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Division 2. Digital Divides, Education, Gender, and Ethnicity -- 11. Generation, Education, Gender, and Ethnicity in American Digital Divides -- 12. The Digital Divides in the U.S.: Access, Broadband, and Nature of Internet Use -- 13. Does the Digital Divide Extend to Minority- and Women-Owned...

1. How the Crowd Can Teach -- 2. Social Networking and Schools: Early Responses and Implications for Practice -- 3. Cyber-Identities and Social Life in Cyberspace -- 4. Weblogs in Higher Education -- 5. Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile...

Section 2. Demand-Side Perspectives on E-Government Adoption and Implementation -- 10. E-Government and Accountability in EU Local Governments -- 11. A Comparative Study of Municipal Adoption of Internet-Based Citizen Participation -- 12. Sociological Factors Influencing Internet Voting -- 13....

Section 2. Classification and Clustering -- 4. Automatic Syllabus Classification Using Support Vector Machines -- 5. Partially Supervised Text Categorization -- 6. Image Classification and Retrieval with Mining Technologies -- 7. Improving Techniques for Nai͏̈ve Bayes Text Classifiers -- 8....

"This book integrates invaluable research on the models, measures, and methodologies of Web information systems, software quality, and Web engineering into one practical guide to Web information systems quality, making this handbook of research an essential addition to all library...

"This is a comprehensive book on Human Computer Interaction and Web design focusing on various areas of research including theories, analysis, design and evaluation. It is not a book on web programming; it provides methods derived from research to help develop more user-friendly websites. It...

This book promotes understanding of how ICTs contribute to the development of city marketing strategies to enhance local socio-economic development. Covering central topics such as city branding, export promotion, and industry marketing, it provides academicians, marketers, and city officials...

The book considers the fundamentals of web site modeling. It gives theoretical background as well as practical modeling techniques, which assist in the planning and development of web sites, other collections of hyperdocuments and web-based information systems in general. Besides the modeling of...

For more than ten years there has been an obvious trend of globalization of leading companies, as they have moved from multinational to global operations. Recently there has also been increased demand for combining locally-customized services to the economies of the scale of worldwide...