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The rapid development of the Web presents the opportunities to science communication, and by using latest Web2.0 technologies like blogs, we can construct an interactive platform to promote the relationship between scientists and the public. Conversely, this platform brings intractable challenges to all traditional science communication models especially the canonical account model. Many scientists...
This paper presents the concept of a new kind of communication mechanism that we call a communication hyperlink. Using Web mechanisms, communication hyperlinks propose a new communication paradigm by putting back the asymmetry of the Web in the communication world: as a communication end-point, you decide how your correspondent may join you, without giving out any private information, and you provide...
Web forum was a fully developed, cheap and popular medium to support online communication. But most of the Web forums still followed the basic table view interface inherited from the antique Bulletin Board System (BBS). The rigid interface limited context perception by users. To avoid troubles of software developing, many Web service providers choose free package (such as the Discuz!) to deploy their...
In recent financial crisis, U.S. based financial institutions seems to be hurt more seriously than China based ones. Does this mean that China based capital market institutions have made great progress and do better than U.S. based ones? This study investigates investor relations related items on Web sites of listed companies in Shanghai Stock Exchange, and New York Exchange. To compare the IR efforts...
The Web today is as much a social space with a participatory culture spurred by online collaboration technologies, as it is an information source. The possibility that almost anyone can contribute content has made credibility assessment online important and difficult at the same time. Empirical studies claim that online credibility perceptions are based more on heuristics than on systematic processing...
A growing number of established business blogs are now available to shed some light on businesses. They change the rule of marketing and communication media both internal and external and will possibly change their beliefs, behavior, and usages. This study has focused on how to interpret an event through blogs when businesses post new issues or topic through blogs. Therefore, the aim of this paper...
Many blog posts deal with current issues, so much attention has been paid to identifying topic trends in blogs. This paper suggests a new metric of selecting topic words. We empirically tested the accuracy and the performance of the metric with a massive blog corpus. First, we created blog site groups to their indegree influence. Second, we ran the metric with blog posts of each group. The test was...
ldquoSharingrdquo is another new phenomenon in the Cyberworld, which is exposing everying of oneself to the light of the day in the net, including the Chinese people has always been closely-guarded secret of personal privacy. The emergence of Internet sharer has thoroughly subverted the introverted subtle inner of Oriental cultural traditions. Their typical ldquolow contextrdquo behavior shows the...
The purpose of present study was to assess the role of interactive media in teaching learning process at higher education level. The study was descriptive in nature and therefore survey method was selected for the collection of data. To achieve the purpose a questionnaire of 35 questions for 200 students and 10 teachers of Virtual University of Pakistan was constructed. After reviewing the related...
Virtual public sphere, offering a new media to form the virtual public appeal and public opinion, broadens the regulation area between the country and society. From the construction and characteristics of virtual public sphere and on the basis of the description process, I try to construct the path of virtual community effect to public decision-making. On one hand, it will help to discuss the extension...
The purpose of this study is to review the characteristics of Web portal quality from the end-users' perspective and to propose a Web portal quality model. In this study, the quality of web portals consists of three basic components: the information content (e.g., accuracy and applicability), the physical medium (e.g., timeliness and speed), and the service (e.g., reliability and responsiveness of...
The accessibility community is responding to the challenges of Web 2.0 by adopting a more holistic approach to the provision of inclusive e-learning. It is based on the premise that an equivalent learning outcome, rather than a universally accessible single resource, meets the needs of individual learners more appropriately. This research suggests a solution to the creation of learning resources,...
Online consumers visit retail Websites in two venues: 1) Direct access by input of known URL addresses or 2) indirect access by clicking the links from third party Websites. This research is an exploratory investigation on why online consumers access retail Websites with each of the distinctive access manners and how it influences purchase decision-making processes: to purchase or to browse. In detail,...
Recently a number of academic publications have investigated various properties and dynamics of author's contributors on online Web 2.0 communities. The most intensively examined communities have until now been discussion boards and blogs. In this paper we look at, and identify revealing patterns of content publishers on youtube. This is the most popular community based service on the World Wide Web...
ldquoMIT-UPV Exchangerdquo is a Web-based co-operative learning project between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA and the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) in Spain which has been under way since the year 2000. Its aim is to bring together technology students in Valencia (Spain) and their counterparts in Boston (USA) via a jointly developed interactive Web site. This...
The development of blog presents characters of social networks. According to the analyses of networks of friends and visitors in blog communities, the density and centrality are very low. Blog doesnpsilat present apparent trends of centrality. There are many isolated members in blog communities. So currently blog is still merely a platform for Web logging. It hasnpsilat been a media for information...
In this position paper, we propose the idea that emergent and evolutionary aspects of semantics, which are complementary to the problem of semantic detection, are foundational to multimedia computing. We show that media rich social networks reveal certain implicit assumptions in concept learning about semantics, including semantic stability, emergence, and stability of context. We study the problem...
Social media sharing Web sites like Flickr allow users to annotate images with free tags, which greatly facilitate social image search and browsing. However, currently tag-based image search on Flickr does not provide the option of relevance-based ranking, i.e., the search results cannot be ranked according to their relevance levels with respect to the query tag, and this has limited the effectiveness...
Recently, blogs boom with easy publishing tools to lager popularity on the internet. And with broad links, blogs become important information sources. Some enterprises even have chosen blogs as a channel for products/services promotion. Bloggers introduce news and goods to blog visitors and present related information. However, when receiving diversely framed information, people react differently...
Group buying faces difficulty in the US while tuangou, a similar E-business model, is developing fast in China. The authors classify the active tuangou modes and analyze their characteristics and influences on the marketing channel. We find that an active Internet platform is the base of the success of tuangou. In addition, tuangou has a high ability to attract eye balls as well as to share valuable...
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