A large part of research conducted on privacy concern and protection on social networking sites (SNSs) concentrates on children and adolescents. Individuals in these developmental stages are often described as vulnerable Internet users. But how vulnerable are adults in terms of online informational privacy? This study applied a privacy boundary management approach and investigated Facebook use,...

With the rapid growth of the Internet users and its applications there has been considerable interest in Web-based education systems that facilitates distance education. In this paper, we propose a Subject Model for Web-based Education system. The designed model uses a tree with multiple links. Each link weight has been derived from the conceptual relations, among the concepts of the subject. T...

Introduction Over the last ten years, distance education has seen some major changes due to the impact of technology, and in particular the development of the World Wide Web and the Internet. In 1995 there were no web-based online courses (although online teaching based on computer-mediated communication software such as CoSy and First Class had been around since the late 1980s). Now, it is est...

The presence and the expansion of Internet based distance education (online DE) are one of the characteristics of the information society by which we can estimate the level of its development. We have witnessed many changes in Slovenia in the last decade and therefore we were interested in acceptability (and readiness) of Slovene students for Internet based DE, especially because the Internet h...

The pervasiveness of the English language in society and education Netherlands, as well its status online lingua franca, has caused concerns. is a manifest aspect oral youth language, reflected written messages, but no way replaced Dutch language. This paper presents large-scale corpus analysis computer-mediated communication by youths. These social media messages (392,169 words total) were stu...