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The New Economic Models of Metaverse and Its Implications in International Financial Markets
No full textIn recent years, the term “Metaverse” has gained popularity and attracted researchers and professionals from all around the world due to its rapid adaptation to emerging technologies, such as Web 3.0, virtual reality, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Additionally, the Metaverse has not only been integrated with the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) systems to exchange money but also been used to make insurance policies and secure loans, as well as to invest in various financial instruments such as funds and bonds. According to the forecasts of Goldman Sachs, the Metaverse system is expected to reach a US $8 trillion volume in the coming years due to its growing integration with the core functions of the traditional banking system. However, the development of the Metaverse itself is still in the early phases, and the potential risk exposure for the global financial system remains unknown. Therefore, this study seeks to identify the impacts of the Metaverse on the international financial system by focusing on its innovations and opportunities, as well as providing a macro framework for its ecosystem. The present study further analyses the economic advantages and disadvantages of building a blockchain-based decentralized Metaverse. This work is one of the first studies about Metaverse finance and thus offers important implications for financial literature. The findings of the study include valuable information for academics, investors, and policymakers in terms of potential financial and economic risks that the Metaverse may present.</p
A field research on factors affecting social media usage intentions
No full textHızlı gelişen teknoloji geleneksel kitle iletişim araçlarının daha özellikli olmasını sağlarken, yeni iletişim araçlarını da kitlelere sunmaktadır. Bunlardan en yenisi, son yıllarda popüler hale gelen, bireyler ve işletmeler tarafından eğitim, eğlence, bilgi edinme, reklam vb. amaçlarla sıklıkla kullanılan sosyal medyadır. Rekabet üstünlüğü sağlayabilmek için teknolojik çevreyi yakından takip etmek isteyen işletmeler, sosyal medyayı da iletişim kanalı olarak en etkin biçimde kullanmak istemektedirler. Hem teknoloji kullanımının sağladığı rekabet üstünlüğü hem de sosyal medyanın artan önemi hakkında literatürde birçok çalışma olmasına rağmen, hedef kitlenin bu teknolojiyi ve teknolojinin bir kazanımı olan yeni kitle iletişim araçlarını kabulü hakkında literatürde yeterli düzeyde çalışma bulunmamaktadır. Bu açığı kapatmak amacıyla, gerçekleştirilen bu çalışmada Türkiye'de yaşayan 531 bireyden anket yoluyla veri toplanmıştır. Toplanan veriler Teknoloji Kabul Modeli (TKM), Bilişsel Kapılma, Bireysel Yenilikçilik ve Eğlence Eğilimi değişkenleri dâhil edilerek oluşturulan yeni bir model sayesinde, Yapısal Eşitlik Modellemesi (YEM) yöntemi kullanılarak test edilmiştir. Analiz sonucunda, kişilerin sosyal medyayı kullanma niyeti üzerinde Bilişsel Kapılma'nın önemli bir rolü olduğu, Bireysel Yenilikçiliğin doğrudan ve dolaylı olarak, Eğlence Eğilimi'nin ise doğrudan sosyal medya kullanma niyetini olumlu yönde etkilediği görülmüştür.As the fast developing technology brings more features to traditional mass media, it also introduces new communication channels to communities. The latest one is social media, which has become popular for recent years and has been frequently used by both individuals and firms for purposes such as education, entertainment, information acquisition and advertising. Firms, which wish to follow technological environment closely in order to gain competitive advantage, wants to use social media as a communication channel efficiently. Despite having many papers and research about both competitive advantage and social media's increasing importance, literature does not have any extensive research about the acceptance of these technologies and new media brought by it. To fill this gap, a group of people consisting of 531 individuals in Turkey were surveyed in this study. The collected data were analyzed by a model, which were constructed in this study with inspiration of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Cognitive Absorption concept as well as Personal Innovativeness and Playfulness, using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique. As a result, it was found that Cognitive Absorption had a significant positive effect on people's behavioral intention of use of social media, where Personal Innovativeness had a significant direct and indirect positive effect and Playfulness had a significant direct positive effect on people's behavioral intention of use of social media
Post-Covid-19 Döneminde Sağlık Bilişimi ve Yapay Zekâ Kullanımı Üzerine Bir Bibliyometrik Analiz
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Post-COVID-19 Döneminde Sağlık Bilişimi ve Yapay Zeka Kullanımı Üzerine Bir Bibliyometrik Analiz
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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