colored or velvet revolution as a change in the political arena was initiated in the final decades of the twentieth century in the countries of eastern europe such as czechoslovakia and romania and developed in the independent soviet republics such as georgia and kyrgyzstan. the effective factors in the occurrence of such an event are the great powers that use anything to utilize the poor condi...

This study explores the extent to which the information seeking behaviour of researchers active in the field of English Literature in the universities of the UK and the wider world has changed as a result of the developing electronic information revolution. It deals with the researchers’ attitudes towards the Internet and examines their position with regard to utilizing the Internet as a public...

We are all very conscious of living through a revolution — one in which the industrial society is being superseded by the information society. Every day brings new evidence of the breakneck pace of the changes that are currently underway. But while broad awareness may be unavoidable, understanding is not so easy. Both the pace of the revolution and its multi-faceted nature make it difficult to ...

Spurred on by the eager adoption of XML, the world appears to be on the verge of a revolution in the ease with which information resources from diverse, remote providers can be brought together into new assemblies, expressing new concepts. To benefit from this revolution we will need frameworks that help providers to organise their information and enable access to it, and tools that will help w...

The theory of diffusion is one of the prevailing theories on the explanation of the quality of dissemination of innovations, expansion of ideas and thoughts in the area of culture.The present research is an attempt to respond to this question: Is it possible to disseminate the Islamic Revolution values and ideals through the window of Abrahamic Hajj into the world of Islam? And if the res...

Twitter revolutions, which are political events characterized with heavy use of social media, showed that information technology might not only bring friends together, but also provoke the dreadful offline events with high-impact outcomes up to major political changes in the region. However, the conclusions and opinions about the role of Social Networking Sites in modern revolutions remained co...

background: communications and information technology revolution has a remarkable effect on economic, social, politic and security of all the world. using of information technology in medicine has many advantages such as improve the quality and effectiveness of care, reduce medical errors, enhance the management of acute and chronic disease, access to updated information, and help to medical de...

The article introduces the special issue dedicated to “The Philosophy of Information, Its Nature, and Future Developments.” It outlines the origins of the information society and then briefly discusses the definition of the philosophy of information, the possibility of reconciling nature and technology, the informational turn as a fourth revolution (after Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud), and the...

How should we define the ethics of information technology? It is not a new field of study in the sense that it requires an entirely new ethical thinking. Rather, it is a field where we can try to use our traditional philosophical notions and apply them to this field of computer technology, information science, and knowledge society in order to define responsibility and accountability. Although ...