... multiple within hypertext and hypermedia and can be seen in the different aspects of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling can be described as telling a story using a multiple of different digital mediums, text, audio, video etc. In effect to make short multimedia works. "Digital Storytellers are artists and writers that are passionate about combining the ancient arts of storytelling with the new and ... fiction and nonfiction (Mullen, 1999)." Many people recently have begun to explore the narrative potential of online role playing (Mullen, 1999). Examples of role-playing environmen...

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... of most transnational in banking industries. Such FDI is usually seen as a response to the costs of serving a foreign market at a distance. Cited from (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ces/text.html) Foreign banks in Nigeria have invested into the country's banking sector because of the market Erastus Akingbola , managing director and chief executive officer, said that " Nigeria financial market is ... FIVE FORCES The banking industry is comprised of all banks operating in the country both foreign and local banks and other financial institution like the finance houses, insurance companies, bureau...

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... At the moment, the Internet, telephone and other communications systems must handle an increasing number of users and enormous amounts of information. This information can be in the form of text, audio, graphics and even real-time video. Due to this rapid growth in users and demand for information bandwidth, also called data carrying capacity of the network, must grow along ... Municipality of Enschede, the Province of Overijssel, the regional business development and investment agency (OOM) and the University of Twente and the acting director at the moment is Jeroen van de Lagemaat. Nd...

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... on assessing readability of messages without taking physiological functions into account. Prior research has shown that external factors such as illumination, contrast, print size, font, legibility, format and text styles influence reading speed, comprehension, eye movement and reading strategy. Researchers have also found that humans are used to the familiarity of documents in mixed case, reading exclusively ... Based on prior research, the researchers hypothesized that participants in a proposed study would have slower reading times and would generate more incorrect answers when readin...

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... up a meeting either face to face or over the phone. In my experience it is a precursor to a more detailed form of communication. When you text someone, they will be conscious of interacting with you at some point in the immediate future. This can lead to better future communication. SMS features "confirmation ... are in the middle of something. Socially this is a very big plus. 3. Integration Capabilities - many software programs can be set up to send text alerts to mobile phones when urgent conditions exist. Purely from an IT point of view, this can aid companies greatly in the area of ...

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... game where a video display such as a monitor or television is the primary feedback device. The term "computer game" also includes games which display only text (and which can therefore theoretically be played on a teletypewriter) or which use other methods, such as sound or vibration, as their primary feedback device ... shown on top. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images and other graphics, and links to other blogs, web pages, and related media. The ability for readers to l...

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... available on the web, which aims to be a digital library for scientific literature in electronic form. Features include autonomous citation indexing, autonomous document location, citation context extraction, full-text indexing, awareness and tracking, related document retrieval, similar document identification, citation graph analysis, and query-sensitive document. Select A EU funded project that aims to develop a collaborative ... including trade newsletters, newspapers, and periodicals with categories such as space, real estate, energy, health care, insurance, banking, and pharmaceut...

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... and find you a web host. This option can often be free or extremely inexpensive. In addition, there are simple text programs such as "notepad" that will take HTML language. The notepad program allows the HTML text to be typed in and then opened into the web. However, before a person can just type in any information, ... they must posses an understanding of how the text typed into notepad will then appear on the canvas area of the browser. Therefore, they need to understand a list of HTML tags. These tags act ... as input for the browser to properly place the text onto the canvas. With ...

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... the cultural effects of computer mediated communication. Computer mediated communication is still a very selective communicative medium It is a known fact that all non verbal cues are eliminated when using text based messaging. It is a very common phenomenon, when using common messengers, like MSN messenger, now supplements its software with whole list of emotions or similes that can help communicate ... primarily due to the lack of non verbal cues. Beyond eliminating facial expressions and other aspects of physical appearance, computer mediated communication also eliminates personality c...

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... (HTML). According to David Crowder (2000), HTML is a set of special codes used to format a file for use as a Web page (p. 3). These codes, called tags, specify how the text and other elements on the Web page display in a Web browser and where the links on the page lead. Although there are other complex languages such as XML and DHTML ... are derived from the basics of HTML (David, 2000, p. 3-4). First thing to do before we get started on HTML is to open up a text-editing program such as Notepad or WordPad. HTML is just text so this can be accomplished by utilizing one of these simple pro...

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... available on the web, which aims to be a digital library for scientific literature in electronic form. Features include autonomous citation indexing, autonomous document location, citation context extraction, full-text indexing, awareness and tracking, related document retrieval, similar document identification, citation graph analysis, and query-sensitive document. Select A EU funded project that aims to develop a collaborative ... including trade newsletters, newspapers, and periodicals with categories such as space, real estate, energy, health care, insurance, banking, and pharmaceut...

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... risk asking that one question everyone else will term "dumb." Although, multimedia is a great training option for delivering highly interactive, graphical material; it's not one of the best options for text-heavy material. Accessing text-heavy material on a CD-ROM could become tedious to the learner as reading a screen for long periods of time is a fatiguing task. For materials comprised primarily of ... text, the Internet or Intranet are better training tools. Internet and Intranet The Internet and Intranet offer the same training advantages as the CD-ROM or multimedia training. It's e...

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... risk asking that one question everyone else will term "dumb." Although, multimedia is a great training option for delivering highly interactive, graphical material; it's not one of the best options for text-heavy material. Accessing text-heavy material on a CD-ROM could become tedious to the learner as reading a screen for long periods of time is a fatiguing task. For materials comprised primarily of ... text, the Internet or Intranet are better training tools. Internet and Intranet The Internet and Intranet offer the same training advantages as the CD-ROM or multimedia training. It's e...

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... on the type of equipment, software, how much memory you have, your connection speed, plus a lot of other factors, but web page designers should make more text and less graphics, animation, and video because text takes a lot less time to load. According to an October 1996 survey by AT"T, sixty-seven percent of sites was "off the net" for at least one ... hour per day because of overload. The web wasn't designed to handle graphics, animation, audio, and video. It was first developed for E-mail (electronic mail) and transferring text files, but web page designers want their pages to look t...

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... rapid growth in Internet. This software enable computers using various carriers such as telephone line, cable TV and satellite channels to send different form of data like text messages, sound file or an image to each specific computer (Lee, B, 1999). Without this software, Internet may not be growth so rapidly because of ... the internet is the World Wide Web (1998, pp36). The development of World Wide Web allow a range of information combined with text, sound and images. According to Flew, T, it (World Wide Web) allowed for the display of colourful pictures, music and audio as well as ...

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... since those select people have such sick minds to do certain things to younger girls. The term "sexting" is described as sending promiscuous pictures to another person over text messaging, instant messaging, or even by email. This is why parents must learn to trust and not be afraid to have these conversations with their children and provide comfort for ... . Not every essay is perfect and there were a few mistakes I needed to improve on and a few things I needed to change. The first was my in text citations. With what my professor said, I incorrectly wrote the in text citations, putting...

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... to try and picture the entire world's documents and books into one big accessible resource. If the goal is to have one large place with the entire world's works of text for all of humanity, that would be having every work ever created by what Dictionary.com defines, "the quality or condition of being human" (unknown, 2012). This includes ... such documents as books, scholarly notes, articles, blogs, and pretty much anything else ever recorded in text anywhere in the world. In this present day and age, not only would creating a universal digital library for all of humanity be a dangerous...

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... an email and chat based organization which gives solutions to other woman's problems in some remote location of the globe. Another computer-based technology that helps the greatest is the "E-text", "Jaws" and "Books on Tape". How this technology helps is that people who cannot read and write they just scan the pages of the ... text they want to get information from and then the computer reads out loud the pages of the text or any other material that is needed. There are various other innovations that are helping to make the life of these women ... ...

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... by leaps and bounds each year. It allows a worldwide community comprising tens of millions of people to communicate over any distance, access information from anywhere in the world and publish text and images instantly. When you need to carry some information you want to protect them from certain users. For this reason you will want to consider some form of network ... shields, which detect viruses as they are infecting your PC and virus scanners, which detect viruses once they have infected you. Remember these four points: Viruses cannot infect a data or text file. Before running an an...

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... and think about it for a while before starting a flame war." (Harris 2). Consider the presentation of your message: Writing in all uppercase letters tends to convey anger or shouting. Breaking up text using short lines and paragraphs and spaces is helpful in keeping your message readable. Using lists and indentation helps make your points stand out clearly. When sending an email pay ... . Do not forward or edit an email message without the original sender's consent. As Harris puts it "Use some kind of visual indication to distinguish between text quoted from the original message and your...

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... able to use it to his power. A way to keep anyone from understanding that information is to encrypt it. Encryption is the process of converting plaintext (readable data) into cipher text (unreadable characters) to prevent anyone else able to access the information. In order for some one to convert the plaintext into cipher ... text, they must decrypt or decode it into plaintext once again. In cipher text you are able to store the data, email, or do what ever it is you want to do with it. Software like this is easy to use ... ...

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... Operational Environmental Satellite" (Reference 7). The images that are on TV and throughout the Internet are from "GOES". The other kind of satellite is called Polar-orbiting satellites. According to the text "Polar orbiting satellites orbit over the North and South poles about 530 miles above the Earth. Their lower orbits mean their view is more limited, but they have a more close ... -up view" (Reference 7). According to the text "Communication satellites are radio relay stations, called repeaters. They orbit high above the earth" (Reference 3). With satellites we can log on to the In...

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... Tresse et al. (1998, pg.209) cryptography is the science of communication over untrusted communications channels. Basically it means encrypting a plain text message which is then sent as cipher text to the recipient who then decrypts the message back into plain text. Tresse et al. (1998, pg.209) also tell us that used properly, cryptography can keep a message secret, positively identify its sender ... ...

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... only involved with the history of soccer in England. The sight, http://www.tetrabrazil.com/history_of_soccer.htm is a sight that I would classify as barely a good site, although the text alone seems very adequate, although a bit short, the page does not offer a bibliography or any information about the specific author, however there are many reasons to combat the prior negative ... ones. First of all, the text is put out by a very well known and respected soccer academy, and although this presents problem with the question of whether or not the site is an advertisement, I"m sure it ... ...

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... convenient in communicating and interacting with others, especially here in the Philippines where our location is not really geographically friendly for getting in touch with one another. One could easily text their friend in Cebu instead of making a long distance call, or writing an email and receive a reply instantly. Another advantage of cell phones is that it provides a sense of security ... of Nokia would put it, "Connecting People". Parents are now more liberated in permitting their children to go out because they have a secure feeling they can contact their child just a text or p...

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