Adoption of Wi-Fi Technologies and Creation of Virtual Workplaces

2011 ◽  
pp. 395-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Wei
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Virtual Workplace ◽  
Adoption Theory ◽  
New Information ◽  
A Chain

This chapter introduces adoption theory and applies it to examine the use of wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), which has the potential to expand virtual workplaces significantly. Research shows that the use of Wi-Fi to access the Internet is surprisingly low. As understanding users and their needs is a prerequisite for the success of any new information technology, this chapter identifies factors accounting for the low usage of Wi-Fi in organizations and seeks to build a model to increase Wi-Fi usage. Empirical research reported in this chapter shows that motivations of Wi-Fi use, mass media use, and technology cluster have impacted on the awareness of, interest in, and likelihood to use Wi-Fi. More important, a chain-effect process in the adoption of Wi-Fi was presented: the awareness of Wi-Fi, which was influenced mostly by reading newspapers, had a direct effect on interest in Wi-Fi, which directly affected the likelihood to use Wi-Fi. Thus, to increase Wi-Fi usage, the awareness of and interest in this newer Internet technology must be in place. The chapter also discusses future trends in Wi-Fi technology and how increased adoption of Wi-Fi enhances the virtual workplace.

The Search and Purchase Process among E-Travel Customers

2012 ◽  
pp. 514-524
Author(s):  
Maria Lexhagen
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Customer Behavior ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Purchase Process

Tourism is an intangible product that is simultaneously produced and consumed as well as perishable. Therefore, it is highly dependent on the availability of information. Information Technology, such as the Internet, can support customers’ search and purchase processes and act as a source and facilitator to achieve higher efficiency, less risk, and more satisfied tourists. This chapter reviews the emergence and growth of research on tourists’ online information search and purchase, the need for and use of support in this process, as well as the perception of values. Future developments of mobile technology and social media use are discussed as interesting areas of more research since they have implications for customer behavior, marketing, and management.

Developing Trust for Electronic Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 39-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Fink
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

While much attention is currently being devoted to solving technological challenges of the Internet, for example increasing the bandwidth on existing narrowband network platforms to overcome bottlenecks, little attention appears to be given to the nontechnical aspects. This has been a mistake in the past as human resistance to, or incompetence during, the introduction of new Information Technology (IT) often caused Information Systems (IS) to fail. By focusing on a broad range of technical and nontechnical elements early in the adoption of Internet technology, we have the opportunity to avoid the mistakes made in the past. The Internet has given rise to electronic commerce (e-commerce) through the use of the World Wide Web (Web). E-commerce, by its nature, offers enormous possibilities but in an uncontrolled environment. Therefore, for e-commerce to be accepted, trust must be established as soon as interaction with a Web site begins. In the virtual environment of the Web trust has become even more important because the parties are not in physical proximity. There are no handshakes or body language to be observed when closing a deal. Furthermore, jurisdiction is unclear. Developments on a global scale are required that provide assurance that e-commerce can be conducted in a ‘trusting’ manner.

The XML-Based Web Languages and Accounting

2011 ◽  
pp. 42-87
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Deshmukh
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
New Information ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Specialized Hardware ◽  
Hardware Platforms ◽  
The U.S

The Internet spins a vast web of information across the globe. Data and information flow freely — available to anyone for learning, understanding and analysis. Organizations can cooperate across departments, regions and countries. ERP II and ECM herald the era of intra- and inter-business collaboration. Sounds wonderful – what is the problem? The problem is as old as mainframe vs. PC and Windows vs. Macintosh. Data can move freely but are not standardized. Data streams have no universal meanings; consequently, data are not understood by all systems, analyzed easily, translated across different languages and human readable, among other things. Specialized hardware and software is needed for data decoding, and if the required tools are not available, then you are out of luck. This problem is not only confined to the Internet. A great deal of money (by one estimate, almost 20% of the U.S. gross national product) is spent on generating new information, and more than 90% of this information is in documents, not in databases. Businesses in the U.S. produce approximately 100 billion documents per year. This information is stored in various formats across a range of computer systems. These disparate storage formats cause severe problems in accessing, searching and distributing this information. Any solution (a combination of information technology products and services) that manages information across diverse software and hardware platforms must address a few key requirements. First, these solutions should be transparent to users. The technical details should not be handled by users. Second, users should be able to save data and information in the desired format; for example, databases, text files or proprietary formats. Third, a solution must intelligently retrieve data and information. This solution should be knowledgeable regarding meaning of the information itself. Finally, such solution should be capable of providing the desired output — print, screen, Web or CD/DVD format.

scholarly journals Sosialisasi Pemanfaatan Teknologi Informasi Internet Berbasis Media Sosial Sebagai Usaha dan Transaksi

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Yusli Yenni ◽  
Intan Utnasari ◽  
Mega Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Application Service ◽  
Keywords Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Village

Abstract: Information technology era requires speed and processing to obtain information. Users are required to quickly obtain and process information as needed. The use of the internet covers many fields of education but the use of the internet also covers the scope of business and transactions. Development of internet technology is widely used in business and sales transactions. Because the internet can create new entrepreneurs. Internet-based social media is an application service that is widely used as a means for the purpose of publishing a service or product. In the implementation of the service, the pre-test method was used which was given to the mothers of the village of RT 03 RW 01 by giving a questionnaire to measure their understanding of social media. Furthermore, given the delivery of material on understanding social media and the internet. The next method is carried out in practice to implement it. This will provide benefits in understanding social media and the internet for business ventures, both businesses that are established individually or in groups. Because social media can be used as a promotional media, see market developments, provide experiences for consumers and serve as social media for competitors. The results obtained from this service, the community / village mothers have business facilities, namely using the social media Facebook. With this media, the native mothers of the village can promote or sell their products there.. Keywords: internet; social media; transactions  Abstrak: Era teknologi informasi memerlukan kecepatan dan pemrosesan untuk mendapatkan informasi. Pengguna dituntut untuk lebih cepat memperoleh dan mengolah informasi sesuai kebutuhan. Penggunaan internet mencangkup banyak bidang pendidikan tetapi penggunaan internet juga mencangkup lingkup bidang usaha dan transaksi.Perkembagan teknologi internet banyak digunakan dalam bidang usaha dan transaksi penjualan. Kerena internet bisa menciptakan para enterpreneur yang baru. Internet berbasis media sosial merupakan suatu layanan aplikasi yang banyak dimanfaatkan sebagai sarana untuk tujuan mempublikasikan suatu jasa atau produk. Dalam pelaksanaan pengabdian digunakan metode pra test yang diberikan kepada ibu-ibu tiban kampung RT 03 RW 01 dengan memberikan koesioner untuk mengukur pemahaman tentang media social. Selanjutnya diberikan penyampaian materi tentang pemahaman media social dan internet. Metode selanjutnya di lakukan pelaksaan prakterk untuk mengimplemantasikannya.  Hal ini akan memberikan pemanfaatand dalam pemahaman media social dan internet  untuk usaha bisnis, baik usaha yang didirikan secara individual maupun kelompok. Karena media sosial dapat dijadikan suatu media promosi, melihat perkembangan pasar, memberikan pengalaman bagi konsumen dan sebagai media sosial kompetitor. Hasil yang didapat dari pengabdian ini, masyarakat/ibu-ibu tiban kampung mempunyai sarana usaha yaitu menggunakan media sosial facebook. Dengan media tersebut ibu-ibu tiban kampung dapat mempromosikan atau menjual produknya di sana. Kata kunci : media sosia; internet; transaksi

The Adoption of Information Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 17-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Chieochan ◽  
D. Lindley ◽  
T. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Agricultural Cooperatives ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Adoption Theory ◽  
Agriculture Economics ◽  
Thai Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
Institute Of Technology

Agriculture is important to the Thai economy, contributing about 17 percent to the Thai GNP. It accounts for about 34 percent of all exports (Mahidol University, 1998). Important activities include crop cultivation, rearing of livestock, fishery, and forestry. In 1991, about 62 percent of the Thai population, approximately 36 million people, was involved in agriculture (Office of Agriculture Economics, Ministry of Thai Agriculture and Cooperatives, 1992, p. 29). Thai agricultural cooperatives play an important role and a study of them provides a window into Thai agriculture. For some Thai farmers, co-operatives provide access to information from the outside world; for others, they provide information about Thai agriculture. Particular cooperatives provide marketing information on agricultural produce that should improve the income of Thailand’s farmers. In addition, Thai agricultural co-operatives can use e-commerce to improve their trading. A report in The Nation newspaper in 1998 (1998a) supported this view, saying that market information such as product prices, could assist farm planning and protect farmers from merchants’ unfair trading practices. Merchants could also use such information to improve business planning and to evaluate investments. It is further suggested that the Thai government could use information technology to better support the Thai farming community; that information technology could be used by agricultural cooperatives as a tool for communication with farmers; and that the government could be better informed of farmers’ needs, and so provide better and more useful services. In a similar vein, Sirimance (1998) suggests that information technology could reduce the communication gap between rural communities and the cities [The Nation newspaper (1998b)]. Despite the apparent advantages, Thai agriculture, including agricultural cooperatives, have been slow to introduce and exploit e-commerce; this is basis of our research project as described in Chiecochan and Lindley (1999), Chieochan, Lindley and Dunn (2000a & 2000b). In these papers, diffusion and adoption theory was used to classify Thai agricultural cooperatives according to if and when they adopted e-commerce. The main conclusion is that Thai agricultural cooperatives are slow in adopting e-commerce. Chieochan, Lindley and Dunn (2000) show that only 60 percent of Thai agricultural cooperatives use information technology and only 5 percent access the Internet. The Internet in Thailand is used mainly as a communication tool and websites for publishing organizational information , but is rarely used to conduct commercial transactions (King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, Thonburi, 2001). Therefore, understanding factors affecting the use of information technology in Thai agricultural cooperatives is the fundamental to understand the use of e-commerce in Thai agricultural cooperatives and Thai culture. Al-Qirim and Corbitt (2001) support that factors inhibiting and encouraging e-commerce adoption are similar to factors inhibiting and encouraging information technology adoption in Thai agricultural cooperatives. Five keys factors affecting the use of information technology in Thai agricultural cooperatives need to be examined: • Thai agricultural cooperatives • Information Technology and e-commerce • National factors affecting the use of information technology and e-commerce in Thai agricultural cooperatives • Organizational factors affecting the use of information technology and e-commerce in Thai agricultural cooperatives • Implications to Thai government and Thai agricultural cooperatives

IT Use and Social/Media Time Displacement

2012 ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
John P. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Media Use ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
It Use ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
American Time Use Survey ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Time Use Survey

Each new Information Technology (IT) takes time away from other daily activities. Three highly-publicized early studies of the initial impact of Information Technology indicated it was having negative effects on both social life and mass media use. However, a number of national surveys since then – from the Pew Center, the General Social Survey (GSS), the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), and the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) -- have not replicated these results. Indeed, they find support for Internet and other IT use sometimes being associated with increased social life and media use (especially reading). Moreover, this finding continues to hold after education, income, age and other predictors of social life and mass media use are controlled.

scholarly journals Beyond classic mass media and stand-alone technologies: Using media online in the domestic sphere

2020 ◽  
pp. 026732312096683
Author(s):  
Kathrin Friederike Müller
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Relevant Field ◽  
Media Repertoires

This article discusses why households in Germany use the Internet and content distributed online instead of classic broadcasting or a printed paper for customising ideal media repertoires that match with their media-related interests in the domestic sphere. Following the domestication approach, home is understood as a relevant field for research on online-based media use because it is the place where people traditionally negotiate the meaning of media technologies and content against the background of an existing media repertoire. The article refers to empirical findings from qualitative ethnographic research on 16 German households. It was undertaken between 2015 and 2017. In summarising, the empirical research emphasises three distinct reasons why people choose the Internet for domestic media reception over classic mass media: a better integration of media use in everyday life, particular demands and interests in specific content, and the politics of identity and the moral economy of the household.

scholarly journals PERANAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DALAM PENCEGAHAN VIRUS COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Reza Rizki Pratama Suroso ◽  
Hesti Hasyim Hasyim
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Hospitals ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World

This article aims to discuss about the importance of Information Technology in overcoming the Covid-19 virus. Information technology will continue to grow in line with the fast number of internet users. Based on the data obtained, it reaches that there are 175.4 million internet users in Indonesia. Based on the results of qualitative analysis, by direct observation, it can be concluded that the internet has become a medium that provides information to the public about the dangers and prevention efforts of COVID 19. However, the weaknesses of information technology included that the difficulty of filtering correct or wrong information. So, the users must sort and respond to any information from internet technology. The public needs to be aware of the covid-19 virus outbreak which has spread to hundreds of countries in the world, including Indonesia. Therefore, information technology should reach remote villages. With regard to the health aspect, information technology should reach out to the health center units and integrated with urban hospitals.

scholarly journals Enhancing Capability of Tanjung Bumi Batik Sales Bangkalan Madura

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Astria Hindratmo ◽  
Ong Andre Wahyu Riyanto
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Product Price ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Place Promotion ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

Madura Island besides producing salt, it turns out that it is also the producer of the craft written batik. One of the regions that have batik-producing SMEs is in Tanjung Bumi Bangkalan Madura District. In Tanjung Bumi Subdistrict there are very many batik craftsmen with a distinctive bird motif. However, although there are many batik SMEs, there are also many craftsmen who close their businesses due to having several problems in their business. One of the problems is not having a good marketing concept and not being able to utilize information technology through the internet in marketing activities. This can be seen from the sales activities that still rely on shops and also just waiting for suppliers or buyers from outside the city such as from Surabaya. With the competition of batik sales outside the city, such as Surabaya, causing the number of buyers from Surabaya is currently decreasing. The decline finally drastically impacted the decline in sales of Tanjung Bumi written batik. The purpose of this activity is to provide knowledge and insight into designing 4P marketing mix concepts (Product, Price, Place, Promotion) and determining STP (Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning) and making SME partners begin to take advantage of internet technology for online advertising. The method used in this activity is to train to create marketing concepts and train the use of online media and social media to advertise. The result of this activity is that partners have the knowledge of designing marketing concepts and are able to innovate in marketing activities using information technology with the internet on social media

scholarly journals Aplikasi Kriptografi dan Steganografi Menggunakan Metode Least Significant Bit (LSB) dan One Time Pad (OTP)

MATICS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ali Mahmudi ◽  
Sandy Nataly Mantja ◽  
Achmad Rozikin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Least Significant Bit ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Secure Information ◽  
Internet Network

<p style="text-align: justify;"> With the development of technology, especially in the IT field, the more developed also the current exchange of information using internet technology. Security of information transmitted via the Internet network is a must to maintain the confidentiality and originality of the information. Technology to maintain the security of the information used in this paper is a cryptography and steganography. Application cryptography to secure information on the text, then the information is hidden in digital images. So that only users who have a lock / unlock passwords only, can read the message in greeting such information.</p>

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