Research into the opportunities offered by electronic media as regards finding and acquiring knowledge, together with the development of new teaching and learning methods for the field of art and culture is the focus of the work being carried out by the Media Arts & Research Studies (MARS) research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication. This paper illustrates the requirement...

Using Media Richness Theory (MRT) as the theoreticalframework, this study compared the effects ofusing electronic mail (e-mail) to voice mail (v-mail) over the Internet toprovide studentfeedback. MRTwouldpredict that v-matl would be perceived as higher than e-mail in media richness. Results indicate, however, that the two media were not significantly different in terms ofperceived media richnes...

Communication flow of scientific information has been restructured with the development of new technologies and the Internet and their impact on social relations worldwide. The production of scientific knowledge has also been influenced by these cultural, social and economic changes and has contributed to new patterns of scientific communication. The objective of the study was to present the tr...

Web-based electronic stores have become more and more popular. However, there are not many guidelines, nor theories, showing what features of a store would work and why. This paper develops a set of functional guidelines for designing electronic stores and classifies them into three categories: motivational, hygiene, and media richness factors. An empirical study was conducted to evaluate the r...

In our modern age, electronic media usage is prevalent in almost every part of the

BACKGROUND Modern technology (ie, websites and social media) has significantly changed social mores in health information access and delivery. Although mass media campaigns for health intervention have proven effective and cost-effective in changing health behavior at a population scale, this is best studied in traditional media sources (ie, radio and television). Digital health interventions a...

The CONSORT-EHEALTH checklist is intended for authors of randomized trials evaluating webbased and Internet-based applications/interventions, including mobile interventions, electronic games (incl multiplayer games), social media, certain telehealth applications, and other interactive and/or networked electronic applications. Some of the items (e.g. all subitems under item 5 description of the ...

In business education advanced collaboration skills and media literacy are important for surviving in a globalized business where virtual communication between enterprises is part of the day-by-day business. To transform these global working situations into higher education, a learning scenario between two universities in Germany and Austria was created where students worked together in virtual...

The CONSORT-EHEALTH checklist is intended for authors of randomized trials evaluating webbased and Internet-based applications/interventions, including mobile interventions, electronic games (incl multiplayer games), social media, certain telehealth applications, and other interactive and/or networked electronic applications. Some of the items (e.g. all subitems under item 5 description of the ...