extent to which individuals adapt themeselfs in a strange cultural environement, th... more To assess the extent to which individuals adapt themeselfs in a strange cultural environement, the authors analyzed the adaptation process of a number of immigrants who live in Greece. Using categorical variables to represent certain cross-cultural adaptation indicators and employing fuzzy logic clustering, the authors detected and analyzed shifting patterns that are related to the cross-cultural adaptation of individuals.
Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2005
To assess the extent to which individuals adapt themeselfs in a strange cultural environement, th... more To assess the extent to which individuals adapt themeselfs in a strange cultural environement, the authors analyzed the adaptation process of a number of immigrants who live in Greece. Using categorical variables to represent certain cross-cultural adaptation indicators and employing fuzzy logic clustering, the authors detected and analyzed shifting patterns that are related to the cross-cultural adaptation of individuals.
The main problem that systems theory tries to solve is the problem of complexity. The notion of c... more The main problem that systems theory tries to solve is the problem of complexity. The notion of complexity is very often correlated to variables such as entropy and energy, organization and disorganization and others that eventually converge to the common ground of comprehensibility or incomprehensibility. In this paper, we try to shed light on the notions of entropy and energy as they should be conceived in the theoretical framework of social sciences. We analyze the different meanings of entropy, dealing with the social systems as if they were information management systems (following Niklas Luhmann), and we also present an initial approach, as to the meaning of energy for those systems, bringing Pierre Bourdieu's theory of symbolic capital into a Luhmannian context.
Abstract The aim of this cross-sectional study was to answer two central research questions:(i) w... more Abstract The aim of this cross-sectional study was to answer two central research questions:(i) what are Greek employers' attitudes to employing people with a range of disabilities; and (ii) do employers' attitudes differ according to the type of disability? The ...
International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory, Jan 10, 2013
The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interaction with ... more The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interaction with certain social systems, led to the emergence of the phenomenon of globalization. Globalization lays on a technological infrastructure that makes it possible, by minimizing the time needed for communication and inter-systemic interactions. This also, has led to a strong support of the global financial system to the ICT industry, so that the latter can provide faster applications at any level of networking, thus putting both globalization ...
This article focuses on certain aspects of the evaluation methods for the scientific publications... more This article focuses on certain aspects of the evaluation methods for the scientific publications and especially on the influence of those publications. We argue that positive or negative appraisal of the “impact factor” for scientific publications cannot be judged properly out of the systemic context of the contemporary scientific problematic and relevant practices. Thus we comment on these practices under a systemic scope, focusing on critical issues of observing science and scientific results presented, in comparison with the problems ...
This paper examines functional aspects of the internet Web Sites that (re)present Greek Higher Ed... more This paper examines functional aspects of the internet Web Sites that (re)present Greek Higher Educational Departments and Institutes and focuses on the promotion and dissemination of their educational and scientific results. The study conforms to the theoretical guidelines of a systemic approach that produces an overview of the consistencies and the asymmetries that define the impact of a Web Site as a communicative system. Web Sites representing Greek Higher Educational Departments and Institutes are evaluated as communicative systems that promote certain distinctions (that suggest meanings) in the context of the World Wide Web (WWW). The relevant evaluation includes five hundred and one (501) Web Sites and was based on eight (8) criteria. The results of this study hopefully will account for (Greek) Departments' Web Sites to be efficient, interactive and provide their readers with appropriate services.
4th Conference on Informatics in Education, Oct 7, 2012
"This paper focuses on parameters defining usability of access in content and services provided
... more "This paper focuses on parameters defining usability of access in content and services provided
by the websites presenting Greek University Departments (501), as well as aspects of promotion
and dissemination of educational and scientific results. The relevant evaluation was based
on fifty one (51) criteria. In this presentation we discuss the results occurring from six (6) of
them. We hope that the results presented here will accommodate a first critical approach of a
new digital field that is still in the process of formation.
Keywords: Greek Universities’ Websites, Higher Education, evaluation, criteria.
International journal of criminology and sociological theory, 2013
The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interaction with ... more The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interaction with certain social systems, led to the emergence of the phenomenon of globalization. Globalization lays on a technological infrastructure that makes it possible, by minimizing the time needed for communication and inter-systemic interactions. This also, has led to a strong support of the global financial system to the ICT industry, so that the latter can provide faster applications at any level of networking, thus putting both globalization and the ICT industry in an accelerating mutual development. This paper, examines the problems certain social systems face into this new environment, due to the structural coupling of those systems with a technological backbone that functions as a system of inclusion (and thus exclusion as well) of those social systems which do not conceive of the ICT as a prerequisite for their own continuation. That situation is challenging the political subsystems, as t...
Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2005
To assess the extent to which individuals adapt themeselfs in a strange cultural environement, th... more To assess the extent to which individuals adapt themeselfs in a strange cultural environement, the authors analyzed the adaptation process of a number of immigrants who live in Greece. Using categorical variables to represent certain cross-cultural adaptation indicators and employing fuzzy logic clustering, the authors detected and analyzed shifting patterns that are related to the cross-cultural adaptation of individuals.
Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2005
To assess the extent to which individuals adapt themeselfs in a strange cultural environement, th... more To assess the extent to which individuals adapt themeselfs in a strange cultural environement, the authors analyzed the adaptation process of a number of immigrants who live in Greece. Using categorical variables to represent certain cross-cultural adaptation indicators and employing fuzzy logic clustering, the authors detected and analyzed shifting patterns that are related to the cross-cultural adaptation of individuals.
The main problem that systems theory tries to solve is the problem of complexity. The notion of c... more The main problem that systems theory tries to solve is the problem of complexity. The notion of complexity is very often correlated to variables such as entropy and energy, organization and disorganization and others that eventually converge to the common ground of comprehensibility or incomprehensibility. In this paper, we try to shed light on the notions of entropy and energy as they should be conceived in the theoretical framework of social sciences. We analyze the different meanings of entropy, dealing with the social systems as if they were information management systems (following Niklas Luhmann), and we also present an initial approach, as to the meaning of energy for those systems, bringing Pierre Bourdieu's theory of symbolic capital into a Luhmannian context.
Abstract The aim of this cross-sectional study was to answer two central research questions:(i) w... more Abstract The aim of this cross-sectional study was to answer two central research questions:(i) what are Greek employers' attitudes to employing people with a range of disabilities; and (ii) do employers' attitudes differ according to the type of disability? The ...
International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory, Jan 10, 2013
The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interaction with ... more The proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interaction with certain social systems, led to the emergence of the phenomenon of globalization. Globalization lays on a technological infrastructure that makes it possible, by minimizing the time needed for communication and inter-systemic interactions. This also, has led to a strong support of the global financial system to the ICT industry, so that the latter can provide faster applications at any level of networking, thus putting both globalization ...
This article focuses on certain aspects of the evaluation methods for the scientific publications... more This article focuses on certain aspects of the evaluation methods for the scientific publications and especially on the influence of those publications. We argue that positive or negative appraisal of the “impact factor” for scientific publications cannot be judged properly out of the systemic context of the contemporary scientific problematic and relevant practices. Thus we comment on these practices under a systemic scope, focusing on critical issues of observing science and scientific results presented, in comparison with the problems ...
This paper examines functional aspects of the internet Web Sites that (re)present Greek Higher Ed... more This paper examines functional aspects of the internet Web Sites that (re)present Greek Higher Educational Departments and Institutes and focuses on the promotion and dissemination of their educational and scientific results. The study conforms to the theoretical guidelines of a systemic approach that produces an overview of the consistencies and the asymmetries that define the impact of a Web Site as a communicative system. Web Sites representing Greek Higher Educational Departments and Institutes are evaluated as communicative systems that promote certain distinctions (that suggest meanings) in the context of the World Wide Web (WWW). The relevant evaluation includes five hundred and one (501) Web Sites and was based on eight (8) criteria. The results of this study hopefully will account for (Greek) Departments' Web Sites to be efficient, interactive and provide their readers with appropriate services.
4th Conference on Informatics in Education, Oct 7, 2012
"This paper focuses on parameters defining usability of access in content and services provided
... more "This paper focuses on parameters defining usability of access in content and services provided
by the websites presenting Greek University Departments (501), as well as aspects of promotion
and dissemination of educational and scientific results. The relevant evaluation was based
on fifty one (51) criteria. In this presentation we discuss the results occurring from six (6) of
them. We hope that the results presented here will accommodate a first critical approach of a
new digital field that is still in the process of formation.
Keywords: Greek Universities’ Websites, Higher Education, evaluation, criteria.
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by the websites presenting Greek University Departments (501), as well as aspects of promotion
and dissemination of educational and scientific results. The relevant evaluation was based
on fifty one (51) criteria. In this presentation we discuss the results occurring from six (6) of
them. We hope that the results presented here will accommodate a first critical approach of a
new digital field that is still in the process of formation.
Keywords: Greek Universities’ Websites, Higher Education, evaluation, criteria.
by the websites presenting Greek University Departments (501), as well as aspects of promotion
and dissemination of educational and scientific results. The relevant evaluation was based
on fifty one (51) criteria. In this presentation we discuss the results occurring from six (6) of
them. We hope that the results presented here will accommodate a first critical approach of a
new digital field that is still in the process of formation.
Keywords: Greek Universities’ Websites, Higher Education, evaluation, criteria.