Research, Innovation and Practice: The role of the World Wide Web Introduction

Today’s portals bring together existing technologies in useful, innovative ways, but they don’t scratch the surface of what is possible. The constant build-up of information and resources on the World Wide Web demands a smarter more advanced portal technology that offers dynamic, personalized, customized, and intelligent services. This chapter discusses next-generation portals and the requirement that they come to know their users and understand their individual interests and preferences. It describes a new generation of portals that have a level of autonomy, making informed, logical decisions and performing useful tasks on behalf of their members. The chapter highlights the role of artificial intelligence in framing the next generation of portal technology and in developing their capabilities for learning about their users.

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Marketing in Hypermedia Computer-Mediated Environments: Conceptual Foundations

Journal of Marketing ◽

10.1177/002224299606000304 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 60 (3) ◽

pp. 50-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 194

Author(s):

Donna L. Hoffman ◽

Thomas P. Novak

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Large Scale ◽

World Wide ◽

Structural Model ◽

The Internet ◽

Research Issues ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

The World ◽

Conceptual Foundations

The authors address the role of marketing in hypermedia computer-mediated environments (CMEs). Their approach considers hypermedia CMEs to be large-scale (i.e., national or global) networked environments, of which the World Wide Web on the Internet is the first and current global implementation. They introduce marketers to this revolutionary new medium, propose a structural model of consumer navigation behavior in a CME that incorporates the notion of flow, and examine a series of research issues and marketing implications that follow from the model.

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Using a Course Web Site to Enhance Traditional Lecture Style Courses

Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-878289-60-5.ch019 ◽

2000 ◽

pp. 293-306

Author(s):

Ross A. Malaga

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Student Performance ◽

Web Sites ◽

Web Site ◽

World Wide ◽

Traditional Lecture ◽

The World ◽

Oriented Approach ◽

The Web

This chapter examines the role of the World Wide Web in traditional lecture based courses. It details a student oriented approach to the development and maintenance of course Web sites. An experiment was conducted in order to determine if use of a course Web site improves student performance. The surprising results, that students in certain sections did not use the site at all, are analyzed. It was concluded that using the Web in class and making Web assignments part of student’s graded work may impact use of a course Web site.

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Re-evaluation of the role of the dopamine transporter in dopamine system homeostasis1Published on the World Wide Web on 27 January 1998.1

Brain Research Reviews ◽

10.1016/s0165-0173(97)00063-5 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 26 (2-3) ◽

pp. 148-153 ◽

Cited By ~ 170

Author(s):

Raul R Gainetdinov ◽

Sara R Jones ◽

Fabio Fumagalli ◽

R.Mark Wightman ◽

Marc G Caron

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Dopamine Transporter ◽

World Wide ◽

Dopamine System ◽

The World

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Memorializing on the World Wide Web: Patterns of Grief and Attachment in Adult Daughters of Deceased Mothers

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.2190/wa9e-ak5l-2p2g-1qp1 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 43-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Elizabeth A. Nager ◽

Brian de Vries

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Attachment Style ◽

Web Sites ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

World Wide ◽

Adult Daughters ◽

Secure Attachment ◽

The World ◽

Questionnaire Online

The World Wide Web is emerging as the new site for mourners. Many bereaved persons are creating memorial Web sites for deceased loved ones, providing text-based representations of what they have lost with frequent reference to the nature of their grief. The primary purpose of this study was to measure elements of attachment style and grief as shown by the adult daughters who had placed memorials on the Internet for their deceased mothers. Participants self-selected and were solicited and completed a questionnaire online. In addition, the 24 available Web sites were content coded for textual themes and presentational styles. Fifty-nine memorial authors responded to measures of attachment style, grief, and characteristics of the memorial they created. Results revealed a lower frequency of secure attachment styles than would be expected and higher levels of grief. Prominent among the themes expressed in these memorials were missing the deceased, narratives and letters to the deceased, comments about the deceased watching over the bereft, and other references to the self. Although smaller numbers precluded statistical analyses, several evocative attachment style differences in the use of these themes were suggested. These findings contribute to the understanding of the complex relationship between adult daughters and their deceased mothers and the potential role of attachment in the ways in which such relationships are characterized and memorialized.

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Drug Trafficking

Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5.ch032 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 463-477

Author(s):

Prabhjyot Kaur ◽

Puneet Kumar Kaushal

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Drug Trafficking ◽

World Wide ◽

Deep Web ◽

Future Research ◽

Illegal Drugs ◽

Research Areas ◽

The World ◽

Dark Web

In an increasingly intrusive era, the deep web is considered to be a bastion of privacy, while for others it is one of the most evil places to exist. The deep web is a part of the world wide web that cannot be readily accessed by conventional search engines, and a small part of it forms the dark web. The enshrouded nature and complex methodology required for access have made dark web a platform for carrying out numerous illicit activities, one of them being drug trafficking. This article explores how deep web and dark web operate, the trade of illegal drugs online in so-called cryptomarkets or dark net markets, the foundation and shut-down of Silk Road, the new cryptomarkets that popped up to take its place, the use of ‘the onion router' or TOR browser in this anonymous sale and purchase of illegal drugs, the role of encryption and cryptocurrencies, the existing and suggested tactics of the law enforcement to prevent internet-facilitated drug trafficking, and the future research areas.

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