Value creation and new intermediaries on Internet. An exploratory analysis of the online news industry and the web content aggregators

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Rosa del Águila-Obra ◽  
Antonio Padilla-Meléndez ◽  
Christian Serarols-Tarrés
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Online News ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Web Content ◽  
News Industry ◽  
The Web

scholarly journals Convergence, Corporate Restructuring, and Canadian Online News, 2000-2003

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Sparks ◽  
Mary Lynn Young ◽  
Simon Darnell
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Online News ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Free Markets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
Corporate Restructurings ◽  
News Industry ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Web

Abstract: This paper critically examines the corporate restructurings that took place in the Canadian news industry in 2000, using findings from website analyses in 2001 and 2003 that assessed the impact of the changes on the provision of online news. The paper shows that despite their stated commitment to convergence, the restructured companies only selectively exploited the interactive potential of the Web, and that they tended to operate under traditional news and revenue strategies. It also documents a continued shift in Canadian regulatory policies toward neo-liberal conceptions of news and the public good framed in terms of private ownership, free markets, and consumer choice. Résumé : Cet article propose un examen critique des réorganisations d’entreprises qui ont eu lieu dans l’industrie de l’actualité canadienne en 2000. Pour ce faire, il a recours aux résultats d’analyses de sites Web faites en 2001 et 2003. Ces analyses avaient pour but de mesurer l’impact de ces réorganisations sur la présence de nouvelles en ligne. L’article montre que les entreprises réorganisées, malgré l’engagement qu’elles ont exprimé de s’avancer vers la convergence, n’ont exploité le potentiel interactif du Web que de manière sélective continuant à recourir à des stratégies traditionnelles en ce qui a trait à l’actualité et au revenu. L’article observe aussi une tendance continue dans les politiques réglementaires canadiennes vers une conception néolibérale de l’actualité et du bien public qui privilégie la propriété privée, les marchés libres et l’offre de choix au consommateur.

Science Audiences on the Web

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabitha M. Powledge
Keyword(s):  
Basic Research ◽  
Online News ◽  
Good News ◽  
Science Writing ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Daily News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
The Web

In otherwise hard times, at least one market for science writing appears to be expanding: writing for scientists, particularly online. It's also a market that can offer unusual professional satisfaction. When you write for scientists, you can ignore many of science and medical journalism's topical fads. On the Web, you can pursue subjects that interest you, delve into more of their technical details, and write about them with surprising flexibility and freedom. Like everything else in the dot-corn world, online-only publications for scientists have come and gone. I, for one, am still mourning the disappearance of BioMedNet, which Elsevier dropped at the end of 2003. For several years BMN was an important market. It published at least a couple of news stories every weekday and also covered several basic research conferences annually. But there's good news, too: A few online news operations allied with print publications are still going strong. These outlets, such as TheScientist.com (www.the-scientist.com) and NewScientist.com (www.newscientist.com), publish unique content that does not appear in their print versions. Top weekly journals also publish daily news online—among them Nature (www.nature.com/news) and Science (sciencenow.sciencemag.org). So does the top-tier publication Scientific American (www.sciam.com), which appeals both to those with an armchair interest in science and to scientists themselves. The stories in these online publications—typically short, in the range of 400 to 600 words—are written by both staffers and freelances. One of the best things about writing for scientists on the Web is that it's not like typical Web writing at all. It resembles traditional print writing—but, amazingly, often with fewer constraints. And it is garnished only lightly with electronic doodads. Publications for scientists are not mad for multimedia, so your words don't have to take second (or third) place to video documentaries, interactive quizzes, Flash animation, or chat. Hyperlinks, yes, but only rarely will there be slideshows or snazzy static graphics. Nor is this a deeply collaborative process. Usually it's just you and your editor, who often leaves you to produce your piece in your own way. This is different from Web writing in general, when you might be part of a Web content team whose other members regard you as the least valuable player.

scholarly journals RSS FEED VISUALIZATION

2016 ◽  
pp. 29-31
Author(s):  
JYOTSNA BAGRET ◽  
PRASANNA MUNDADA ◽  
SABAH TAZEEN ◽  
TANUJA MULLA
Keyword(s):  
3D Visualization ◽  
Modeling Technique ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Root Node ◽  
Advanced Search ◽  
Rss Feeds ◽  
Different Color ◽  
Search Facility ◽  
The Web

This paper describes how the web content visualization can be greatly improved using the modeling technique. Web content visualization is the outcome of effort made to avail an improved 3D visualization unlike the 2D web content visualization at present. Web page navigation in this case will be depicted by a 2D graph and the web content will be visualized in the form of 3D graph. Also the RSS feeds will be visualized in the form of 3D graph. In normal browser we type name of the URL in the address bar and that URL is downloaded. But the 3D browser takes any URL as an input and generates a 3D graph of the whole website. When we type the URL, a root node of this URL is created. And then this URL goes to the Parser. The parser, parse this web page and gives output in the form of the set of the hyperlinks. Corresponding to each link we create a node and it is attached to the root node. In this way the whole 3D graph of the website is generated. Different color schemes are used for the nodes of different links e.g. text links, image links, video links etc. Advanced search facility is also provided. Moreover as the graph is 3D in nature, the user can rotate the graph as per his requirement.

scholarly journals Classifying Consumer Comparison Opinions to Uncover Product Strengths and Weaknesses

2014 ◽  
pp. 987-1000
Author(s):  
Kaiquan Xu ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Jimmy S. J. Ren ◽  
Jin Xu ◽  
Long Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Business Values ◽  
Customer Preferences ◽  
Relative Product ◽  
Comparison Relation ◽  
The Web

With the Web 2.0 paradigm, a huge volume of Web content is generated by users at online forums, wikis, blogs, and social networks, among others. These user-contributed contents include numerous user opinions regarding products, services, or political issues. Among these user opinions, certain comparison opinions exist, reflecting customer preferences. Mining comparison opinions is useful as these types of viewpoints can bring more business values than other types of opinion data. Manufacturers can better understand relative product strengths or weaknesses, and accordingly develop better products to meet consumer requirements. Meanwhile, consumers can make purchasing decisions that are more informed by comparing the various features of similar products. In this paper, a novel Support Vector Machine-based method is proposed to automatically identify comparison opinions, extract comparison relations, and display results with the comparison relation maps by mining the volume of consumer opinions posted on the Web. The proposed method is empirically evaluated based on consumer opinions crawled from the Web. The initial experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method is promising and this research opens the door to utilizing these comparison opinions for business intelligence.

Examination of the electronic educational resources accessibility on the university Moodle platform

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Ye. A. Kosova ◽  
A. S. Gapon ◽  
K. I. Redkokosh
Keyword(s):  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Screen Readers ◽  
Video Lectures ◽  
Expert Analysis ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

The purpose of the article is to assess the accessibility of electronic educational resources (EER) published in the university Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). The analysis involved 22 EERs in mathematical and information technology disciplines, located in the Moodle LMS of the V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. The examination algorithm included analysis using the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE) and expert analysis of web accessibility using visual, auditory and manual methods based on 89 checklist attributes. In the result of the analysis, multiple accessibility errors of the Moodle platform and the EERs hosted on it were found. The most serious platform problems include: lack of compatibility with text browsers; errors of reproduction by screen readers; errors of content reproduction on mobile devices. The list of accessibility errors made by the authors of EERs includes: incorrect design of hyperlinks (22.7 % of the EERs); lack of subtitles (13.6 %), transcripts (22.7 %), synopses of video lectures (27.3 %); lack of alternative descriptions for figures (68.2 %); time limit for tests (9.1 %); lack of special markup for mathematical notation (36.4 %) and program code (13.6 %), etc. Results of the survey show need in training of EERs’ authors in technologies for developing accessible educational web content. It is advisable to familiarize web developers deploying an LMS at universities with the basics of web accessibility, LMS accessibility functions and modules in order to select the most suitable platform, determine and install the required set of accessibility tools. Before launching all EERs should be subject to mandatory examination for compliance with the web accessibility guidelines.

The BenToWeb Test Case Suites for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

2008 ◽  
pp. 402-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Strobbe ◽  
Johannes Koch ◽  
Evangelos Vlachogiannis ◽  
Reinhard Ruemer ◽  
Carlos A. Velasco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Test Case ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Wcag 2.0 ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
Content Accessibility ◽  
The Web

Supporting Accessible User Interfaces Using Web Services

2016 ◽  
pp. 866-884
Author(s):  
Georgios Bouloukakis ◽  
Ioannis Basdekis ◽  
Constantine Stephanidis
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
Content Accessibility ◽  
The Web

Web services are an emerging technology that has attracted much attention from both the research and the industry sectors in recent years. The exploitation of Web services as components in Web applications facilitates development and supports application interoperability, regardless of the programming language and platform used. However, existing Web services development standards do not take into account the fact that the provided content and the interactive functionality should be accessible to, and easily operable by, people with disabilities. This chapter presents a platform named myWebAccess, which provides a mechanism for the semi-automated “repair” of Web services' interaction characteristics in order to support the automatic generation of interface elements that conform to the de facto standard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. myWebAccess enhances interaction quality for specific target user groups, including people with visual and motor disabilities, and supports the use of Web services on diverse platforms (e.g., mobile phones equipped with a browser). The Web developers can build their own design templates and the users of myWebAccess can create a personalized environment containing their favourite services. Thus, they can interact with them through interfaces appropriate to their specific individual characteristics.

Networked Knowledge Workers on the Web

2014 ◽  
pp. 1843-1863
Author(s):  
Toni Ferro ◽  
Mark Zachry
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Online Services ◽  
Annual Survey ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Office Location ◽  
The Web

With the growing popularity of online services that allow individuals to consume and contribute Web content with social groups of self-selected affiliates, the socio-technical geography of the Web has become increasingly complex. To map some of this space in a productive way for organizations and online researchers, we focus our attention on a particular segment of Web 2.0 services, publicly available online services (PAOSs) used for work purposes. After defining this segment and its relationship to other kinds of online services, we report the results of an annual survey that looks at who is using such PAOSs for work as well as the nature of that work. As our survey results indicate, how often PAOSs are used for work differs depending on the company size and office location of individuals. To frame our findings, we differentiate among the multiple PAOSs that respondents report using by classifying them as different genres of services, which we find provides a productive typology for understanding such services and their roles in organizations.

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