scholarly journals UNFORESEEN EFFECTS OF THE WWW

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
H. Maurer
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Teaching With Technology ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Personal Assistants ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Information Today ◽  
The Web

The Web has caused a revolution of how we can access information today, how we easily get answers to many problems, and how we learn. However, there are three issues that are often overlooked. First, it is not easy to extrapolate current developments into the future: we will be in for many more surprises than we think. Second, as fast as the Web has developed, other technologies have developed still faster and their impact on society may be just as significant. Third, one must not overlook that the Web also has some inherent dangers that are more and more emerging. With all enthusiasm we have for the Web, we should also be aware of some of the subtle and some of the not so subtle dangers.In this paper, I will address the first two issues in the introduction, and devote the rest of the paper to some of the perceived dangers of the Web. One example is the loss of privacy (due to many organisations collecting detailed profiles on all of us, but also on organisations, economic developments and other issues), some of the loss of privacy also due to an unheard of exhibitionism in social networks. Also, information on the Web is often trusted much too easily, leading to a distorted view of reality. Many of the communication tools lead to a loss of concentration and understanding, the latter enhanced by the dangerous copy-paste syndrome. As Tara Brabazon has stated, "Researching is replaced by searching". Also, it is often overlooked that the convergence of mobile phones with powerful PCs will give us excellent personal assistants, but will also obviate the need to learn many things humans have had to learn for generations. Thus it seems that we have to completely re-think education and e-Learning: While myriads of attempts are made on HOW to improve teaching with technology, the main issues may rather be WHAT and WHEN we teach, since so much (will be or) is available everywhere at our fingertips. Finally, can we really trust technology, or could it fail us at some stage on a gigantic scale?

Akara — Spicy bean fritters and an XML data services platform

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uche Ogbuji
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Xml Data ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Powerful System ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Amazon Ec2 ◽  
Xml Web ◽  
The Web

Akara is an open-source XML/Web mashup platform supporting XML processing in an environment of RESTful data services. It includes “Web triggers”, which build on REST architecture to support orchestration of Web events. This is a powerful system for integrating services and components across the Web in a declarative way, so that perhaps a Web request could access information from a service running on Amazon EC2 to analyze information gathered from social networks, run through a remote spam detector service. Akara is designed from ground up to support such rich interactions, using the latest conventions and standards of the Web 2.0 era. It's also designed for performance, modern processor conventions and architectures, and for ready integration with other tools and components.

Ontology-Based Software Component Aggregation

2010 ◽  
pp. 263-277
Author(s):  
Gilbert Paquette ◽  
Anis Masmoudi
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Software Components ◽  
Object Management Group ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Web Documents ◽  
Management Group ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Digital Components ◽  
The Web

The topic of Component-Based Software Development (CBSD) has become very important in industry and research in the last 10 years (Allen & Frost 1998; Object Management Group, 2003). In e-learning, an increasing number of organizations have recognized the importance of building learning technologies by aggregating existent pedagogical software components. To support training processes, Web portals and digitized resources need to be provided to actors in each process. This can be done by aggregating, in a process workflow, different kinds of resources accessible on the Web: documents, simulations, videos, software tools, as well as persons interacting through communication tools and services. These resources are all represented by digital components that need to be aggregated in a proper manner.

scholarly journals Model Latent Dirichlet Allocation Pada Perilaku Siswa Menggunakan Media Pembelajaran Daring

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Aqila Intan Prakerti ◽  
Avelyna Ferariya Claresta ◽  
Muhammad Rasyid Kafif Ibrahim ◽  
Nur Aini Rakhmawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online School ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

Abstrak: Indonesia saat ini sedang dihebohkan dengan yang namanya sekolah Daring. Dimana yang seharusnya sekolah adalah tempat untuk guru dan siswa mengajarkan ilmu dari pendidikan hingga perilaku secara tatap muka dan sekarang karena keadaan yang tidak bisa dihindari maka harus dilakukannya pembelajaran secara online yaitu dengan alat perantara. Permasalahan diambil dari banyaknya siswa sudah mempunyai alat komunikasi yaitu handphone dan berbagai media sosial yang sudah dikuasai seperti Instagram. Dengan maksud untuk menganalisa siswa khususnya di Indonesia, sikap apa yang diambil ketika siswa menggunakan Instagram ketika sedang berlangsungnya pembelajaran secara daring. Didapatkan hasil ketika melakukan Teknik crawling data untuk mendapatkan teks atau caption dari penggunaan hashtag sekolah daring yaitu 120 post dalam keadaan sudah terseleksi dari yang bukan post dari siswa. Bentuk analisa untuk pengolahan data yang sudah didapat menggunakan model Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) yaitu untuk menemukan topik yang mendominasi dari hashtag yang digunakan dengan penambahan fitur Stopword untuk kata yang tidak diperlukan. Hasil akhir dari analisa tersebut terdapat 4 topik yang dominan dan dimayoritasi oleh siswa yang mendapatkan penugasan dari sekolah seperti pelajaran biologi.   Kata kunci: Instagram, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), Pembelajaran Daring,   Abstract: Indonesia is currently being shocked by the named school Online. Where the school should be a place for teachers and students to teach knowledge from education to face-to-face behavior and now because of circumstances that cannot be avoided,learning must be carried out online, namely with an intermediary tool. The problem is taken from the number of students who already have communication tools, namely mobile phones and various social media that have been mastered such as Instagram. With a view to analyzing students, especially in Indonesia, what attitudes are taken when students use Instagram when learning is taking place online. Obtained results when performing techniques crawling data to get text or captions from the use hashtags, of online school namely 120 posts in a selected state from non- posts student. The form of analysis for processing the data that has been obtained uses the model, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) which is to find the dominant topic of the hashtags used by adding the feature Stopword for unnecessary words. The final result of the analysis, there are 4 topics that are dominant and are majored by students who get assignments from schools such as biology lessons.   Keywords: E-Learning, Instagram, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA).

scholarly journals EventWeb: towards social life networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 371 (1987) ◽  
pp. 20120384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Jain
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Life ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Sensory Information ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Develop Technology ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Web

The Web has changed the way we live, work and socialize. The nodes in the current Web are documents and hence the current World Wide Web is a Document Web. Advances in technology and requirements of emerging applications require formation of a parallel and closely connected Web of events, the EventWeb, in which each node is an event. In this paper, we explore growth of EventWeb as a natural next step in the evolution of the Web with rich multimodal sensory information. Social networks use events extensively and have revolutionized communication among people. Mobile phones, equipped with myriads of sensors and being used by more than 75% of living humans, are bringing the next generation of social networks, not only to connect people with other people, but also to connect people with other people and essential life resources. We call these networks social life networks, and believe that this is the right time to focus efforts to discover and develop technology and infrastructure to design and build these networks and to apply them for solving some essential human problems.

Factors Leading to a Quality E-Learning Experience

2010 ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lewis ◽  
Edward Chen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Early Time ◽  
Course Delivery ◽  
Media Richness ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Class Room ◽  
The Web

The Internet became available to the general public in the mid 1990’s. At that time, a few institutions starting using the net as a vehicle for providing course credit. Since this early time, the number of institutions offering classes and full degrees online has grown exponentially. At one northeastern institution, the growth has been from 4 courses in 1996 to over 500 courses today. At the same time, most institutions now have updated their classrooms with ever more sophisticated technical capabilities, such as access to the Web for presentations, synchronous videos, and clickers for taking class polls. Others use technology as an add-on to the class room creating hybrid, blended, or e-learning experiences. In the late 90’s classes were primarily text based, using either in house developed web pages, and later using self contained course management shells such as WebCT and Blackboard, which required the users to create content, but the linkages and communication tools were self contained. Some authors have developed taxonomies to look at quality [media richness, student interaction, etc.], but not enough has been done to compare online learning and e-learning to traditional classroom based learning. The contribution of this paper will be to report on the findings of previous studies relating to the assessment of online course delivery and the online component of blended learning classes. The results of the research findings should provide significant contributions to the performance improvement of e-learning.

A FRAME WORK FOR WEB INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 574-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Sunitha Abburu ◽  
G. Suresh Babu
Keyword(s):  
Information Extraction ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Documents ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Structured Information ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
The Web

Day by day the volume of information availability in the web is growing significantly. There are several data structures for information available in the web such as structured, semi-structured and unstructured. Majority of information in the web is presented in web pages. The information presented in web pages is semi-structured.  But the information required for a context are scattered in different web documents. It is difficult to analyze the large volumes of semi-structured information presented in the web pages and to make decisions based on the analysis. The current research work proposed a frame work for a system that extracts information from various sources and prepares reports based on the knowledge built from the analysis. This simplifies  data extraction, data consolidation, data analysis and decision making based on the information presented in the web pages.The proposed frame work integrates web crawling, information extraction and data mining technologies for better information analysis that helps in effective decision making.   It enables people and organizations to extract information from various sourses of web and to make an effective analysis on the extracted data for effective decision making.  The proposed frame work is applicable for any application domain. Manufacturing,sales,tourisum,e-learning are various application to menction few.The frame work is implemetnted and tested for the effectiveness of the proposed system and the results are promising.

The Web and social networks

Computer ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 32-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kumar ◽  
P. Ragbavan ◽  
S. Rajagopalan ◽  
A. Tomkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
The Web

scholarly journals Personal cell phones among children: attitudes of parents of primary school pupils

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
D Austys ◽  
A Sprudzanaitė ◽  
R Arlauskas ◽  
R Stukas
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
School Children ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
P Value ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Primary School Pupils

Abstract Background A large number of primary school children have personal smartphones which enable them to communicate with lots of people and use social networks. However, social networking should not be accessible to primary school pupils due to existing age restrictions. Studies show that cell phones can be used to send offensive or sexual content to children or by them. This might have long-term effects on child's mental health and even provoke suicidal thoughts. While parents are able to control many aspects of children's life, we aimed to disclose parental attitudes towards use of mobile phones among children. Methods A total number of 619 parents of primary school children from middle-sized town of Lithuania participated in this study. Parents anonymously expressed their opinion to questions about personal cell phones usage among children. Distribution of participants was assessed according to social and demographic characteristics. Results Most of the respondents (79.8%) indicated that use of mobile phones might be harmful to children's health, 56.0% indicated that their children use social networks and every second child was registered by their parents (49.5%). Minority of the respondents (8.1%) thought that children (including children from other families) receive messages from strangers and communicate with them (2.1%). Similarly, very few of the respondents thought that children receive offensive (15.0%) or sexual (4.8%) content. Younger and lower educated parents registered their children to social networks more frequently (p-value less than 0.05). Lower educated parents more frequently indicated that offensive or sexual content can reach children via smartphones (p-value less than 0.05). Conclusions Majority of parents of primary school children thought that cell phones might be harmful to children's health but most of them did not pay attention to threats such as communication with strangers or transmission of sexual content. Key messages Only minority of parents of primary school children indicated communication with strangers or transmission of sexual content as threats induced by use of smartphones among children. Regardless that lower educated parents indicated awareness of content-related threats to children more frequently they registered their children to social networks more frequently as well.

Suggesting text alternatives for images in social media

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Letícia Seixas Pereira ◽  
João Guerreiro ◽  
André Rodrigues ◽  
André Santos ◽  
João Vicente ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Android Application ◽  
Image Description ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Considerable Part ◽  
The Web

Image description has been a recurrent topic on web accessibility over the years. With the increased use of social networks, this discussion is even more relevant. Social networks are responsible for a considerable part of the images available on the web. In this context, users are not only consuming visual content but also creating it. Due to this shared responsibility of providing accessible content, major platforms must go beyond accessible interfaces. Additional resources must also be available to support users in creating accessible content. Although many of today's services already support accessible media content authoring, current efforts still fail to properly integrate and guide their users through the authoring process. One of the consequences is that many users are still unaware of what an image description is, how to provide it, and why it is necessary. We present SONAAR, a project that aims to improve the accessibility of user-generated content on social networks. Our approach is to support the authoring and consumption of accessible social media content. Our prototypes currently focus on Twitter and Facebook and are available as an Android application and as a Chrome extension.

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