The aim of this paper is to discuss the significance and potentials of a mixed methods approach in technology acceptance research. After criticizing the dominance of the quantitative survey method in TAM-based research, this paper reports a mixed methods study of user acceptance of emergency alert technology in order to illustrate the benefits of combining qualitative and quantitative technique...

Abstract To call attention to and motivate action on ethical issues in business or society, messengers often criticize groups for wrongdoing ask these change their behavior. When criticizing target groups, frequently identify express concern about harm caused a victim group, the process address group by them causing this imploring change. However, we find that when way—expressing singular group...

In a provocative recent book, Jonathan Wells (2000) decries what he discerns as a systematic pattern in how introductory biology textbooks "blatantly misrepresent" ten routinely cited examples offered as evidence for evolution. Each of these examples, according to Wells, is fraught with interpretive problems and, as such, textbooks that continue to use them should at the very least be accompani...