—Electronic resources are becoming an integral part of the modern life and of the educational scene, especially the high education scene. In this research we wanted to verify what influences first degree university students' use of electronic resources and their opinions regarding this use. Collecting data from 202 students and analyzing it using SPSS, we found that more than one half of the pa...

INSIDE Papers and articles on electronic media technology from IBC 2009 presented with selected papers from the IET's flagship publication Electronics Letters.

Nigeria needs to embrace technology and pursue private media ownership in order to achieve a democratic media. In recent years, mass media in Africa has become a force with augmenting power that has influenced government and regimes. A democratization of the African media is reliant on media ownership and accessibility of information. Within Nigeria, there is a government monopoly of the med...

This text is an investigation into media culture, temporalities of media objects and planned obsolescence in the midst of ecological crisis and electronic waste. The authors approach the topic under the umbrella of media archaeology and aim to extend this historiographically oriented field of media theory into a methodology for contemporary artistic practice. Hence, media archaeology becomes no...

Advertising is one of the important marketing strategies and the choice of media is an important aspect of effectiveness of advertising media. The two most popular advertising media, TV and web media are highly effective in creating successful advertisements as they influence the purchase decision of the viewers. Although TV and web are electronic media, they are unique in their features and tr...

Design is fundamentally a social activity; through a series of projects that examined groups of designers engaged in real design activity, a model of design communications as the mutual building a shared understanding leads us to a different approach in which computing is used not in service of the individual, but of the group and as part of a larger fabric of communications technologies. These...

Networked electronic displays provide unique and effective capabilities for businesses and industries to communicate with their consumers. Today there are many solutions for static distribution of media-contents. However, delivering dynamic media-contents remains a major challenge. The overall goal of this work is to provide an intelligent media-content distribution, by which business intellige...

Internet as a synonyme of the „new media“ not only contains and disseminates information worldwide – like electronic broadcast media , it is also capable of processing information in an interactive manner, since it is computer-based, i.e., its information objects are virtual machines. Thus, the potential of the new media is urging us to reconsider the notion of media. Since we witness that form...

The impact of digital games in education by Begoña Gros In recent years, electronic games, home computers, and the Internet have assumed an important place in the lives and children and adolescents. New media are causing major changes in the nature of learning. There is a vast gap between the way people learn and the way in which new generations approach information and knowledge. Nonetheless, ...

Christian Schmidmer studied electronic engineering at the University Erlangen Nürnberg. After receiving his degree he worked in the audio group of the Fraunborer HS in Erlangen for five years. His main research topics were audio coding and perceptual measurement. He is now the technical director of the Opticom GmbH, designing and selling the worlds first PEAQ measurement system. He is CTO of Op...