As voulantary organizations are differnt form business and governmental organizations in terms of structure, working methodologies and decision making, we are interested in the specific IT requirements and use in this sector. In this paper we investigate the Pakistani civil society sector to analyze the involvement of technology in their work settings. The paper also discusses two successful vi...

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Registration of the Message Media Feature Tag Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document registers with the IANA a new media feature tag associated with the 'message' media type. This media feature tag...

The goal of this article is to place the role that social media plays in collective action within a more general theoretical structure, using the events of the Arab Spring as a case study. The article presents two broad theoretical principles. The first is that one cannot understand the role of social media in collective action without first taking into account the political environment in whic...

Along with the rise of social networks and mobile media, health communication models also change with each passing day. Compared to traditional media, are the new media more effective to achieve the dissemination of health knowledge, or help people and patients to implement lifestyle adjustments? With the shift in modern lifestyles, social media have revolutionized health communication. The mea...

ABSRACT: In this paper we look at what the critical tradition in education has to offer to the phenomenon of social media. Through an overview and evaluation of the approaches advocated by practitioners of critical literacy and critical media literacy, we illustrate the limitations of applying these frameworks to the fluid and densely interwoven spaces of social media. In particular we focus on...

He is also associated with The Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology. His research focuses on how organizations, societal institutions and their respective audiences make use of online interactivity and social media. His web site can be accessed at Univer §sity of Bergen. His PhD thesis from 2009 analyzed European public service broadcasters on the internet. He has re...

This article describes the theory of parental mediation, which has evolved to consider how parents utilize interpersonal communication to mitigate the negative effects that they believe communication media have on their children. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this theory as employed in the sociopsychologically rooted media effects literature as well as sociocultural ethnographic res...

Communication perspectives are presented on the challenges posed to traditional newspapers by social media and citizen journalism, with special reference to the United States. This is an important topic given the critical role investigative reporting, long the domain of newspapers, plays in fostering democratic practices. New Media and social networking technology are evaluated in terms of thei...

The rapid development of new media has been the main force accelerating the trend of globalization in human society in recent decades. New media has brought human interaction and society to a highly interconnected and complex level, but at the same time challenges the very existence of intercultural communication in its traditional sense. It is under this circumstance that we see more and more ...

My interest in art and interactivity started in 1994 as an undergraduate student. At the time, the digital media technologies were in their infancy. From the field of communications I arrived at my study theme: interaction mediated by the new media technologies. I chose artists as a study object because their experimental practices push the new media to their limit, exploring new and emerging i...