... program, which filters email and USENET News and includes document visualization features. InfoTicker A web-watching robot with filtering functionality. NewsSieve A USENET News filtering system. iAgent A beta copy of an adaptive web filtering agent. WiseWire Empirical Media's filtering service that delivers webpages, newswire articles, and netnews. BORGES A USENET News filtering system using. RAMA A Unix based USENET news ... information. An information profile is used to find information within channels and other sources. The profiles work well for simple queries such as weather foreca...

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... playing and downloading games and streaming radio and music. Although there was a small difference in the proportion of males or females undertaking research and information-related activities online, there were marked differences in the type of research undertaken or information accessed online. Men were much more likely to access sport, business-related information and news and females were more likely to ... and medical information and celebrity information. Figure 12: Online activities undertaken in the last four weeks, by gender Source: Roy Morgan Single Source, January 2008 "June...

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... . Even if technology does not create radically new ethical problems, as some argue, it surely constitutes a new and important domain for old-fashioned moral struggles to resist temptation and to do the good. The importance of such struggles can hardly be overemphasized, since technological change not only sets up hard problems for ethical reflection, but ethical decisions also influence ... " instruments that analyze data even as it is being created are complemented by "search engines," "knowbots" (i.e., knowledge robots), and "intelligent agents." These virtual users are becoming the sco...

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... with childcare responsibilities and for people with limited physical mobility, telecommuting offers huge opportunities for new ways of workplace participation. Challenger (as cited by USA Today), "This relocation of work is beginning to erode the old distinctions between the public sphere of work and the private sphere of home and household- (Challenger, 2001, p. 16-18). There is no turning back from technology. It is ... new role the teacher will have to play in such an environment. In a CDLE, sometimes teachers will find that their role tends towards the old model of teacher as giver ...

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... community. Since then, it has blossomed into a global communications infrastructure which anyone from a housewife in the U.S. to a 7-year old in Africa uses on a regular basis. In parallel with it, media and culture surrounding the Internet has experienced rmous expansion to the state of ubiquity. With this permeation into our society and the corresponding media coverage, one would expect to find that people ... network was awarded to Merit Network Inc., which ran Michigan's educational network in partnership with IBM and MCI. The old 56kps lines were replaced with T1 connections, which...

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... aimed at the universal homogenisation of ideas, cultures, values and even life styles (Ohiorhenuan 1998: 6) as well as, at the deterritorialisation and villagization of the world. Expanding this argument, (Gordimer 1998), argued, that it is principally concerned with the expansion of trade over the oceans and airspace, beyond traditional alliances which were restricted by old political spheres of influence. Thus, it presupposes ... the "making or remaking- of the world (Diagne and Ossebi. 1996) by creating "a basic change in the way in which major actors think ... equity holding in NAL...

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... and thus allow an individual to keep up whatever persona they may choose. A 15 year old isolated malcontent can enter the internet and interact with people under the guise of an 18 year old prom-king quarterback with a full ride to Notre Dame and no one would be the wiser ... the people involved in it. And in a world where sex is often considered essential in a healthy relationship, it ends up hampering the impact of forming online relationship. But this has less to do with disinhibition, although it may be considered an important cause for hesitancy among people towards forming an ... ...

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... in time being spent in an inefficient manner. As a result, companies are seeking new methods to replace the old inefficient methods. Today, companies are retiring the previous methods of the manual filing system with the new hi-tech techniques of the Internet and available software to streamline their screening and tracking processes for resumes. For example, Cisco Systems is ... 1 Recruitment Costs Per Employee Source: "10 Things You Should Know About Internet Recruiting- http://www.webhire.com/solutions/recruit_web4.asp Figure 1 compares the recruitment costs per employee of various r...

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... bring to the traditional education? What benefits and advantages will be when deploying information technology to the traditional education? What kind of responsibilities to education does Internet have? What challenges will the traditional education and the people involving (educators and educatees, teachers and ... in a whitepaper in 1997 that until 2000, every classroom and library in the United States of America will have access to Internet, every 12-years-old child could access the Internet. As we can see that deploying Internet to education has already ... been noticed and studied ...

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... opened up a zillion possibilities and I wanted to try them all. And I did!" (Meltzer, p 4) Computers have even been turned in to actual art. Darel Eschbach, the executive director of telecommunication services for Arizona State University, held an exhibition entitled, "DNA: Digital Not Analog," in which he displayed art work made from discarded computer parts. He combined hard drives, magnetic ... [my work] snowballed." (Krause, p 1) Although many people feel that digitally created art does not have the same value as traditional art (Plagens, p 1), there is a vast growing market of buye...

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... Frey, Lawrence R., Carl H. Botan and Gary L. Kreps. Investigating Communication: An Introduction to Research Methods. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2000. Howcroft, Debra. "The Hyperbolic Age of Information: An Empirical Study of Internet Usage."" Information, Communication & Society. 2,3(1999): 277-299. Lederman, Linda Costigan. "Assessing Educational Effectiveness: The Focus Group Interview as a Technique for Data Collection."" Communication ... 2001. Pew Internet & American Life Project. 13 December 2001 . Newhagen, John e. and Sheizaf Rafaeli. "Why Communication Researchers Should Study the ...

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... , network computer vendors and government agencies a new interest in its capabilities formed. In the 1980's the National Science Foundation took over responsibility of the Internet and in the 1990's, it was turned over to the private business sector. Evolution In 1962, Paul Baran conducted a study for ... Agency) awarded a contract to BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.) for ARPANET to build IMPs (Interface Message Processors. Four years later, Ray Tomlinson of BBC launched the first e-mail. Also in 1972 ARPA was renamed DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.) To communicate amo...

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... This e-commerce type covers the new fashion for consumer-to-consumer auctions. They are not so much a new marketplace as a new form of entertainment. The US-based eBay Inc, is the world's largest and most popular person-to-person trading community on the Internet. The bidding ... given greater choices and be able to design what they want to buy. Currently some car manufacturer's let you design the specifications of the design of your car. With regards to the Marriott, Internet technology will become standard in hotel rooms. Consumers will be able to individualize their ... If business peo...

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... distance education in Canada has gone through many stages throughout its history. These stages can be broken down into four phases (Daniel, 1996, ¶ 1): 1. Correspondence education through the use of the postal service 2. Open universities via mass media, i.e., television and radio 3. Personal media (Personal computer and VCR) 4. Knowledge media (Computer, Internet and telecommunications). Frontier College and Queen ... Farm Radio Forum was a national educational program created by E.A Corbett. It was a program which involved four principle elements: the local listening and discussion gro...

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... to the individual. As pointed out by Willard Gaylin in his essay, Harvesting the Dead, the technology we have developed has essentially changed the definition of death. Now although a person could be declared dead, he could have willed his usefulness beyond his mortality. Medical Technology has reached a point where organs ... and results with people around the world. Further in the Cold War world, it had even become dangerous for nations to have their entire bundle of secrets stored on one or two computers. Spying and theft were potential problems. Progress was often hindered. Conseque...

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... furniture, jewelry, art and other high-ticket items. Essentially, these credit lines act much the same as the old revolving accounts once issued by retailers. Today, many online retailers also offer partnered cards through the major credit card ... the details and risk to margin accounts (borrowing to buy stocks). 6. Determine whether you are receiving delayed or real-time stock quotes and when your account information was last updated. 7. Review the firm's privacy and Web site security policies and whether your name ... platform infrastructure Leverage common technology for security, ...

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... the development process. This problem itself will result in raising costs and delaying the system's development. The need to have the old and new systems running concurrently could be another problem since this will result in parallel running costs in the early stages. Both ... Structured Systems Analysis Design method (SSADM) uses a life cycle to illustrate the processes and stages involved in the SSADM approach. Some of the major techniques employed include requirements analysis, dataflow modelling and function definition. SSADM confines it to confirming and clarifying requirements, r...

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... into consideration. The Internet is a world market. Who are the most prospective buyers now and in the future? Advisor.com (2001) quotes the e-Business Communication Association's (eBCA) report, on a country by country listing of e-business readiness, published by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The list can be used as an indication to the most promising markets that can ... (2000) recommends to empower employees to make purchases by automated processes within defined parameters. This will save time and money when compared with the conventional manual processes of obtaining quotes, app...

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... Act permits law enforcement agencies to circumvent the Fourth Amendment's requirement of probable cause when conducting wiretaps and searches that have, as "a significant purpose," the gathering of foreign intelligence. Third, the Act allows for the sharing of information between criminal and intelligence operations and thereby opens the door to a resurgence of domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency" (http://www.ccr ... procedures that protect privacy. Specifically: 1. The USA Patriot Act allows the government to use its intelligence gathering power to circumvent the standard...

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... constitutional amendments. My staff and I jumped on the word "legal- and dismissed the rest of what it said. (Chrétien 181) Sterling Lyon, Premier of Manitoba said, "If you do that, you're going to tear the country apart."" Trudeau responded with one of the most captivating quotes in Canadian history: If the country is going to be torn apart because we bring ... back from Britain our own Constitution after 115 years of Confederation, and because we have asked for a Canadian Charter of Rights [and Freedoms], then the country deserves to be torn up."" (Internet ... been seen before in C...

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... made a statement in Broker magazine that online research is an excellent way to learn deeper about the customers if the companies are aimed at successful market research. "In the areas of gathering information, using e-marketing allows companies to track, capture and internally distribute customer information, as well as share information across service and marketing functions." (Broker Magazine, Net Research Allows ... are key to having an effective CRM process and will be the biggest winners when it works." The goal of salespeople is being able to meet and exceed both customer needs a...

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... positions seemed to outnumber all others. Below is a job posting found on Monster.Com for a Database Analyst/Administrator: "Must have a working knowledge of relational database concepts. Have database experience with Sybase or MS Access, Oracle, DB2. Strong SQL skills in both Data Definition (Create) and Data ... What does XML have to do with databases? XML itself is a database only in the most basic definition; a collection of data of various types. One of the main feature of XML is the ability to assemble a single document from many sources such as word processor files, database queri...

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... program, which filters email and USENET News and includes document visualization features. InfoTicker A web-watching robot with filtering functionality. NewsSieve A USENET News filtering system. iAgent A beta copy of an adaptive web filtering agent. WiseWire Empirical Media's filtering service that delivers webpages, newswire articles, and netnews. BORGES A USENET News filtering system using. RAMA A Unix based USENET news ... information. An information profile is used to find information within channels and other sources. The profiles work well for simple queries such as weather foreca...

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... someone's death could get up to life imprisonment due to the Cyber Security Enhancement Act. The Patriot Act also gives the FBI and Department of Justice broad new authority to use wiretaps, electronic eavesdropping, and other information-gathering techniques. Additionally, a new proposal aimed at expanding these powers, which has been dubbed by some as "Patriot II", seeks to collect and ... store information on individuals in central databases and then use data-mining techniques to detect possible terrorist and criminal activity. All three government efforts emphasize the use of techno...

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... the world in a way that would have been unimaginable previously. Internet kiosks, mostly facilitating email with overseas relatives, for example, are springing up in many parts of Africa. The Internet may also facilitate opportunities for economic development in industries such as tourism. The Internet and technologies such as mobile telephony allow developing countries to leapfrog ... to political pressure to innovate and improve their environmental performance. Global businesses are working hard to improve their environmental performance, with greater emphasis upon environmental repor...

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