This paper examines the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia and its novel model of knowledge-certification in making reference works. The traditional model of reference works operates in a closed and centralized structure, and obtains it authority from institutionalized publishing practices and...

Blogs provide a dynamic interactive medium for online discussion, consistent with communal constructivist pedagogy. This paper explores the use of blogs in the teaching and assessment of a small (40-60 students) introductory economics paper. The role of blogs as a teaching, learning and...

This study investigates which candidates were more likely to adopt Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections and the reasons why. Large majorities of the major party candidates for the House of Representatives had a Facebook page, Twitter account, and YouTube channel....

Prior research suggests that social connections, including acquaintances, friends, and family, are valuable in a job search process. In these studies, the size of an average job seeker’s network was much smaller and limited by the available modes of communication and the costs associated with...

Facebook, the second largest social network on the Web with around 60 million members, is one of the fastest-growing and best-known sites on the Internet today. With the U.S. now accounting for only about a third of all Facebook users, we are starting to see a gradual shift away from its...

The decision in Viacom v. YouTube makes clear that the DMCA is slipping into irrelevancy and may not be able to accurately hit the moving target of issues raised in the evolving Internet landscape. Pressed against the dual concerns of looming and massive statutory damages and the DMCA’s...

Using a selection of blogs from Iran and Indonesia, this chapter will discuss how blogs function as a means for organizing and assimilating experience as well as voicing opinions. The assessment will show how blogs provide Muslim writers a key means for discourses both with the political and...

In recent years, with the movement of vacation planning to the online setting, a segment that has emerged is the vacation rental-by-owner lodging market. Vacation property owners are now often renting their property on their own through the virtual marketplace. Accordingly, this study proposes...

An examination of mandatory online orientation Courses for Online Learners. A sample of online students participated in an online survey on online educational institutions offering mandatory online orientation courses. Chi-Square was used to analyze the survey responses. The findings are...

This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals' social networks, that is to what extent initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. Following the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year, we seek to establish whether bloggers are mainly...