The Internet: History, Operation and Function

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward G. Crosby ◽  
Marley W. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Internet History ◽  
And Function

Web Design and E-Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 205-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoni Zhang ◽  
Margaret Myers
Keyword(s):  
Web Design ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Internet History ◽  
Technological Acceptance Model ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
At Home

Computers and the Internet are now pervasive and essential parts of our lives: we use them at work and at home to gather information, for entertainment, and, increasingly, to do business. The Internet allows people to chat with others from all over the world, to follow the news from every continent, and conveniently to shop online at home or at the office. This book chapter covers two important and related concepts: Web design and e-commerce. The section on Web design starts with the overall picture of the Internet, history, Web authoring tools, design rules as well as introducing some research findings on Web design. E-commerce is introduced with definitions, technological acceptance model, online payment methods, online marketing and future developments.

“On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog”

2016 ◽  
pp. 349-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil D. Shortland
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Psychological Process ◽  
Source Information ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Online Risk ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Online Behaviour ◽  
And Function

Online behaviour can provide a unique window from which we can glean intent. From an intelligence standpoint it provides an important source of open-source information. However, making inference of intent from online activity is inherently difficult. Yet elsewhere progress is being made in incorporating information online into decisions regarding risk and offender prioritisation. This chapter synthesises lessons learnt from studies of risk assessment of violent extremists, risk assessment online, and the form and function of extremist materials online in order to begin to approach the issue of online risk assessment of violent extremism. In doing so it highlights issues associated with the diversity of online extremist behaviour, the diversity of offline extremist behaviour and the general lack of understanding related to the interaction of online and offline experiences, and how this contributes to the wider psychological process of ‘radicalisation'. Implications for practitioners are discussed.

scholarly journals Exploring the form and function of dissident Irish Republican online discourses

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Bowman-Grieve ◽  
Maura Conway
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Support Function ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Extremism ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Irish Republicanism ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
And Function ◽  
Significant Support

This article seeks to contribute to broadening the focus of research in the area of violent online political extremism by examining the use of the internet by dissident Irish Republicans and their supporters. The argument here is not that the internet substitutes face-to-face contacts amongst Irish Republicans, including violent dissidents, nor that it currently plays a central role in processes of radicalisation into violent dissident groups, but that it has an important support function in terms of providing an ‘always-on’ space for discussion, consumption, and production of Irish Republicanism and thus a potentially educative role in terms of introducing ‘newbies’ to violent dissident Republicanism while also acting as a ‘maintenance’ space for the already committed. This exploratory study considers the importance of these functions in the context of repeated suggestions that the dissidents have no significant support base or constituency as internet activity certainly gives the appearance of some such support.

Marketing strategies for electroacoustics and computer music

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROSEMARY MOUNTAIN
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Electronic Computer ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Function ◽  
Aesthetic Preferences

This article explores possible strategies for appraising electroacoustic and computer music to enhance ‘marketability’. It is proposed that the specific aesthetics, characteristics and function of a work may be more salient features than those of the medium of composition (e.g. computer) to many listeners. It is suggested that the common practice of focusing on chronology, geography and specific schools is becoming less relevant due to a proliferation of home studios, the internet, and an increasing saturation of electronic sounds in new media contexts. On the other hand, aspects of form, mood, timbral palette, rhythmic complexity, etc., may become very useful bases for choosing works for a compilation CD or concert programme. The inadequacies of musicians' discourse for describing such attributes leads to the incorporation of analogies from visual and performing arts as well as a discussion of other possible approaches to ‘labelling’ and the inherent dangers in such a task. In conclusion, it is proposed that the time is ripe for shuffling the categories and regrouping composers' works according to aesthetic preferences, regardless of the percentage of electronic/computer content.

scholarly journals Provocation as a Genre: Rhetorical Definitions of MeToo Discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Eglė Gabrėnaitė ◽  
Monika Triaušytė
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Function ◽  
Internet Medium ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Modern media has led to changes in the scope, intensity and effectiveness of communication. The Internet medium, which offers almost unlimited dialogue and polylogue possibilities, has become an attractive place for provocation to be born and function. The provocative narrative not only inspires these processes, but also becomes as a result of such a genre modification. This article analyzes a provocative discourse, the Lithuanian version of the global movement MeToo, which promotes the publication of cases of sexual harassment: testimonies of women who have been sexually harassed, publications in the media discussing the issue, interviews with discourse participants, another type of comments. The MeToo discourse is characterized by a rhetorical aspect: the concept of provocation as an effective communication strategy is explored; the relationship of the provocative narrative to the genre category is discussed; characteristic rhetorical elements – invention, disposition, elocution – have been distinguished.

Orality, Culture, And Language

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Holes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Culture And Language

This article explores the relationship between linguistic form and function in the varying cultural landscapes of the contemporary Arabic-speaking world, including spontaneous speech, the contemporary electronic media (television, radio, the Internet), cinema, theater, and traditional performed oral literature, which have been revived and “reinvented.” It is shown that the relationship between orality and language in Arabic is complex. The layman’s mental landscape is of a “high,” literary, codified variety of the language strongly identified with a unifying religion (Islam) and a “golden age” of past imperial and literary glories, carrying great cultural prestige; and a “low,” chaotic (often regarded as grammarless) but homely variety associated with domesticity, intimacy, and the daily round. The emotional resonances of the two varieties are and always have been different. Consequently, they have, through the ages, occupied separate functional niches in all linguistically mediated communication, be it speech, writing, song, poetry, cinema, or theater.

Web Design and E-Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 271-285
Author(s):  
Xiaoni Zhang ◽  
Margaret Myers
Keyword(s):  
Web Design ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Internet History ◽  
Technological Acceptance Model ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
At Home

Computers and the Internet are now pervasive and essential parts of our lives: we use them at work and at home to gather information, for entertainment, and, increasingly, to do business. The Internet allows people to chat with others from all over the world, to follow the news from every continent, and conveniently to shop online at home or at the office. This book chapter covers two important and related concepts: Web design and e-commerce. The section on Web design starts with the overall picture of the Internet, history, Web authoring tools, design rules as well as introducing some research findings on Web design. E-commerce is introduced with definitions, technological acceptance model, online payment methods, online marketing and future developments.

Internet History

2012 ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Global Network ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Telecommunication Companies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Universal Network ◽  
American Research ◽  
Internet History ◽  
Share Information

This paper outlines and analyzes milestones in the history of the Internet. As technology advances, it presents new societal and ethical challenges. The early Internet was devised and implemented in American research units, universities, and telecommunication companies that had vision and interest in cutting-edge research. The Internet then entered into the commercial phase (1984-1989). It was facilitated by the upgrading of backbone links, the writing of new software programs, and the growing number of interconnected international networks. The author examines the massive expansion of the Internet into a global network during the 1990s when business and personal computers with different operating systems joined the universal network. The instant and growing success of social networking-sites that enable Netusers to share information, photos, private journals, hobbies, and personal as well as commercial interests with networks of mutual friends and colleagues is discussed.

The politics of naming and ranking new media events in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Shiwen Wu ◽  
Stephanie Na Liu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Events ◽  
Government Propaganda ◽  
Internet History ◽  
Social Management ◽  
Institutional Order

Rankings of new media events function as an important way to define and interpret these events in public space. By analyzing 40 rankings of 413 new media events between 2007 and 2016, we first provide an empirical analysis of the widely discussed decline and substantial shifts of new media events around 2014, namely, the decrease of contentious events and the increase of consensus events. Second, we find that some of the actors construct the rankings based on their long-standing values and philosophies, such as commercial media’s emphasis on progressivism and liberalism, and government propaganda departments’ focus on social management and institutional order. The divergent constructions over the naming and ranking of new media events demonstrate that new media events have become sites of contestation over the dominance of the Internet space and the collective memory of the Internet history in China.

scholarly journals Play with Words——Palindrome: a Method to Make English Vocabulary-learning Interesting

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Peng Yu
Keyword(s):  
Reading Ability ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
English Writing ◽  
English Competence ◽  
Tongue Twister ◽  
And Function

It is commonly believed that one of the unpopular English courses is vocabulary course, because the content is boring, the classroom atmosphere is dull and the students’ enthusiasm is low. Moreover some people think that English vocabulary course is unnecessary and it should only be learned by students themselves. Worse still, some teachers just give up the teaching of vocabulary for they think vocabulary lesson is to recite words and that is the students’ business. But in fact, it is not right, for teacher’s guidance in students’ learning is crucial, and the teaching of vocabulary is important for students’ language competence. English vocabulary learning belongs to the category of basic knowledge, and the basic knowledge of students is a necessary condition and foundation for practical use of English, no matter for oral English competence or English writing and reading ability. It is the responsibility of teachers to think such a question why students have little enthusiasm and weak interest in vocabulary course, and why the classroom atmosphere is dull instead of active and interactive. It is the task of teachers to design a vocabulary course with interesting content and interactive parts to make the lesson vivid and to improve the students’ enthusiasm and interest. Actually, in English vocabulary there are many interesting and meaningful phenomena, such as Spoonerisms, Tongue Twister Fun, oxymoron, Malapropisms, Palindrome, Redundancies, Ambiguities, "Net Lingua" – The Language of the Internet, Etymology: Word Origins, and Pangrams Section, etc., which leave a “space” for language-leaners to find out secret and surprise, and to actively explore and discover something different instead of negatively reciting words. They make the boring vocabulary lesson changed into the interesting and interactive practical course, which is one of the sources of interest for students.The author in this paper intends to give a brief introduction to one of these interesting linguistic phenomena, Palindrome, including definition, origin and function etc., for teachers to use for reference to make their course more vivid and effective.

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