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Cook, Torgeir Pedersen. "Internet Control for Residential Users." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for telematikk, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-21884.
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Internet based services have become an important part of our lives, and broadband access has reached the commodity phase in most developed countries. A growing portion of the time spent on-line among younger Internet users are related to social media and entertainment services. This evolution is not possible or even desirable to reverse, but for certain user groups it is clear that some level of control and restrictions are required. There are many examples of children which are addicted to "being online" while their parents do not even know about the situation. There are many solutions for parental control in the market today which address this problem, but they are all either very easy to bypass or too difficult to understand and use for e.g. parents. The children are in many cases smarter than their parents when it comes to Internet.The scope of this project is to make a prototype of an Internet Control solution for Residential Users based on the Raspberry PI model B HW and Linux OS, or an alternative platform if found appropriate. The solution should be controlled from a central server, and the administration interfaces offered to system administrators should come from here. Candidate interfaces are app?s for iphone and/or Android, SMS control and regular web interfaces. The development is expected to require programming in Java and HTML, and a selection of whatever scripting tools/languages appropriate on the development platform. Knowledge about Linux, iOS and Android are beneficial.
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Daramola, O. (Oladipo). "Young children as Internet users." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201505261650.
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In the current available research concerning the real usage of the internet among the young children, most researchers particularly emphases on the risk and opportunities regarding the active use of the internet. Limited experimental research emphases on the role-based and impact of the parent guidelines in the context. In the current studies, internet parenting methods are well-defined and operationalized to study the influence on the real usage of the internet among children both at home and in school. In these researches two major dimensions are distinguished in the internet parenting methods: that is parental control and parental warmth.
The methods differ when controlling for parent gender, educational background, and age appropriateness. Parenting methods are also seen to be connected significantly to the level of parent internet usage, internet attitude and internet experience. Parental methods have been found to contribute greatly to the child internet usage. The highest internet level usage among the children is apparent when the parents approve a permissive parenting method; the lowest level is observed when the parent approves controlled internet parenting method. The variables internet parenting method, parent internet behavior, and parent educational background greatly influence Internet usage of children at home and school. The aim of this thesis is was to addressing a fundamental research question: “What parents think about their children’s Internet use.”
The theoretic and practical inferences are discussed and directions for future research. The research question in this thesis involves a qualitative study that involves a semi-structured interview conducted in a comfortable and friendly environment. As a requirement eleven children and five families were interviewed. The parents who were interviewed are well aware of their children internet access and usage.
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Clavio, Galen. "Uses and gratifications of Internet collegiate sport message board users." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319833.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 2008.Title from home page (viewed on May 13, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 2922. Adviser: Paul M. Pedersen.
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Hogan, Amy Louise. "Users' metaphoric interaction with the Internet." Thesis, University of Bath, 2008. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519918.
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Casey, Rebecca Eileen. "ICANN or ICANN't Represent Internet Users." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34803.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the organization that provides the technical support for the Internet. ICANN is a nonprofit organization based in California and is under contract to the United States Department of Commerce. It has come under attack from many sides because it is contracted through the U.S. government and it is a private entity. One of the main components of the controversy surrounding ICANN is whether it can represent a global society as a private entity and whether that private entity can represent Internet users. I focus my study on ICANN's Board of Directors. I evaluated the Board on the dimensions of descriptive, substantive, and formal representation (Pitkin 1967). Evaluation of ICANN's descriptive representation focused on the Board members' sex, educational backgrounds, and nationalities and compared the geographic representation on the Board to the global distribution of Internet users. The assessment of substantive representation looked at the Board members' votes to determine if patterns could be viewed based on members' descriptive characteristics. Finally, the evaluation of ICANN's formal representation examined its Bylaws, its 2006 contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporations Code.
The analysis found that the descriptive representativeness was low. The ICANN Board does not mirror Internet users: few women have served on the Board, those with technical educational backgrounds dominated, and the regions were not represented proportionate to their use of the Internet. Analysis of substantive representativeness was inconclusive and further investigation is needed. The formal representation analysis suggests that the ICANN Board has been formally representative.Master of Arts
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Thünken, Florian. "Internet Censorship in China Recent Developments and Perception of Internet Censorship by Chinese Internet Users /." Würzburg : Univ., Inst. für Kulturwissenschaften Ost- und Südasiens - Sinologie, 2008. http://www.opus-bayern.de/uni-wuerzburg/volltexte/2009/3444/.
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Banchs, Roca Albert. "Fair Allocation of Network Resources for Internet Users." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7025.
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In a commercial Internet, the traffic behavior is determined by the contracts between the ISPs and the users, where a user can be a dial-up user, or one corporate network or a group of individual customers or networks. Since the user is the entity with whom the contract is signed, it should also be the unit to which network resources are allocated. However, while much research in the past has been directed to fair resource allocations for flows (e.g. maxmin fairness and proportional fairness), much less effort has been invested on fair allocation of resources for users. The work done in this thesis tries to fill this gap: we study how to share fairly the network resources among users, when a user can possibly send several flows through different paths.The first part of the thesis focuses on the definition of a fairness criterion for the above problem: user maxmin fairness. The proposed criterion is based on the concepts of utility and welfare developed in the field of political science and political economics. We subdivide the problem of fairly allocating the network resources among users in two subproblems: 1) achieve fairness with respect to the utility experienced by the different users (inter-user fairness) and 2) achieve fairness with respect to the utility experienced by the different flows of a user (intra-user fairness). User maxmin fairness is the result of combining the two welfare functions that solve these two subproblems.
Along with the user maxmin fairness criterion, in this thesis we propose a mechanism to implement it: the User Fair Queuing (UFQ) mechanism. In UFQ, a user is allowed to assign any label values to his packets to indicate their relative priority. At the ingress, an algorithm is used to control these labels assigned by the user. We have shown mathematically that: (a) the proposed label control does not allow the asymptotic throughput of a user to exceed its fair rate, and (b) if users label their packets in order to maximize their level of satisfaction or utility, then the resulting bandwidth allocation is user maxmin fair.
In the last part of the thesis, we propose a network architecture for the Internet: the User Fair Differentiation (UFD) architecture. The UFD architecture extends the UFQ mechanism in such a way that its good features for resource sharing are preserved. In addition, UFD provides service differentiation, inter-domain communication, real-time traffic support and extensions for multicast and wireless. The fact that neither admission control nor signaling are required strongly contributes to the simplicity of UFD. The fact that no per-user state is kept at core nodes makes the proposed architecture scalable.
The performance of the UFD architecture has been extensively evaluated via simulations and a prototype implementation. Both simulation and experimental results have validated the architecture proposed in this thesis.
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Pogreb, Sofya 1978. "Virtual communities : uniting Internet users with similar interests." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86637.
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Mbambo, Buhle. "The Internet as an information conduit in developing countries an investigation of World Wide Web usability among small and medium textile enterprises in Botswana /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2002. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03142007-135859.
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Draggeim, Alexandra V. "Internet Slang and China's Social Culture: A Case Study of Internet Users in Guiyang." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365374025.
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DURO, JORGE ALBERTO ZIETLOW. "DEVELOPMENT OF A LEARNING MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL FOR INTERNET USERS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5834@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORO presente trabalho se propõe a desenvolver um modelo de aprendizado do consumidor que contemple as dimensões do aprendente, do processo de aprendizagem e dos resultados obtidos neste aprendizado como melhor forma de entender e gerenciar estes consumidores. Para tal conduziu-se uma revisão bibliográfica e seguindo uma perspectiva interdisciplinar e multidisciplinar, recorreu-se às disciplinas de pedagogia, psicologia e marketing para formular tal modelo. Para avaliar o modelo multidisciplinar de aprendizagem, foi desenvolvida uma ferramenta em ambiente de internet que pudesse avaliar de maneira consistente e objetiva, todas as variáveis do modelo. Como resultado surgiram proposições que foram avaliadas em entrevistas com especialistas e correlacionadas a literatura existente. É objetivo deste trabalho entender melhor estes usuários, quer sejam consumidores de e- commerce ou não e poder melhor gerir o processo de aprendizado dos mesmos, algo novo e que terá impacto significativo no sucesso das organizações neste novo milênio.
The purpose of the present dissertation is to develop a consumer learning model that involves multidimensional aspects, considering the learner, the process of learning and the result of learning. This model also should allow to understand and manage these consumers. In this sense, the literature review was provided and according to a standpoint which is both inter and multidisciplinary, contributions from several disciplines like Pedagogy, Psychology and Marketing oriented the construction of the model. In order to evaluate the multidimensional model, a tool was developed in internet environment, considering all variables of the model, consistently and objectively. As result, propositens were originated and evaluated by specialists, in qualitative interviews, and related to the literature review. As result of this dissertation, the better understanding of internet users, consumers or not, can be provided in order to manage their learning process, which is something new and can promote significant impact in organizational success in this new millennium.
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Elysee, Pierre Arthur 1967. "Usage profiles : allocation of network capacity to Internet users." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86607.
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Pace, Steven. "Understanding the flow experiences of Web users /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20041208.134847/index.html.
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Liu, Xun. "Online posting anxiety and its influence on blogging comparing the U.S. and China /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Apr. 8, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-150). Also issued in print.
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Wei, Songjie. "Detecting anomalous Internet clients via behavior profiles and reputations." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 237 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885756001&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Elliott, Ian Alexander. "Psychological characteristics of users of child pornography on the internet." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2822/.
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This thesis uses the Integrated Theory of Sexual Offending (Ward & Beech, 2006) as a framework by which to investigate the psychological characteristics of individuals who access sexually explicit material involving children on the Internet. Chapter one reviews the applicability of sex offender theory to internet offender behaviour. Chapter two compares internet and contact sex offenders on a battery of self-report assessments, finding that internet offenders demonstrated greater victim empathy, fewer offence-supportive attitudes, and greater identification with fictional characters. Chapter three compared internet, contact and mixed internet/contact offenders on the same assessments, finding that mixed offenders were more similar to internet than contact offenders, with unique problems with self-management. Chapter four examined internet-specific offence-supportive attitudes in internet offenders, finding that endorsement levels were generally low, that items related to sexual compulsivity were most frequently endorsed, and that high-frequency online sex users endorsed more sexual compulsivity items and individuals without long-term relationships endorsed more online identity items. Chapter five examined the effects of exposure to sexually-salient material on decision-making, finding that previously-reported significant effects could not be replicated and that internet offenders did not differ from non-offender controls. The results are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications, further research, and methodological limitations.
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Al-Motrafi, Khalid A. "Internet financial reporting in Saudi Arabia : users' perceptions and disclosures." Thesis, Aston University, 2008. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/15266/.
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This thesis investigates corporate financial disclosure practices on Web sites and their impact. This is done, first by examining the views of various Saudi user groups (institutional investors, financial analysts and private investors) on disclosure of financial reporting on the Internet and assessing differences, if any, in perceptions of the groups. Over 303 individuals from three groups responded to a questionnaire. Views were elicited regarding: users attitude to the Internet infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, users information sources about companies in Saudi Arabia, respondents perception about the advantages and disadvantages in Internet financial reporting (IFR), respondents attitude to the quality of IFR provided by Saudi public companies and the impact of IFR on users information needs. Overall, it was found professional groups (Institutional investors, financial analysts) hold similar views in relation to many issues, while the opinions of private investors differ considerably. Second, the thesis examines the use of the Internet for the disclosure of financial and investor-related information by Saudi public companies (113 companies) and look to identify reasons for the differences in the online disclosure practices of companies by testing the association between eight firm-specific factors and the level of online disclosure. The financial disclosure index (167 items) is used to measure public company disclosure in Saudi Arabia. The descriptive part of the study reveals that 95 (84%) of the Saudi public companies in the sample had a website and 51 (45%) had a financial information section of some description. Furthermore, none of the sample companies provided 100% of the 167 index items applicable to the company. Results of multivariate analysis show that firm size and stock market listing are significant explanatory variables for the amount of information disclosed on corporate Web sites. The thesis finds a significant and negative relationship between the proportion of institutional ownership of a companys shares and the level of IFR.
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Lazarus, Seth A. "Cyber Mobs| A Model for Improving Protections for Internet Users." Thesis, Utica College, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10271260.
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Cyber mobs have grown to have a significant impact on individuals in real space and cyber space. Law enforcement and legislators have been confronted with challenges in mitigating the intangible harms inflicted by individuals of cyber mobs. Law enforcement, in most cases, is focused on solving cybercrimes associated with tangible harms. Thus, legislators seek to better protect cyber mob victims by increasing law enforcement training and focus on cyber mob incidents, as well as to create new legislation to better cope with the harms caused by cyber mobs. Much of the current research available focuses on the social aspects of cyber mobs, and before creating changes to statutes and law enforcement training, research is necessary to craft those changes better to counter cyber mob activities. The study reviewed several different types of cyber mobs, legislative measures, and cyber policing methods to provide recommendations. The research found that cyber mobs seem to overlap in their techniques, tactics, and procedures, though the harms they cause to accomplish their goals vary. In order to protect against their actions, research suggested, overall, that the examination of current legislation to create new methods of enforcement is necessary before creating additional statutes. In parallel with using current legislation, online communities already employ methods to police themselves, and these methods offer new avenues for law enforcement to work with these communities to better assist them when issues arise. These results demonstrated that much of what is necessary to protect against cyber mobs is already available, but it must be utilized differently to improve effectiveness.
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Hwang, Jennie M. "Being young and feeling blue in Taiwan An empirical study of the relationship between adolescent depressive mood and online and offline activities /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1331416501&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2007) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Barnett, George A., Feeley, Thomas H. Includes bibliographical references.
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Attar, Dena Wardah. "Women reading online : the gendered process of developing new literacy practices." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288612.
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This thesis examines the experiences of women becoming Internet users and readers of online texts. Millions of women in the UK began to access websites and exchange emails for the first time in the late 1990s and beginning of the 215' century. The existence of a gender gap amongst earlier adopters revealed that there must be particular obstacles facing women as new users and readers, which the thesis sets out to investigate using a multi-disciplinary approach and a range of research methods. The data is drawn from three distinct sources. First, sixteen female and six male readers were observed and interviewed while accessing their own choice of websites. This produced data on texts-in-use in conjunction with audiotaped literacy events, taking the method pioneered in schools by the Fact and Fiction Project, in its study of gender and literacy, in a new direction. Secondly, data on adult women learning to use the Internet was gathered in the form of a reflexive account of teaching beginners' classes between 2000 and 2002 at an inner-London public access location. Thirdly, women's reactions to one specific online text, an emailed petition about women in Afghanistan, were explored through an analysis of emails and comments made in interviews. The analysis situates reading online as a socially constructed literacy practice while stressing the distinctiveness of individual literacy events. It is argued that some events have particular significance, impeding or assisting the process of developing a repertoire of new literacy practices. The obstacles women face are identified as linked to the dominance of particular online texts, gendered power relations in the home and workplace, and previous educational experiences. Opportunities to create as well as read, and feeling sufficiently in control of work, access and technology, are identified as key factors in becoming a confident online reader
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Uhm, Seung-Yong. "Political anatomy of internet users in Korea : does the internet influence social capital and political participation?" Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1342.
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The thesis inquires about the factors affecting the behaviours and attitudes of Internet users, some of which may be contributory to the creation of social capital and the better performance of political process from the perspective of participatory democracy. Based on the use and gratification theory and other relevant theories, the model focuses on the causal relationships among the three groups of variables: internal motives for Internet use influence general patterns of individuals’ Internet usage, which are constructed as the sources of social capital; and the motives and the general patterns have impact on their political use of the Internet which I conceptualize as engagement in online political opportunities. The structural equation model is employed for confirming latent factors and conducting path analysis, providing the evidences of the causal relationships among the three factors: motives for Internet use, the sources of social capital and the properties of engagement in political opportunities. The details of the findings include: firstly, confirmatory factors analysis produced three needs of motives for Internet use (social, informational and emotional needs), two types of interpersonal ties (strong and weak ties), and two factors of engagement in online political opportunities (activeness and positiveness); secondly, social and informational needs have positive influence on the source of social capital, for example, by widening and deepening interpersonal relationships, in contrast of negative impact of emotional needs; thirdly, frequent visit to those websites serving entertainment information demonstrated negative impact on engagement in online political opportunities; fourthly, path analysis shows that while social needs and strong interpersonal ties have positive relationship on active use of online political opportunities, informational needs and weak ties have influence on positive evaluation of online political opportunities (efficacy); lastly, logistic regression analysis suggests individuals’ social and political capital in the offline context and their patterns of traditional media consumption may affect their engagement in online political opportunities. Ultimately, the thesis is aimed at understanding Internet users as actors in the political process from the view of social capital theory. In the plebiscitary, communitarian and pluralistic approach, individual use of the Internet makes political process more effective and democratic. The Internet makes actors in the process become more knowledgeable on public issues, rich in dense and loose interpersonal networks, and trusting in virtual community. In conclusion, using the Internet contributes the creation of social capital, establishing sustainable social environment for good governance.
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Ybarra, Michele. "Associations between depressive symptomatology and the report of unwanted internet experiences among young, regular internet users." Available to US Hopkins community, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/dlnow/308080.
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Pettepit, Elyssa G. "Television and internet dependence and the big five personality factors /." View abstract, 2000. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1597.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2000.Thesis advisor: Bradley Waite. " ... in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in [Psychology]." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-37).
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Skågeby, Jörgen. "Gifting technologies : ethnographic studies of end-users and social media sharing /." Linköping : Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings universitet, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11865.
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Fung, Kai Fung. "Interacting with each online banking user : an exploratory study of website adaptation impact on users' commitment." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2002. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/338.
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Anderson, Linda Maria. "MySpace use as a potentially dysfunctional internet behavior." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
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Hofstad, Niklas, and Anton Lundqvist. "Cookies, cookies everywhere! : A qualitative interview study about how internet users interact with cookie consent notices." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84344.
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The purpose of this study is to examine what reasons internet users have for accepting, declining, or adjusting cookie settings. The study’s research question is: what reasons do Internet users have for accepting, declining, or adjusting cookie settings? To answer the research question, we constructed three research support questions: 1) how do internet users access the internet?, 2) What are internet users’ perspectives on privacy on the internet?, 3) How do internet users interact with cookie consent notices? The study’s theoretical framework consists of informed consent, contextual integrity, nudging, and political economy. We conducted semi-structured interviews in order to get a deeper understanding of the internet users’ experiences with cookie consent notices. We analyzed the material through thematic coding. Due to the Covid19 pandemic, all interviews were conducted through Zoom. The sample consisted of eight media and communication students at Karlstad University. There were four key findings: 1) The interviewees in our study accessed the internet primarily via applications on their smartphones. 2) There were mixed opinions about who has the greatest responsibility for private citizens’ privacy on the internet. Although many thought that the individual bears most of the responsibility, a majority thought there is a need for more governmental regulation regarding collecting and processing private data. 3) All interviewees thought cookie consent notices are an excellent tool for protecting one’s privacy, but none of them adjusted the cookie settings regularly when prompted by cookie consent notices. 4) The reasons why the interviewees accept cookies without adjusting cookie settings varied. Habits and annoyance were key factors. The current climate where notice and choice is the de facto privacy measure for internet users is not sustainable. In conclusion, legislators and policymakers should focus on regulating how personal data is processed rather than pushing the responsibility of safeguarding personal data onto the users.
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Reilly, Paul John. "Framing online communications of civil and uncivil groups in post-conflict Northern Ireland." Connect to e-thesis. Move to record for print version, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/131/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Alshalan, Abdullah. "Cyber-crime fear and victimization." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2006. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-01232006-095728.
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Ekman, Joel. "Automatic detection of issues related to colour vision deficient internet users." Thesis, KTH, Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-209480.
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With increasing demand placed on online accessibility, a tool that enables developers to more easily build accessible websites for colour vision deficient (CVD) internet users becomes a crucial consideration. An extension was developed for the web browser, Google Chrome, and issues for CVD internet users were identified. The identification was based on the luminance and colour contrast between different objects next to each other on a web page, such as fonts and their background. The extension calculated how a CVD internet user would experience the colours and then checked the contrast between them. The extension's calculations and reliability was assessed through a evaluation with CVD internet users and the results suggested that it would be possible to reliably detect issues related to CVD internet users with a algorithm implemented in a Chrome extension.Med ökande krav på tillgänglighet på internet så ökar behovet av ett verktyg som underlättar för utvecklare att bygga hemsidor för personer med defekt färgseende. Ett tilläggsprogram utvecklades för webbläsaren Google Chrome, och problem för personer med defekt färgseende identifierades. Identifikationen baserades på luminanskontrast och färgkontrast mellan olika närliggande objekt på en hemsida, så som fonter och deras bakgrund. Tilläggsprogrammet beräknade hur en person med defekt färgseende upplever färgerna på hemsidan och kontrollerar kontrasten mellan dem. Tilläggsprogrammets tillförlitlighet bedömdes med hjälp av en utvärdering genomförd med personer med defekt färgseende. Utvärderingen indikerade att det är möjligt att tillförlitligt identifiera problem relaterade till personer med defekt färgseende med hjälp av en algoritm implementerad i ett Chrome tilläggsprogram.
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Kim, Tiffany Hyun-Jin. "All Trust Is Local: Empowering Users’ Authentication Decisions on the Internet." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2012. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/132.
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Golzard, Vahideh. "Cyberspace and empowerment : the perspective of women internet users in Tehran." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.713494.
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The purpose of this study is to attain information on women's use of the Internet by focusing on the ways it has empowered them. Tehran is selected as a field site because nearly one-fifth of the urban population in Iran lives in Tehran. Moreover, the Access to the Internet, particularly in this capital city, has developed enormously in the recent years. The main questions around which I have focused this enquiry are: "Has the Internet made a difference in the lives of women in the city of Tehran? Do they feel empowered by the Internet? This research is based on semi structured interviews which consist of a written list of ten questions. The research sample consists of 40 participants between the ages 13-45 years, whom I have selected through the snowballing sampling technique. The data for this study was collected during the summer 2010. The aim of this research is to attain information on women's use of the Internet and their perception about empowerment, mainly focusing on how much the use of the Internet contributes to their empowerment and in which ways does this occur. The data reveals that 80 per cent of the interviewed women acknowledge that the Internet has a significant impact on their personal and professional life. This group also believes that the Internet has opened up a new space for them. Their empowerment zones were focused on the aspects of individual (physical, psychological, and intellectual wellbeing), political, economic, social and cultural empowerment. However, 20 per cent of the participants stress that the Internet 'may' have made their life easier but has not brought about a big difference to their lives practically. The reason of this disagreement according to their views is related to the major obstacles they encounter in their easy access to the Internet.
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Krige, Philip. "Exploring attitudes towards banner advertising on the world wide web." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/997.
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The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of banner advertising on the World Wide Web, as well as to explore and analyse the attitudes and behaviours of internet users towards banner advertising. The research objective was to determine, why people do not click on banners and to find ways in which advertisers can make banner advertisements appeal to consumers more effectively. Outcomes of the research suggested which features advertisers should avoid when developing clickable banners. An extensive literature review was carried out in order to highlight important aspects of historic research. The analysis conducted on this topic indicated that a gap exists in the area of public attitudes towards clickable banner advertising and the reasons why people avoid clicking on banners. To address the above questions, peoples’ attitudes towards banner and other Internet advertising were investigated through focus group interviews and surveys. The findings suggest that the main reason for the ignorance surrounding clickable banners was the low involvement between the product or service being advertised and the viewer’s interests. Other reasons included the high annoyance level of banner advertising and the threat of viruses that some banners may pose. Conclusions of the research recommend narrow targeting and personalisation of banner advertisements, constant rotations and replacements of banners to avoid burnouts as well as trustful and original appeal and content. Other important findings included: • The majority of people are indifferent towards banners, • People with less than three years of Internet experience tend to click more than people with more than three years of Internet experience, • Females showed more “clickable behaviour” than males, • People are more likely to click on banners which present interesting information, are bright and animated or promote catchy phrases for the surfer, • People prefer to see banners located on the top of the page or on the right side of the page, • Pop-ups are the most noticeable and are possibly the route cause of what triggers people to become annoyed or dislike banner ads, Findings of this research have high social value. If advertisers would take into account the results of the current study, they would be able to create more effective banners, which could effectively be redirected to the appropriate target market. This will enable them to cut their costs. Furthermore, online users would enjoy a more polite and friendly online environment, where their interests will be taken into account, which would diminish the current gap between customers and advertisers.
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Sundewall, Thorén Elisabet. "Internet Interventions for Hearing Loss : Examing rehabilitation, self-report measures and internet use for hearing-aid users." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-103824.
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In the future, audiological rehabilitation of adults with hearing loss will be more available, personalized and thorough due to the possibilities offered by the internet. By using the internet as a platform it is also possible to perform the process of rehabilitation in a cost-effective way. With tailored online rehabilitation programs containing topics such as communication strategies, hearing tactics and how to handle hearing aids it might be possible to foster behavioral changes that will positively affect hearing aid users. Four studies were carried out in this thesis. The first study investigated internet usage among adults with hearing loss. In the second study the administration format, online vs. paper- and pencil, of four standardized questionnaires was evaluated. Finally two randomized controlled trials were performed evaluating the efficacy of online rehabilitation programs including professional guidance by an audiologist. The programs lasted over five weeks and were designed for experienced adult hearing-aid users. The effects of the online programs were compared with the effects of a control group. It can be concluded that the use of computers and the internet overall is at least at the same level for people with hearing loss as for the general age-matched population in Sweden. Furthermore, for three of the four included questionnaires, the participants’ scores remained the same across formats. It is however recommended that the administration format remain consistent across assessment points. Finally, results from the two concluding intervention studies provide preliminary evidence that the internet can be used to deliver education and rehabilitation to experienced hearing aid users who report residual hearing problems and that their problems are reduced by the intervention; however the content and design of the online rehabilitation program requires further investigation.
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Rutkauskienė, Ugnė. "Public libraries‘ social and economic impact on users." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20091228_152902-38031.
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The object of the dissertation is the impact of public libraries on users. The research is aiming at answering the question what is the impact of library public access computing on users and how can we evaluate it. The objectives of the dissertation are solved in three parts. The first part discusses definitions of impact, theoretical models and frameworks of its assessment and reviews the literature on impact evaluation in librarianship, highlighting the similarities and differences of general impact assessment concept and its adoption in librarianship. The second part presents the methodology of empirical study including target groups, methods, sampling, data collection and analyses. The third part describes study results which are summarized in the conclusions. The annexes provide additional information on research methodology as well as the extended results and research instruments.Disertacijos objektas yra viešųjų bibliotekų poveikis vartotojams. Moksliniu tyrimu yra sprendžiamas klausimas kokį poveikį vieša interneto prieiga per viešąsias bibliotekas daro vartotojams ir bendruomenėms ir kaip jis galėtų būti įvertinamas. Iškeltą problemą sprendžiantys uždaviniai įgyvendinami trijose disertacijos dalyse. Pirmojoje dalyje atskleidžiama poveikio samprata ir pristatomi jo vertinimo teoriniai modeliai bei apžvelgiami užsienio autorių bibliotekininkystės srityje atlikti poveikio vertinimo tyrimai, išryškinami panašumai ir skirtumai tarp bendrosios poveikio vertinimo teorijos ir jos taikymo bibliotekų poveikio vertinimui. Antrojoje dalyje pateikiama empirinio tyrimo metodologija: išsamiai pristatoma tyrimo metodika, pagrindžiamas metodų pasirinkimas, aptariamas tyrimo dizainas ir vykdymas bei išdavos. Trečiojoje dalyje pristatomi tyrimo rezultatai, kurie apibendrinami išvadose. Prieduose pateikiamas išplėstinis tyrimo metodikos taikymo aprašymas, pateikiami papildomi empirinio tyrimo duomenys ir jų rinkimo instrumentai.
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Metcalf, Caroline Marie. "Making sense of sex offenders and the Internet." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2006. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.714451.
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Chang, Yu. "eCulture : examining and quantifying cultural differences in user acceptance between Chinese and British web site users." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/319933.
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The World Wide Web (WWW) has become an important medium for communicating between people all over the world. It is regarded as a global system and is associated with a wide user and social system diversity. The effects of differing user-groups and their associated cultures on user acceptance of web sites can be significant, and as a result understanding the behaviour of web users in various cultures is becoming a significant concern. The eCulture research project is based on previous classical theories and research in culture. It applies a factorial experimental design strategy (the Taguchi method) in crosscultural usability / acceptability, together with other approaches such as semiotic analysis and card sorting. Two types of analysis, both top-down and bottom-up have been implemented to investigate differences in web site usability and acceptability between users from Mainland China and the United Kingdom. Based on experiments on web sites investigating the relationship between cultural issues and usability lacceptability aspects between Chinese and British web users, several issues, such as cultural factors, cognitive abilities, social semiotic differences and other issues have emerged. One of the goals has been to develop 'cultural fingerprints' for both web sites and users in different cultures. By comparing cultural and site fingerprints, usability and acceptability of web sites can be diagrammatically matched to the target culture. Experiments investigating qualitative factors and quantitative data collection and analysis based on the Taguchi method has led to the successful development of two versions of 'cultural fingerprint' for both web sites and target cultures in the UK and China. It has been possible to relate these studies to a wider body of knowledge, and to suggest ways in which the work may be extended in the future.
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Farahbakhsh, Reza. "Profiling professional and regular users on popular Internet services based on implementation of large scale Internet measurement tools." Thesis, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TELE0012/document.
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Les services Internet populaires modèlent et remodèlent fondamentalement les moyens traditionnels de communication des personnes, ayant ainsi un impact majeur sur leur vie sociale. Deux des services Internet très populaires avec cette caractéristique sont les Réseaux sociaux en ligne (OSN) et les systèmes Peer-to-Peer (P2P). Les ONS fournissent un environnement virtuel où les gens peuvent partager leurs informations et leurs intérêts tout en étant en contact avec d'autres personnes. D'autre part, les systèmes P2P, qui sont toujours l'un des services populaires avec une grande proportion de l'ensemble du trafic Internet, offrent une occasion en or pour leurs clients de partager un type de contenu différent, y compris le contenu protégé. En dehors de l'énorme popularité des ONS et des systèmes de P2P parmi les utilisateurs réguliers, ils sont intensivement utilisés par les professionnels (grandes entreprises, politiciens, athlètes, célébrités en cas d'ONS et éditeurs de contenu professionnels en cas de P2P) afin d'interagir avec les gens à des fins différentes (campagnes marketing, les commentaires des clients, amélioration de la réputation publique, etc.) Dans cette thèse, nous caractérisons le comportement des utilisateurs réguliers et professionnels dans les deux services mentionnés populaires (ONS et P2P) en termes de stratégies de publication, de consommation de contenu et d'analyse comportementale. À cette fin, cinq de nos études menées sont présentées dans ce manuscrit comme suit: - "L'évolution des contenus multimédias", qui présente une analyse approfondie sur l'évolution du contenu multimédia disponible en BitTorrent en se concentrant sur quatre mesures pertinentes à travers différentes catégories de contenu : la disponibilité du contenu, la popularité du contenu, la taille de contenu et les commentaires de l'utilisateur - "La réaction des utilisateurs professionnels face aux actions de lutte contre le piratage", en examinant l'impact de deux grandes actions de lutte contre le piratage - la fermeture de Megaupload et la mise en œuvre de la loi anti-piratage française (HADOPI) - sur le comportement des publicateurs professionnels dans le plus grand portail de BitTorrent qui sont les principaux fournisseurs de contenu en ligne protégé. - "La quantité d'informations divulguées sur Facebook", en enquêtant sur l'exposition publique des profils utilisateurs, une grande base de données comprenant un demi-million d'utilisateurs réguliers. - "Les utilisateurs professionnels Cross Posting Activity», en analysant le modèle de publication des utilisateurs professionnels de mêmes informations sur trois grands ONS à savoir Facebook, Google+ et Twitter. - "Les stratégies des utilisateurs professionnels dans les ONS", où nous étudions la stratégie globale d'utilisateurs professionnels par secteur (par exemple, les entreprises de voitures, l'habillement, politiques, etc.) sur Facebook, Google+ et Twitter. Les résultats de cette thèse fournissent une vision d'ensemble pour comprendre certains aspects comportementaux importants de différents types d'utilisateurs des services Internet populaires et ces contributions peuvent être utilisées dans divers domaines (par exemple analyse de campagne marketing et publicité, etc.) et les différentes parties peuvent bénéficier des résultats et des méthodologies mises en œuvre telles que les FAI et les propriétaires des services pour leur planification ou l'expansion des services actuels à venir, ainsi que les professionnels pour accroître leur succès sur les médias sociauxPopular Internet services are fundamentally shaping and reshaping traditional ways of people communication, thus having a major impact on their social life. Two of the very popular Internet services with this characteristic are Online Social Networks (OSNs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems. OSNs provide a virtual environment where people can share their information and interests as well as being in contact with other people. On the other hand, P2P systems, which are still one of the popular services with a large proportion of the whole Internet traffic, provide a golden opportunity for their customers to share different type of content including copyrighted content. Apart from the huge popularity of OSNs and P2P systems among regular users, they are being intensively used by professional players (big companies, politician, athletes, celebrities in case of OSNs and professional content publishers in case of P2P) in order to interact with people for different purposes (marketing campaigns, customer feedback, public reputation improvement, etc.). In this thesis, we characterize the behavior of regular and professional users in the two mentioned popular services (OSNs and P2P systems) in terms of publishing strategies, content consumption and behavioral analysis. To this end, five of our conducted studies are presented in this manuscript as follows: - “The evolution of multimedia contents", which presents a thorough analysis on the evolution of multimedia content available in BitTorrent by focusing on four relevant metrics across different content categories: content availability, content popularity, content size and user's feedback. - “The reaction of professional users to antipiracy actions", by examining the impact of two major antipiracy actions, the closure of Megaupload and the implementation of the French antipiracy law (HADOPI), on professional publishers behavior in the largest BitTorrent portal who are major providers of online copyrighted content. - “The amount of disclosed information on Facebook", by investigating the public exposure of Facebook users' profile attributes in a large dataset including half million regular users. - “Professional users Cross Posting Activity", by analyzing the publishing pattern of professional users which includes same information over three major OSNs namely Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. - “Professional Users' Strategies in OSNs", where we investigate the global strategy of professional users by sector (e.g., Cars companies, Clothing companies, Politician, etc.) over Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. The outcomes of this thesis provide an overall vision to understand some important behavioral aspects of different types of users on popular Internet services and these contributions can be used in various domains (e.g. marketing analysis and advertising campaign, etc.) and different parties can benefit from the results and the implemented methodologies such as ISPs and owners of the Services for their future planning or expansion of the current services as well as professional players to increase their success on social media
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Farahbakhsh, Reza. "Profiling professional and regular users on popular Internet services based on implementation of large scale Internet measurement tools." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TELE0012.
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Les services Internet populaires modèlent et remodèlent fondamentalement les moyens traditionnels de communication des personnes, ayant ainsi un impact majeur sur leur vie sociale. Deux des services Internet très populaires avec cette caractéristique sont les Réseaux sociaux en ligne (OSN) et les systèmes Peer-to-Peer (P2P). Les ONS fournissent un environnement virtuel où les gens peuvent partager leurs informations et leurs intérêts tout en étant en contact avec d'autres personnes. D'autre part, les systèmes P2P, qui sont toujours l'un des services populaires avec une grande proportion de l'ensemble du trafic Internet, offrent une occasion en or pour leurs clients de partager un type de contenu différent, y compris le contenu protégé. En dehors de l'énorme popularité des ONS et des systèmes de P2P parmi les utilisateurs réguliers, ils sont intensivement utilisés par les professionnels (grandes entreprises, politiciens, athlètes, célébrités en cas d'ONS et éditeurs de contenu professionnels en cas de P2P) afin d'interagir avec les gens à des fins différentes (campagnes marketing, les commentaires des clients, amélioration de la réputation publique, etc.) Dans cette thèse, nous caractérisons le comportement des utilisateurs réguliers et professionnels dans les deux services mentionnés populaires (ONS et P2P) en termes de stratégies de publication, de consommation de contenu et d'analyse comportementale. À cette fin, cinq de nos études menées sont présentées dans ce manuscrit comme suit: - "L'évolution des contenus multimédias", qui présente une analyse approfondie sur l'évolution du contenu multimédia disponible en BitTorrent en se concentrant sur quatre mesures pertinentes à travers différentes catégories de contenu : la disponibilité du contenu, la popularité du contenu, la taille de contenu et les commentaires de l'utilisateur - "La réaction des utilisateurs professionnels face aux actions de lutte contre le piratage", en examinant l'impact de deux grandes actions de lutte contre le piratage - la fermeture de Megaupload et la mise en œuvre de la loi anti-piratage française (HADOPI) - sur le comportement des publicateurs professionnels dans le plus grand portail de BitTorrent qui sont les principaux fournisseurs de contenu en ligne protégé. - "La quantité d'informations divulguées sur Facebook", en enquêtant sur l'exposition publique des profils utilisateurs, une grande base de données comprenant un demi-million d'utilisateurs réguliers. - "Les utilisateurs professionnels Cross Posting Activity», en analysant le modèle de publication des utilisateurs professionnels de mêmes informations sur trois grands ONS à savoir Facebook, Google+ et Twitter. - "Les stratégies des utilisateurs professionnels dans les ONS", où nous étudions la stratégie globale d'utilisateurs professionnels par secteur (par exemple, les entreprises de voitures, l'habillement, politiques, etc.) sur Facebook, Google+ et Twitter. Les résultats de cette thèse fournissent une vision d'ensemble pour comprendre certains aspects comportementaux importants de différents types d'utilisateurs des services Internet populaires et ces contributions peuvent être utilisées dans divers domaines (par exemple analyse de campagne marketing et publicité, etc.) et les différentes parties peuvent bénéficier des résultats et des méthodologies mises en œuvre telles que les FAI et les propriétaires des services pour leur planification ou l'expansion des services actuels à venir, ainsi que les professionnels pour accroître leur succès sur les médias sociauxPopular Internet services are fundamentally shaping and reshaping traditional ways of people communication, thus having a major impact on their social life. Two of the very popular Internet services with this characteristic are Online Social Networks (OSNs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems. OSNs provide a virtual environment where people can share their information and interests as well as being in contact with other people. On the other hand, P2P systems, which are still one of the popular services with a large proportion of the whole Internet traffic, provide a golden opportunity for their customers to share different type of content including copyrighted content. Apart from the huge popularity of OSNs and P2P systems among regular users, they are being intensively used by professional players (big companies, politician, athletes, celebrities in case of OSNs and professional content publishers in case of P2P) in order to interact with people for different purposes (marketing campaigns, customer feedback, public reputation improvement, etc.). In this thesis, we characterize the behavior of regular and professional users in the two mentioned popular services (OSNs and P2P systems) in terms of publishing strategies, content consumption and behavioral analysis. To this end, five of our conducted studies are presented in this manuscript as follows: - “The evolution of multimedia contents", which presents a thorough analysis on the evolution of multimedia content available in BitTorrent by focusing on four relevant metrics across different content categories: content availability, content popularity, content size and user's feedback. - “The reaction of professional users to antipiracy actions", by examining the impact of two major antipiracy actions, the closure of Megaupload and the implementation of the French antipiracy law (HADOPI), on professional publishers behavior in the largest BitTorrent portal who are major providers of online copyrighted content. - “The amount of disclosed information on Facebook", by investigating the public exposure of Facebook users' profile attributes in a large dataset including half million regular users. - “Professional users Cross Posting Activity", by analyzing the publishing pattern of professional users which includes same information over three major OSNs namely Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. - “Professional Users' Strategies in OSNs", where we investigate the global strategy of professional users by sector (e.g., Cars companies, Clothing companies, Politician, etc.) over Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. The outcomes of this thesis provide an overall vision to understand some important behavioral aspects of different types of users on popular Internet services and these contributions can be used in various domains (e.g. marketing analysis and advertising campaign, etc.) and different parties can benefit from the results and the implemented methodologies such as ISPs and owners of the Services for their future planning or expansion of the current services as well as professional players to increase their success on social media
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"Uses and gratifications of Internet collegiate sport message board users." INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 2009. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3319833.
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Yun, Jen-Wen, and 雲志文. "The Study of Internet Users' Attitudes toward Internet Advertising." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96716785006072744927.
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Chien, Hsiu-Chuan, and 簡秀娟. "Users’ Attitudes toward the Internet Advertising." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24372853702492762589.
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碩士國立交通大學
科技管理研究所
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The number of global internet users is growing every year, so internet becomes the fourth major media from which human beings get information. Because it is difficult to evaluate internet advertising, advertisers have doubted of its effect for a long time. The object of this research is to find out the system which affect users’ attitudes toward the internet advertising. We hope to help advertisers use internet advertising effectively. We use factor analysis to find out the factors that affect users’ attitudes toward internet advertising, cluster analysis to find out the relationship between the factors and demographic variables, and discriminate analysis to form discriminate functions. We also take use of path analysis to form the causation of the factors, attitude and purchasing intention. Based on the results of internet advertising satisfaction survey, advertisers could choose the direction to improve internet advertising immediately. We find out the advertising utility plays an important role on affecting users’ attitudes. Almost twenty percent of users have positive attitudes toward internet advertising and could use the information from advertising as daily purchasing reference. About forty percent of users have negative attitudes toward internet advertising and take the information as garbage. In average, users have better satisfaction at web advertising than E-mail advertising. Finally, we find out the attitudes would affect mouse-click intention, and mouse-click intention would also obviously affect purchasing intention.
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Liu, Che Chi, and 劉哲嘉. "The willingness of the Internet users to answer the Internet questionnaire." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81985997294956972069.
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碩士中國文化大學
新聞研究所碩士在職專班
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Abstracts Through the prevailing of the Internet, by the same token has caused the traditional market research to result in the mechanical changes. The computer assistant research already can surpass the limitation of the computerized telephone interview by placing the questionnaire on the Internet as a way to proceed with the Internet questionnaire investigation, which has become a latest method of investigation. Nevertheless, the widespread of the investigation on the Internet is facing an important bottleneck. Because the source of the questionnaire usually doesn’t come from the design of the sample selection, as the result, the collection of the investigation sample does not possess the random selection quality, which cannot represent the population of the Internet users, at the same time, it can easily twist the investigation result, and consequently be hard to control the real identity of the Internet user; the question of who filled out the content of the questionnaire or whether this person really exists, is really a major problem. The drafting of this research is to locate the object of the Internet investigation, which is to research from the direction of the Internet users, and through the theory that involve the consumer behavior in the sales field, to establish the basic structure, with purpose to find out the relationship between the Internet users and their willingness to answer the Internet questionnaire. From the result of this research we have discovered, the willingness of the Internet users to answer the questionnaire is complicated, which we are unable from a single factor to understand the willingness of an individual to answer the questionnaire. Moreover, the Internet has given an individual too big of a space to explore the freedom, which has create the instability for the Internet sampling that has becoming hard to control. Our research has analyzed a fundamental pattern from the research result, which can be referred to the following reference: 1. The Internet users can based on the factors of age, degree of education, vocation and the position, to maintain the duration and the degree of interest in surfing the net, but because the factor of the motivation in using the Internet is being restricted, which will result in a high level of willingness by the users to answer the questionnaire. 2. The Internet users will based on the factors of marital status, the time of surfing the net every week, and the time of connecting with Internet, to maintain the duration and the degree of interest to surf the net, but will not be restricted by the factor of the users’ motivation, which will lead to a high level of willingness to answer the questionnaire. 3. The district where the users live, and the condition of the income, may or may not be affected by the motivation in using the Internet, under the condition of maintaining a high involvement, the willingness to answer questionnaire will also be high as well. 4. When the Internet users are passive in receiving information, the users, based on the restriction in the motivation, will not be willing to answer questionnaire. 5. Internet users will based on the factors of sexual identity, and number of times of surfing the net per week, by the time that they view a website or surfing the net, they will be easily affected by the surrounding website information. When answering the website questionnaire, the degree of influence will be higher, as the result, their willingness to answer questionnaire will be higher as well. 6. Internet users will based on the factor of income condition, when viewing a web page or surfing the net, may be influenced or not influenced by the restriction of the motivation in using the Internet, to further be affected by the surrounding website information, As the result when answering the website questionnaire, the higher the influence, the higher of the willingness to answer the questionnaire. 7. The Internet users will based on the elements of age, occupation, position, and the times of connecting with the Internet, when surfing the Internet, will be affected by the restriction of the users’ motivation, and as for the surrounding website information, they will choose not to care, as the result, they will not be willing to answer the questionnaire. Through the analysis of the above description of the basis pattern, it can be used by the future researchers with an additional direction of reference when carry out a website questionnaire.
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Chen, Hao Chih, and 陳厚志. "Internet Users’ Preference Toward Various Promotional Programs." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93214210740004364359.
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碩士淡江大學
管理科學學系
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The development of technology of Internet makes the number of Internet users increase gradually. And many businesses have made Internet a newly developed channel to reach the market. It is important that distributors develop marketing strategies to attract consumers’ attention in the newly Internet market. Promotion is regularly used in marketing, it not only can stimulate buyers'' purchasing behavior to increase sales, it even can attract other buyers who use the same products of different brands. The goal of using promotions is to increase buyers'' purchase intention through buyers'' feeling of getting additional benefit from promotions. In order to get the biggest benefit in such a competitive market, it is necessary for distributors to segment Internet users and select the target market. Distributors must develop marketing strategies based on the consumption trend of Internet users to make the biggest profit. Therefore, if Internet users were segmented by lifestyle, gender, age, and income, this study is to investigate that if various segment of Internet users’ preference were different for various promotional programs, including price-off, samples, sweepstakes, premiums, and coupons. Results of this study hopefully could provide marketers with strategic implications regarding the management of Internet stores. Questionnaire was distributed through the Internet to collect data for this study. Two-way ANOVA were employed to analyze the data. Results were as the following: 1.If Internet users were segmented by lifestyle, age, and income separately, preferences toward various promotional programs were significantly different among various segments. 2.If Internet users were segmented by gender, preferences toward various promotional programs were not significantly different among various segments.
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洪懿妍. "Internet Users'''' Cognitive Image on Electronic Newspaper." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75452604963902716253.
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碩士國立政治大學
新聞研究所
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The main purpose of this research is to portray the internet (BBS) users'''' cognitive image on electronic newspaper at this stage, compared with that on printed newspaper. Besides, this study will try to discover if there is a relation between the BBS users'''' reading behavior on newspaper and utilizing behavior on internet. If there is one, we would like to know what it is. This research takes as subjectes the registered users of CIS BBS at NCTU, selecting 500 samples in the way of interval sampling. Listed in the research questionnaire are the comparable items available between printed and electronic newspapers. we try to find out, in the answers of the subjects, their cognition and impression on electronic newspaper when compared with printed newspaper. The outcome of the research tells us that in the cognition of the subjects, the major differences between printed and electronic newspaper are factors auch as interactivity, availability/browsability, and objects to publish for. The subjects recognize that electronic nwespaper is obviously superior to its printed counterpart in terms of interactivity between media and the readers. The printed newspaper, however, is better in terms of availability, ready to be read at anytime and anywhere; while reading electronic nwespaper has to be confined within the locations where there are computers. Furthermore, the sbujects also think that the printed newspaper is published for everyone--as long as they are literate, they can read without difficulty; on the other hand, to read electronic newspaper the readers must have basic command in operating computer in addition to being literate. In the correlation analysis of the subjects'''' reading behavior on newspaper and utilizing behavior on internet with their cognition on electronic nwespaper, we find initiatively in the research that the subjects'''' reading frequency on electronic nwespaper and the cognition of ''''reliability of news'''' on electronic newspaper have a saliently positive correlation (r=.22), but the frequency and the cognition of ''''content of electronic newspaper'''' have a negative correlation (r=-.22). On the other hand, the correcation between the subjects'''' utilizing behavior on internet and their cognition on electronic newspaper is very low. Although in the correlation analysis non-salient cases prevails, but it is worth noticing that all the salient correlation aspects appear on the ''''content of electronic newspaper'''' --and the correlation are all negative. This means that the more frequently the readers access electronic newspaper or network, the lower their evaluation toward the content of electronic newspaper. Therefore, it is a serious problem for the developers to ponder about how to promote the quality of the content of electronic newspaper in order to attract more readers. We also find that non-electronic newspaper readers'''' evaluation on electronic newspaper is higher than that of the electronic newspaper readers. Higher evaluation perhaps reveals their higher expectation to electronic nwespaper. How to make the way electronic newspaper presented on Internet meets the expectation of the readers is also a problem for the publishers to think about.
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"Lifestyle of Internet users in Hong Kong." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889015.
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by Yew Sum.Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 57).
Questionnaire also in Chinese.
ABSTRACT --- p.ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii
LIST OF TABLES --- p.v
LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi
Chapter
Chapter I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Chapter II --- RESEARCH OBJECTIVES --- p.3
Purpose of This Study --- p.3
Scope of This Study --- p.3
Chapter III --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.4
Human Values and Value System --- p.4
Lifestyle --- p.5
Application of Lifestyle --- p.8
Chapter IV --- RESEARCH METHODOLGY --- p.10
Research Design --- p.10
Sample Selection --- p.10
Survey Design --- p.10
Questionnaire Development --- p.11
Timing of the Survey --- p.12
Chapter V --- ANALYSIS OF FINDINGS --- p.13
Response Rate --- p.13
User Groups Found --- p.13
User Groups --- p.15
Other Findings --- p.19
WWW Usage --- p.19
Hardware Resources Used --- p.20
Demographics --- p.21
Chapter VI --- LIMITATION OF THE STUDY --- p.22
Response and Non-Response Bias --- p.22
Sample Selection Bias --- p.22
Language used in Questionnaire --- p.23
Chapter VII --- PREVIOUS STUDIES --- p.24
VALS2 IN THE US --- p.24
Lifestyle Research in Hong Kong --- p.27
Internet User Surveys --- p.29
Survey in the US --- p.29
Survey in Hong Kong --- p.29
Comparison of Studies --- p.31
Lifestyle Groups --- p.31
Demographics and Hardware Resources --- p.32
Chapter VIII --- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS --- p.33
APPENDIX --- p.34
BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.57
Books --- p.57
Serials --- p.57
Web Sites --- p.57
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Kgopa, Alfred Thaga. "Information security issues facing internet café users." 2013. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001578.
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M. Tech. Business Information SystemsAlthough owners of Internet cafés extend the freedom to have Internet access to the community, they fail to tighten their computer security to safeguard the private information of their customers. This dissertation provides a conceptual framework for improving information security in the Internet Café, to help and ensure data privacy, data integrity, risk management and information security (IS) behaviour. The study investigated the information security issues that are faced by users of Internet cafés and explored the effects of these issues. The framework shows how users can improve their physical security to reach higher standards of information privacy over the Internet.
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Li, Jih-Pin, and 李日斌. "Explore Internet Users in Taiwan Neighbors Emotion." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53039762202008100360.
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Traditional political science research usually adopts random sampling to choose a number of subjects and inquires their opinions towards certain issues. The result is then generalized to estimate the opinions of the general population. In this study, we instead adopt text mining and sentiment analysis techniques, combined with the recognition of political science knowledge, to identify Taiwanese affections toward neighboring countries. This study is to investigate Taiwanese affections toward China, Japan, the United States about some important issues, as these three countries are consider the most important neighboring countries. Specifically, we base on the editorials and opinion forum from newspapers in the last four years to derive major topics by using Latent Dirichlett Allocation techniques. We then use the resultant LDA model to analyze the topic and employ sentiment analysis technique to analyze the sentiment for each post in major PTT forums that discuss the relationships between Taiwan and the three countries. The sentiment of all posts are aggregated to form the overall emotion toward China, Japan, and US.
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Mostert, P. G. (Pierre). "Buying behaviour of South African internet users." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29162.
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Shearer, Russell Farr. "Internet users personality, pathology, and relationship satisfaction /." 2009. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/shearer%5Frussell%5Ff%5F200905%5Fphd.
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