scholarly journals Access to news on line: myths, risks and facts

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. C03
Author(s):  
Lella Mazzoli
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Spreading Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Main Medium ◽  
On Line ◽  
Information Spreading

Although the debates on the Internet (sceptical, enthusiastic and finally more mature ones) in our country started in the mid 90s, it is only over the past few years that the Internet, especially thanks to social networks, has become a daily practice for millions of Italians. Television still is the main medium to spread information, but as it becomes increasingly cross-bred with the Internet (and other media too), the information-spreading process deeply changes. This creates, also in our country, the preconditions for the development of a web public (an active and connected one), founded on the new practices of multitasking and participatory information.

Otolaryngology and the Internet

1996 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Rothschild
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
On Line ◽  
Cultural Entity ◽  
Technical Terms

During the past 25 years, the Internet has grown tremendously. Starting as four academic computers linked by the Department of Defense, it has become a major technical and cultural entity that is accessible to millions of persons outside the realm of government and academia. The field of medicine has been well served by this telecommunications system, in which many applications have been developed to assist in research, clinical medicine, and education. More recently, resources of specific interest to otolaryngologists have been implemented at various academic departments and national organizations. This review is intended to simplify the Internet for otolaryngologists who do not have extensive experience in computers or telecommunication. The Internet is described in basic, minimally technical terms, and specific examples are provided of ways that on-line resources can be used in the practice of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.

Writing about the Past, an Act of Resistance

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-42
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Official Publication ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
On Line ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Historical Accounts

Since taking power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has consistently tried to enforce a monopoly on the writing and interpretation of history. However, since 1998 individual initiatives have increased in the field of memory. Confronting official amnesia, victims of Maoist movements have decided to write their versions of history before it is too late. This chapter presents a typology of these endeavours. Annals of the Yellow Emperor (Yanhuang chunqiu), an official publication, enjoyed some freedom to publish dissenting historical accounts but was suppressed in 2016. With the rise of the internet, unofficial journals appeared that were often dedicated to a specific period: Tie Liu’s Small traces of the Past (Wangshi weihen) published accounts of victims of the Anti-Rightist movement for almost a decade before the editor was arrested; Wu Di’s Remembrance (Jiyi) founded by former Red Guards and rusticated youth circulates on line. The third type is the samizdat: targets of repression during Mao’s reign recount their experience in books that are published at their own expense and circulated privately. Most of these “entrepreneurs of memory” are convinced that restoring historical truth is a pre-requisite to China’s democratization. Since Xi Jinping came to power, they have suffered repression.

scholarly journals The Effect of Social Media on Consumer Behavior: An Application on University Students in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yakup Durmaz ◽  
Elif Uysal Alagoz
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
University Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Screening Model ◽  
E Mail

The main purpose of thisresearch is to show how social media influence the consumption behaviors of university students in Turkey. This research is designed as a "screening model".  Screening models are research approaches that aim to describe the past or present as it exists. It is tried to define an event, individual or object under investigation as it is and, as if it is within its own conditions. No attempt is made to change or influence them in anyway. Social media has provided new opportunities for consumers to socialize online. Consumers have thus made social media a part of their daily lives. The increasing number of social media users worldwide is one of the most important indicators of this. The general status of the Internet allows individuals to use social media from e-mail to Twitter and Facebook, and interact without the need for physical meetings. The purpose of this research is to assess the effect of social media on consumer behaviors of university students, who are themselves consumers and social media users. In conclusion, the aim is to investigate the effect of using social networks on the pre-purchase consumer behavior of university students in social media.  

scholarly journals Tüketimin Değişen Yüzü: Elektronik Ticaret Uygulamaları ve Sosyal Paylaşım Ağlarının Rolü / The Changing Face of Consumption: E-Commerce Applications And The Role of Social Networks

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Büşra Halis
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human History ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Over Time

İnsanlık tarihi kadar eski olan tüketim, zaman içerisinde yaşanan değişim ve dönüşümlerle birlikte yeni bir boyut kazanmıştır. Eskinin, ihtiyacı kadar almak ve çalışmak gibi fenemonlerinin yerini, günümüzde daha çok satın almak için çalışmak, tükettiğinin ölçüsünde var olabilmek ya da olamamak almıştır. Tüketimin soyut anlamda kavramsal içeriğinin farklılaşmasının yanı sıra, tüketim araçları da farklılaşmıştır. Artık, yüz yüze görüşmeler yoluyla yapılan alışverişlerin yerini; fiziki mekândan bağımsız, internet üzerinden e-ticaret yoluyla ve birtakım paylaşım ağları aracılığıyla yapılan alışverişler almıştır. Bu çalışmada da, tüketimin ve tüketimde kullanılan araçların geçmişten bugüne değişen anlamı ve bu değişimi körükleyen sosyal ağ paradigması tartışılmaktadır. The Changing Face of Consumption: E-Commerce Applications And The Role of Social Networks Consumption, which is as old as human history has gained a new dimension with changes and transformations in the course of time. In the past, people bought and worked as they needed, but now, they work to buy more things except necessity and they be or not to be until they consumed. Over time, the conceptual content and tools of the consumption has changed. Shopping, which is done independent of the physical space, via the internet through e-commerce replaced shopping made by face to face. In this work, the changing meaning and tools of consumption from past to present and the paradigm of social networks which encouraging this change is to be held.

Augment Your Business Reality with New Age Web Tools

2011 ◽  
pp. 261-281
Author(s):  
Lukas Ritzel
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
New Age ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
Look Back ◽  
On Line ◽  
To Come

When Berners Lee invented the Internet, he for sure could not have imagined the beast he unleashed. Today, some years later, the Internet is the single most important tool of communication, leisure, and information gathering. With Web 2.0 and social networks becoming more and more mainstream, we must ask the question about what more is about to come. If ever we will look back and define the current moments in 2010 as Web 3.0, it will for sure be the talk of touch screens, 3D technologies, and most of all, the rise of Augmented Reality (AR). This more sensory Internet leads to an entirely new experience of bridging the off-line with the on-line world. It makes the use more human and easier to use because it simulates various aspects of needs and activities we would demand and use even if we were not computer freaks. This chapter talks about AR and its applications and the way it can change our lives and businesses with the support of cyberspace.

Mining Information Spreading Based on Users' Retweet Behavior in Twitter

2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 2866-2870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Ze Xia ◽  
Yan Jia ◽  
Wang Qun Lin ◽  
Hu Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Power Law Distribution ◽  
Spreading Process ◽  
Spreading Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Spread ◽  
Information Spreading

Twitter is one of the largest social networks in the world. People could share contents on it. When we interact with each other, the information spreads. And its users retweet behavior that makes information spread so fast. So there comes an important question: Whats about users retweet behavior? Could we simulate information spreading in twitter by retweeting behavior? We crawl twitter and mine information spreading based on users retweet behavior in it. Through our dateset, we verify the power-law distribution of the retweet-width and retweet-depth. At the same time, we study the correlation between retweet-width and retweet-depth. Finally, we propose an information spreading model to simulate the information spreading process in twitter and get a good result.

Internet Gambling Among Ontario Adults

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anca Ialomiteanu ◽  
Edward M. Adlaf
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Internet Gambling ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Income Differences ◽  
The Past ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Difference

The increased popularity of the Internet among the general population is of particular relevance to the area of Internet gambling. This paper describes the prevalence of Internet gambling among Ontario adults. Data are based on a random telephone survey of 1,294 Ontario adults. Overall, 5.3% of the Ontario adults interviewed in 2000 reported having gambled on the Internet during the past 12 months. Although women were more likely to gamble on-line than males (6.3% vs. 4.3%), the difference was not statistically significant. Only marital status was significantly related to Internet gambling. Those previously married (divorced, widowed) were significantly more likely to report on-line gambling compared to those who were married (10.9% vs. 4.9%). There were no dominant age, regional, educational or income differences.

scholarly journals ON(LINE) TRANSPARENCY AND THE BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Daniel Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Public Sphere ◽  
On Line ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
Digital Strategy

In the past several decades, Black publics have increasingly employed digital technologies to advance Black liberation movements, culture, and joy. This proliferation of Black publics online has prompted many scholars to ask whether the internet as a tool ultimately works to the benefit or detriment of marginal publics. Proponents of internet technology cite the aforementioned growth of these discursive communities online as well as their success in organizing demonstrations and producing independent media. Critics of the internet argue that its construction by powerful institutions forecloses the possibility of it being used to truly challenge those institutions. This essay seeks to contribute to this discussion not by advocating for one side or another but exploring the ways in which these two literatures may be inclusive. It does so by putting the theoretical construct of the Black public in conversation with an oft-discussed digital affordance: transparency. It first outlines the historical relationship between the two, noting both the threats and opportunities that transparency has created for Black publics. It moves on to discuss the forces of the state and the market that built transparency into the infrastructure of the internet. It then synthesizes the histories of Black publics and the internet by discussing how the historical threats and opportunities of transparency are impacting Black publics online. Finally, this paper concludes with some thoughts on the idea that digital technology might simultaneously aid and harm marginal publics, particularly with regard to its implications for digital strategy.

Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: Social Media in 2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Katie Elson Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends

Purpose This paper aims to review the literature on assistive technologies used in libraries and in schools, as portrayed on blogs, wikis and the internet, in the past year to highlight new trends. Design/methodology/approach Reports from blogs, internet sources and databases in the past year on the topic were read dealing with practical examples of assistive technologies in libraries and the education sector. Findings Assistive technologies are used to aid persons with disabilities, to make them more productive. The technologies can be low- or high-tech, depending on use and information available on new improvements and augmentative technologies being used. Originality/value This paper presents an overview of the past year and the current trends in the use of assistive technologies in libraries and schools worldwide.

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