...Pan Ji; W. Wayne Fu Purpose This study aims to examine how information and social gratifications sought by Internet users affect their affinity for the Internet or for particular types of online content. Design/methodology/approach A survey was administered in Singapore to collect data...

... Internet Information Conflict Data analysis Correlation analysis It was said 40 years ago, that new communication technologies were having a profound impact on the interrelationships among people and on the shaping of society (McLuhan, 1964). This still holds true today. Computer‐mediated...

... cultures. The objective of this exploratory study is to construct a research framework for cross‐cultural comparison of corporate Web pages, applying traditional advertising content study techniques. A series of pre‐tests were conducted to examine three explanatory variables, i.e. information content...

...Harry Bruce The study described in this article aimed to gather insights into what people think when they search the Internet for information. The premise is that people relate to information services and systems metaphorically. In other words, they identify the system or service as analogous...

... design processes, the authors developed a user‐based design process, gathering user input at three different times in the process. Delineating this four‐stage process (information‐gathering; development; test and evaluation; and implementation) is a major focus of the paper. In addition to explaining...

...Amos P.N. Thapisa; Elizabeth Birabwa The article explores Africa’s initiative at building a regional plan for the formulation and development of a National Information and Communication Infrastructure (NICIP) in every African state. The paper also examines the challenges and opportunities...

...David G. Schwartz Notes that until the advent of the Internet, major libraries and text repositories were considered by all as bastions of information, but the Internet has opened up a treasure‐trove of information for researchers and seekers of knowledge throughout the world. It has become common...

...Colette Flesch Considers the correct role of the European Commission in the light of its dependency on information from all European Union institutions. 1 According to a recent Andersen Consulting study, almost half of the new jobs created in the last five years in the USA have involved...

...David D. Thornburg The passing of the information age is announced and explained, and we are welcomed to its successor and paradigm for the immediate future,the communication age. The vital importance of the communication age to K‐12 education is outlined. Special notice is made of the emerging...

...Christina S. Doyle The Telemation project, a California grant‐funded training project,trained approximately 450 teachers through institutes conducted in the spring and fall of 1994. A central theme in this project is information literacy – the ability to access, evaluate, and use information from...

... by a governmental client, which in this case was the US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. The commission was interested in ascertaining the range of activities sponsored by the networks and in determining their involvement or lack of involvement with local public libraries. Participating...

...Shawn W. Yerxa; Marita Moll The Public Advisory Council on Information Highway Policy (PACIHP)project is discussed in terms of activities, difficulties, successes,impact, motivations, and background. This paper is presented in two parts. The first part details how project organizers have attempted...

... Administration′s National Information Infrastructure initiative, the entire nation has begun to buzz with talk of the whys, wherefores, and how‐tos of making this way to doing business the rule rather than the exception of twenty‐first‐century life and enterprise. This paper surveys the politics and economics...

...Ronald D. Doctor Available evidence indicates that there is a growing gap between the information rich and information poor. That gap is part of a larger struggle for control of information resources and for the societal power that accompanies such control. New institutional arrangements...

...John Carlo Bertot; Charles R. McClure Federal government agencies increasingly use electronic bulletin board technology as a means of providing access to and dissemination of electronic government information. This paper identifies and analyzes existing government bulletin boards (BBSs). It also...

...Frank Odasz Communities of all sizes now have the ability to gain access to the Internet for minimal costs. Access to the Internet has created a kind of global “infomarketplacerdquo; by making business information and expert advice readily available. Communities can take advantage of this low‐cost...

...Jack Kessler The French are becoming world leaders in networked information. The key to this development is the immediate access to the general public provided by their national Minitel system. New networked libraries are being built, existing libraries are going online, and the crisis‐ridden...