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Ngoqo, Bukelwa, and Stephen V. Flowerday. "Exploring the relationship between student mobile information security awareness and behavioural intent." Information & Computer Security 23, no. 4 (2015): 406–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ics-10-2014-0072.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to analyse existing theories from the social sciences to gain a better understanding of factors which contribute to student mobile phone users’ poor information security behaviour. Two key aspects associated with information security behaviour were considered, namely, awareness and behavioural intent. This paper proposes that the knowing-and-doing gap can possibly be reduced by addressing both awareness and behavioural intent. This research paper explores the relationship between student mobile phone user information security awareness and behavioural in
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Tseng, Fan-Chen, T. C. E. Cheng, Pei-Ling Yu, Tzu-Ling Huang, and Ching-I. Teng. "Media richness, social presence and loyalty to mobile instant messaging." Industrial Management & Data Systems 119, no. 6 (2019): 1357–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/imds-09-2018-0415.

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Purpose Mobile instant messaging (MIM) apps could provide rich and instant information in employees’ communication. However, how media richness impacts MIM user loyalty is unknown. The purpose of this paper is to adopt media richness and social presence theories as theoretical foundations to address this insufficiency. Design/methodology/approach Collecting 247 responses from an online survey, the authors use structural equation modelling for data analysis and hypothesis testing. Findings The authors found that immediate feedback and personal focus are the main aspects of media richness that a
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Engotoit, Benard, Geoffrey Mayoka Kituyi, and Musa Bukoma Moya. "Influence of performance expectancy on commercial farmers’ intention to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information dissemination in Uganda." Journal of Systems and Information Technology 18, no. 4 (2016): 346–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsit-06-2016-0037.

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Purpose This paper to examine the relationship between performance expectancy and behavioural intention to use mobile-based communication technologies for agricultural market information dissemination in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach A descriptive field survey method was adopted. A total of 302 commercial farmers and agribusiness traders in Eastern Uganda participated in the study from whom data were collected using self-administered questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, correlation and regression analyses were used in the study. Findings The findings reveal a signific
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Chakuzira, Wellington, and Armstrong Kadyamatimba. "The perceived benefits and barriers to the application of mobile and social networking technologies in Higher Learning Institutions." Problems and Perspectives in Management 15, no. 3 (2017): 343–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.15(3-2).2017.04.

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This research investigated on the perceived benefits and barriers to the application of mobile and social networking technologies in South African Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs). A quantitative orientation was used in carrying out the study through self-administered questionnaires and a descriptive quantitative method of analysis was applied. The research population consisted of some students and lecturers from University of Venda (Univen) and University of Limpopo (UL). The research results showed that indeed HLIs in South Africa enjoy some benefits using mobile and social networking tec
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Nakayachi, Kazuya. "Toward Mitigating Actions: Risk Communication Regarding Natural Disaster." Journal of Disaster Research 9, sp (2014): 638–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2014.p0638.

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Appropriate mitigationmeasures are not always taken even if individuals perceive a high risk of a natural disaster; therefore, merely sharing information on the degree of risk is insufficient when communicating the true danger in a situation. Which aspects should be taken into account in designing a risk communication program against natural disasters? This article reviews this issue based on findings of risk perception studies and theories of social psychology. The focus was placed upon four topics in addressing the link between risk perception and preparedness for action: (1) perceived effic
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Charaf, Hassan. "Special Issue on CogInfoCom 2012." Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics 18, no. 3 (2014): 305. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jaciii.2014.p0305.

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Cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom) investigates connections between the cognitive sciences and different areas of infocommunications. CogInfoCom also focuses on engineering application fields integrating related scientific areas and results. Cognitive infocommunications systems involve hardware and software components that collect and store information and enable users to interact with this information. Besides communication security, considerations include the amount of stored information, which may be huge. This means that there is a need for algorithms and solutions that store and pr
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Lee, Kwan Min, David Yates, Joseph Clark, and Omar El Sawy. "Value Creation of Mobile Services Through Presence: Designing Mobile Information and Entertainment Applications with Presence in Mind." Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 19, no. 3 (2010): 265–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/pres.19.3.265.

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The inherent challenges and opportunities of mobile services design have recently led designers to embrace the theory of presence, as evidenced by recent white papers. However, our research finds that presence is a much richer theoretical construct than these studies suggest. Building on this viewpoint and drawing on prior communication research, we more fully explore the application of three types of presence—physical presence, social presence, and self-presence—to mobile services design and to the corresponding opportunities for value creation. We present a series of design challenges for mo
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Sanz-Blas, Silvia, Enrique Bigné, and Daniela Buzova. "m-WOM in a brand’s Facebook fan page." Online Information Review 41, no. 7 (2017): 936–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-08-2016-0237.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the following variables: brand fan page dependency; parasocial interaction; attitude towards brand fan pages in enhancing users’ participation in Facebook as a mobile social network (m-WOM). Design/methodology/approach An empirical study was carried out by means of online interviews with structured questionnaires. To analyse the data, and estimate the hypothesised relationships in the theoretical model, the partial least squares equation modelling was used. Findings The results of the study indicate that accessing brands’ mobile Fac
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Nicolay, Gian L. "Understanding and Changing Farming, Food & Fiber Systems. The Organic Cotton Case in Mali and West Africa." Open Agriculture 4, no. 1 (2019): 86–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opag-2019-0008.

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Abstract Science should be capable of covering issues as diverse as farming systems, technology, innovation, climate change adaptation, poverty alleviation, extension, policy and practice, as they all relate to sustainable agriculture and development. Some years ago, the call for a new farming systems approach was raised to accommodate the principles of interdisciplinary, systems thinking and participatory research. Society calls for systems performance that provides stability and sustainability (SDGs!), multi-scale and territorial approaches and looks for solutions for critical issues such as
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Teh, Pei-Lee, Pervaiz K. Ahmed, Soon-Nyean Cheong, and Wen-Jiun Yap. "Age-group differences in Near Field Communication smartphone." Industrial Management & Data Systems 114, no. 3 (2014): 484–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/imds-06-2013-0274.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper are twofold: first, develop a novel concept of a mobiquitous home application (Near Field Communication Smartphone Entertainment Systems (NFC SES)) with the use of photo interface and NFC smartphone. Second, examine age-group differences in relation to the influence of intuitive, convenience and perceived usefulness on users’ behavioural intention to use NFC SES. Design/methodology/approach – Using design science research, NFC SES is developed and a survey of 52 users is conducted to evaluate NFC SES. Findings – There are age differences in individual behavi
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Goetz, Marieta. "Mobile business models in African rural communities." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2581.

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Thesis (MPhil (Information Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>Mobile telephone subscription in developing countries has increased by more than 500 percent since 2005, with Africa experiencing the highest growth rate globally. Amongst Africa’s 306.5 million subscribers, recorded in 2008, an unexpectedly high adoption rate of the technology by poor, often illiterate rural communities is observed. Mobile telephony generally provides African rural users access to electronic communication for the first time. Providing access to communication, information and knowledge, mobile phon
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Wyngaard, Richard Clive. "Understanding Generation Y : an investigation of how Hilton College can use technology for communication." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004332.

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Background to the academic research. Hilton College is an all boys private school in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands. Since the beginning of 2012 boys have been permitted to carry their phones during the school day, (Thomson, 2012). Wireless internet access was also extended across the campus to allow boys and staff to bring their own devices to class and have access to the internet (Machlachlan, 2012). In the past, communication between staff and boys was either verbal or through the use of a daily notice, called the Daily Routine Order (DRO). The DRO is placed at the dining room tables each day
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Schoon, Alette Jeanne. "Raw phones: the domestication of mobile phones amongst young adults in Hooggenoeg, Grahamstown." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002937.

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This dissertation examines the meanings that young adults give to their mobile phones in the township of Hooggenoeg in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. The research was predominantly conducted through individual interviews with nine young adults as well as two small gender-based focus groups. Participant observation as well as a close reading of the popular mobile website Outoilet also contributed to the study. Drawing on Silverstone, Hirsch and Morley’s (1992) work into the meanings attributed to the mobile phone through the domestication processes of appropriation, objectification, incorpora
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Miteche, Sacha Patrick. "A mobile phone solution for ad-hoc hitch-hiking in South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013340.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of mobile phones in organizing ad-hoc vehicle ridesharing based on hitch-hiking trips involving private car drivers and commuters in South Africa. A study was conducted to learn how hitch-hiking trips are arranged in the urban and rural areas of the Eastern Cape. This involved carrying out interviews with hitch-hikers and participating in several trips. The study results provided the design specifications for a Dynamic Ridesharing System (DRS) tailor-made to the hitch-hiking culture of this context. The design of the DRS considered the deliv
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Kativu, Tatenda Kevin. "A framework for the secure consumerisation of mobile, handheld devices in the healthcare institutional context." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/18630.

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The advances in communication technologies have resulted in a significant shift in the workplace culture. Mobile computing devices are increasingly becoming an integral part of workplace culture. Mobility has several advantages to the organisation, one such example is the “always online” workforce resulting in increased productivity hours. As a result, organisations are increasingly providing mobile computing devices to the workforce to enable remote productivity at the organisations cost. A challenge associated with mobility is that these devices are likely to connect to a variety of networks
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Dlutu, Bongiwe Agrienette. "The impact of social network sites on written isiXhosa : a case study of a rural and an urban high school." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011826.

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The use of cellphones has increased all over the world. That invites many academics to conduct research on the usage of these devices, especially by young people, since young people join Social Network Sites (Facebook, Mxit, 2go, Whatsapp) and use a shorthand language. Most studies are related to the use of English and other languages that are recognised by computer software. There are few studies, if any, that have been done in relation to the use of African Languages on these sites. This research therefore aims to seek to explore the use of African Languages, especially isiXhosa, in assessin
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Zhang, Huiqi. "Socioscope: Human Relationship and Behavior Analysis in Mobile Social Networks." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30533/.

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The widely used mobile phone, as well as its related technologies had opened opportunities for a complete change on how people interact and build relationship across geographic and time considerations. The convenience of instant communication by mobile phones that broke the barrier of space and time is evidently the key motivational point on why such technologies so important in people's life and daily activities. Mobile phones have become the most popular communication tools. Mobile phone technology is apparently changing our relationship to each other in our work and lives. The impact of new
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Chio, Nga I. "The uses and perceptions of mobile phone in Macau." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2162007.

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Kong, Wei Chao. ""It is mine, it is me!" : the use of mobile phones of young people in Macau and Guangzhou." Thesis, University of Macau, 2007. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874201.

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Lin, Hai Yun. "The magic wand : mobile phone use and Fujian entrepreneurs in China." Thesis, University of Macau, 2008. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874128.

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Jonathan, Donner, ed. Mobile communication. Polity, 2009.

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SMS uprising: Mobile phone activism in Africa. Pambazuka Press, 2010.

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Mobile communication: Dimensions of social policy. Transaction Publishers, 2011.

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Caron, André H. Culture mobile: Les nouvelles pratiques de communication. Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2005.

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Kulʹtura mobilʹnykh telekommunikat︠s︡iĭ. Kniga, 2007.

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Mobile multimedia in action. Transaction Publishers, 2007.

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Mobile technologies. Routledge, 2016.

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The mobile media reader. P. Lang, 2012.

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Sarrazin, Tom. Texting, tweeting, mobile internet: New platforms for democratic debate in Africa. Fesmedia Africa, Friendrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2011.

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Studying mobile media: Cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone. Routledge, 2012.

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Zain, Aini Syuhada Md, Abid Yahya, Mohd Fareq Abd Malek, and Normaliza Omar. "Developing Wireless Network Design in 4G Long Term Evolution for Healthcare." In Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch026.

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The current growth of mobile data usage and emergence of new applications have greatly motivated the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to work on Long Term Evolution (LTE). LTE is the most recent standard in the mobile network technology to be developed based on GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies with the aim of optimizing the capacity and speed of 3G mobile communication networks. In this chapter, the structures and features of fourth generation (4G) LTE are investigated at the early stages of telemedical research. The chapter also provides a comparison of WiMAX and LTE standards on various aspects, as well as the potential of technology in healthcare applications. Issues and challenges of wireless technologies in healthcare applications and services are finally presented.
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Diab, Ali, and Andreas Mitschele-Thiel. "Trace- and Social-Based Modeling of Human Mobility Patterns." In Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0239-5.ch012.

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The 5th Generation (5G) of mobile communication networks is being developed to address the demands and business contexts of 2020 and beyond. Its vision is to enable a fully mobile and connected society and also to trigger socio-economic transformations in ways eventually unimagined today. This means that the physical world to be covered with planned 5G networks including communication networks, humans and objects is becoming a type of an information system. So as to improve the experience of individuals, communities, societies, etc. within such systems, a thorough comprehension of intelligence processes responsible of generating, handling and controlling those data is fundamental. One of the major aspects in this context and also the focus of this chapter is the development of novel methods to model human mobility patterns, which have crucial role in forthcoming communication technologies. Human mobility patterns models can be categorized into synthetic, trace-based and community-based models. Synthetic models are largely preferred and widely applied to simulate mobile communication networks. They try to capture the patterns of human movements by means of a set of equations. These models are traceable, however, not capable of generating realistic mobility models. The key idea of trace-based models is the exploitation of available measurements and traces achieved in deployed systems to reproduce synthetic traces characterized by the same statistical properties of real traces. A main drawback of trace-based modeling of human patterns is the tight coupling between the trace-based model and the traces collected, the network topology deployed and even the geographic location, where the traces were collected. This is why the results of various trace-based models deviate clearly from each other. Sure, this prohibits the generalization of trace-based models. When one also considers that the traces themselves are rarely available, one can understand why synthetic models are preferred over trace-based ones. Community-based modeling of human movements depends on the fact stating that mobile devices are usually carried by humans, which implies that movement patterns of such devices are necessarily related to human decisions and socialization behaviors. So, human movement routines heavily affect the overall movement patterns resulting. One of the major contributions in this context is the application of social networks theory to generate more realistic human movement patterns. The chapter highlights the state of art and provides a comprehensive investigation of current research efforts in the field of trace- and social-based modeling of human mobility patterns. It reviews well-known approaches going through their pros and cons. In addition, the chapter studies an aspect that heavily relates to human mobility patterns, namely the prediction of future locations of users.
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Diab, Ali, and Andreas Mitschele-Thiel. "Human Mobility Patterns." In Creating Personal, Social, and Urban Awareness through Pervasive Computing. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4695-7.ch011.

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It is well accepted that the physical world itself, including communication networks, humans, and objects, is becoming a type of information system. Thus, to improve the experience of individuals, communities, organizations, and societies within such systems, a thorough comprehension of collective intelligence processes responsible for generating, handling, and controlling data is fundamental. One of the major aspects in this context and also the focus of this chapter is the development of novel methods to model human mobility patterns, which have myriad uses in crucial fields (e.g. mobile communication, urban planning, etc.). The chapter highlights the state of the art and provides a comprehensive investigation of current research efforts in this field. It classifies mobility models into synthetic, trace-based, and community-based models, and also provides insight into each category. That is, well-known approaches are presented, discussed, and qualitatively compared with each other.
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Lehikoinen, Jaakko T. "Theory and Application of the Privacy Regulation Model." In Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-871-0.ch051.

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Privacy is one of the most essential topics to be investigated when assessing user acceptance of new applications and services enabling disclosure of personal information. Mobility increases the demand on taking privacy into consideration when designing and developing these kinds of systems. This chapter presents a privacy management model, which facilitates evaluation of privacy aspects of communication technology. The applicability of the model is tested in a field trial that was carried out to assess user acceptance of a mobile social awareness system. Gathered evidence shows that the model helps researchers and designers to deal with privacy aspects of mobile technologies.
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Canavilhas, João, and Ivan Satuf. "Who Brings the News?" In Journalism and Ethics. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8359-2.ch029.

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The spread of mobile devices and digital networks generate new perspectives for the circulation of news. The development of mobile communication technologies and the migration of habits consolidated in personal computers promote the expansion of news aggregators for smartphones and tablets. This work seeks to inquire the operational logic of applications designed to aggregate journalistic content. An immersive analysis shows that the general operations of these apps are based on three dimensions: integration between news and online social media, always-on recommendation systems, and parameterization of outputs. It is argued that the approach between aggregators and social media makes the news extrapolate its information domain and start to circulate as symbolic reference for online interaction. Finally, this work posits that the operational logic of aggregators neglect fundamental aspects of new technologies related to locative information.
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Canavilhas, João, and Ivan Satuf. "Who Brings the News?" In Advances in Multimedia and Interactive Technologies. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8838-4.ch012.

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The spread of mobile devices and digital networks generate new perspectives for the circulation of news. The development of mobile communication technologies and the migration of habits consolidated in personal computers promote the expansion of news aggregators for smartphones and tablets. This work seeks to inquire the operational logic of applications designed to aggregate journalistic content. An immersive analysis shows that the general operations of these apps are based on three dimensions: integration between news and online social media, always-on recommendation systems, and parameterization of outputs. It is argued that the approach between aggregators and social media makes the news extrapolate its information domain and start to circulate as symbolic reference for online interaction. Finally, this work posits that the operational logic of aggregators neglect fundamental aspects of new technologies related to locative information.
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Balakrishnan, P., Veeramuthu Venkatesh, and Pethuru Raj. "Fog Computing." In Handbook of Research on Cloud and Fog Computing Infrastructures for Data Science. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5972-6.ch004.

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The evolutions of world wide web (WWW) promise the revolution in personal, professional, and social aspects of human beings. These evolutions begin with static web pages to more sophisticated brain-computer interfaces. Among them, Web 4.0 plays a significant role that aimed to integrate mobile devices and things into the web to realize smarter environments. Further, it leads to the progression of machine-to-machine communication, wireless sensor networks, cyber physical systems, and internet of things (IoT). The drastic development of IoT applications led to unprecedented growth of data which can be processed using more powerful far-end cloud resources or less powerful local edge devices. Fog computing compromises the demerits of both approaches and conducts the data analysis at the network-end itself. This chapter provides the benefits of fog computing architectures together with the simulator as well as different software platforms for realizing the fog computing.
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EL-Darieby, Mohamed, Hazem Ahmed, Mahmoud Halfawy, Ahmed Amer, and Baher Abdulhai. "A Wireless Mesh Network Platform for Vehicle Positioning and Location Tracking." In Localization Algorithms and Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-396-8.ch017.

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Large urban areas in North America as well as many other parts of the world are experiencing unprecedented and soaring congestion problems. It is imperative that modern societies upgrade their transportation systems in order to remain competitive, and maintain the high quality of life and social wellbeing. Current practices in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) data gathering are dominated by the use of point detectors for surveillance, and wire-line communication networks for data transmission. Reliance on point detectors is losing appeal due to detector reliability issues, the cost of building and maintaining detector networks, and potential traffic disruption during construction and maintenance of these networks. This chapter describes a novel wireless mesh network platform for traffic monitoring. The platform uses traveling cars as data collection probes and uses wireless municipal mesh networks to transport sensed data. The platform assumes that cars or drivers’ mobile devices are equipped with the widely adopted low-cost Bluetooth wireless technology. Field trials of the proposed platform demonstrated its capability to track cars traveling at speeds of 0 to 70 km/hour. The platform was able to track cars as they travel and turn on a typical road network. In addition, the platform was used to approximate car speeds through determining the change in position in a time period. The preliminary results indicated an accuracy of ± 10%- 15%. The chapter describes the architecture, implementation, and field-testing of the proposed platform. It also discusses aspects of large-scale deployment of the proposed platform to cover large geographic areas.
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EL-Darieby, Mohamed, Hazem Ahmed, Mahmoud Halfawy, Ahmed Amer, and Baher Abdulhai. "A Wireless Mesh Network Platform for Vehicle Positioning and Location Tracking." In Networking and Telecommunications. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-986-1.ch040.

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Large urban areas in North America as well as many other parts of the world are experiencing unprecedented and soaring congestion problems. It is imperative that modern societies upgrade their transportation systems in order to remain competitive, and maintain the high quality of life and social wellbeing. Current practices in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) data gathering are dominated by the use of point detectors for surveillance, and wire-line communication networks for data transmission. Reliance on point detectors is losing appeal due to detector reliability issues, the cost of building and maintaining detector networks, and potential traffic disruption during construction and maintenance of these networks. This chapter describes a novel wireless mesh network platform for traffic monitoring. The platform uses traveling cars as data collection probes and uses wireless municipal mesh networks to transport sensed data. The platform assumes that cars or drivers’ mobile devices are equipped with the widely adopted low-cost Bluetooth wireless technology. Field trials of the proposed platform demonstrated its capability to track cars traveling at speeds of 0 to 70 km/hour. The platform was able to track cars as they travel and turn on a typical road network. In addition, the platform was used to approximate car speeds through determining the change in position in a time period. The preliminary results indicated an accuracy of ± 10%- 15%. The chapter describes the architecture, implementation, and field-testing of the proposed platform. It also discusses aspects of large-scale deployment of the proposed platform to cover large geographic areas.
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Oermann, Andrea, and Jana Dittmann. "Trust in E-Technologies." In Information Security and Ethics. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch209.

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When reflecting the term trust, there are two main hypotheses which can be found in most of the literature: First, trust is presented as an amorphous phenomenon, which is difficult to measure empirically (Endress, 2002). Second, the characteristic of trust is rather fragile. Trust as a mediator of social interactions cannot be quantified precisely, it has to be generated and recreated at any time varying with its social context. Volken summarizes this particular connection between trust and the context in which it is created: “Trust is a complex construct with multiple dimensions, and their relative effects on innovative actions may be highly dependent on their respective social context” (Volken, 2002). In the age of globalization trust is particularly important when one operates in the areas of e-commerce, e-government, and mobile commerce, or develops IT-systems which are touching the interface between technical innovation and its application by users. The latter live and work in a certain social context in which trust can be established in various ways. This necessarily has consequences for IT-solutions and IT-security which this article tries to explore. Giddens (1990) pointed out that “mechanised technologies of communication have dramatically influenced all aspects of globalization since the first introduction of mechanical printing into Europe [Johannes Gutenberg, 16th century]” (p.77). Without Johannes Gutenberg, there would have been no Reformation, without information technology, there would have been no global information age. Both historical developments, as different as they may be, took place in a certain social context, of which technical innovation became a part. At the same time every society depends on the key ingredient, which is a requirement for social interaction: Trust. As a reader of the Gutenberg Bible trusted that his book is complete and correct, any user of information technology trusts that the applied system functions properly and is reliable. The following questions arise: How does trust which basically is part of most social interactions fits within information technology using “0” and “1” to enable any sort of interaction? How is trust created, maintained and developed in the information age? Which forms of trust exist and are necessary to operate in an interconnected world? The article will explore these questions by describing current definitions and concepts of trust outside and inside a context of information technology. After exploring the link to concepts of trust in social science and culture a new concept of trust in e-technologies such as e-commerce, e-government, and mobile commerce will be developed. Important trust-building factors such as transparency or participation will be analyzed in order to conceptionally deal with the increasing importance of trust in a virtual world.
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