... an "approach to the study of media audiences which proposes that audience members' consumption of media output is motivated and directed towards the gratification of certain individually experienced needs- (O'Sullivan et al 325). Ruggiero states, "some mass communications scholars have contended that uses and gratifications is not a rigorous science theory- (3). He goes against these scholars and sides with Newhagen and Rafaeli ... familiar with the aspects of group process will conduct the interview. This will be done to avoid any researcher effects that may occur if I had conducted th...

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... drastically changing the way we do business today. New, better, cheaper and more efficient business models utilizing information and communication technologies (ICTs) are emerging (Deitel et al, 2001). The degree of a company's e-business activity extends from a simple web site of presence to a fully-fledged e-business that almost entirely eliminates ... why there is so much confusion and lack of appreciation of its value to business. Figures show that e-business is growing very rapidly, Deitel et al (2001) refers to a study by the Centre for Research in Electronic Commerce at the Univer...

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... work at MIT (1961-1967), at RAND (1962-1965), and at NPL (1964-1967) had all proceeded in parallel without any of the researchers knowing about the other work (Cerf, et al., 1998). In 1966-67, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts and System Development Corporation (SDC), in Santa Monica, California, got a grant from ARPA for a study on cooperative networks of ... of telephone circuit switching technology was inadequate to accomplish their goals. Thus their experiment set the ng research in setting up a nationwide store and forward, packet switching data network (Cerf, et ...

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... Messages. Sales and customer service representatives are in direct contact with customers. Their actions send a strong message to customers. 4. Unplanned Messages. This includes word-of-mouth, expert opinion, news editorials, et. al. The Ford/Firestone fiasco is a classic example of the power of unplanned messages. Personal Selling Personal selling involves communicating and connecting with consumers and is directly related to increased sales ... ...

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... survey, contributing to a response rate of 72 percent. Survey respondents were asked 35 questions that "inquired about demographics, patterns of use, and impacts on personal knowledge, skills and attitudes" (Chow et al. 2002). The survey used forced-choice and short answer items to provide relevant data. Approximately two-thirds of the respondents were non-White, and half of the respondents reported an ... ...

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... is that the banking sector in Nigeria today is at the threshold of change of such a magnitude as to alter completely the fabric of business and indeed, lives (Archibugi, Howells et al. 1999). This change is rooted in the phenomenon of electronic business. This sector is highly competitive and competition is expected to intensify as new players of local and global scope ... ...

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... from (www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/.../se/Slides/ process/process-1.html). For more information on the development stages incorporated in the waterfall model refer to; Systems Analysis and Design (Yeates, et al. 1994:379-394.) Each activity in the Waterfall model represents as separate process phases. After each stage is defined it is signed off' and development goes on to the following ... ...

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