The opportunities that the Internet brings for civil society groups, from information dissemination to deliberation and from service delivery to mobilization have led scholars to anticipate it to be a critical resource for communication and collaboration with its stakeholders. However, such...

This study examines how national UK newspaper websites are integrating user-generated content (UGC). A survey quantifying the adoption of UGC by mainstream news organisations showed a dramatic increase in the opportunities for contributions from readers. In-depth interviews with senior news...

We investigate the websites of economists at Harvard University and George Mason University. We draw a contrast between the two departments by using Robert Nelson's distinction between the scholastic and the pietistic approaches to knowledge and discourse. Scholasticism is hierarchical in...

This article presents web programming and datavisualization implementation using Stata (do file and/or ado files). Stata datasets or excel files, so as text files (.txt) are used to create, fill in and format HTML and Java content. Programming, loops and automation can be smartly implemented to...

Websites are often the first or only interaction a consumer has with a firm in modern commerce. Because consumers tend to make decisions within the first few seconds of online interaction, the first impression given to users can greatly determine a website’s success. Leveraging Source...

We explore how the three dimensional (3D) technologies on the Internet, implemented as virtual worlds, can be used to deliver e-service. Our aim is to study how this 3D medium differs from the traditional 2D websites and how this can be exploited to deliver online service. We set up a field...

This submission responds to two proposals by the Australian government to address online copyright infringement (1) expanding secondary liability for copyright infringement (the doctrine of authorisation) to increase the ‘incentives’ for network access providers to ‘cooperate’ with...

Recent studies have highlighted the role that internet advertising plays in supporting the revenue of rogue websites (Taplin, 2013; Watters, 2014). Certainly, such advertising generates enormous profit margins for operators of these websites, and present an ongoing threat to the viability of New...

We examine use of the term ‘diversity' in the recruitment websites of Canada's eight largest public accounting firms. We find a range of distinct uses of the term. We note differences in the use of ‘diversity' between Big Four accounting firms and the next four largest firms. The Big Four...

We analyze the relationship between website visits, magazine demand and the demand for advertising pages using Granger non-causality tests on the basis of an extensive and externally audited quarterly data set for the German magazine market spanning the period I/1998 to II/2004. We use...