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This research includes the study of Internet use and the social network Facebook in adolescents of Ecuador 2015. We worked with a sample of 30 educational level institutions in 13 cities of Ecuador, were performed 7542 surveys in the population under study were adolescents tenth year of basic education to the third year of high school (14–18 years), considered generationally as Millennials. The results...
During the last years, an increasing portion of face-to-face teaching-learning processes in the academia is being replaced with online synchronous sessions. According to the Media Naturalness Theory [1], the effectiveness of e-learning is affected by differences in naturalness level of the communication media. The present study compared between learning in a face-to-face environment and learning in...
This paper presents a PhD thesis proposal in Informatics Engineering, scheduled for completion in July 2018. This PhD thesis is part of Spatio-Temporal Information Systems, with applicability in technological communication tools and visual representation of knowledge, for Digital Media (newspapers, radio and television). It is intended to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the value of heterogeneous,...
The online media in a context of proximity has experimented in recent years a series of transformations towards new communicative and business models, due to the economic recession and the crisis of the newspapers' traditional model suffered by the media industry. In a global context of crisis in the traditional local media sector, readers express a growing necessity of information about the geographical...
The twelve public local broadcasters from Spain get on the train of innovation to strengthen its mission, create added value from public investment and deliver quality to audiences on a stage convulsing before another technological revolution that has upside down models of production and distribution of audiovisual content via television. This research aims to know the strategies of the twelve corporations...
Online short video has become a very popular form of video nowadays. The video providers involve small ones, like a stand-alone video maker, a UGC studio, or some big video producers. They focus on providing the content, and they are eager to learn whether their videos are popular or not. Most of them hope that some widely accepted third party institution provide the benchmark for the short videos...
Based upon the theoretical perspective from Uses and Gratifications (U&G) theory, this study develops a nomological model to explain how incentivized gamification, hedonic presence, individual needs and platform synergy affect consumer active participation in the phenomena of online shopping carnival on singles' day in China. Data gathered from online shopping consumers in China through a large-scale...
Identity theft has been known for some centuries whereby falsified identity documents were misused as well as offences such as impersonating others were common in the society. However, the advent of technology changed the method used for conducting this crime, whereby through the use of the Internet, personal information is can be stolen and misused by criminals. The crime has its causes originating...
Broadcasting corporations have begun distributing programs via Internet simulcast and video on demand (VOD). Such diversification of content distribution has created various ways for users to view programs, e.g., broadcast on TV, Internet simulcast on smartphones, and VOD on a connected TV. However, at the same time, this diversification of viewing operations creates complexity that can hamper users'...
This paper analyzes the factors technological context that uses Spanish hotels in the e-CRM systems. It is built on the model of Chang, Liao and Hsiao (2005). The data are collected from corporate web and analyzed using Rasch Model (1961). The results indicate that the technological context of e-CRM is based more on the analysis of customer information than in the integration of e-CRM technologies...
The new media became 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 focuses on a literature review about Web Radio and its educative strand. This is an innovator and incipient issue on literature when investigating the potentialities of the radiophonic universe...
This research studies the treatment of news related to health in Ecuador digital platforms. Through a content analysis of news items search was conducted in 2014 and 2015, with a total of 198. They are based on the issues of child malnutrition, tuberculosis and smoking. They are classified using a structured code: results media information content and overall qualification information in the Ecuadorian...
The rise of social media networks (SNS) should be celebrated as signalling era of online campaign after decades of old-style traditional campaign. The first wide use of SNS for mobilising voters was by President Obama during the 2008 United States Presidential election. This paper examined a correlation between Facebook campaign engagements of presidential candidates in the 2015 Tanzania election...
According to the equalization theory, new media levels the electoral playing field for smaller political parties to compete equally. The normalization theory, however, suggests the opposite – the major party continues to dominate the online space, just as it does offline. The question we ask is this: Does the Internet help the opposition parties in Singapore overcome structural disadvantages offline,...
Online media is the most important media for accessing a wide range of information, such as news. Nowadays, there are many news agencies publish digital news via online media. The popularity of the online news makes the increasing volume of available news. This leads to the necessity of automated methods for news analysis, i.e. topics detection. One of The topic detection methods is the K-means algorithm...
Communities across Africa depend on radio for access to information, often as their primary source of news and information. Given its importance, surprisingly little ICT work has focused on improving radio. Contemporary ICTs have the potential to catalyze radical changes in ownership models, facilitate greater linguistic and cultural diversity, increase inclusion, and allow for the types of major...
The Internet encompasses websites, email, social media, and Internet-based television. Given the widespread use of networked computers and mobile devices, it has become possible to monitor the behavior of Internet users by examining their access logs and queries. Based on large-scale web and text mining of Internet media articles and associated user comments, we propose a framework to rapidly monitor...
The author argues that much as ICTs are enablers for democracy, their practices are not always as intended. This paper explores factors that lead to unintended effects and the impact of such unintended effects on democracies. The unintended effects may turn out to be either positive or negative. Online case studies (such as mailing lists, social networks and online newspapers) and document analysis...
We propose a quality assessment framework for crowdsourced media streaming in urban railway networks. We assume that commuters either “tune in” to some TV/radio channel, or submit requests for content they desire to watch or listen to, which eventually forms a playlist of videos/podcasts/tunes. Given that connectivity is challenged by the movement of trains and the disconnection that this movement...
Pupils have always had access to different types of skills but nowadays, pupils are rapidly becoming powerful Internet users. If knowledge is also acquired outside the formal education system, most frequently on the Internet, then pupils will have access to a broad scale of educational locations, digital libraries, digital books, various educational portals, cyber cafes and similar places. In short,...
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