This study summarizes prior reviews of new media and Internet research, and the growth of the term Internet in academic publications and online newsgroups. It then uses semantic network analysis to summarize the interests and concepts of an interdisciplinary group of Internet researchers, as represented by session titles and paper titles and abstracts from the 2003 and 2004 Association of Inter...

Easy access to communication and information technologies has increased our dependence on technology for various aspects of our lives. Nevertheless, this remarkable growth of Internet Usage has been inextricably paired with a rise of excessive and dysfunctional Internet use. Conceptualized around 1996, a few years after the inception of the World Wide Web, Internet addiction has developed into ...

In this paper we propose an application of data mining methods in the prediction of the availability and performance of Internet paths. We deploy a general decision-making method for advising the users in further usage of Internet path at particular time and date. The method is based on the clustering and tree classification data mining techniques. The usefulness of our method for prediction th...

Despite many numbers of studies in Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the social influence construct has not been recognized, nor handled clearly. This study includes the social influence construct in TAM and tests the robustness of the model for different information systems contexts: office automation (spreadsheet) and Internet usage. Study findings include that 1) social influence has a dire...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether parental worry about their children's health predicts usage of a pediatric Internet intervention for encopresis. METHODS Thirty-nine families with a child diagnosed with encopresis completed a national clinical trial of an Internet-based intervention for encopresis (www.ucanpooptoo.com). Parents rated worry about their children's health, encopresis severity, c...

Anonymising proxies are a growing problem for organisations as more people become aware of their capabilities. These proxy sites enable users to bypass the network’s filtering system leaving the network open to banned content and harmful threats. Network administrators do try to block these online proxy sites, but with a growing number of new sites created, this task is not a trivial one. Many ...

There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Phil Reed, Rebecca Vile, Lisa A. Osborne, Michela Romano, Roberto Truzoli 1 Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, 2 Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea, United Kingdom, 3 Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy. There is an error in Table 1. The second occurrence of the w...

Although the Internet is widely used today, there are few sound estimates of network demographics. Decentralized network management means questions about Internet use cannot be answered by a central authority, and firewalls and sensitivity to probing means that active measurements must be done carefully and validated against known data. Building on frequent ICMP probing of 1% of the Internet ad...