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The Twenty-First Century has seen the dawn of the Internet as a pervasive medium by which nearly all information flows. However, the permissive environment in which the Internet was founded fostered a community plagued by Internet trolls, individuals who deliberately post inflammatory, off-topic, or offensive material on online message boards to elicit angst, or other emotions, from their targets...
This paper presents results of a survey that explored the challenges low-income mobile users of Dhaka, Bangladesh (N = 131) face in mobile text entry. Results revealed that all users use the Bengali language at some capacity to compose text, yet many (are forced to) write with the Roman alphabet. Both feature phone and smartphone users feel that the existing text entry techniques are difficult to...
Many BitTorrent clients are using these networks as a video-on-demand service, taking advantage of the popularity and the enormity of the collection of media available. However, it is a common sense that transforming the swarms into an on-demand media service causes serious damage to the overall network performance, given that streamer clients modify the method of downloading determined in the protocol...
Sensing of food spoilage and contamination is an active area of research, with many types of contact and noncontact sensors are being developed that can track fresh food quality throughout the distribution process. In this paper, we consider the communication of the sensed product quality along with the box position (in the stack of boxes in the truck or in a warehouse room) to the next level, in...
Specialists of a number of scientific institutes in this article present examples of successful models of modern press services in institutions in the field of science and education in Russia and research their key methods in work.
The actual task of research and development of methods and means for processing data in intellectual information systems forming content with the use of the classification, mathematical and software means and a generalized system architecture. The necessity for development of methods and means of processing data in intelligent information systems forming content by improving system architecture in...
Involvement of youth students into virtual space often leads to replacement of traditional forms of socialization. Young people are increasingly seeking to communicate, play and learn in the Internet space. As a result, new forms of socialization arise, the personality of a new type is being formed. Article represents new classification of the Internet socialization forms of youth.
The development of information and communication technologies (ICT), together with the massive access of people to Internet and online social networks, are changing the communication structure of society. This new social and digital context is changing the way citizens access information. In this paper, we analyze the flow of information emitted by mass media in virtual environments. Specifically,...
With the arrival of the era of “we media”, Community Question Answering(CQA) websites become a special “we media” platforms gradually. In this type of platforms, it has evolved as an interesting problem of discover the most authoritative answer provider in different fields because the number of authoritative answer providers is a key influential factor in a successful CQA system. Recently, there are...
Mass Media have been acknowledged as a mean to shape the way people view the world. It indeed constructs the individual and social world. The evolution of human thinking is always changing as the development of media technology. Human creates communication technology as a tool to overcome the obstacles in communication. However, these tools are eventually shape human perspective to view the world...
This paper presents an analysis of the relationships between individuals' traits and cohesion in the virtual community environment. Individual traits relate to personal qualities of members of the community where this paper attempts to present their influence over community cohesion. Four research variables were identified to represent the traits of the virtual community members. Experience relates...
With the rapid development of new applications and services in vehicular environment, there is an increasing demand for mobile users to access data items. Moreover, Road Side Unit (RSU) has been introduced by researchers to facilitate data dissemination in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs). Therefore, it is necessary to design a data access scheme for vehicle-to-roadside (V2R) communications. However,...
Social media continues to gain enormous popularity. Therefore, it is not surprising that this attracts the interest of researchers to study this cyber-social phenomenon. Previous contributions focused hugely on Online Social Networks (ONS), but this paper uses the ‘Uses & Gratifications’ Theory to explain the member behaviour in the field of Professional Networking Sites (PNS) by considering the...
In this study, we focused on posting frequency and quality of exercise and physical activity content in Facebook. We sought to (1) explore the frequency of exercise and physical activity topics posted on specialized Breast Cancer channels and (2) evaluate the quality of these information. Evaluations of informations quality were performed independently by two sports and exercise experts, with previous...
The robust telecommunications infrastructure developed in Ecuador since 2011 allows greater access to the Internet. In this stage the television stations show interest in exploring digital media and new business models. An example of this is the transit of the television signal open to YouTube. The objectives of this research are to determine the emission trends and consumption on YouTube of the television...
The technological convergence of the mass media is the result of a long adaptation process of their communicative resources to the evolutionary changes of each historical moment. Thus, the new media became (plurally) an extension of the traditional media, allowing to the public access information in a wide range of digital devices. In this sense, our qualitative study with empirical-descriptive nature...
The media convergence has generated a new discourse between the media and its readers. At present, the channels for disseminating the information are linked to external platforms, such as social networks. Newspapers have gradually turned a certain type of content to their social media pages. Because of this, virtual dialogue channels are opened due to the immediacy of the flow of information. In the...
In a society where smartphones and mobile connectivity increasingly act as mediators and enhancers of social ties, we can identify technological solutions that bring new challenges to the user, particularly in the way he interacts and communicates with others. This article, by focusing on mobile apps that promote social and loving ties between strangers (Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, etc.), driven by a...
During the past decade, we have witnessed the pervasive penetration of mobile smart devices such as smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices, which significantly enrich Internet applications and improve user experience. In the foreseeable future, mobile smart devices are predicted to take up over 50% of global devices/connections and surpass 4/5 of mobile data traffic by 2021 [1]. Such mobile smart...
Nowadays, we are entering a new phase: The media capitalism where the market goes beyond new borders through the use of the internet, becoming new factors of economic development for the countries. The media-capitalism is closely linked to the cultural sector and the to the communication technologies. There is one of the biggest platforms for growth in the international markets. In addition, we do...
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