On Writing Well: An E-Mail Dialogue

1996 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Dan Dieterich ◽  
Joel Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Community ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
The Public ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Electronic Mediation

Defining "writing well" is a matter of critical importance. We in ABC announce to the academic community and the public that we help students acquire skills they need to "write well" once they leave our campuses. Yet we have not reached consensus on what it means to write business correspon dence well. This article explores the concept of writing well, based on an exchange of opinions on the BIZCOM listserv on the Internet. It also illus trates the influence of electronic mediation on the communication process. We offer it here with the hope of encouraging further discussion of both topics: writing well and electronic mediation.

From Circuit Switched to IP-Based Networks

2009 ◽  
pp. 212-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Optics ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Internet Protocol ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Data Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Telephone System ◽  
E Mail

The founding of the Bell Telephone System, the public switched telephone network (PSTN), has evolved into a highly successful global telecommunications system. It is designed specifically for voice communications, and provides a high quality of service and ease of use. It is supported by sophisticated operations systems that ensure extremely high dependability and availability. Over the past 100 years, it has been a showcase for communications engineering and led to groundbreaking new technologies (e.g., transistors, fiber optics). Yet it is remarkable that many public carriers see their future in Internet protocol (IP) networks, namely the Internet. Of course, the Internet has also been highly successful, coinciding with the proliferation of personal computers. It has become ubiquitous for data applications such as the World Wide Web, e-mail, and peer-to-peer file sharing. While it is not surprising that the Internet is the future for data services, even voice services are transitioning to voice over Internet protocol (VoIP). This phenomenon bears closer examination, as a prime example explaining the success of the Internet as a universal communications platform. This chapter gives a historical development of the Internet and an overview of technical and nontechnical reasons for the convergence of services.

A Prototype Study on Electronic Rulemaking

2011 ◽  
pp. 2776-2783
Author(s):  
Gloria T. Lau ◽  
Kincho H. Law
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Tobacco Tax ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Relatedness Analysis ◽  
The Government ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
E Mail

The making of government regulations represents an important communication between the government and citizens. During the process of rulemaking, government agencies are required to inform and to invite the public to review the proposed rules. Interested and affected citizens participate by submitting comments accordingly. Electronic rulemaking, or e-rulemaking in short, redefines this process of rule drafting and commenting to effectively involve the public in the making of regulations. The goal of the e-rulemaking initiative is to integrate agency operations and technology investments; for instance, the electronic media, such as the Internet, is used as the means to provide a better environment for the public to comment on proposed rules and regulations. Based on the review of the received public comments, government agencies revise the proposed rules. With the proliferation of the Internet, it becomes a growing problem for government agencies to handle the comments submitted by the public. Large amounts of electronic data (i.e., the public comments) are easily generated, and they need to be reviewed and analyzed along with the drafted rules. As such, part of e-rulemaking involves a non-trivial task of sorting through a massive volume of electronically submitted textual comments. For example, the Federal Register (2003) documented a recent case where the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) received over 14,000 comments in seven months, majority of which are e-mails, on a flavored malt beverages proposal. The call for public comments by the TTB included the following statement: All comments posted on our Web site will show the name of the commenter but will not show street addresses, telephone numbers, or e-mail addresses. (2003, p. 67388) However, due to the “unusually large number of comments received,” the Bureau announced later that it is difficult to remove all street addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses “in a timely manner” (2003, p. 67388). Instead, concerned individuals are asked to submit a request for removal of address information as opposed to the original statement posted in the call for comments. The example shows that an effortless electronic comment submission process has turned into a huge data processing problem for government agencies. Fortunately, the advance in information and communication technology (ICT) can help alleviate some of the barriers in e-rulemaking. This article will discuss a prototype of a comment analysis system, which classifies public comments according to related provisions in the drafted regulations. The automated relatedness analysis system can potentially save rule makers significant amount of time in reviewing public comments in regard to different provisions in the drafted regulations.

scholarly journals E-Learning Application as a Islamic Mentoring on Learning System of Informatics Engineering Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Wahyu Setiawan ◽  
Taufiq Qurrohman ◽  
Fachrul Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mailing Lists ◽  
Information Engineering ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
E Learning ◽  
E Mail

Information technology is developing very fast and is increasingly strengthened by the existence of the internet that has spread throughout the world. With the internet, the flow of information is increasingly spinning to the public and information technology applications have begun to emerge. These applications make it easy for people who use them, including e-mail, video conferences, mailing lists, chat, e-learning, and others. This paper implements an e-learning system as an Islamic mentoring in the Department of Information Engineering. The e-learning system has the potential to make the mentoring process more effective, because the interaction are wider open. Mentees can communicate with their mentors anytime via the internet. Through e-learning, mentees can continue learning even if they are not physically present at weekly mentoring meetings. Mentoring activities become very flexible because it can be adjusted to the availability of mentee time. Learning activities occur through mentee interaction with learning resources available in e-learning applications and can be accessed from the internet. This e-learning application can be used as a supporting facility of Islamic religious mentoring using conventional methods where mentoring participants meet weekly with their respective mentors. With e-learning applications on Islamic mentoring, mentees can interact with their mentors wherever and whenever they are. With the prerequisites, they are connected to the internet.

Codes of Ethics in Discussion Forums

2013 ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Cãlin Gurãu
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Discussion Forums ◽  
The World ◽  
Regular Manner ◽  
E Mail

The development of the World Wide Web has created new opportunities for interpersonal interaction. The Internet allows one-to-one (e-mail), one-to-many (Websites, e-mail lists) or many-to-many (online discussion forums) interaction, which represent a unique feature in comparison with traditional communication channels (Armstrong & Hagel, 1996). On the other hand, the Internet has specific characteristics, such as interactivity, transparency, and memory. These characteristics permit the development of online or virtual communities?groups of people with similar interests who communicate on the Web in a regular manner (Armstrong & Hagel, 1996; Goldsborough, 1999a, 1999b; Gordon, 2000). This article attempts to investigate, analyze and present the main patterns of the codes/rules of ethics used in the public discussion forums, otherwise known as Newsgroups, and their influence on the profile and functioning of the community.

scholarly journals Literasi Berita Hoaxs Di Internet Dan Implikasinya Terhadap Ketahanan Pribadi Mahasiswa (Studi Tentang Penggunaan Media Sosial Pada Mahasiswa STT Adisutjipto Yogyakarta)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Abdul Haris Subarjo ◽  
Wita Setianingsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Face ◽  
Personal Resilience ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Use Of The Internet

ABSTRACT  The use of the internet has consequences for ways of thinking and ways of acting in the face of a variety of information presented, a variety of information flows swiftly with various interests. The ease of providing information through social media has both positive and negative impacts. Often information on various social media causes noise, unrest and can divide the public and be hoax news. Various truths that have not been investigated are displayed. Literacy is one of the components highlighted by countries in the world. The level of literacy of a country shows the ability of its citizens to study, study, disseminate information and make decisions and act on that information. STTA is an educational institution which consists of the academic community. Based on this, it is necessary to conduct research that reveals the literacy profile of the academic community, namely STTA students, on the spread of hoax  news in the internet in relation to national resilience. Data are collected by questionnaire and  library research. The results indicated that the condition of  literacy has the implication on personal resilience of students which have a close connection with national resilience.  Students without a good understanding, especially about hoax news can cause destruction in their personal resilience and potentially disturbing the national resilience.ABSTRAK Penggunaan internet membawa konsekuensi pada cara berfikir dan cara bertindak dalam menghadapi beragam informasi yang disajikan, beragam informasi mengalir deras dengan beragam kepentingan. Kemudahan untuk memberikan informasi melalui media sosial memberikan dampak positif dan negatif. Seringkali informasi di berbagai media sosial menimbulkan kegaduhan, keresahan dan dapat memecah belah masyarakat dan merupaka berita hoaks. Beragam kabar yang belum diselidiki kebenarannya terpampang. Literasi merupakan salah satu komponen yang disorot oleh negara-negara di dunia. Tingkat literasi suatu negara menunjukkan kemampuan dari warga negaranya dalam menelaah, mengkaji, menyebarluaskan suatu informasi serta mengambil keputusan dan bertindak berdasarkan informasi tersebut. Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Adisutjipto (STTA) merupakan sebuah lembaga Pendidikan tinggi yang di dalamnya beranggotakan masyarakat akademik. Berdasarkan hal tersebut penelitian ini dilakukan  untuk mengungkap bagaimana profil literasi mahasiswa STTA terhadap penyebaran berita hoaxs di internet dalam kaitannya dengan ketahanan nasional. Metode pengumpulan data dilakukan  dengan kuesioner dan penelusuran literatur. Data tentang literasi informasi dianalisis untuk mengetahui kondisi ketahanan pribadi mahasiswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kondisi  literasi berita hoaxs berimplikasi terhadap ketahanan pribadi mahasiswa yang  terkait erat dengan ketahanan nasional. Mahasiswa tanpa pemahaman yang baik terhadap berita hoaxs dapat merusak ketahanan pribadi mereka dan  berpotensi mengganggu ketahanan nasional.

A Prototype Study on Electronic Rulemaking

2011 ◽  
pp. 1364-1369 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. T. Lau
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Tobacco Tax ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Relatedness Analysis ◽  
The Government ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
E Mail

The making of government regulations represents an important communication between the government and citizens. During the process of rulemaking, government agencies are required to inform and to invite the public to review the proposed rules. Interested and affected citizens participate by submitting comments accordingly. Electronic rulemaking, or e-rulemaking in short, redefines this process of rule drafting and commenting to effectively involve the public in the making of regulations. The goal of the e-rulemaking initiative is to integrate agency operations and technology investments; for instance, the electronic media, such as the Internet, is used as the means to provide a better environment for the public to comment on proposed rules and regulations. Based on the review of the received public comments, government agencies revise the proposed rules. With the proliferation of the Internet, it becomes a growing problem for government agencies to handle the comments submitted by the public. Large amounts of electronic data (i.e., the public comments) are easily generated, and they need to be reviewed and analyzed along with the drafted rules. As such, part of e-rulemaking involves a non-trivial task of sorting through a massive volume of electronically submitted textual comments. For example, the Federal Register (2003) documented a recent case where the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) received over 14,000 comments in seven months, majority of which are e-mails, on a flavored malt beverages proposal. The call for public comments by the TTB included the following statement: All comments posted on our Web site will show the name of the commenter but will not show street addresses, telephone numbers, or e-mail addresses. (2003, p. 67388) However, due to the “unusually large number of comments received,” the Bureau announced later that it is difficult to remove all street addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses “in a timely manner” (2003, p. 67388). Instead, concerned individuals are asked to submit a request for removal of address information as opposed to the original statement posted in the call for comments. The example shows that an effortless electronic comment submission process has turned into a huge data processing problem for government agencies. Fortunately, the advance in information and communication technology (ICT) can help alleviate some of the barriers in e-rulemaking. This article will discuss a prototype of a comment analysis system, which classifies public comments according to related provisions in the drafted regulations. The automated relatedness analysis system can potentially save rule makers significant amount of time in reviewing public comments in regard to different provisions in the drafted regulations.

A hitchhiker’s guide to microscopy and microanalysis using telecommunications, e-mail, and the Internet

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 390-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nestor J. Zaluzec
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
On Line ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Communication Software ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
E Mail

The Information SuperHighway, Email, The Internet, FTP, BBS, Modems, : all buzz words which are becoming more and more routine in our daily life. Confusing terminology? Hopefully it won't be in a few minutes, all you need is to have a handle on a few basic concepts and terms and you will be on-line with the rest of the "telecommunication experts". These terms all refer to some type or aspect of tools associated with a range of computer-based communication software and hardware. They are in fact far less complex than the instruments we use on a day to day basis as microscopist's and microanalyst's. The key is for each of us to know what each is and how to make use of the wealth of information which they can make available to us for the asking. Basically all of these items relate to mechanisms and protocols by which we as scientists can easily exchange information rapidly and efficiently to colleagues in the office down the hall, or half-way around the world using computers and various communications media. The purpose of this tutorial/paper is to outline and demonstrate the basic ideas of some of the major information systems available to all of us today. For the sake of simplicity we will break this presentation down into two distinct (but as we shall see later connected) areas: telecommunications over conventional phone lines, and telecommunications by computer networks. Live tutorial/demonstrations of both procedures will be presented in the Computer Workshop/Software Exchange during the course of the meeting.

Detecting “DeepFakes” in H.264 Video Data Using Compression Ghost Artifacts

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-1-116-7
Author(s):  
Raphael Antonius Frick ◽  
Sascha Zmudzinski ◽  
Martin Steinebach
Keyword(s):  
Image Forensics ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Video Sequences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Video Content ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public

In recent years, the number of forged videos circulating on the Internet has immensely increased. Software and services to create such forgeries have become more and more accessible to the public. In this regard, the risk of malicious use of forged videos has risen. This work proposes an approach based on the Ghost effect knwon from image forensics for detecting forgeries in videos that can replace faces in video sequences or change the mimic of a face. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is able to identify forgery in high-quality encoded video content.

The Internet Trap

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Hindman
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Net Neutrality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
Digital News ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Over Time

The Internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online—and grab all the profits from the attention economy. This book explains how this happened. It sheds light on the stunning rise of the digital giants and the online struggles of nearly everyone else—and reveals what small players can do to survive in a game that is rigged against them. The book shows how seemingly tiny advantages in attracting users can snowball over time. The Internet has not reduced the cost of reaching audiences—it has merely shifted who pays and how. Challenging some of the most enduring myths of digital life, the book explains why the Internet is not the postindustrial technology that has been sold to the public, how it has become mathematically impossible for grad students in a garage to beat Google, and why net neutrality alone is no guarantee of an open Internet. It also explains why the challenges for local digital news outlets and other small players are worse than they appear and demonstrates what it really takes to grow a digital audience and stay alive in today's online economy. The book shows why, even on the Internet, there is still no such thing as a free audience.

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