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Initially restricted within schools, the violence among students began in the Internet through social networks, starting cyber bullying expression. This study aims to analyze the influence of worry and involvement of teachers in cyber bullying practices. For this, a survey was conducted among 112 elementary and high school teachers from public and private schools in the city of Blumenau, SC, Brazil...
The research is focused on the management of social networks in television news programs of Ecuador. The methodology is qualitative and quantitative profiles through analysis and surveys regarding the use of social networks news programs presenters and news directors of the Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas and Ecuador TV stations were surveyed; from the low impact of national television presenters social networks...
In order to measure the different values of a great number of knowledge spreading in virtual communities, we build a knowledge diffusion measurement model based on information entropy. The model quantifies the knowledge entropy of different nodes in the spreading process in terms of users' behaviors. Consequently, transmitted knowledge can be sorted by the knowledge entropy, making the measurement...
The decisive political and economic modifications operated at a global level added to the accelerated digitization process in which modern society lives originate the construction of a new ecosystem in which the organized masses have a fundamental role. This process of change invites reflection on the new collaborative trends that emerge within a rebellious society that doesn't find economic support...
Commercial community wireless networks usually rely on wireless donors to give away Internet access while at home in exchange for access while they are mobile. The donors who make up the network get nothing immediate in return for providing Internet access. In this paper, we explore automatic configuration for a model of community networks in which donors mesh with each other and can aggregate Internet...
Gangs utilize social media as a way to maintain threatening virtual presences, to communicate about their activities, and to intimidate others. Such usage has gained the attention of many justice service agencies that wish to create better crime prevention and judicial services. However, these agencies use analysis methods that are labor intensive and only lead to basic, qualitative data interpretations...
Municipalities are the extension of national government, responsible for the implementation of policy and delivering services to local communities. South African legislation requires citizen engagement, however, the country often experiences poor delivery and “participation” takes the form of protests. Over the last decade, ICTs have been used to address inequalities in service delivery by promoting...
Rural areas in South Africa and Zambia face a number of similar issues in the domains of agriculture, connectivity, water, transport, health and education etc., which calls for potentially similar solutions to be directed towards solving these issues. The intention of this research is to investigate the potential contributions of internet of things technologies (IoT) towards poverty reduction in these...
The use of ICTs can support sustainable development within societies. ICTs have been supported by governments, private companies, non-governmental organisations, academic institutions and individuals. However, technological changes have made it difficult for ICT stakeholders and policy makers to develop sustainable ICT solutions within the Southern Africa. A qualitative research approach was used...
Accounting mechanisms based on credit are used in peer-to-peer systems to track the contribution of peers to the community for the purpose of deterring freeriding and rewarding good behavior. Most often, peers earn credit for uploading files, but other activities might be rewarded in the future as well, such as making useful comments or reporting spam. Credit earned can be used for accessing new content,...
This paper describes a qualitative study of user training practices in a medical computing lab. We define training in this circumstance as, “acquisition of information in order to successfully do scientific work”. The medical computing lab is a typical scientific computing environment with a significant overlap of computing and scientific application domain expertise. The study presents a picture...
This paper investigates user provided networks. Such networks have become important research in the field of informatics engineering due to the recent popularity of smart phones. User provided networks are independent from traditional Internet service providers. Communication and information exchange between users occurs opportunistically, i.e., when the smart phones are close enough to exchange information...
In today's competitive marketplace with increasing media clutter, the task of brand building has become more important and challenging than ever. Employing a Brand Community appears to be an effective approach to build and maintain such consumer-brand relationships. Also the advent of the Internet has made it possible to establish spontaneous, non-geographically bound brand communities in cyberspace...
There are several challenges for enabling an Internet that is universally available and accessible to all. These challenges can be overcome by innovations in technology, economics and regulation/policy. Over the last few years the smart data pricing community have proposed several innovative pricing solutions which have the potential for reducing the cost of Internet access. However, it is imperative...
According to the characteristics of information dissemination and user interaction on the internet, a discrete time model, which is based on the node influence, is proposed. In the model, every node has the opinion and the influence which is defined as the weight of network, these nodes will redistribute the weights and update their opinions during the each period. The simulation results show that...
It is increasingly common practice to use remote laboratories as teaching/learning tools, opening a new pedagogical approach and changing the essence, in many cases, of the teaching process (the latest example is MOOC).
In the United States, public technology funding is distributed differently across state lines. This impacts service and access to information particularly as it pertains to critical broadband access. Funding and service trends have changed, especially as it relates to public libraries, with some modifications working to their advantage and some to their detriment. As information is increasingly moving...
This present study has been conceived to study the status of usage of E-Resources available under INDEST-AICTE Consortium by the Library Users of NIT, Silchar. Descriptive Research Method (Case Study of NIT Library Users) was adopted using self designed questionnaire incorporating some modification from the previous study conducted on usage of e-resources available under UGC-INFONET Digital Library...
Botnets continue to threaten the security landscape of computer networks worldwide. This is due in part to the time lag present between discovery of botnet traffic and identification of actionable intelligence derived from the traffic analysis. In this article we present a novel method to fill such a gap by segmenting botnet traffic into communities and identifying the category of each community member...
An online web application called Student-Trade has been developed. It is a state-of-the-art platform for direct consumer-to-consumer trading in the Internet. The platform is targeted for direct consumer-to-consumer trading among university students. The items for trading include books, household items, electronics, housing rental, sports equipment and tutoring services. This paper is on the design...
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