... of the audience. The web offers another level of interactivity in that the author of a story can open up direct interaction with the reader. Oftentimes, the author of a digital story will invite the audience to share their similar experiences. These experiences will be added on to the original story, thus transforming the original story into another distinct and unique ... story. Digital storytelling creates the possibility for everyone to be a participant in the story-building process (Tosi, 1999). Through such activities online communities, where readers can share and remember the .....

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... countries, yet Internet access is still divided along class, education, age and gender lines (Willis & Tranter, 2002). The disparity in access and use for such groups is known as the "digital divide" and is the consequence of "information poverty" between, for example, the developed and developing world (Meredyth & Thomas, 2002). However, this divide exists also within countries and communities, ... social privilege and exclusion within and between countries. However, the divide is not a sharp line, but increases with and contributes to social and economic disadvantage (Unknown, NOIE). T...

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... television. Many innovations have been developed in the past few years and continue everyday. These new innovations have given people the convenience of more bandwidth. The difference between analog and digital communication is the way information is carried from the source to the receiver. Analog broadcasting the signal is in the form of a continuous wave, whereas ... . The kind of modulation depends on the application and speed of operation for which the modem was designed. The process of receiving the analog signal and converting it back to a digital signal is called demodulation. The...

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... people who can get information and those who cant through the modern communication technologies like internet. Well, the topic of my report is`closing the digital divide` and in this report I have pointed out various steps that have been taken and still needed to be taken for filling this growing ... information gap between the countries. It is believed that the digital divide may lead to wider gap between the societies and countries. So, in order to close this increasing gap a lot of work has been made ... the computers are quite costly, so those who have low income can`t afford to buy ...

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... ethics in the face of another challenge of technology, that is, environmental pollution by industrial technology. Until the industrial revolution, the need for a treatise between mankind and the planet was non existent. Therefore, there are no ethical guidelines concerning the environment. For example, the Ten Commandments contain two kinds of prescriptions: those concerned with human relations to God ... this to mean that humans should be treated no differently from animals, environmental ethicists have more persuasively argued for the moral treatment of animals, plants, mountains, ecos...

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... ethics in the face of another challenge of technology, that is, environmental pollution by industrial technology. Until the industrial revolution, the need for a treatise between mankind and the planet was non existent. Therefore, there are no ethical guidelines concerning the environment. For example, the Ten Commandments contain two kinds of prescriptions: those concerned with human relations to God ... this to mean that humans should be treated no differently from animals, environmental ethicists have more persuasively argued for the moral treatment of animals, plants, mountains, ecos...

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... that entrepenurs will no longer have to invest as much money as before into such things as vertical integration and developing a retail distributor center. As for supply chain reorganization, digital music will be available, eliminating the need to manufacture and distribute records. Inventory levels can also be minimized due to the possibility of storing music data (data storage vs. ... reproduced and distributed • Takes more time to get to customer • Inability to customize music selection within a CD • Quality of CD can be tarnished by physical damage (scratches) Digital Downloa...

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... of assurance in the identity, and each comes at an increasingly higher cost. The assurance is determined by the effort that goes into identifying the person requesting the certificate. Class 1 Digital IDs intended for casual Web browsing providing users with an unambiguous name and e-mail address within Verisign's domain. A Class 1 ID provides assurance to the server that the client is using ... an identity issued by Verisign but with little guarantee about the actual person behind the ID. Class 2 Digital IDs require third party confirmation of name, address, and other personal informat...

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... can be just as protected as other mediums. This is true sometimes, however, to copy a book would take time. Obviously, an information revolution is taking place nowadays. Digital technology started a convergence of every areas related to information, such as media and information technology and telecommunications. It gave the possibility for the globalization of communication, economy and social ... becomes international. In other words, existing regulatory frameworks having been defined for a national, analogue and mono-media environment are now inadequate to deal with the present globa...

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... in various countries, in terms of privatisation of industry, liberalization of trade, global investments in communications infrastructures and in terms of the new media of rapid transfer of technology via digital communication. Te Internet has a significant role to play in areas of information transfer from one place to other in a matter of seconds. IT has changed the way the world communicates ... first appearance in software in the 1970s when Microsoft Corp. found that people were making copies of its BASIC program without paying for it. Software piracy is still a problem. For digital...

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... fortifies our electronic transaction against thieves, there is a cost: The processing overhead of encryption/decryption makes high-volume, low-volume payments prohibitively expensive. Processing time for a reasonably safe digital signature conspires against keeping costs per transaction low. Depending on key length, an average machine can only sign between twenty and fifty messages per second. Decryption is faster. One way ... money. Blind signatures are one answer. Devised by a company named DigiCash, it lets consumers scramble serial numbers. When a consumer makes an E-cash withdrawal,...

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... late 20th Century, mass media could be classified[by whom?]  into eight mass media industries: books, newspapers, magazines, recordings, radio, movies, television and the internet. With the explosion of digital communication technology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the question of what forms of media should be classified as "mass media" has become more prominent. For example, it ... channels (frequencies), for example  BBC One  and  Two. On the other hand, two or more organisations may share a channel and each use it during a fixed part of the day.  Digital radio and  ...

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... and widely accessible. Businesses of all sizes stand to gain through the development of a successful online commerce strategy. The companies with commerce solutions best suited to the demands of the Digital Age will gain the competitive advantage. Some of the benefits are obvious: lower costs, greater reach, and faster response times. But e-commerce doesn't mean simply pushing products at ... tight integration with existing back-end systems such as inventory, billing, and distribution.  Financial and Information Services. Online billing, investment services, home banking, and the dist...

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... and the coming global village are completely missing the growing national diversity of form, content, and expression now developing on the Internet. True, the rapid spread of digital technology is forging powerful economic and social links across nations and regions. But this globalization process, rather than eliminating nationalism, is ironically also giving rise to a new ... era of national economic and political competitions. The Digital Revolution may plow through national boundaries like a tornado, but wherever it touches down it rapidly develops indigenous characteristics and loca...

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... is playing a very important role in everyone's daily life. Like no other medium before, it allows individuals to express their ideas and opinions directly to a world audience. Also, it is digital based, unlike other four mediums, which are all analog. Due to the freedom of the Internet various debates and protests have come to disagree with its open form of communication ... interested in quantum world keep chasing for the smallest partial of the university. This reminds me about the digital technology, include Internet and all other form of digital technologies such as cell phone, CD m...

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... themselves. The Internet provides a new way for people to gather and share information in the form of web pages and other non-tangible digital files that is free of corporate and governmental control. The Internet's free and open exchange environment contradicts many of the modern day business ... not utilize the basic business and economic principle of supply and demand. On the Internet there is only demand (Negativland 7). No supply exists because digital files can be copied and distributed an unlimited amount of times. Because the Internet breaks the most basic economic principle, is ...

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... VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Since its popularity VOIP has been trying to replace the tradition telephone network architecture worldwide. Nearly 10 % of cellphone subscribers are now subscribed to digital telephone service according to an article from 2005 in Japan and South Korea. According to Newsweek article it is expected that Internet telephony could be the "the next big ... the early 2005 different software vendors and telephony operators came up with many softphone application that resembled like a traditional phone but has VOIP capability including microphone and headsets....

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... decision to remain with the slow speed of dial-ups and modems or move up to one of the high-speed products. One such product is the Digital Subscriber Line, better known as DSL. There are several variations of DSL, but we will be focusing on ADSL, G.Lite, and VDSL. DSL ... PC to the phone company, your computer does not have to modulate and demodulate the information as it does when using a modem. This allows digital data to be transmitted from your computer to the phone company, achieving a much wider bandwidth. The signal is separated (modulated) so that both the ... Kbps and an upst...

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... , however, transactions over the internet do not necessarily have to be in writing and certainly will not be signed in the traditional sense. Digital signatures are developing to cover this legal aspect, but they are still in their infancy. Payment Payment is perhaps the most interesting of the ... Electronic transactions do not allow for any of these traditional fail-safes. The most widely used replacement technology is the digital signature. The signatures are not just physical representations of hand-written signatures; rather they are complex strings of numbers and figures which iden...

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... get qualified visitors to access the web site the company must aggressively promote the site. The web site can be promoted through mass-media promotions to drive consumers" online or digital promotion, which is aimed at online users. As a matter of fact, traditional promotional methods work well to promote all web sites. A placement of advertisement with the address of the ... to increase interest among company's target market or simply a web site that serves as information gatekeeper that acts as a gateway to other sites about a particular subject. "The use of digital technology in the...

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Technology Enhancements in Distance Education: The Digital Revolution and Communication Academia in Western culture is seemingly somewhat resistant to change (Jukes and McCain, 2000). An example given by Jukes ... What do people mean when they speak of the "information superhighway?" Signing on refers to the act of connecting to the Internet in this context. Before this digital era, signing on meant to engage by written agreement (www.dictionary.com). The information superhighway is "the name coined by US Vice-president Al Gore in ... classroom. They are implementing use of state-of-the-art v...

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... looking to secure their share of E-commerce. Some of these companies have "brick and mortar" establishments and some only exist in the digital world. In either case, their marketing efforts will most likely determine the success of their Internet site. The marketing effort or strategy for ... company that for the past 70+ years has built its business through its "brick and mortar" sites. In 1995, Grainger moved into the digital world and established grainger.com. In 1996 Grainger began taking orders online and fully immersed itself in e-commerce. Still, it was not until 1998 ... that the...

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... - number in thousands (Kerckhove 1995. Sv "Parallel Gallery"). Art no longer encompasses 'traditional high art aspects', but has steered towards a more technological basis, which include holographic art, biotechnologies, digital imaging and Virtual Reality, to name but a few. An example of art work dealing with the Virtual Reality environment would be Margaret Tan's Virtual Reality : Tan explores the ethical implications ... as we know it (in the traditional sense) might become encompassed as 'craft' and disappear in the light of global technological innovation (Jayemanne 2003. Sv "Ezine...

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... and a real social interaction. In Alan Greenblatt's "Impact of the Internet on Thinking: Is the Web Changing the Way We Think? " an UCLA psychiatrist suggests that: "'We have a generation of digital natives with very strong techno-skills and very strong neuro pathways for multitasking and experiencing partial continuous attention and other wonderful adaptive skills, [b]ut they're not developing the face ... and think is because of the Internets social structure. In Shirky's "Does the Internet Make You Smarter? " says: "The case for digitally-driven stupidity assumes we'll fail to integr...

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... more involved than most of today's society can fathom. There is a long historical line that actually begins with the inception of the computer in conjunction with the establishment of the digital protocol. To stay focused with the intent of this paper, it will jump ahead in time and look at the inception of major aspects of how computer sciences (specifically the ... can lead to issues for the nation in terms of money and time spent to fight the crime and money and time lost by those who are victimized. "A discussion of digital risks should be on the agenda of board meetings everywhere ...

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