Self-Planning Traveller System

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Chun Siang Khor ◽  
Nasuha Lee Abdullah ◽  
Rosnah Idrus ◽  
Nura Muhammad Baba
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Travel Information ◽  
Itinerary Recommendation ◽  
The Web ◽  
Hotel Accommodation

This study aimed to understand the problems faced by self-planning travellers when they plan for a trip by searching travel information from the Internet and propose a system to facilitate the self-planning travellers to obtain useful travel information. An online survey was conducted via social media to understand the problems, the search criteria and types of content of travel itinerary needed in facilitating the planning. A total of 65 responses were collected. The results showed that there were too many unrelated information on the Web and travellers were unsure of where to start the search. Also, the result revealed that the search criteria needed to generate travel itinerary were travel date, travel duration, travel country and travel budget. Finally, flight schedule, hotel accommodation, sightseeing places, travelling route and things to do were the information required by travellers for their travel itineraries. Based on the results, a travel itinerary recommendation system named eTravelPlanner is proposed. 

Self-Planning Traveller System

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Chun Siang Khor ◽  
Nasuha Lee Abdullah ◽  
Rosnah Idrus ◽  
Nura Muhammad Baba
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Travel Information ◽  
Itinerary Recommendation ◽  
The Web ◽  
Hotel Accommodation

This study aimed to understand the problems faced by self-planning travellers when they plan for a trip by searching travel information from the Internet and propose a system to facilitate the self-planning travellers to obtain useful travel information. An online survey was conducted via social media to understand the problems, the search criteria and types of content of travel itinerary needed in facilitating the planning. A total of 65 responses were collected. The results showed that there were too many unrelated information on the Web and travellers were unsure of where to start the search. Also, the result revealed that the search criteria needed to generate travel itinerary were travel date, travel duration, travel country and travel budget. Finally, flight schedule, hotel accommodation, sightseeing places, travelling route and things to do were the information required by travellers for their travel itineraries. Based on the results, a travel itinerary recommendation system named eTravelPlanner is proposed.

FASHION BLOGGERS AS CELEBRITY EXPERTS IN RUSSIAN-SPOKEN SEGMENT OF SOCIAL MEDIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Zemfira K. Salamova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The World

Social media has contributed to the spread of fashion, style or lifestyle blogging around the world. This study focuses on self-presentation strategies of Russian-speaking fashion bloggers. Its objects are Instagram accounts and YouTube channels of two Russian fashion bloggers: Alexander Rogov and Karina Nigay. The study also observes their appearances as guests in various interview shows on YouTube. Alexander Rogov received his initial fame through his television projects. Karina Nigay achieved popularity online on YouTube and Instagram, therefore she is a “pure” example of Internet celebritiy, whose rise to fame took place on the Internet. The article includes the following objectives 1) to study the self-branding of fashion bloggers on various online platforms; 2) to analyze the construction of fashion bloggers’ expert positions and its role in their personal brands. Turning to fashion blogging allows us to consider how its representatives build their personal brands and establish themselves as experts in the field of fashion and style in Russianlanguage social media.

scholarly journals Cinema and Cyberphobia: Internet Tropes in Film and Television

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Lauren Rosewarne
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Online Gaming ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
The Web

Despite the widespread embrace of the Internet and the second nature way we each turn to Google for information, to social media to see our friends, to netporn and Netflix for recreation, film and television tells a very different story. On screen, a character dating online, gaming online or shopping online, invariably serves as a clue that they’re somewhat troubled: they may be a socially excluded nerd at one end of the spectrum, through to being a paedophile or homicidal maniac seeking prey at the other. On screen, the Internet is frequently presented as a clue, a risk factor and a rationale for a character’s deviance or danger. While the Internet has come to play a significant role in screen narratives, an undercurrent of many depictions – in varying degrees of fervour – is that the Web is complicated, elusive and potentially even hazardous. This paper draws from research conducted for my book Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators: Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes (Rosewarne, 2016). While that volume provided an analysis of the denizens of the Internet through the examination of over 500 film and television examples – profiling screen stereotypes such as netgeeks, neckbeards, and netaddicts – this paper focuses on some of the recurring themes in portrayals of the Internet, shedding light on the how, and perhaps most importantly why, the fear of the technology is so common. This paper presents a series of themes used to frame the Internet as negative on screen including dehumanisation, the Internet as a badlands, the Web as possessing inherent vulnerabilities and the cyberbogeyman.

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Instagram and Influencer Marketing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Evelina Francisco ◽  
Nadira Fardos ◽  
Aakash Bhatt ◽  
Gulhan Bizel
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting stay-at-home orders have disrupted all aspects of life globally, most notably our relationship with the internet and social media platforms. People are online more than ever before, working and attending school from home and socializing with friends and family via video conferencing. Marketers and brands have been forced to adapt to a new normal and, as a result, have shifted their brand communication and marketing mix to digital approaches. Hence, this study aims to examine the shift of influencer marketing on Instagram during this period and the possible future implications. By employing an online survey for exploratory research, individuals answered questions addressing their perceptions about the impact of the pandemic, brands and influencers’ relationship, and the overall changes made in marketing strategy.

Using the Internet to Make Local Music More Available to the South Wales Community

2016 ◽  
pp. 1157-1172
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bishop ◽  
Lisa Mannay
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Creative People ◽  
National Anthem ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Welsh Language ◽  
Economic Landscape ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Web

Wales is the “land of the poets so soothing to me,” according to its national anthem. The political and economic landscape does not on the whole provide for the many creative people that are in Welsh communities. Social media Websites like MySpace and YouTube as well as Websites like MTV.com, eJay, and PeopleSound, whilst providing space for artists to share their works, but do not usually consider the needs of local markets, such as in relation to Welsh language provision through to acknowledgement of Welsh place names and Wales's status as a country. The chapter finds that there are distinct issues in relation to presenting information via the Web- or Tablet-based devises and suggests some of the considerations needed when designing multi-platform environments.

Dancing with Postmodernity

2010 ◽  
pp. 343-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Eijkman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Control Knowledge ◽  
And Control ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
The Web

This chapter addresses a significant theoretical gap in the Web 2.0 (or “Web 2.0+,” as it is referred to by the author) literature by analyzing the educational implications of the “seismic shift in epistemology” (Dede, 2008, p. 80) that is occurring. As already identified in Chapter 2, there needs to be a consistency between our own epistemic assumptions and those embedded in Web 2.0. Hence the underlying premise of this chapter is that the adoption of social media in education implies the assumption of a very different epistemology—a distinctly different way of understanding the nature of knowledge and the process of how we come to know. The argument is that this shift toward a radically altered, “postmodernist,” epistemic architecture of participation will transform the way in which educators and their students create and manage the production, dissemination, and validation of knowledge. In future, the new “postmodern” Web will increasingly privilege what we may usefully think of as a socially focused and performance-oriented approach to knowledge production. The expected subversion and disruption of our traditional or modernist power-knowledge system, as already evident in the Wikipedia phenomenon, will reframe educational practices and promote a new power-knowledge system, made up of new, social ways in which to construct and control knowledge across the Internet. The chapter concludes by advocating strategies for critical engagement with this new epistemic learning space, and posing a number of critical questions to guide ongoing practice.

On the Web, on Reclaiming “Spirituality,” “Authenticity,” and “Revolution”: An Argument for Leadership-With

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 686-707
Author(s):  
Glenn M. Hudak
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Web

It is argued that the Web is transforming schooling in the 21st century, and as such altering the terrain of what leadership “means.” Theorizing our submersion in the Internet, we discover that the Web enhances a leadership-for paradigm, while at the same time it militates against what is defined as a leadership-with paradigm. For the power of the Web is its capacity to transform our desire for meaningful interconnectedness: transforming “spirituality” and “authenticity” into products for the self-help industry, and leadership into something not intended—disembodied leadership. In our postmodern culture, revoultionary leadership can act to counter disembodiment in its demand for an embodied, “incarnate” leadership. With embodied leadership comes our solidarity with one another: our passionate sense of commitment for social justice and where one acts with such intensity as to stretch the boundary we normally consider as being “professional” into being “revolutionary.” As such, revolutionary leadership is moral, spiritual, and authentic in that one is released from one's professional identity.

BUILDING A KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR IMPLEMENTING A WEB-BASED COMPUTERIZED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (05) ◽  
pp. 793-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUAN D. VELÁSQUEZ ◽  
VASILE PALADE
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Web Mining ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Logs ◽  
Mining Tools ◽  
The Web

Understanding the web user browsing behaviour in order to adapt a web site to the needs of a particular user represents a key issue for many commercial companies that do their business over the Internet. This paper presents the implementation of a Knowledge Base (KB) for building web-based computerized recommender systems. The Knowledge Base consists of a Pattern Repository that contains patterns extracted from web logs and web pages, by applying various web mining tools, and a Rule Repository containing rules that describe the use of discovered patterns for building navigation or web site modification recommendations. The paper also focuses on testing the effectiveness of the proposed online and offline recommendations. An ample real-world experiment is carried out on a web site of a bank.

THE INTERNET IN A CIVIL SERVANT`S LIFE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Telizhenko ◽  
◽  
Dmytro Murach ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Space ◽  
The Web

The article is dedicated to the analysis of negative aspects of the use of social media in civil service and the substantiation of the necessity of legal regulation of civil servants’ conduct in the web space. It is mentioned that the Internet virtual space has become another new place of life of a contemporary human and a civil servant as well. Like in physical and social space, a human is able to act, be active, influence the situation and other people while equally depending on their reverse influence. This requires greater responsibility from civil servants for the content of their posts and the information shared by them on social media as well as understanding that contacts established there shall still obey the law and the rules of virtual life. Emphasis is put upon the necessity of civil servants’ considering of the specific nature of social media that can constitute certain dangers. It becomes possible to invade their professional and private life, their personal data; they may be blackmailed, put under political pressure and so forth. Focus is placed on the absence of proper regulation of civil servants’ ethical conduct in the web space by the state. At the same time, the article shows international experience in the matter of regulation of a civil servant’s socialization in the web space. The authors examine foreign legislative acts regulating the particular question of the interaction of a civil servant’s real and virtual life. This leads to the conclusion about the advisability of the introduction of special recommendations or an ethical code which would regulate the rules of conducting civil servants’ web life. It is also emphasized that the implementation of the corresponding rules of British legislation into Ukraine would become a significant step to resolving civil servants’ web problems.

An Early Pioneer of Medical Tourism's Use of the Internet and Social Media

2015 ◽  
pp. 162-172
Author(s):  
Phillip D. Pardo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Medical Advice ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Web ◽  
Internet And Social Media

Medical tourism, as has been mentioned numerous times in other chapters in this book, is not a new concept, but what happened in the early 1990's with the advent of the Internet was truly novel. For most medical physicians the potential of this innovation was quite unexpected and at first difficult to accept. Some however embraced it… this is the story of one doctor practicing in Belgium who saw the potential of the web and instead of bowing to the perceived threat, embraced its full potential from day one. By looking at the effects of the internet on Medical Tourism using a SWOT analysis and following this pioneer from the mid 1990's (remember that 1993 marks the first real use of websites), this chapter tries to map the earliest evolution of the use of the web for the delivery of medicine and medical advice.

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