... narrative structures. Readers can experience multiple plot lines, parallel versions of a single event, play the parts of different characters, choose the path the story will go down, what a character in a story does or says etc. The numerous different elements of interactive multimedia narrative are described in Timothy Garrand's book writing for multimedia. The computer and its multimedia technology offer ... sense of belonging is established by the amalgamation of personal ideas into a shared story. Web serials and diaries are another form of interactive storytelling. A Web serial is es...

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... 50 million CMC users worldwide (Cronin, 2001) this powerful form of communications has the potential to affect the nature of social life in terms of both interpersonal relationships and the character of community. The existence of computer-linked communities was predicted 45 years ago by J.C.R. Licklider and Robert Taylor, who as research directors for the Department of Defence in the U.S, ... potential lies in its democratising power, enabling a multitude of people to communicate information with each other at speeds and distances formerly only available to corporate broadcasting powe...

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... also hopes to make its name known, increase in-store traffic and generate more sales. Similar objectives are observed during catalog marketing. Well-designed, colorful catalogs are mailed to a select list of customers or available in stores, which in addition generate request for information, stimulate orders, and serve as reminders between orders. Reliable Corp. of Schaumberg, IL, is the oldest ... 's database. Database marketing is a powerful tool used to implement effective marketing strategies, including promotional strategies since discount coupons can be sent by post to all custome...

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... and many directors have since gone on to employ them in the style and story of their films. The Fifth element positioned the traditional and the future together with an opera-singing alien, as did Blade Runner with its Egyptian architecture in a futuristic setting. Both films blurred geographical and cultural boundaries with androids, replicants and multicultural communities intermingled due to circumstance ... ...

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... an electrolysis machine to remove hair. Finally, shampooers specialize in shampooing and conditioning clients' hair in some larger salons. Work Activities Cosmetologists provide lots of beauty services. The following list of occupational tasks is specific to this career: question customers about services, length, and style of haircut desired; drape and pin protective cloth around customers' shoulders; massage scalp ... , schedule work, and keep business records; and update and maintain customer information records, such as hair color or permanent wave solution. People in this career perfo...

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... an electrolysis machine to remove hair. Finally, shampooers specialize in shampooing and conditioning clients' hair in some larger salons. Work Activities Cosmetologists provide lots of beauty services. The following list of occupational tasks is specific to this career: question customers about services, length, and style of haircut desired; drape and pin protective cloth around customers' shoulders; massage scalp ... , schedule work, and keep business records; and update and maintain customer information records, such as hair color or permanent wave solution. People in this career perfo...

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... quite uncontrolled without much uniformity. This somehow has created concerns over Linux's potential to penetrate widely in corporate market. OSS portal such as www.sourceforge.com provide a reference list of established OSS products, while websites such as www.linux.org and www.linuxcentral.com have become the portal for Linux-based projects and resources. Today, the most ... distribution cost Linux Performance Analysis After looking into the components of the change model from above sections, the performance analysis is the result of interaction between those aspects. This list is com...

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... an electrolysis machine to remove hair. Finally, shampooers specialize in shampooing and conditioning clients' hair in some larger salons. Work Activities Cosmetologists provide lots of beauty services. The following list of occupational tasks is specific to this career: question customers about services, length, and style of haircut desired; drape and pin protective cloth around customers' shoulders; massage scalp ... , schedule work, and keep business records; and update and maintain customer information records, such as hair color or permanent wave solution. People in this career perfo...

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... , address, personal pictures, and other personal information. If a child does not mean to share their private information on their public profile with anyone they do not have in their friends list, problems will most likely occur and information they did not want on their public profile will show up on accident and they might not ever know. Children can subject themselves ... . Having parental consent helps to keep the child out of danger in the online world because they can help keep predators away, allowing strangers to become a part of a child's friends list on a media site allows the ...

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... Federal Law, employers are not allowed to monitor employees" personal calls. Employers can also obtain a record of your phone calls through a device called a pen register which allows them to see a list of phone numbers dialed by your extension and the length of each call you make. Another way of monitoring employees is through computer terminals. Your terminal may be the employer ... available products such as WinWhatWhere Investigator can easily look at the URLs location on their employees" terminal and know where they have been. For example, if my manager saw my list of URLs on my te...

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... they do not personally know. According to Figure 1, the main use of Facebook is to keep in touch with friends, even though some people don't know a majority of their friend list on social media sites, which can lead to stalkers. The second reason, of course, is to keep others updated on what they have going on in their life, which at ... ...

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... government to track information because of the wide use of a variety of apps. Cell phones hold more than just entertainment and communication, they hold a person's daily schedule, hobbies, interests, contact list, and much more personal information. Cell phones are carried around everywhere, making people more vulnerable. Because there is this habit of using cell phones daily, the data on the phones ... ...

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... speech on the internet. One way the court did regulate speech on the internet because it was causing harm was in ACLA v. Planned Parenthood, a radical anti-abortion group that published a list of abortion providers with their personal information to protest the Nuremberg Files that called for the providers to be prosecuted for "war crimes". The ACLA had a website up ... ...

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... . It involves repeatedly using certain keywords - registered trademarks, brand names or famous names - in one's Web page. Doing this can make a Web site move to the top of a search engine list, drawing higher traffic to that site - even if the site has nothing to do with the search request (Wordspy.com). In 'Shaping the Web' Introna and Nissenbaum (2000) stated ... ...

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... to a Crystal Radio in the 1920s The sequencing of content in a broadcast is called a  schedule. With all technological endeavours a number of technical terms and slang are developed please see the  list of broadcasting terms  for a glossary of terms used. Television  and  radio  programs are distributed through radio broadcasting over frequency bands that are highly regulated by the  Federal Communications Commission. Such ... ...

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... more and more bold, trying to push the edge of tolerance, giving the censors more of a reason to fight what they saw as the decaying of a civilization. In all actuality, a list of the 40 most sexually suggestive songs, made by music critics/analysts Cooper and Schurck, revealed that as time passed, sexually-driven songs became less and less frequent, with 9 of ... ...

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... the way that Internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses. A domain name is a meaningful and easy-to-remember "handle" for an Internet address. Because maintaining a central list of domain name/IP address correspondences would be impractical, the lists of domain names and IP addresses are distributed throughout the Internet in a hierarchy of authority. There is probably a DNS ... ...

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... ) or as Dr. Ivan Goldberg called it, "Internet Addiction Disorder (AID)". The latest edition (the 4th) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-IV, did not list Internet Addiction Disorder as an actual mental illness therefore according American Psychology Association AID is not considered a disease, but this is only due to the fact that not sufficient research ... ...

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... 225 millions of people can send and receive it and they all represent a network of potentially cooperating individuals belittling anything that even the mightiest corporation or government can assemble. Mailing-list discussion groups and online conferencing allow us to gather together to work on a multitude of projects that are interesting or helpful to us. Chat rooms and mailing lists can connect ... ...

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... any kind of information. The drawback to the positive side of computer is the negative side: computer crime. Computer crime involves a broad variety of criminal offenses, activities, or issues. The list that the FBI National Computer Crime Squad investigates includes: intrusions of the Public Switched Network (telephone company), major computer network intrusions, network integrity violations, privacy violations, industrial espionage, pirated computer ... ...

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... tax information from the Internal Revenue Service, check the local weather, consult a pregnancy planner to determine ovulation dates, conduct election polls, register for a conference, search for old friends, and the list goes on. It is only natural that the Web's functionality, popularity, and ubiquity have made it the seemingly ideal platform for conducting electronic commerce. People can now go online to ... ...

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... e-mail, and searching directories. They make it easy to find any piece of information or resources located on the network. Users can execute a single query that results in an organized list of all matching information across all servers throughout the enterprise and onto the Internet. As recent as two years ago, Intranets didn't exist. Now the market for internal web-servers ... ...

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... excellent precaution, but it helps prevent problems from making front-page news. Building an environment based on ethical principles that employees can understand and implement is a sign of great management. A list of unethical practices related to technology are: Sabotaging people's computer systems, accessing private company files without permission, listening to private cell phone conversations, using office equipment to research for another ... ...

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... help and service to their customers. Businesses often take customer questions and/or service orders online and provide detailed answers within 24 hours. Some anticipate questions in advance and provide a list of frequently asked questions online. The use of the WWW as a customer service tool can take a variety of forms. Netscape, one of the World Wide Web browsers, has no built ... ...

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... the date accurate RECENT information. This constantly updated information is not found in many of the other news sources, another reason why the internet is at the top of the list. The internet is a powerful tool that can build a bridge that connects you to information from all areas of the earth. The internet has many capabilities and one of the most ... ...

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