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Ethnography in the cyberspace: problems and prospects
No full textThis paper outlines some of the issues involved in conducting ethnographic research in the Internet
specifically social media such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. With the advent of Internet and
social media, online environments have emerged where millions of people come together in virtual
communities to interact, collaborate, share and consume information. The emergence of these
online communities has dramatically changed individual engagement and collaboration patterns.
It is no longer sufficient to look at individual or small group activities in the real world as many
individuals have browsed, searched, communicated and collaborated within the dynamic online
social networks. Extending studies from traditional human relationship in the real world to the
virtual world is imperative to better understand human behaviour. Ranging from simple textbased
news groups to virtual multi-users environments, the Internet has provided new settings and
rich sources of information for conducting ethnography research. However, online ethnography
also raises the issues of managing scale, researcher presence and field relations when doing
research in the digital world
Estimating the determinants of B2B e-commerce adoption among Small & Medium Enterprises
No full textThis paper examines the factors that influence e-commerce adoption levels among SMEs in Malaysia. Based on Technological-Organisational-External (TOE) framework, it is found that external support is significant across all e-commerce adoption levels. This finding suggests that future policy to encourage e-commerce uptake in Malaysia should focus on providing support to facilitate e-commerce adoption effort. The findings also show that owners or CEOs of SMEs who are experienced, have completed tertiary education and used computer frequently, are more likely to adopt e-commerce. Hence, to further promote e-commerce adoption among SMEs, owners or CEOs of SMEs who are less experienced, high-school leavers, and who used computer less frequently, ought to be targeted in future e-commerce initiatives. Relatively, based on TOE framework, CEO attributes are more significant in terms of e-commerce adoption among SMEs in Malaysia
Determinants of information system effectiveness in managing agro-basedproj ects
No full textPrevious studies have suggested the use of PMIS is considered to be advantageous towards
successful project management. Using the antecedents of system success model proposed by
DeLone and McLean, and the updated Information System Success Model (ISSM), this study
attempts to examine the implementation of PMIS in agro-based projects undertaken by the
Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry in Malaysia (MoA). The objectives of the study
are to examine PMIS effectiveness and identify the determinants that influence system
effectiveness. The sample for this study comprised of PMIS end-users from MoA. The findings
of this study indicate that PMIS is an effective system to support end users for project
management and monitoring activities. Information and service quality have significant
relationship with system effectiveness. Between these factors, information quality is found to
have the greatest effect on the variation of PMIS effectivenes
Estimating influence of TOE factors on e-government usage: evidence of Jordanian companies
No full textThis paper examines the effect of TOE (Technology, Organizational and External) factors on the usage of e-government among Jordanian public listed companies. Results reveal that in Jordan, companies that are categorized as basic adopters of e-government mainly used e-government for seeking information and contracts (procurement) and TOE factors are generally found to have insignificant effect on the usage. On the other hand, TOE factors are found to have significant effect only on advanced adopters of e-government that mainly used e-government for financial and business integration purposes
E-learning benchmarking survey: A case study of University Utara Malaysia
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today’s education.Many e-learning applications have been developed to meet the increasing demand by education institutions.Previous research mainly focused on a variety of factors that influence the uptake of e-learning.However, very little is known about the quality and the extent of usage of these applications among end users. This study presents
results that contain information on the uptake and use of e-learning.The uptake of e-learning is measured by the extent to which different technologies were used by students.A mail survey was conducted to examine the uptake of e-learning among undergraduates.The respondents for this
study comprised of 419 respondents representing 16.8% from a random sample size of 2500 students. Thirty four applications available from Universiti Utara Malaysia Learning information system (Learningzone) were grouped into six categories that served as e-learning benchmarks to
assess the uptake of e-learning among undergraduates.The results show that accessing for course materials, communications, viewing information are the commonly used applications while helpdesks and support, and link to
other centres are least popular among undergraduates
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
Variations 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
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