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Category : Internet users
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The UCLA Internet Report, Surveying the Digital Future
Author: Surveying the Digital Future
Author: Surveying the Digital Future
Author: The UCLA Internet Report
Author: Harlan LeboPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"The UCLA Internet Report, titled "Surveying the Digital Future," was designed to create a "baseline profile of behavior and attitudes" about both Internet users and non-users: what users are doing online, media use and trust, consumer behavior, communication patterns, and social and psychological effects. The 2,096 respondents in the study, both Internet users and non-users, will be contacted each year to explore how Internet technology evolves for continuing users, those who remain non-users, and those who move from being non-users to users."
Internet Research Annual
Author: Mia ConsalvoPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820468419
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This collection brings together the most interesting and outstanding papers from the Internet Research Conference held in Toronto in 2003. Taken individually, each paper makes an important contribution to the emerging field of Internet research, but the collection as a whole presents key perspectives on the most significant directions in the field. In particular, the papers discuss how we must now consider the relationship of Internet-based activities to those «offline», rather than concentrating exclusively on the virtual. Papers advance important ideas and present research findings in relation to information theory, the Internet at home, theorizing time and the Internet, online activism, the digital divide, and more. This annual, the second in the series, demonstrates the vibrant and diverse nature of Internet scholarship fostered by the Association of Internet Researchers.
Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society
Author: Ferro, EnricoPublisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1605667005
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
"This book presents a comprehensive, integrative, and global view of what has been called the digital divide"--Provided by publisher.
Gender and Communication at Work
Author: Marilyn J. DavidsonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317130839
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Written by leading researchers from four continents, this book offers a broad and contemporary assessment of the ways in which gender affects workplace communication and how this in turn influences people’s choices, training, opportunities and career development. A range of work situations are considered (including communication within the normal routine, in a crisis or under pressure, and during those occasions important for career development) and examples are sourced from a variety of contexts (including international business, leadership, service work, and computer-mediated communication). Gender and Communication at Work includes a diversity of theoretical perspectives in order to most successfully map the range of communication strategies, identities and roles which impact upon and are influenced by gender at work.
The Empire of Mind
Author: Michael StrangelovePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442659440
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Where many critics see the Internet as an instrument of corporate hegemony, Michael Strangelove sees something else: an alternative space inhabited by communities dedicated to anarchic freedom, culture jamming, alternative journalism, and resistance to authoritarian forms of consumer capitalism and globalization. In The Empire of Mind, "Dr. Strangelove," the scholar Canadian Business referred to as the "acknowledged dean of Internet entrepreneurs" and Wired called "the Canadian guru of Internet advertising," presents the compelling argument that the Internet and new digital communication technology actually undermine the power of capital, producing an alternative symbolic economy. Strangelove contends that the Internet breaks with the capitalist logic of commodification and that, while television produces a passive consumer audience, Internet audiences are more active, creative, and subversive. Writers, activists, and artists on the Internet undermine commercial media and its management of consumer behaviour, a behaviour that is challenged by the Web's tendency toward the disintegration of intellectual property rights. Case studies describe the invention of new meaning given to cultural and consumer icons like Barbie and McDonald's and explore how novel modes of online news production alter the representation of the world as it is produced by the mainstream, corporate press. In the course of exploring new media, The Empire of Mind also makes apparent that digital piracy will not be eliminated. The Internet community effectively converts private property into public, thereby presenting serious obstacles for the management of consumer behaviour and significantly eroding brand value. Much to the dismay of the corporate sector, online communities are disinterested in the ethics of private property. In fact, the entire philosophical framework on which capitalism is based is threatened by these alternative means of cultural production.
Cognitively Informed Intelligent Interfaces: Systems Design and Development
Author: Alkhalifa, Eshaa M.Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1466616296
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Humans interact with the world through perception, reason about what they see with their front part of their brains, and save what they experience in memory. They also, however, have limitations in their sight, hearing, working memory, and reasoning processes. Cognitively Informed Intelligent Interfaces: Systems Design and Development analyzes well-grounded findings and recent insights on human perception and cognitive abilities and how these findings can and should impact the development and design of applications through the use of intelligent interfaces. Many software and systems developers currently address these cognitive issues haphazardly, and this reference will bring together clear and concise information to inform and assist all professionals interested in intelligent interfaces from designers to end users.
Online Communication
Author: Andrew F. WoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135616027
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Online Communication provides an introduction to both the technologies of the Internet Age and their social implications. This innovative and timely textbook brings together current work in communication, political science, philosophy, popular culture, history, economics, and the humanities to present an examination of the theoretical and critical issues in the study of computer-mediated communication. Continuing the model of the best-selling first edition, authors Andrew F. Wood and Matthew J. Smith introduce computer-mediated communication (CMC) as a subject of academic research as well as a lens through which to examine contemporary trends in society. This second edition of Online Communication covers online identity, mediated relationships, virtual communities, electronic commerce, the digital divide, spaces of resistance, and other topics related to CMC. The text also examines how the Internet has affected contemporary culture and presents the critiques being made to those changes. Special features of the text include: *Hyperlinks--presenting greater detail on topics from the chapter *Ethical Ethical Inquiry--posing questions on the nature of human communication and conduct online *Online Communication and the Law--examining the legal ramifications of CMC issues Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers interested in the field of computer-mediated communication, as well as those studying issues of technology and culture, will find Online Communication to be an insightful resource for studying the role of technology and mediated communication in today's society.