Information Communication Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and ApplicationsVan Slyke, Craig Information Communication Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is the essential reference source created to meet the rapid development of information communication technologies research, compiling scholarly work in the pivotal areas of social adaptation to information technology. This six-volume compendium covers such topics as ad-hoc networks, collaborative environments, e governance, and urban information systems, with case studies, empirical analysis, and conceptual models. With 314 chapters contributed by nearly 500 experts from 56 countries, Information Communication Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications will provide any library's collection with the definitive reference on ICTs. |
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Utilization and Application of Information Communication Technologies | 1933 |
A Dissemination Strategy for the Management of Knowledge in Rural Communities | 1934 |
ICTs for Intercultural Dialogue ICT4ID | 1951 |
Information and Communication Technologies Provision to Rural Communities The Case of Gutu World Links Telecenter in Zimbabwe | 1954 |
Indigenous Peoples and the Cultural Construction of Information and Communication Technology ICT in Latin America | 1966 |
Assessing Universal Access to ICT in Ghana | 1976 |
Caribbean Companies and the Information Superhighway | 1986 |
Technology Leapfrogging in Thailand | 1995 |
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Telecommunications Sector and Internet Access in Africa | 144 |
The Arab World Culture and Information Technology | 151 |
ICT Growth and Diffusion Concepts Impacts and Policy Issues in the Indian Experience with Reference to the International Digital Divide | 160 |
ICT Education and Regional Development in Swiss Peripheral Areas | 174 |
Applying for Government Grants for ICT in Australia | 183 |
Role of ICTs in Socioeconomic Development and Poverty Reduction | 190 |
Evolution of the Euro and Currency Competition in the Global ICT Age | 226 |
The Genesis Political and Economic Sides of the Internet | 238 |
The Transformation of the Distribution Process in the Airline Industry Empowered by Information and Communication Technology | 254 |
Technological Innovation Trade and Development | 284 |
ICT and Business in the New Economy Globalization and Attitudes Towards ECommerce | 304 |
Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks | 323 |
Patents and Standards in the ICT Sector Are Submarine Patents a Substantive Problem or a Red Herring? | 345 |
Factors Influencing the Lifetime of Telecommunication and Information Technology Standards Results of an Explorative Analysis of the PERINOR... | 383 |
Some Insights into the Impact of ICTs on Learning Agency and Seamless Learning | 405 |
Learning Styles and Adaptive ICT Based Learning Environment | 413 |
Behavioral Cognitive and Humanistic Theories Which Theories Do Online Instructors Utilize? | 430 |
ICT Based Learning A Basic Ingredient for SocioEconomic Empowerment | 443 |
Between Tradition and Innovation in ICT and Teaching | 456 |
Sociocultural Animation | 464 |
Biographical Stories of European Women Working in ICT | 472 |
The Beijing World Conference on Women ICT Policy and Gender | 480 |
Gender Inequalities for Use and Access of ICTs in Developing Countries | 487 |
WSIS Gender and ICT Policy | 496 |
Gender ICT and Millennium Development Goals | 504 |
Information Communication Technologies Development and Design Methodologies | 512 |
Connecting the First Mile A Best Practice Framework for ICTBased Knowledge Sharing Initiatives | 513 |
A Framework to Build Process Theories of Anticipatory Information and Communication Technology ICT Standardizing | 534 |
How the National EStrategy Shapes Competitiveness in the Information Economy | 574 |
An Explanatory Approach to the Political Uses of ICT Initiatives for Participation Institutions Context and Characteristics of the Actors | 582 |
B2B ECommerce Diffusion The Efficacy of Institutional Discourse | 600 |
Enabling Strategy Formulation by ICT A Viable Systems Approach | 617 |
Media Life Cycle and ConsumerGenerated Innovation | 638 |
Participatory Design and Creativity in Development of Information and Communication Technologies | 656 |
ICT and Developing Social Capital | 672 |
A Taxonomy of Stakeholders Human Roles in System Development | 679 |
A PractitionerCentred Assessment of a UserExperience Framework | 712 |
Different Levels of Information Systems Designers Forms of Thought and Potential for HumanCentered Design | 734 |
A Method to Quantify Corpus Similarity and its Application to Quantifying the Degree of Literally in a Document | 751 |
Digital Access ICT Fluency and the Economically Disadvantaged Approaches to Minimize the Digital Divide | 764 |
Delivering More Effective Community Consultation and Support for Regional ICTPrograms | 778 |
Developing a Global Perspective for Knowledge Management | 793 |
Deconstructing the South African Governments ICT for Development Discourse | 816 |
E Bario Project1 In Search of a Methodology to Provide Access to Information Communication Technologies for Rural Communities in Malaysia | 826 |
ICTs and the Communicative Conditions for Democracy A Local Experiment with WebMediated Civic Publicness | 840 |
The Creation of a Commercial Software Development Company in a Developing Country for Outsourcing Purposes | 862 |
The Information Society in Ukraine | 870 |
Telecommunication Problems in Rural Areas of Armenia | 877 |
ICT as an Example of Industrial Policy in EU | 882 |
Information Literacy for Telecenter Users in LowIncome Regional Mexican Communities | 889 |
Gender and ICT Policies and Programmes in an Indian State | 897 |
Crossing the Digital Divide in a Womens Community ICT Centre | 904 |
Developing Regional Tourism Using Information Communications Technology | 911 |
A Framework for OntologyBased Tourism Application Generator | 920 |
Developing Visual Tourism Recommender Systems | 938 |
Design and Implementation Approaches for LocationBased TourismRelated Services | 951 |
Collaborative Commerce and the Hotel Industry | 988 |
Peering into the Black Box A Holistic Framework for Innovating at the Intersection of ICT Health | 1002 |
Analysing a Rural Communitys Reception of ICT in Ghana | 1029 |
Factors Motivating the Acceptance of New Information and Communication Technologies in UK Healthcare A Test of Three Models | 1036 |
Information and Communication Technologies Towards a Mediated Learning Context | 1047 |
LearningSupported DecisionMaking ICTs as Feedback Systems | 1066 |
Reframing Information System Design as Learning Across Communities of Practice | 1083 |
The Transformation Model | 1102 |
The Influence of Constructivist ELearning System on Student Learning Outcomes | 1109 |
A Wireless Networking Curriculum Model for Network Engineering Technology Programs | 1122 |
AgentBased Architecture of a Distributed Laboratory System | 1130 |
A ProjectBased Learning Approach Online Group Collaborative Learning | 1143 |
TaskOriented Online Discussion A Practical Model for Student Learning | 1153 |
An Analysis of Student Persistence in Online Education | 1163 |
Transitioning from FacetoFace to Online Instruction How to Increase Presence and CognitiveSocial Interaction in an Online Information Security Ris... | 1179 |
ProjectBased Online Group Collaborative Learning Characteristics | 1190 |
Using Blended Learning to Develop Tertiary Students Skills of Critique | 1202 |
Using a Blended Model to Improve Delivery of Teacher Education Curriculum in Global Settings | 1216 |
Developing Staff Training in Virtual High Schools | 1225 |
A Model for Effectively Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum A ThreeStep Staff Development Program for Transforming Practice | 1234 |
Putting Enterprise Systems in a Larger ICT Context A Pedagogical Framework | 1244 |
An Embedded Collaborative Systems Model for Implementing ICTBased Multimedia Cartography Teaching and Learning | 1254 |
Computing Curricula A Comparison of Models | 1270 |
ICTEnabled Education in Africa A Sober Reflection on the Development Challenges | 1284 |
Information Communication Technologies Tools and Technologies | 1305 |
Internet A Right to Use and Access Information or a Utopia? | 1306 |
The Nearest Some of Us Will Ever Come to Information Heaven | 1328 |
Establishing a Knowledge Network of Local and Regional Development Subjects | 1352 |
Sex Tourism and the Internet Information Amplification and Moral Panics | 1360 |
Cultural Knowledge Management and Broadband Content in Development Open Content Platforms Copyright and Archives | 1379 |
The Right of Interpretation Who Decides the Success of Picture Mail? | 1395 |
The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Competitive Intelligence | 1414 |
Information and Communication Technology Tools for Competitive Intelligence | 1437 |
Its All in the Game How to Use SimulationGames for Competitive Intelligence and How to Support Them by ICT | 1445 |
Assessing Online Discussion Forum Participation | 1459 |
ENews Community Interaction through Journalism | 1468 |
Role of ICT in Establishing EGovernment System for Disadvantaged Communities | 1482 |
The Role of Place Tasmanian Insights on ICT and Regional Development | 1494 |
Radio for Social Development | 1506 |
Digital Bridges Extending ICT to Rural Communities Using Space Technologies | 1513 |
Voice Over IP for Rural Telecommunication Provision | 1530 |
ICTs as Tools for Poverty Reduction The Tanzanian Experience | 1538 |
Information Technology Standards in China | 1551 |
ICT and Distance Learning for Agricultural Extension in Low Income Countries | 1554 |
ICT for Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management in Organizations | 1561 |
Digital Business Portfolios Categories Content and Production | 1581 |
A SocioTechnical Analysis of Factors Affecting the Integration of ICT in Primary and Secondary Education | 1590 |
Satellite Technology in Schools | 1611 |
The Use of Online Technology in the Teaching and Learning Process WebCT Communication Technology or Communication Turn Off? | 1616 |
The Didactical Potential of Robotics for Education with Digital Media | 1630 |
Students Perceptions of the Laptop Program What Factors Should be Considered Before Implementing the Program | 1639 |
Game Mods Customizable Learning in a K16 Setting | 1647 |
A Statewide Analysis of Student Web Portfolios in New York Colleges and Universities | 1655 |
Innovative Technologies for Education and Learning Education and KnowledgeOriented Applications of Blogs Wikis Podcasts and More | 1666 |
Introducing GIS for Business in Higher Education | 1688 |
CAL Student Coaching Environment and Virtual Reality in Mechanical Engineering | 1696 |
Assessing the Effectiveness of Programmed Instruction and Collaborative Peer Tutoring in Teaching JavaTM | 1712 |
An Interactive Tool for Teaching and Learning LAN Design | 1726 |
LAN Designer A Software Tool to Enhance Learning and Teaching ServerBased LAN Design | 1741 |
Mobile ICT | 1752 |
Innovation in Wireless Technologies | 1758 |
New Challenges for Smart Organizations Demands for MobilityWireless Communication Technologies | 1765 |
Foreseeing the Future Lifestyle with Digital Music A Comparative Study between Mobile Phone Ring Tones and iPod | 1809 |
Screening in High Standard Innovating Film and Television in a Digital age through High Definition | 1820 |
Digital Cinema as Disruptive Technology Exploring New Business Models in the Age of Digital Distribution | 1832 |
Access to the Living Room Triple Play and Interactive Television Reshaping the ProducerConsumer Relation | 1846 |
Beauty and the Nerd Ethnographical Analyses in the Japanese Digitalization | 1855 |
Digital Imaging Trek A Practical Model for Managing the Demand of the Digitally Enabled Traveller | 1867 |
Adaptive Use of ICT in Response to Disintermediation | 1889 |
Virtual Reality Mapping Revisited IT Tools for the Divide Between Knowledge and Action in Tourism | 1896 |
USE IT to Create PatientRelation Management for Multiple Sclerosis Patients | 1909 |
Participatory 3D Modelling | 1925 |
An ICT Enabled Community in Rural Nigeria and the UK | 2003 |
ICT in Medical Education in Trinidad and Tobago | 2008 |
Clustering Dynamics of the ICT Sector in South Africa | 2014 |
ICT and the Tourism Information Marketplace in Australia | 2022 |
Potential Challenges of ICT Implementations in Sri Lanka | 2032 |
The EPabelan National ICT4PR Pilot Project Experiences and Challenges of Implementation in an Indonesian Context | 2052 |
Determining Whether ICT Improves Social Interactions | 2069 |
Formation of a KnowledgeBased Society through Utilization of Information Networking | 2076 |
Transforming the K12 Classroom with ICT Recognizing and Engaging New Configurations of Student Learning | 2084 |
Strategies for the Cooperation of Higher Education Institutions in ICT | 2104 |
Integrating ICT in Universities Some Actual Problems and Solutions | 2118 |
Diffusion of Educational Technology and Education Reform Examining Perceptual Barriers to Technology Integration | 2130 |
Evaluating the Learning Effectiveness of Using WebBased Instruction An Individual Differences Approach | 2143 |
Quality of Online Learning Applications Impact on Student Enjoyment Motivation and Anxiety | 2154 |
Virtual Reality Immersive Technology in Education | 2168 |
ELearning An Investigation into Students Reactions to Investment into IT at Tertiary Institutions | 2173 |
Guiding Our Way Needs and Motivations of Teachers in Online Learning Modeling Responsive Course Design | 2193 |
ComputerBased Health Information Systems Projects for Computerization or Health Management? Empirical Experiences from India | 2209 |
Current and Future State of ICT Deployment and Utilization in Healthcare An Analysis of CrossCultural Ethical Issues | 2232 |
Organizational and Social Implications of Information Communication Technologies | 2247 |
Convergence of ICT and Culture | 2248 |
Addressing the Cultural Dimensions of ELearning Where to Begin? | 2252 |
Group Process and Trust in Group Discussion | 2268 |
Community Information and Communication Technology Policy Partnership and Practice | 2282 |
Mind the Gap New Literacies Create New Divides | 2297 |
A New Generation Gap? Some Thoughts on the Consequences of Early ICT First Contact | 2311 |
Behavior Change through ICT Use Experiences from Relatively Healthy Populations | 2323 |
Articulating ICT Use Narratives in Everyday Life | 2341 |
ICT CoLs CoPs and Virtual Communities | 2350 |
Youre In My World NowTM Ownership and Access in the Proprietary Community of an MMOG1 | 2357 |
Digital Petri Dishes LiveJournal User Icons as a Space and Medium of Popular Cultural Production | 2372 |
Competent Web Dialogue Thoughts Linked in Digital Conversations | 2387 |
Differential Impacts of Social Presence on the Behavior Modeling Approach | 2398 |
Exploring the Behavioral Dimension of ClientServer Technology Implementation An Empirical Investigation | 2417 |
A Capacity Building Approach to Health Literacy through ICTs | 2434 |
Transforming Democracy through ICT | 2441 |
ICTs Empowerment and Development Articulating Grassroots Analysis Through Participatory Approaches | 2450 |
Enacting and Interpreting TechnologyFrom Usage to WellBeing Experiences of Indigenous Peoples with ICTs | 2464 |
ICTs and Educational Benefits in Regional Development | 2495 |
Support Networks for Rural and Regional Communities | 2514 |
Digital Divide A Glance at the Problem in Moldova | 2531 |
Digital Opportunities Equity and Poverty in Latin America | 2566 |
Integrating ICTs in African Development Challenges and Opportunities in SubSaharan Africa | 2586 |
Poverty Reduction through CommunityCompatible ICTs Examples from Botswana and other African Countries | 2617 |
Interactions among Thai Culture ICT and IT Ethics | 2637 |
The Use of Information and Communication Technology for the Preservation of Aboriginal Culture The Badimaya People of Western Australia | 2652 |
ICT and the Orang Asli in Malaysia | 2656 |
Information and Communication Technology and Economic Development in Malaysia | 2659 |
Urban Information Systems in Turkish Local Governments | 2673 |
Human Rights Movements and the Internet From Local Contexts to Global Engagement | 2682 |
Learning IT Where do Lectures Fit? | 2708 |
Information Technology Certification A Student Perspective | 2718 |
The Effects of Human Factors on the Use of WebBased Instruction | 2728 |
Exploring the Rhetoric on Representing the User Discourses on User Involvement in Academia and the IT Artifact Product Development Industry | 2741 |
EGovernment Practices in Regional Context Turkish Case | 2772 |
Information Security in Small Businesses | 2791 |
Impact of Organisational Intranets on Profitability in Organisations | 2817 |
Training Sequences and their Effects on Task Performance and User Outcomes | 2845 |
CareerQuesting Evaluating WebBased Resources for Interesting Girls in STEM Careers | 2863 |
Feeling Welcome Internet Tourism Marketing Across Cultures | 2877 |
ICT and the Travel Industry Opportunities and Challenges for New Zealand Travel Agents | 2898 |
Managerial Impact of Information Communication Technologies | 2917 |
Holistic Approach to Align ICT Capabilities with Business Integration | 2918 |
A Framework for Business Performance Management | 2933 |
Neural Data Mining System for TrustBased Evaluation in Smart Organizations | 2950 |
E Commerce and Small Tourism Firms | 2968 |
Towards Improved Business Planning Decision Support for SmalltoMedium Tourism Enterprise Operations | 2976 |
Investing in Online Privacy Policy for Small Business as Part of B2C Web Site Management Issues and Challenges | 2998 |
The Use of IT in Small Business Efficiency and Effectiveness in South Africa | 3007 |
Information Technology Investment Evaluation and Measurement Methodology A Case Study and Action Research of the Dimensions and Measures... | 3021 |
Examining the Approach Used for Information Technology Investment Decisions by Practitioners Responsible for IT Planning in Namibia | 3036 |
A Case Study on the Selection and Evaluation of Software for an Internet Organisation | 3042 |
Managing SocioTechnical Integration in Iterative Information System Development Projects | 3057 |
Several Simple Shared Stable Decision Premises for Technochange | 3072 |
Integrating Real Option and Dynamic Capability Theories of Firm Boundaries The Logic of Early Acquisition in the ICT Industry | 3083 |
IT Training as a Strategy for Business Productivity in Developing Countries | 3101 |
Action Research Methods | 3112 |
The Impact of IT Investment in South African ECommerce SME Organizations | 3119 |
Organizational Performance and IT Investment Intensity of South African Companies | 3129 |
Government Procurement ICTs Impact on the Sustainability of SMEs and Regional Communities | 3137 |
Women Entrepreneurs in Finnish ICT Industry | 3142 |
Directing Equal Pay in the UK ICT Labour Market | 3150 |
MNE Knowledge Management Across Borders and ICT | 3158 |
Is Organizational eDemocracy Inevitable? The Impact of Information Technologies on Communication Effectiveness | 3171 |
The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Managing Cultural Diversity in the Modern Workforce Challenges and Issues | 3190 |
Creating an Entrepreneurial Mindset Getting the Process Right for Information and Communication Technology Students | 3207 |
Working at Home Negotiating Space and Place | 3229 |
WritingAcrosstheITMIS Curriculum | 3246 |
Management of Telecommunications Services A Vital New Content Area and a Course Model for the College Business | 3259 |
Critical Issues in Information Communication Technologies | 3272 |
ICT Work Organisations and Society | 3273 |
A Time Series Analysis of International ICT Spillover | 3285 |
From Information Society to Global Village of Wisdom? The Role of ICT in Realizing Social Justice in the Developing World | 3299 |
What Kinds of Organisations do We Want to Build in Africa with Information Communication Technology? | 3322 |
Computing and ICT Literacy From Students Misconceptions and Mental Schemes to the Monitoring of the TeachingLearning Process | 3338 |
ICT in Schools What is of Educational Value? | 3348 |
ICT Knowledge Construction and Evolution Subject Community and Society | 3368 |
Attitudes Towards ICT in Australian High Schools | 3384 |
A Comparative Analysis of Online and Traditional Undergraduate Business Law Classes | 3391 |
Concerns with Mutual Constitution A Critical Realist Commentary | 3405 |
Emotional Digitalization as Technology of the Postmodern A Reflexive Examination from the View of the Industry | 3417 |
OptimalityTheoretic Lexical Mapping Theory A Case Study of Locative Inversion | 3428 |
Trusting Computers Through Trusting Humans Software Verification in a SafetyCritical Information System | 3460 |
Propagating the Ideal The Mobile Communication Paradox | 3475 |
A DeConstruction of Wireless Device Usage | 3489 |
Virtual Networking without a Backpack? Resource Consumption of Information Technologies | 3500 |
Cultural Factors and Collective Identity of Women in ICT | 3514 |
A Cultural Studies Approach to Gender and ICT | 3522 |
Whos Talking Online? A Descriptive Analysis of Gender Online Communication | 3529 |
Whos Talking Online II Revisiting Gender and Online Communications | 3540 |
Cultivating Greater Acceptance of Women in Technology A Pilot Study | 3552 |
Are CrossGender Conversations in Threaded Discussions Reminiscent of Communicating Across Cultural Boundaries? | 3566 |
The Paleolithic Stone Age Effect? Gender Differences Performing Specific ComputerGenerated Spatial Tasks | 3578 |
Emerging Trends in Information Communication Technologies | 3602 |
Bringing the Next Billion Online Cooperative Strategies to Create Internet Demand in Emerging Markets | 3603 |
ICT and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis | 3623 |
Creating Competitive Advantage The Emergence of a New Business through Collaborative NetworksAn Empirical Case Study in the ICT Sector | 3634 |
Enabling the Expansion of Microfinance Using Information and Communication Technologies | 3658 |
Management of New Genetic Knowledge for Economic and Regional Development of Ethnic Minorities in China | 3681 |
Visualizing ICT Change in the Academy | 3695 |
Perspectives on 21st Century ELearning in Higher Education | 3716 |
RFID New Technology on the Horizon for IT Majors | 3730 |
Games and Advertisement Beyond Banners and Billboards | 3744 |
Believe It or Not Virtual Religion in the 21st Century | 3759 |
Changing Technological Trends in the Travel Behaviour of Older Tourists | 3768 |
New ICTs for Conflict Prevention and Management | 3784 |
Crossing the Digital Divide and Putting ICT to Work to Improve Peoples Lives | 3804 |
Creative London? Investigating New Modalities of Work in the Cultural Industries | 3807 |
InformationCommunications Systems Convergence Paradigm Invisible ECulture and ETechnologies | 3820 |
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