Internet research

An important text mining problem is to find, in a large collection of texts, documents related to specific topics and then discern further structure among the found texts. This problem is especially important for social sciences, where the purpose is to find the most representative documents for subsequent qualitative interpretation. To solve this problem, we propose an interval semi-supervised LDA approach, in which certain predefined sets of keywords (that define the topics researchers are interested in) are restricted to specific intervals of topic assignments. We present a case study on a Russian LiveJournal dataset aimed at ethnicity discourse analysis.

This paper provides an overview of the techniques available to the cyber-space researcher together with a consideration of the specific ethical issues that such research generates. It is acknowledged that these research methods are, at present, not widely utilised within health care sciences, thus this paper draws upon the experiences and debates that are current within other disciplines, predominantly those of the social sciences. The primary areas of ethical concern are suggested to be those surrounding consent, privacy, identification verification and disguise. These issues are further considered for their implications for nurse educators and for those academics that are either undertaking cyber-space research of their own or supervising student's Internet-based research projects.

The objectives of the study were to show the basic differences between Distance, Blended and Online learning, and establish their common challenges from literature. Approximately 35 categories/sets of research results or findings from more than 65 publications were reviewed and used for this work. Articles were obtained from sources such as Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Google Search Engine, and Elsevier. The key themes used for the search are Distance education, Distance learning, Online learning, Blended learning, Differences between face-to-face and online learning, and the use of the internet for learning. The differences between Distance, Blended, and Online Learning (DBOL) modes were summarized, and 11 challenges of DBOL were realized. These 11 challenges were summarized into six themes namely, lack of infrastructure, low or no IT skills, self-disciplinary problems, content issues, policy issues, and social issues. It was strongly advised that, for effective DBOL...

This paper examines the potential integration of Living Labs concepts of open and user driven innovation with Future Internet experimentally driven research approaches, in order to accelerate the user-driven development of Future Internet enabled services towards Smart Cities. Two key issues are underlying this integration: strengthening user involvement in experimental Internet research, and providing access to common resources such as testbed facilities and living lab resources. To explore the opportunities for such integration, three case studies from current FP7-ICT projects are discussed: SmartSantander, TEFIS and ELLIOT. A framework is proposed facilitating the sharing of resources offered by existing Smart City platforms, testbeds and living labs facilities as a basis for partnership agreements implementing open innovation approaches for Smart Cities.

The first consumer book about search engines. (AltaVista was the forerunner of Google.)
      Winner of the "Distinguished Technical Communication Award," the highest award given by the Society for Technical Communication Publications.   
    2 editions, Hebrew and Japanese translations. Braille version published by National Braille Press   
    "This complete guide to using the AltaVista web searching/indexing system will be indispensable to both librarians and patrons.... Get one copy to circulate, nail one down in the computer lab, and pass one around the reference desk." -- Library Journal

Over the past two decades with the rise of digital media, newspapers across Western democracies have been increasingly adopting new forms of online participatory journalism. During this time, 'below the line' comment spaces have grown to be one of the most popular forms of user-generated content. Comment spaces are thought to perform a multitude of functions. However, much has been made about their potential as spaces for public debate that could act as a new form of the public sphere where journalists can hear from, and directly engage with, their readers. Survey and interview research has suggested that some journalists do read, and sometimes engage in, comment sections. However, no study has systematically analysed how journalists actually engage in comment spaces; what factors shape such engagement; and how this has evolved over time. In this chapter, we begin to fill in these gaps by investigating how Guardian journalists behave below the line. Our research, which draws upon a multi-method approach and longitudinal research dataset, included a manual content analysis of all comments made (2006-17) by 26 journalists (n= 5448) and 18 semi-structured interviews conducted in two phases (13 in 2012 and 5 repeated in 2017-18). Our chapter sheds light on how journalists behave below the line and what this might mean for journalism practice in the digital age.

El lunes 18, en el marco del día “Día mundial de Internet” –que en realidad corresponde al “Día mundial de las telecomunicaciones y la sociedad de la información”, que Naciones Unidas celebra cada 17 de mayo-, la Asociación Mexicana de Internet (AMIPCI) dio a conocer los resultados que arrojó el 11º estudio sobre los hábitos de los usuarios de Internet en México 2015.

Mediante profundas y complejas remediaciones a través de su historia, la televisión, en principio una tecnología sin aparente destino, fue transformada hasta afirmarse como el principal medio de información y entretenimiento de las "sociedades de la Segunda Ola" (Toffler). Entre las exitosas tecnologías que contribuyeron a transformar a la televisión destacan: las transmisiones en color; los enlaces satelitales; la incorporación de sistemas VCR; la televisión por cable; la adopción de modalidades de acceso restringido; el desarrollo de la industria de los videojuegos; la introducción del control remoto; la televisión digital y la alta definición (HDTV); y por supuesto Internet, el "medio de comunicación inteligente" (Islas y Gutiérrez, 2000).
En Ser Digital (1996), Nicholas Negroponte afirmó que Internet inevitablemente transformaría a la televisión. Efectivamente, la principal remediación que es posible advertir en la historia de la televisión corre a cargo de Internet. Es posible anticipar que Internet transformará a la televisión hasta convertirla en un medio muy diferente al que hoy en día conocemos. You Tube representa uno de los principales referentes de la nueva televisión posible a través de Internet. Empresas como Mercedes Benz y Audi ya operan canales propios de televisión por Internet.

En los últimos años, diversos estudios han comprobado que los medios sociales pueden motivar a los ciudadanos a participar en la vida pública. En el caso de México, la consolidación de este proceso pudo observarse en las elecciones presidenciales del 2018. Mientras que es claro que los medios digitales han tenido un efecto en la vida política mexicana, su aportación real en el fortalecimiento de la democracia resulta un tema polémico. Un año después del histórico proceso electoral, se realizó un estudio cualitativo en el que se entrevistó a 35 especialistas de las ciencias sociales de universidades públicas y privadas en seis estados del país. La investigación demuestra que los académicos consideran que existen tanto avances, como riesgos, en un proceso de cambio que continúa durante el presente.

Digital transformation changes the relationship between citizens and politics. The observation of this nexus is highly relevant for representative democracy. After the successful 2008 Obama campaign, a vast body of research that explores how and why politicians use social media has emerged. However, we still know very little about how social media are being adopted and used in-between elections, and still less yet about what this means for political representation. Therefore, this Special Issue brings together innovative research that focuses on how the use of social media is impacting upon the relationship between politicians and political parties, and citizens. First, we discuss some pros and cons of this transformation in the context of the relevant literature and, especially, in relation to Stephen Coleman’s concept of ‘direct representation”. Finally, we discuss the findings and merits of the contributions and what the issue adds to our understanding of the phenomenon, to the state of research.

Many advocates of deliberative democracy see in the Internet a new opportunity for the development of public spaces, public spheres, and places where deliberation can take place. An important element of the notion of the public sphere in general and of deliberation specifically, is the quality of the debate. In the past decade, many studies have been conducted to evaluate online discussions in light of the ideal notion of the public sphere. However, a wide gap exists between theoretical approaches and the actual operationalization of such theories for empirical research. In an attempt to bridge this gap we develop a method for examining the extent to which Internet forums meet the normative requirements of rational-critical debate, reciprocity, and reflexivity. The methodological approach consists of a textual analysis of the contributions made to an online forum. The coding scheme presented in this article is based on a case study (UK Online) and guided by the theoretical notions of deliberative democracy.

Talking politics online is not exclusively reserved for those spaces dedicated to politics, particularly the everyday political talk crucial to the public sphere. However, past net-based public sphere research has focused mostly on political spaces thereby neglecting an array of other genres. The aim of this article is to move beyond politically oriented communicative spaces by investigating political talk within the British reality TV discussion forum Wife Swap. The purpose is to see whether a forum dedicated to reality TV provides the communicative space, content, and style for politics that extends the public sphere. The central question is whether it fulfils the requirements of rationality and ‘decent’ deliberation. Moreover, the analysis moved beyond a formal notion by investigating how expressives influence the more traditional elements of deliberation. The findings revealed that Wife Swap participants engaged in political talk that was often deliberative. Moreover, it was a space where the use of expressives played a key role in enhancing such talk.

The article argues that increasing computerization and Internetization of modern society has given rise to a new
phenomenon i.e. Internet addiction. Internet-addiction as a concept has three different meanings. The article presents
the results of the study of Internet addiction as dependent behavior within the scope of deviant behavior. The
author identifies 5 groups of among active Internet users: respondents with Internet-dependent behavior, respondents
with Internet-risk behavior, respondents with borderline Internet behavior, regular Internet users, professional
Internet users. Respondents with Internet-dependent behavior account for 7.0% of the total number of respondents.

The Internet may be free, but service provider’s indispensable to access services are not, to the extent that while the complexity and burden of the sites increases, it is becoming more and more expensive to surf the net. Blocking access under the guise of protecting us from offensive or sexually explicit content, to pages, chat rooms, newsgroups and other Web options is not anymore an excuse, but a lie. Government surveillance in the Internet, uncontrolled practices of data harvesting and restriction of free speech, open discussion of issues and even political activism has spread in the last 20 years to include countries that are considered democracies such as the U.S. Internet has become a battleground of power and therefore become increasingly militarized.

Opracowanie stanowi przyczynek do charakterystyki infobrokeringu. W części pierwszej znajduje się krótki opis zawodu brokera informacji, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem jego cech definicyjnych i funkcji pośredniczenia. Część druga poświęcona jest ogólnym zasadom wyszukiwania informacji w Internecie, ważnym w pracy infobrokera.

Americans are making extra money renting out a spare room, designing websites, selling products they design themselves at home, or even driving their own car. This 'on demand' or so-called 'gig economy' is creating exciting opportunities and unleashing innovation but it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future.-Hillary Rodham Clinton 1 ABSTRACT Laboring in the new economy has recently drawn tremendous social, legal, and political debate. The changes created by platform-facilitated labor are considered fundamental challenges to the future of work and are generating contestation regarding the proper classification of laborers as employees or independent contractors. Yet, despite this growing debate, attention to gender dimensions of such laboring is currently lacking. This Article considers the gendered promises and challenges that are associated with platform-facilitated labor, and provides an innovative empirical analysis of gender discrepancies in such labor; it conducts a case study of platform-facilitated labor using

Ethnography online  as an ethnographic division is often critically treated because it allows researchers to investigate a culture without having face to face contact (Hine 2008:259). It is moreover sometimes seen as inferior to traditional ethnography because much of the data collection occurs passively. But even though some researchers argue that online and offline world should be regarded as separated, ethnography online is not condemned to be conducted totally on the Internet, but rather almost naturally expands to related offline contexts. Accordingly, it offers many possibilities to understand a culture’s beliefs, values, norms, social practices, and behavior in online and offline correlations. There are “complex connections between online and offline social spaces [and a] key challenge for the future is to develop forms of ethnography that take seriously the social reality of online settings, whilst also exploring their embedding within everyday life” (Hine 2008: 258). In this respect, in the following, I will discuss why ethnography in and on online environments is a meaningful approach. I want to critically reflect on advantages and disadvantages of ethnography online and in particular consider how useful and appropriate a pure online observation is, compared to other ethnographic methods which might also be extended to the offline world. For this discussion I will take the example of my brief study of two female German YouTubers who are publishing videos concerning their everyday activities about beauty, fashion and ‘do it yourself’ on the online video community YouTube. One of the women I merely observed online via watching her videos, the other one agreed to additionally answer some questions in a personal interview via video call. Because consequently, I obtained information from both informants via different research methods, I want to critically discuss whether my research findings are anyway comparable. For reasons of simplification and for the flow of reading, I will use the male form of a word when actually gendering would be necessary.

The Internet can serve as one of the most efficient means of teaching and learning English as well as doing academic research. It is the purpose of this paper to outline how the Internet , or “the global network of networks”, can achieve this threefold purpose. It is to be noted, however, that in view of the relatively wide area of coverage of the paper, the account given here is far from being complete. It is also noteworthy that some overlap was almost unavoidable, e.g. “Making use of Grammar and Style Notes” is dealt with under Research, but it could be very well subsumed under Learning or Teaching depending on the perspective from which the material is considered. Some overlap was also deemed necessary due to the fact that many websites are not confined to only one of the three-fold purposes of the present paper, but rather include components which may fit into two or even all three of the purposes, but when such sites are referred to in the paper they have to be listed under one category or another.

Resumen.
Octavio Islas4 Amaia Arribas5
El valor comunicación
En la primera parte del texto, explicamos cómo fue concebida la teoría de los seis grados de separación, fundamental para comprender el desarrollo de las redes sociales. Enseguida presentamos información sobre las dimensiones del gran ecosistema digital, tanto de Internet como de las redes sociales. En la tercera parte del texto, centramos nuestra atención en Facebook, la red social más popular en el mundo.

“Human behaviour and lifestyle continue to change at a rapid pace, increasing over the past few years fuelled by the introduction of digital media and new technologies which have become embedded in the western culture to the degree that the average person now has a need to be able to understand and relate to them in order to function effectively at work, in the community and within intimate relationships”. Krawford, 2012

CYBER PSYCHOLOGY
Historical technology effects and consequences
Claude Steiner’s view of Psychological effects
Television
Effects on Mental Health
Memory & Brain
Cyber Bullying
Empathy
Internet Addiction
Passive/Active Ratio

CYBER SOCIOLOGY
Historical
Social Movements
Twitter
Walling off the Internet
Organisations
Apple
Power
Facebook
Net Neutrality
Politial control
Free speech
Website attacks
China
Web Filtering
Future of the Internet
Security
Transperancy
Virtual Reality
Nanotechnology
Nano ethics
Debates
Future Plans
Gamification

A Internet e os dispositivos móveis estão cada vez mais presentes em diferentes aspectos de nosso dia a dia. Sua popularização apresenta novos desafios para profissionais de saúde, pacientes e cuidadores, bem como cria novas possibilidades para todos. As informações de saúde podem contribuir para a adesão ao tratamento, a autonomia dos sujeitos e a redução dos custos e do tempo no atendimento. Está cada vez mais difícil pensar em um cenário em que a saúde prescinda das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação em suas rotinas, ações e estratégias. Este livro é a versão em português do livro The Internet and Health in Brazil: Challenges and Trends, publicado em inglês em 2019 pela Editora Springer. Ele analisa como esse fenômeno social está transformando práticas e percepções de saúde no Brasil. Ele foi escrito de forma direta e compreensível para profissionais, pesquisadores, estudantes de comunicação e saúde, bem como para stakeholders e demais interessados em entender melhor as tendências e os diferentes desafios relacionados ao fenômeno social da internet em saúde. Ele está dividido em cinco partes, com um total de 22 capítulos e uma introdução. Eles oferecem uma visão atual sobre as experiências do Brasil com a Internet e analisam as tendências e os desafios existentes em sua relação com a saúde. Os autores são professores e pesquisadores de instituições acadêmicas brasileiras de excelência, de diferentes regiões do país

Set in a context of ubiquitous digitality, this thesis proposes to examine and conceptualise what is put forward as ‘street smart technology’, a novel assemblage of smartphone based technologies and the street economy in Southeast Asia. In order to delineate this novel form of technology, the study will develop a genealogical case study of two of its archetypes: ‘Grab’ and ‘GoJek’.  Probing into their rearrangements of safety, temporality and mobility in everyday urban life, I argue that these digital ride hailing firms insert themselves into micro-frictions within metropolitan contexts and catalyse a new form of Taylorist industry. This widely emerging form of industry circulates capital and labour in the open streets of urban metropolises, and manifests an inverse trend in the labour markets of developed and developing economies. In Singapore, smartphone based platforms such as Grab and GoJek tend to catalyse the informalisation of labour practices through creating a mainstream precarious alternative to the formal economy, whereas in Indonesia, these platforms tend to formalise various aspects of an already prevalent and highly precarious ‘street economy’. I seek to follow and demonstrate the methodologies of mutual adaptation and constant negotiation of these digital platforms with the ‘street economy’ of Indonesia, proposing that Grab and GoJek’s contemporary pervasiveness in Southeast Asia is due to their ability to consolidate smartphone technology and the street economy into a unique business model. This study draws its methodology and theoretical approach from the disciplines of Anthropology and Political Economy and bridges the scholarship in the fields of Science and Technology Studies and Southeast Asian Studies, targeting to capture the socioeconomic flux and technological innovation underway in Singapore and Indonesia.

This review presents the state-of-the-art research on IoT systems for optimized greenhouse environments. The data were analyzed using descriptive and statistical methods to infer relationships between the Internet of Things (IoT), emerging technologies, precision agriculture, agriculture 4.0, and improvements in commercial farming. The discussion is situated in the broader context of IoT in mitigating the adverse effects of climate change and global warming in agriculture through the optimization of critical parameters such as temperature and humidity, intelligent data acquisition, rule-based control, and resolving the barriers to the commercial adoption of IoT systems in agriculture. The recent unexpected and severe weather events have contributed to low agricultural yields and losses; this is a challenge that can be resolved through technology-mediated precision agriculture. Advances in technology have over time contributed to the development of sensors for frost prevention, remote crop monitoring, fire hazard prevention, precise control of nutrients in soilless greenhouse cultivation, power autonomy through the use of solar energy, and intelligent feeding, shading, and lighting control to improve yields and reduce operational costs. However, particular challenges abound, including the limited uptake of smart technologies in commercial agriculture, price, and accuracy of the sensors. The barriers and challenges should help guide future Research & Development projects and commercial applications.

RESUMO: Enquanto nova mídia, a internet vem atraindo cada vez mais o interesse de pesquisadores. Seja para buscar conhecer quem são e o que fazem os usuários da rede mundial de computadores, seja utilizando a Web como plataforma para acessar informantes em pesquisas de temas tradicionais. Mas, ao contrário do que muita
gente pensa, fazer pesquisa na internet não é fácil. De fato, esse tipo de pesquisa não demanda muito tempo nem grandes investimentos, seja adotada uma perspectiva quantitativa ou qualitativa. No entanto, a experiência tem mostrado que
não basta conhecer e transpor técnicas e métodos da pesquisa tradicional para o ambiente online. É preciso, antes de tudo, adaptá-las considerando as peculiaridades desse universo, sua cultura, enxergar seus potenciais e limitações a fim de encontrar novos caminhos.

Resumen
Los avances tecnológicos junto a la llegada e inclusión de Internet en nuestras vidas, han ocasionado nuevas formas de entender la comunicación interpersonal.
La plataforma Twitch.tv, tras alcanzar la posición de líder entre las plataformas de transmisión en vivo, ha revolucionado los procesos comunicativos de los medios tradicionales a causa de sus diferencias tecnológicas. Esta nueva forma de producción audiovisual está originando profundos cambios en los hábitos de consumo, especialmente entre los más jóvenes.
Esta nueva tendencia llama la atención tanto de viejos como de nuevos medios, que tratan de adaptar su contenido a la red. Twitch.tv se ha impuesto como la plataforma perfecta para fusionar y readaptar formatos clásicos, en la cual el espectador asume un nuevo rol participativo y comunitario.
Este presente trabajo aborda cuáles son los condicionantes que hacen de Twitch.tv una plataforma única y cómo ha llegado a ser la plataforma líder de transmisiones en vivo; el nuevo paradigma tanto en la producción como en los hábitos de consumo del audiovisual y el entretenimiento en la red; las razones del exponencial aumento de usuarios; y los motivos del creciente interés de las marcas y los medios tradicionales por la plataforma.
Palabras claves: Twitch.tv, Internet, entretenimiento, comunicación, prosumidor

One force that drives online collaborative translation is digital culture. Nonetheless, whilst the phenomenon of digital culture is global, a particular type of digital culture is in fact local. In this presentation, I will examine online collaborative translation in the ecology of the Chinese internet, drawing a parallel between the development of the Chinese internet, the associated government regulations, and the development of online translation and translation communities.

The presentation opens with an introduction to the concepts of ‘participatory culture’ and ‘media convergence’ (Jenkins 2006), and the paradoxes of a convergence culture in the Chinese context. I then present several online translation communities and their translation practices, including Cenci Journalism Project, Yeeyan and ChinaDialogue. My analyses of the translation communities and its online collaborative translation practices are in tandem with the development of the Chinese internet and the media regulations in the country in the past two decades. The analyses first reveal that online translation communities and practices with different foci and nature are subject to the government control to different extents. Secondly, an online translation community’s organisational resources and its response to the changing media environment also contribute to its fate in the Chinese cyberspace. I argue that whilst online collaborative translation has been thriving overall, local social, economic and political ecologies where such practice is situated are important factors that both empower and limit the expansion of translation in the digital space.

The Internet leads us from bulky novels to tiny tales, from long descriptive literature to micro literature. And Meme is part of the wonders of the internet. The word "meme" is derived from biologist Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene but later it was reappropriated by some internet users and that term spread from user to user to define 'specific content'.

This study was motivated by the fact that information is central to all forms of human activity. No
matter the field; there is the need for exchange of information to ensure completion of task. Inefficiency
will be the results, where this exchange of information is slow or there is a break down. For this reason,
information is regarded as vital resources that need to be properly developed, because it has
boomerang effect on society. Consequently, a society that has poor communication and information
infrastructure perpetually lags behind others that hard efficient information infrastructure.
Rural radio as an powerful source of information at grass-root level helps to achieved development in
the rural areas, as issues of development are aired to audience in the form of various programs and
individual are exposes to happenings in and around their society, through listening to these programme
communication serves as the basic element of interaction and information sharing in life.
This study was also necessitated by this inquisitiveness: wanting to know whether Harmony 103.5 FM as
a rural/community radio played its rightful role, or whether something else was to blame for the state of
affairs in many rural communities ravaged by all sorts of developmental problems. The study hence
sought to assess the contribution of the radio for rural development in Kwara.
It should be remembered that communication creates pool of ideas, strengthens the feeling of
togetherness, the exchange of messages and translates through thoughts, into action. Radio
communication educates on new issues inherent in the society. For example, issues on politics, business,
current affairs e.t.c, are aired to create awareness. Radio serves as an agent of social mobilization;
people are moved to delivering a certain goal, based on their awareness of their rights and
responsibilities to the society.
Thus this study examines the place of Harmony FM Idofian, Kwara State in rural development, with a
focus on Offa, headquarter of Offa Local Government in the same state.
The beneficiaries of the study would be policymakers, government parastatals and their officers,
journalists [under tutelage, budding and accomplished], media practitioners and the academia.

Internet had become a necessity of today. Internet penetration rate is increasing with the mobile penetration. Availability , Affordability, Accessibility of Internet has been increased. There are  policy impacts which led Internet Literacy to grow in the country. Meanwhile, the internet has become a tool for every person. Even though it comes with negative effects as well. Specially the youth ( 12 – 29) is identified as one of most vulnerable community but it is not limited. Among the negative effect Internet Addiction “Excessive Internet use” had become  a major threat to the youth.

I have experienced many Issues related to Internet related safety issues such as “Privacy breaching, Inappropriate Content and sharing, Internet Discrimination, Cyber Bulling, Predating, Sexting, Sexual Harassment, Money Scamming ”. But Internet Addiction can be identified as a Silent serial Killer that no one feels it's harm as many are unaware of their addiction. It led me to study on the Internet Addiction and effects on Sri Lankan youth.

Genealogia jako nauka pomocnicza historii, rozszerzyła swój zakres. Wynikiem badań genealogicznych nie są już tylko dane osobowe przodków, ale także wiedza o czasach i miejscu, w których żyli. W powszechnym rozumieniu genealogia Żydów wydaje się trudnym tematem badań, gdyż panuje przekonanie, że wszystkie dokumenty zginęły bądź zostały zniszczone w czasie II wojny światowej. Istnieje jednak dużo materiałów, które mogą być doskonałym źródłem informacji. Również rozwój technologii (technik komputerowych, Internetu, biotechnologii) stał się czynnikiem rozwoju i popularyzacji badań genealogicznych.

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This paper is concerned with the social ills of bullying and cyberbullying that might lead to suicide especially when adolescents are involved. First, I explain the two concepts. It is noted that people with monoamine oxidase-A (MAOA) have propensity to antisocial behaviour, and that they cannot relieve themselves of responsibility for their conduct. We all need to think of the consequences of our actions, and we need to ensure that Internet abusers are held accountable for their wrongdoing. It is argued that parental responsibility is paramount. Parents, and society at large, need to exhibit zero tolerance to bullying and cyberbullying. Parents need to take active steps to tackle both phenomena and, in this context, healthy communication with children and other stakeholders are keys for success. Disregard for consequences of both activity and inactivity when facing all forms of bullying is immoral.

ARTICLE in BUSINESS INFORMATION REVIEW 19(2):39-47 · JUNE 2002

Outlines the processes involved in competitive intelligence, and discusses what it is, how to do it and gives examples of what happens when companies fail to monitor their competitive environment effectively. Presents a case study, showing how the company that produced the pre-cursor to the Barbie doll failed to look at their business environment and how this led to the firm’s failure. Discusses what competitive intelligence is, and what it is not, and why it is important for businesses. Presents three models used to describe the competitive intelligence process and goes through the various steps involved in defining intelligence requirements and collecting, analyzing, communicating and utilizing competitive intelligence.

The rise of digital technologies has the potential to open new directions in ethnography. Despite the ubiquity of these technologies, their infiltration into popular sociological research methods is still limited compared to the insatiable uptake of online scholarly research portals. This article argues that social researchers cannot afford to continue this trend. Building upon pioneering work in `digital ethnography', I critically examine the possibilities and problems of four new technologies — online questionnaires, digital video, social networking websites, and blogs — and their potential impacts on the research relationship. The article concludes that a balanced combination of physical and digital ethnography not only gives researchers a larger and more exciting array of methods, but also enables them to demarginalize the voice of respondents. However, access to these technologies remains stratified by class, race, and gender of both researchers and respondents.

Presentamos aquí el análisis y estadísticas más recientes de usuarios digitales, medios, redes sociales y uso de Internet en Ecuador incluyendo categorías de e-commerce, transacciones, mejores prácticas, tendencias y recomendaciones para marcas y su gestión de marketing, comunicación, transformación, investigación e inversión. Autor: Juan Pablo Del Alcázar Ponce. Institución: Mentinno.