Digitalization has proven to be a successful way for organizations to develop and improve both infrastructure and effectivity. In 2019 a national IT-policy for the Swedish education system was presented with the goal of leveraging digital technology to improve both the quality of education and organizational effectivity. The Swedish education system has a history of trying and failing to adopt IT-solutions effectively, efforts and results differ between schools and regions. The language used to define this new policy does not show many signs of development in reference to previous attempts. This thesis studies the effects of language and discourse on the ongoing digitalization efforts in Swedish schools. By adapting a framework for critical discourse analysis, the language used both in the national policy documents and by employees within the education system was analyzed. This study makes the following contributions: the way the Swedish education system understands technology complicates any digitalization efforts; secondly, the discourse regarding digitalization directly affects organizational learning and the development of the national policy itself; lastly, a change in discourse is needed for the Swedish education system to be able to learn from the past and work towards the future.

I juli 2018 började den nya reviderade läroplanen med utökat fokus och nya krav på digitala kompetenser och digital utveckling för bland annat grundskolan och fritidshemmet gälla. Innan dess hade inte digitaliseringen varit lika definierad som uppdrag i läroplanen. Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på vilka möjligheter och utmaningar utbildade lärare i fritidshem och fritidspedagoger i nuläget uppfattar gällande digitaliseringen utav fritidshem. Denna studie är en fenomenografisk studie som samlat data genom intervjuer med sex respondenter från fyra skolor i två städer belägna i Mellansverige. Databearbetningen har skett genom att respondenters uppfattningar sorterats in i beskrivningskategorier och tematiserats. Uppfattningarna har sedan även jämförts med tidigare forskning kring digitalisering, för att sätta dem i en forskningskontext.   Studiens resultat visar att fritidshemmet delar vissa utmaningar med andra skolformer, såsom tekniska problem och resursbrist, samt att det även tycks finnas utmaningar som är mer specifika för fritidshemmen, såsom att finna en balans mellan digitala aktiviteter och icke-digitala. Resultaten indikerar vidare på att fritidshemmet har goda möjligheter till arbete med elevers sociala utveckling med hjälp av digitala verktyg. Fritidshem verkar dessutom utifrån sitt verksamhetsuppdrag vara väl anpassade för att arbeta elevutvecklande med digitalisering. Då det finns möjligheter för elevcentrerad, kreativ, kommunikativ, individanpassad och problemlösande undervisning genom fritidshemsaktiviteter, vilka tycks kunna komplettera skolans användning utav digitalisering.

Background. Nowadays, information retrieval system become more and more popular, it helps people retrieve information more efficiently and accelerates daily task. Within this context, Image processing technology play an important role that help transcribing content in printed or handwritten documents into digital data in information retrieval system. This transcribing procedure is called document digitization. In this transcribing procedure, image processing technique such as layout analysis and word recognition are employed to segment the document content and transcribe the image content into words. At this point, a Swedish company (ArkivDigital® AB) has a demand to transcribe their document data into digital data. Objectives. In this study, the aim is to find out effective solution to extract document layout regard to the Swedish handwritten historical documents, which are featured by their tabular forms containing the handwritten content. In this case, outcome of application of OCRopus, OCRfeeder, traditional image processing techniques, machine learning techniques on Swedish historical hand-written document is compared and studied. Methods. Implementation and experiment are used to develop three comparative solutions in this study. One is Hessian filtering with mask operation; another one is Gabor filtering with morphological open operation; the last one is Gabor filtering with machine learning classification. In the last solution, different alternatives were explored to build up document layout extraction pipeline. Hessian filter and Gabor filter are evaluated; Secondly, filter images with the better filter evaluated at previous stage, then refine the filtered image with Hough line transform method. Third, extract transfer learning feature and custom feature. Fourth, feed classifier with previous extracted features and analyze the result. After implementing all the solutions, sample set of the Swedish historical handwritten document is applied with these solutions and compare their performance with survey. Results. Both open source OCR system OCRopus and OCRfeeder fail to deliver the outcome due to these systems are designed to handle general document layout instead of table layout. Traditional image processing solutions work in more than a half of the cases, but it does not work well. Combining traditional image process technique and machine leaning technique give the best result, but with great time cost. Conclusions. Results shows that existing OCR system cannot carry layout analysis task in our Swedish historical handwritten document. Traditional image processing techniques are capable to extract the general table layout in these documents. By introducing machine learning technique, better and more accurate table layout can be extracted, but comes with a bigger time cost. / Scalable resource-efficient systems for big data analytics

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T18:25:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A dissertação investiga a movimentação das entidades da sociedade civil vinculadas à regulamentação das questões comunicacionais, a partir do processo de digitalização da televisão brasileira. Através do eixo teórico-metodológico da Economia Política da Comunicação, em diálogo com outras contribuições, são realizadas análises, no estudo da mídia, frente à relação entre Estado, mercado e sociedade civil e considerando a regulamentação da televisão digital no Brasil. A pesquisa visa compreender as dinâmicas e a inserção das entidades da sociedade civil Fórum Nacional Pela Democratização da Comunicação (FNDC) e Coletivo Intervozes perante pólos sociais essenciais na configuração da nova tecnologia digital. A problemática desta pesquisa trabalha para responder como entidades da sociedade civil voltadas às questões comunicacionais manifestam-se no processo de regulamentação e implementação da televisão digital no país. Pretende-se também averiguar qual o impacto dessas manifestações na regulamentação da TV digital / The dissertation investigates the handling of civil society organizations related to the regulation of communication issues, from the process of digitalization of television in Brazil. Through the theoretical and methodological axis of the Political Economy of Communication, in dialogue with other contributions, is analysis, the study of media, at the relationship between state, market and civil society, and considering the regulation of digital television in Brazil. The research seeks to understand the dynamics and the inclusion of civil society. National Forum for Democratization of Communication (FNDC) and Collective Intervozes, to essential social sectors in shaping the new digital technology. The issue of this research work to respond to civil society organizations devoted to communication issues are manifested in the regulatory process and implementation of digital television in the country. It is also intended to ascertain what impact these events in the regulation of digital TV and it brought the impa

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-05-08T18:24:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 paradigmas_implantacao.pdf: 1275001 bytes, checksum: a02e8c4e6649717168c5192c9e29c493 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-08T18:24:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 paradigmas_implantacao.pdf: 1275001 bytes, checksum: a02e8c4e6649717168c5192c9e29c493 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-31 / Nenhuma / A televisão ainda é o principal meio de comunicação da atualidade, atingindo a maior parte da população, mesmo com o crescimento da internet. Frente à multiplicidade da oferta de produtos e serviços, as emissoras de TV buscam alternativas para manterem e, se possível, ampliarem suas posições de audiência e faturamento, apresentando-se a digitalização como alternativa para as empresas de comunicação se adequarem a essa realidade. Desta forma, esta pesquisa foca-se no processo de implantação dessa nova televisão no Rio Grande do Sul, especificamente na RBS TV, destacando as mudanças ocorridas no biênio 2009-2010, após o inicio da transmissão da programação da emissora pelo Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Digital Terrestre (SBTVD-T). Também se verificou como, no RS, o mercado publicitário se comportou frente a essa alteração no principal espaço de divulgação dos grandes anunciantes. / The television is still the main way of communication nowadays, reaching the biggest part of population, even with the growing of the internet. Facing the multiplicity of the products and services offering, the TV stations are pursuing different ways to keep their audience in a high level, and the digitalization shows off like another possibility for the companies to push themselves to this reality. This study focused the process of implementation of this new TV in the Rio Grande do Sul state, specifically in the RBS TV, highlighting the changing?s that happened in the 2009-2010 years. After the beginning of this transmission of the TV station by the Earth-Brazilian System of Digital Television (SBTVD-T). Also, was verified how, in the Rio Grande do Sul state, the advertisement market behavior facing this changing in the main sharing time of divulgation of those big announcements.

Journalism is a part of the foundation of a democracy and is responsible for giving a wide view of the society, examining the authorities and making sure to give a nuanced picture of reality. With the rapid flow of information given to us by the digital media, journalism has gained tremendous competition from third parties and private individuals. At the same time, surveys have been carried out where politicians and press secretaries find that journalists today are unable to cover reality to the extent that would be desired. The economic situation has meant that many local offices have had to be closed down, which has contributed to white spots that are no longer covered in Sweden. In this survey, semi-structured interviews were conducted with parliamentary politicians, journalists and press secretaries in the political arena to get answers on how they view the journalism's democratic role, the future of journalism and how digitalization has affected journalism. The answers were thematised and analyzed against theories of media convergence, journalism's democratic role and political communication. In several themes that were found among the answers, there is consensus in the interviewees' answers and opinions questions. For example, journalism faces major challenges in the future in a society with easy ways of disseminating disinformation, and that journalists themselves need to find the solution to preserve their relevance and credibility. / Journalistik är en del av grundstommen i en demokrati och ansvarar för att bevaka samhället, granska makteliten och se till att ge en nyanserad bild av verkligheten. I och med det snabba informationsflödet som de digitala medierna gett oss idag har journalistiken fått enorm konkurrens från utomstående aktörer och privatpersoner. Samtidigt har undersökningar gjorts där politiker och pressekreterare tycker att journalister idag inte klarar att bevaka i den mån som skulle önskas. Den ekonomiska situationen har gjort att många lokalredaktioner har fått läggas ner vilket har bidragit till vita fläckar som inte längre bevakas i Sverige. I den här undersökningen genomfördes semistrukturerade intervjuer med riksdagspolitiker, journalister och pressekreterare inom den politiska arenan för att få svar på hur de ser på journalistikens demokratiska roll, journalistikens framtid och hur digitaliseringen har påverkat journalistiken. Svaren tematiserades och analyserades mot teorier om mediekonvergens, journalistikens demokratiska roll och politisk kommunikation. I flera teman som hittades bland svaren råder det konsensus i intervjupersonernas svar och åsikter frågeställningarna. Exempelvis att journalistiken står inför stora utmaningar i framtiden i ett samhälle med lätta sätt att sprida desinformation, och att journalisterna själva behöver hitta lösningen för att bevara sin relevans och trovärdighet.

Background: Previous studies have shown that ICT applications could affect elderly people who suffer from mild dementia (MD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) positively. These applications might help patients with MD or MCI, improving their cognitive performance, independency and, their quality of life. Elderly may also be able to live alone at their own home with the help of these ICT applications. Therefore, the burden of caregivers and family members can be reduced. An IT-enabled solution was proposed to create new knowledge and experience among MCI and MD patients and their caregivers. The project was funded by European union and four countries i.e. Sweden, Spain, Italy and Israel were involved in it. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to apply a technology-enabled integrated care model. Two aspects of the study were to measure the quality of life of the elderly with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild dementia (MD) after using the model and to understand the professional caregivers’ perspectives of the model. Method: A mixed-method approach was applied in this research which was a combination of using standard and internally developed questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Conclusion: The result of the study showed that DECI could have positive effect as a complementary tool for the care process of the elderly who suffered from dementia. The general perception in all sites was positive and professionals confirmed the willingness to use DECI in the future.

Redovisningskonsultens reaktioner på förändringarna som digitaliseringen medför är ett relevant ämne att studera eftersom digitaliseringens utveckling i form av bland annat automatiserade arbetsuppgifter är något som är en pågående process. Särskilt intressant är det att studera redovisningskonsultens reaktioner på förändringarna eftersom redovisningskonsultens reaktioner kan påverka implementeringen av digitala arbetssätt. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka reaktioner och känslor som kommer till uttryck hos de redovisningskonsulter som är verksamma inom redovisningsbranschen till följd av digitaliseringens påverkan och förändringar. Studien baseras på kvalitativ forskning i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer med sex redovisningskonsulter för att försöka tolka och förstå deras upplevelser kring de förändringar digitaliseringens utveckling medför på deras yrkesbransch. Intervjuerna kompletteras med en kvantitativ metod i form av enkätutskick. Studien använder sig av institutionellt arbete som den huvudsakliga referensramen, vilken kompletteras med diffusion of innovation i syfte att kunna förklara varför vissa redovisningskonsulter accepterar, respektive avvisar de digitala förändringarna. Med hjälp av teorierna syftar studien till att kunna besvara varför redovisningskonsulter till följd av sina reaktioner och känslor engagerar sig i att skapa, bevara eller förstöra institutioner. Den huvudsakliga slutsatsen studien kommit fram till är att redovisningskonsulter på en redovisningsbyrå aktivt arbetar för att skapa och bevara institutionen. Det finns inga reaktioner och känslor bland deltagarna som tyder på att de vill förstöra den befintliga institutionen eller att det råder något missnöje kring den. De som har varit verksamma i branschen under en kortare tid tycks ha en mer positiv inställning till förändringarna och arbetar aktivt för att deras byrå ska gå mot dito. Däremot tycks de som varit verksamma under en längre tid påvisa reaktioner och känslor som tyder på att de visar motstånd till förändringarna. Att vissa redovisningskonsulter är motståndare kan förklaras av graden av osäkerhet som kommer med digitaliseringens utveckling. / Accounting consultants’ reactions to the changes that digitalization entails are a relevant subject to study since the development of digitalization in the form of, among other things, automated tasks are an ongoing process. It is particularly interesting to study the reactions of accounting consultants to the changes, as their reactions can affect the implementation of digital working methods. The purpose of the following study is to investigate what reactions and emotions are expressed by the accounting consultants who are working in the accounting industry as a result of the digitalization’s influence and changes. This study is based on qualitative research with semi-structured interviews of six accounting consultants to try to interpret and understand their experiences regarding the changes that the development of digitalization brings to their professional sector. The interviews were complemented by a quantitative method in the form of survey mailing. This study used institutional work as the main theoretical framework, which is supplemented by the diffusion of innovation in order to be able to explain why some accounting consultants accept or reject the digital changes. Using these theories, this study aims to answer why accounting consultants, as a result of their reactions and emotions, engage in creating, maintaining or disrupting institutions. The main conclusion reached by the study is that accounting consultants in one accounting firm actively work to create and maintain institutions. There are no feelings among the participants that indicate that they want to disrupt the existing institution or that there is some dissatisfaction about it. Those who have been working in the accounting industry for a shorter period seem to have a more positive attitude towards the changes and therefore actively works to ensure that their agency moves towards the changes. However, those who have been working in the accounting industry for a long time seem to demonstrate reactions and emotions which show that they are contradictory to changes. The fact that some accounting consultants are opponents of changes can be explained by the degree of uncertainty that comes with the development of digitalization.

In einem kooperativen Erschließungsprojekt haben das Handschriftenzentrum der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig und die Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden die wissenschaftliche Erschließung und vollständige Digitalisierung der Dresdner deutschsprachigen und niederländischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften begonnen.

Mit rund 2 Millionen Digitalisaten und vielfältigen laufenden Drittmittelprojekten zählt die SLUB auf dem Gebiet der retrospektiven Digitalisierung von Kulturgut gegenwärtig zu den führenden Einrichtungen in Deutschland. Entsprechend koordiniert sie im Auftrag des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst die sächsischen Projektbeiträge für überregionale Informationsportale und arbeitet aktiv im Kompetenznetzwerk zur Errichtung der „Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek“ mit, dem deutschen Zugangsportal in die „Europäische Digitale Bibliothek“. Mit Förderung des Sächsischen Landtages hat die SLUB 2007 die sukzessive Digitalisierung der historischen sächsischen Landtagsprotokolle aufgenommen. Die Zeiträume 1919 bis 1933 sowie 1946 bis 1952 (Auflösung des Landes Sachsen) sind inzwischen bearbeitet, die Bände von 1869 bis 1918 befinden sich in der Produktion.