Evolving Gender Communication Issues in E-Collaboration

2011 ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Cathy L.Z. DuBois
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Gender Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

Much has been written about gender differences in communication. Gender stereotypes propose that men communicate in a direct manner and focus on information; women communicate in an indirect manner and focus on relationships. Tannen (1995) suggests that gender differences in communication contribute to the “glass ceiling.” Further, Eubanks (2000) noted that the Internet and the World Wide Web are actively and aggressively hostile to women. Such discourse fosters gender stereotypes of the past and paints a gloomy picture for women with regard to participation and success in the realm of workplace e-collaboration.

Library Internet Resources: Conducting Performing Arts Research Online

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Susan Brady
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Electronic Access

Over the past decade academic and research libraries throughout the world have taken advantage of the enormous developments in communication technology to improve services to their users. Through the Internet and the World Wide Web researchers now have convenient electronic access to library catalogs, indexes, subject bibliographies, descriptions of manuscript and archival collections, and other resources. This brief overview illustrates how libraries are facilitating performing arts research in new ways.

Intellectual Property and the Internet

2008 ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
Alexandra George
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All

‘Intellectual property’ (or ‘IP’) is an umbrella term that is used as shorthand to describe a variety of diverse doctrines that create legally-enforceable monopolies over the use of or access to ideas, information and knowledge. As the Internet is essentially a structure through which such material can be presented, organised, transmitted and disseminated, IP is a key area of law that is used to regulate activity on the Internet. The pervasive significance of this becomes clear when one considers that much of the hardware that forms the framework of computer networks that comprise the Internet, and almost all of the data carried through these networks and linked via the World Wide Web, are—or have been in the past—subject to regulation by IP laws.

scholarly journals Online and Plugged In?: Public History and Historians in the Digital Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meg Foster
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Public History ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Web

This article examines the complex and powerful relationship between the internet and public history. It explores how public history is being experienced and practiced in a digital world where ‘you’ – both public historians and laypeople – are made powerful through using the world wide web. Web 2.0 is a dynamic terrain that provides both opportunities and challenges to the creation of history. While it may facilitate more open, democratic history making, the internet simultaneously raises questions about gatekeeping, authority and who has the right to speak for the past. Though the web provides new avenues for distributing historical information, how these are used and by whom remain pressing questions. 

Information Technology: Its Potential to Educate for Peace

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hamburg ◽  
Beatrix A. Hamburg
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Way

In this chapter, we are mainly interested in ways that use of the Internet can promote helpful, legitimate, and practical support to teachers, students, and others interested in education for peace, conflict resolution, and violence prevention. The World Wide Web, a powerful global network, has immense capacity to influence people (especially children) that can be compared to the influence of television. Research that has been done on television viewing shows that it can have positive and negative effects on behavior beginning in early childhood. It does not affect everyone in the same way—variables such as age, socioeconomic status, and identification with television characters all play significant roles in how content affects a child. The Internet and other interactive media are similar to television by way of underlying factors (such as observational learning, attitudes, and arousal) that influence behavior. Over the past several decades, some of the most profound changes in the way we live have come from the revolution in information technology (IT). A wide range of technologies has not only made it easier to communicate but also to send and utilize information. These devices have not stayed in the province of institutions or specialists but have found their way into common use. From cell phones and personal digital assistants to computers (just to touch on some of the most common of these technologies), they have changed the way ordinary people interact and behave. Their effects have been profound, as reflected in the speed with which these technologies have evolved and insinuated themselves into everyday life. Perhaps the most important of these technologies is the personal computer (PC). In itself, the rise of the PC was a dramatic event, allowing more people to apply the capabilities of the computer to small business, personal activity, and schoolwork. But in the past decade, other information technologies that utilize the PC, the most important of which are the World Wide Web and electronic mail (e-mail), have appeared and promise further large-scale uses.

Web-Enabled Technologies Assessment and Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour ◽  
Nancy Herman
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Delphi Study ◽  
Delphi Technique ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
The Internet ◽  
User Community ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Issues

During the past two decades, advances in computer technologies combined with telecommunication technologies have lead to the development of the Internet and its most popular application, the World Wide Web. Like many other technologies, the WWW has not been free of problems and challenges. A Delphi technique was utilized to assess a list of issues identified in the existing literature. In addition to this list, the panel of experts who participated in the Delphi study identified other critical issues and eventually ranked them in their order of priority and importance. The critical issue identified in this study provides closer insights into issues affecting the overall utilization and management of Web-enabled technologies and offers many implications and challenges for businesses, governments, and the user community.

Music in the Age of Free Distribution (originally published in January 2002)

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Kasaras
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Developments

This essay is an attempt to present and critically discuss the phenomenon of music piracy on the World Wide Web. The main arguments in this paper will try to approach the phenomenon from two directions. The first one attempts to present the MP3 phenomenon as a part of the challenges that the music industry had to face. It is argued that in the past several technological developments have already challenged the music industry's status quo in similar ways. The second direction, is attempting to situate the MP3 phenomenon in its general technological, economical and political framework. In other words, the MP3 phenomenon should be examined as a part of the cultural transformation that the Internet 'explosion' produces on a global scale.

Stickiness

2002 ◽  
pp. 153-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Supawadee Ingsriswang ◽  
Guisseppi Forgionne
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computer Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Consumers ◽  
Consumer Attention ◽  
Online Access ◽  
The Web

The past few years have borne witness to a revolution in business with acceleration in the use of the World Wide Web to support or, in many cases, supplant traditional modes of marketing and selling products and services. The Internet consumer base is continually growing. According to a report conducted by Computer Industry Almanac, Inc. (www.c-i-a.com, 1999), 490 million people around the world will have online access by the year 2002. With the rapid increase in the number of online consumers, the managers and marketers are moving to exploit this opportunity to reach millions of customers worldwide. Between 1997-1999, Internet hosts grew from 16 million to over 72 million worldwide (www.isc.org, 2000). The explosive growth of websites raises the question to the Web designer and marketer about how to attract consumer attention to their sites and how to differentiate their sites from other sites.

scholarly journals DIGITAL HUMANITIES – HUMANIORAS FREMTID?

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (116) ◽  
pp. 153-171
Author(s):  
Helle Porsdam ◽  
Mia Rendix
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
National Context ◽  
Actual Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

DIGITAL HUMANITIES: THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES | The article deals with a widespread global phenomen within the Humanities, i.e. Digital Humanities. In the wake of the spreadof the Internet with opportunities for sharing knowledge, open access, and the World Wide Web as a democratic agency, the Humanities faculties are in the process of adapting themselves to exploiting digital challenges and potentials. Much has been written on digitalization’s ideological and tech nological aspects and consequences, but researchers from the Humanities first began over the past five to seven years to devise ways in which new Digital Humanities should be formed. Special centers for Digital Humanities already exist at leading American and British universities, and several specific manifests on the digitalization of the Humanities have been written. The authors of this article wish to discuss and problematize the Digital Humanities in both an international and national context, and the consequences of Digital Humanities that we see for the actual role of research and the potential for acknowledgement.

scholarly journals Public Access Technologies in Public Libraries: Effects and Implications

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Carlo Bertot
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access Technology ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Services

<span>Public libraries were early adopters of Internet-based technologies and have provided public access to the Internet and computers since the early 1990s. The landscape of public-access Internet and computing was substantially different in the 1990s as the World Wide Web was only in its initial development. At that time, public libraries essentially experimented with publicaccess Internet and computer services, largely absorbing this service into existing service and resource provision without substantial consideration of the management, facilities, staffing, and other implications of public-access technology (PAT) services and resources. This article explores the implications for public libraries of the provision of PAT and seeks to look further to review issues and practices associated with PAT provision resources. While much research focuses on the amount of public access that </span><span>public libraries provide, little offers a view of the effect of public access on libraries. This article provides insights into some of the costs, issues, and challenges associated with public access and concludes with recommendations that require continued exploration.</span>

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