...Zahra Shamlou; Mohammad Karim Saberi; Mohammad Reza Amiri Purpose Today, the Internet has become an attractive source for obtaining health information. Since women play an important role in maintaining the health of the family and community and since they are active seekers of health information...

... control to guarantee a proper provision of services that meet citizens’ requirements. The purpose of this paper is to focus on Spanish local government with the intention of determining the impact of the internal control structure on the disclosure of financial information on the internet. Design...

... Bill Clinton’s 1992 US presidential election campaign, where position papers, full texts of speeches and candidate biographies were posted online, the internet has increasingly been adopted as a communication and electoral campaign tool by political actors worldwide. Consequently, a significant body...

... Learning Spaces Online: Scaffolding and Decision-making Technologies Hershey, PA IGI Global/Information Science Reference 2012 286 pp. 9781613503201 US$175.00 hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Internet Web sites Discovery learning Self...

... series of investigations by the authors, which has examined the use of the internet by political parties and candidates during parliamentary election campaigns in Scotland. These are the only such studies which have looked specifically at the Scottish political arena. Internationally, most studies...

... and the effects of the internet on this conflict. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a case study of the 2007 presidential election in Korea. During the campaign period, two video clips (one on YouTube and the other on Daum, a major domestic web portal) emerged and implicated the then‐leading...

...Mariam Jalalifard; Yaghoub Norouzi; Alireza Isfandyari‐Moghaddam Purpose The aim of this study is to compare the situation of internet resource citations in scientific articles of the journals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences from 2005‐2009. Design/methodology/approach...

... is the result of progressive loss of control over personal information that creates expectation for more information. Blogging Self‐presentation Self‐disclosure Latin American blogosphere Internet Blogs Online communication has become an integral part of people's everyday lives so...

... Webometric Scaling technique Ranking technique Libraries Internet Wang (2005) evaluated demographic web sites. This study synthesizes the widely used conventional criteria into Six C's for the sake of simplicity and applicability. Then, important Webometric criteria such as popularity...

...Graeme Brown; David McMenemy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the way that Scottish public library authorities are implementing filtering software as a public access internet management tool. The aim of the study is to determine the extent to which filtering systems are used...

...Daqing He; Dan Wu; Zhen Yue; Anna Fu; Kim Thien Vo Purpose This paper aims to identify the opinions of undergraduate students on the importance of internet‐based information sources when they undertake academic tasks. Design/methodology/approach Based on a set of identified typical academic...

... the use of the internet and mobile phones as tools for building democracy and bringing change. Evidence shows that social media played a major role in bringing down long‐standing dictatorships. The new media challenged government imposed media controls and provided activists with new tools for organising...

... Periodicals Publishing Internet Articles published in academic journals usually contain a list of references, ranging from a few key articles to an extensive list of over a hundred publications. The accuracy of these references is important for a variety of reasons. The author of the paper cites...

...Frank Parry Melius   Weideman . Website Visibility: The Theory and Practice of Improving Rankings . Oxford : Chandos   2009 . , ISBN: 9781843344735 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Websites Internet Web designers Web rankings The internet...

...Graeme Baxter; Rita Marcella; Evaggelos Varfis Purpose This paper seeks to report the results of a study, which investigated the use of the internet by political parties and individual candidates in Scotland as part of their campaign for election to the UK Parliament in 2010. Design/methodology...

... there is enough data for both to be feasible. Mike Thelwall can be contacted at: m.thelwall@wlv.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Link analysis Webometrics URL citations Online impact Web sites Search engines Internet Link analysis is a broad term used for investigations...

... provider's role has been seen as limited, given the common dynamic of being captured by user needs. Paul Matthews can be contacted at: Paul2.matthews@uwe.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Epistemology Social networking sites Internet Communities Knowledge sharing...

.... The questionnaire surveys tended to ask questions on one or more of the following topics: Peter Williams can be contacted at: peterwilliams@ucl.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Ethics Social dynamics Consumer behaviour Copyright law Intellectual property Internet The aims...

..., the main findings of the CIBER study of the Google generation are summarised. The limitations and main focus on advanced countries in the present understanding of internet use are stressed. The current state of internet use in Mexico is summarised. Findings The need for proactive global policies aimed...

... at these results, an experiment that could be repeated with different web sites. Beatriz Plaza can be contacted at: beatriz.plaza@ehu.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Internet User studies Worldwide web Systems analysis Data mining Hundreds of thousands of academics worldwide...