Emergency management communication on university Web sites: A 7-year study

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Kelly L. Brown, PhD ◽  
Gina Holguin, BS ◽  
Tara Halbrook Scott, BS
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Response Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Threat Levels ◽  
The Web

In the last several years, disasters—both manmade and natural—have taken their toll on college campuses. Extant research shows that college campuses have greatly increased their emergency management efforts. One area in which colleges and universities have made strides is emergency management communication. There has been some research examining emergency management communication across campuses, but there is still much to learn. This research fills a gap in this area by investigating the use of university Web sites to disseminate emergency management information to the university stakeholders. Data were gathered in 2007 and 2014 from the Web sites of public, 4-year universities in Indiana. The results show that universities are using the Internet to communicate emergency management information to their stakeholders. Among the most common categories of information available on the Web sites are links to other agencies, university response information, and threat levels. Implications for future research are discussed.

Creating and using Web corpora

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Thelwall
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Crawler ◽  
Commercial Search Engine ◽  
British National Corpus ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web ◽  
National Corpus

The Web has recently been used as a corpus for linguistic investigations, often with the help of a commercial search engine. We discuss some potential problems with collecting data from commercial search engine and with using the Web as a corpus. We outline an alternative strategy for data collection, using a personal Web crawler. As a case study, the university Web sites of three nations (Australia, New Zealand and the UK) were crawled. The most frequent words were broadly consistent with non-Web written English, but with some academic-related words amongst the top 50 most frequent. It was also evident that the university Web sites contained a significant amount of non-English text, and academic Web English seems to be more future-oriented than British National Corpus written English.

An Academic Student-Centered Portal

2011 ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Carla Falsetti
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
Principal Feature ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
Student Association ◽  
The Web

The Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM) aims to acquire a recognizable “look” of the university to live on the Web. One way to reach this goal is to create a site, “e-Univpm” (Ramazzotti, De Giovanni, L., Battistini, G., & Leo et al., 2005), linked to the institutional university Web portal. The principal feature of this new site is to be a convivial site offering the services online that the students usually look for in everyday life. It is a place where students would meet other students for a personal social growth. It would be a rich environment with spaces for curricula and extra-curricula activities such as concerts, lectures, exhibitions, meetings, sports, and student association activities, opportunities of lodging and trading. It is a place for expressing ideas and emotions, where students can open blog and discussion forum, and have access to Web sites of interest for an active citizenship. For these reasons, the portal “e- Univpm” is named “convivial site.”

Consumers' Optimal Experience on Commercial Web Sites

2011 ◽  
pp. 78-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Wan ◽  
Ning Nan ◽  
Malcolm Smith
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Optimal Experience ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Consumer Experience ◽  
Online Consumer ◽  
Online Experience ◽  
The Web

Though marketers are aware that online marketing strategies are crucial to attract visitors to Web sites and make the Web site sticky (Hoffman et al., 1995; Morr, 1997; Schwartz, 1996; Tchong, 1998), little is known about the factors that can bring out such a compelling online experience. This chapter examines how specific Web atmospheric features such as dynamic navigation design, together with Web users’ surfing goals, can lead to an optimal online experience. In addition, the chapter also examines the consequences of an optimal surfing experience on consumers’ attitudes toward commercial Web sites/brands (promoted on these sites) and purchase intentions. In this chapter, we review related research on online consumer experience, identify two key antecedents of the optimal online experience, report an experiment testing the effects of these antecedents and provide insights for future research.

Toward a purposeful design strategy for visually impaired Web users

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Barpanda ◽  
Jared Reyes ◽  
Rakesh Babu
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Perceived Complexity ◽  
The Web

The central premise of this research is the belief that using the Web non-visually is cognitively burdensome and tedious due to its complex, sight-centered design. There exists a literature gap on visually impaired (VI) users’ perceptions and experiences regarding Web site complexity. This paper reports the findings from a survey of 50 visually impaired individuals regarding perceived complexity and usability of a popular shopping Web site and its less complex version. Results show that significant gains in usability could be achieved by reducing complexity in Web design. A theoretical model of perceived complexity and associated propositions are presented to guide future research on improving the VI user experience of Web sites and Web applications.

Examining the influence of professional emergency management coordinators driving preparedness and resilience on university campuses

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Murphy, PhD, MPH, MBA ◽  
Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Compliance Rate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
The Web

Objective: To characterize the compliance with disaster management recommendations of ensuring a full-time, dedicated professional is responsible for coordinating disaster management programs. This research targets a subset of institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the United States at risk of annual hurricane threats or having experienced an active shooter incident near campus.Design: A comprehensive Web-based assessment was conducted to determine the Web presence of emergency management of 265 IHEs with student enrollment greater than 2,000 in coastal states at risk of annual Atlantic Hurricane landfalls. Results were displayed spatially using ArcGIS. Results: Although the Web sites of 91 percent of IHEs with enrollment greater than 20,000 displayed easily accessible information on a dedicated professional leading emergency management, only 42 percent of the Web sites of those IHEs with enrollment between 10,000 and 20,000 did so. As enrollment declined, the compliance rate declined. Compliance rates for IHEs with different enrollments were as follows: 6,001-9,999, 30 percent; 3,001-6,000, 23 percent; 2,000-3,000, 13 percent.Conclusions: A full-time, dedicated professional coordinating emergency preparedness is a best practice as evidenced by various accrediting bodies, but this practice is not mandated for IHEs. Our results suggest that proximity to significant annual hurricane threats does not influence the adoption of this recommendation. Despite IHEs being core stakeholders in assuring disaster resilience, gaps exist in preparedness practice.

Academic home pages: Reconstruction of the self

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Thoms ◽  
Mike Thelwall
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Home Pages ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

Previous literature within the postmodern movement typically finds the Internet to be a tool for surveillance and restriction. This is particularly identified in the personal homepages of academics, where the university is considered to marginalise staff through the coercive governing of their identity construction. Using a Foucauldian framework in which to analyse twenty academic homepages, this study looks specifically at identity construction on the Internet via the differences of link inclusion between academics whose homepages have been university–constructed and those whose homepages have been self–constructed, both dependent and independent of the university site. A Foucauldian discourse analysis identifies the marginalisation of academics in all conditions, wherein discursive positions were typically those of disempowerment. A typology of homepages and hence identities of academics is proposed based on the Web sites examined, concluding that whether the homepage is constructed by the academic or by the university, the identities of the individual are ultimately lost to the governmentality of the university.

Still wary of the Web? The evolution of state emergency management agency Web sites 2008-2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 377
Author(s):  
David W. Guth, MA
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Emergency Communication ◽  
Management Agency ◽  
The Web

A 2008 content analysis of state emergency management agency Web sites showed that they tended to be internally focused and needed to be more citizen-focused and journalist friendly. The study was replicated in 2017. Because of changes in technology and agency missions, the content richness indicators were expanded. The study shows an increased acceptance of Internet and social communication. However, it also shows that the full potential of social media in emergency communication has not been reached.

scholarly journals CONTENT ANALYSIS OF FACULTY WEB SITES

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
Olivera Iskrenovic-Momcilovic
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Web Information ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The University ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
The Web

The content published on faculty web pages is an important source of information about the work of the faculty, which affects the performance of all student activities. It is therefore important to know what information is relevant to the student, as well as to what extent the content is published on the web site of the faculty in accordance with the needs of the student. Starting from the above, the subject of research of this paper is the content of the web sites of faculties of the University of Novi Sad. The main aim of the research is to determine whether there is and to what extent a certain content is present on the faculty web pages, as well as on the basis of the conducted research to provide suggestions for the improvement of web information in higher education.

scholarly journals The Efficient Use of a List of Trusted Certificate Authorities

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-131
Author(s):  
Essam Alnatsheh
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web ◽  
Better Than

Nowadays, many Certificate Authorities (CAs) that issue certificates may or may not be trusted because not all CAs are reliable and trustworthy. University laboratories and computers of its people (students, lecturer and staff) are thus susceptible to the risk resulting from this mistrust. This study proposes a university owned notary server, which will be managed by the university, to solve the problem using a Certificate Trust List (CTL). Simply put, when students and others use the Web, the notary server checks the certificate to see whether a conflict exists and verifies the signatures and key references in the certificate. If all the information is correct, the notary server sends a response of approval to the client to accept the certificate. Our system enhanced the security in a university by trusting only genuine CAs. Our proposed server is better than regular notary servers because it uses existing infrastructure and online connections, and it does not introduce any overheads or special configurations to the client’s Web browser. Compared with a well known notary server runs over the existing infrastructure, our proposed notary server is 10.8 seconds faster in terms of dealing with untrusted CA and 2.3 seconds faster in terms of dealing with mismatched address of the Web sites.

Framing Political, Personal Expression on the Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 1580-1585
Author(s):  
Matthew W. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Political Act ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web, as a collection of Web sites, Web services, and Web-enabled technologies, is a space of expression and contestation—a social construction of sorts. Additionally, the Web, as a locus of investigation, is gaining attention from scholars in the social sciences, feminist and critical theorists, as well as more recent poststructural reconceptualizations across many disciplines. One unifying interest is precisely the topic of this article: How might we recognize what is considered political and personal in a virtual space? To what sense can we distinguish political and personal expression online? This article frames the diverse perspectives for interrogating political and personal expression on the Web, while offering considerations for why these sorts of projects are at all necessary or useful. The determinacy of virtual, Web-based locations as political and/or personal is a complex endeavor. Does a prochoice posting to an anti-abortion online discussion group constitute a political act? What is potentially meant by “political”? Several discussion forums or news groups contain categories like “politics” or “government and politics” (see Yahoo! Groups for example); and yet, such groups may or may not be perceived as “political”. This perception of “being political” is dependent on certain philosophical tensions about what can be considered political in certain spaces and times. Other Web sites seek to build politics through the Web, via such movements as e-democracy, online deliberation, or public participation geographic information systems (Davies & Novack, forthcoming; Dragicevic & Balram, 2006). However, while building politics is certainly political, surficial analysis of such online-coalition building endeavors may resist or gloss the multiple political implications for constructing a politics. Therefore this entry contains a discussion of politics and “the political”; each as a perspective has certain methodological and empirical contingencies. Namely, how do we study online interactions? What sorts of data might we collect? Furthermore, how are we, as researchers, already implicated in our studies of online interactions? This entry proposes a diversity of approaches in studying interactions within the Web as informed by both the information sciences and the humanities and is organized into four sections: first, a background section which contemplates more traditional debate in political theory made relevant to studies of the Web; a second section which proposes (post)modernist and poststructuralist framings for researching personal and political expression; third, a section offering future research questions in this research area; and finally, conclusions that reflect upon research on the Web.

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