The current research is a survey of media literacy status of students in the Information Society in North Khorasan. The theories have been used here are from cultivation, gratifications and knowledge gap to clarify the state of media literacy. This research has been done by survey research method and questionnaire technique was done on 317 students in North Khorasan Universities. The sampling m...

The pervasiveness of online information services has led to substantial changes in higher education including changes in faculty members’ teaching methods and students’ study habits. This article presents the results of a survey about media use for teaching and learning conducted at a large Canadian university and highlights trends in the use of new and traditional media across university Facul...

This paper presents an overview of the usage of unit record equipment and punched cards in Iceland and introduces some of the pioneers. The usage of punched cards as a media in file processing started 1949 and became the dominant machine readable media in Iceland until 1968. After that punched cards were still used as data entry media for a while but went completely out of use in 1982.

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore the general and specific gratifications obtained from using microblog and WeChat. Design/methodology/approach – To cast light on the difference of gratifications to use microblog and WeChat, 18 interviews with social media users in China were conducted. Findings – The results reveal that, three types of gratifications were obtained from using...

Recent developments in the use of technologies in education have provided unique opportunities for teaching and learning. This paper describes the results of a survey conducted at Western University (Canada) in 2013, regarding the use of media by students and instructors. The results of this study support the assumption that the media usage of students and instructors include a mixture of tradi...

The concept of communication media repertoires introduced by Watson-Manheim and Bélanger (2007) has extended the existing literature by adding a technology-in-practice perspective to the examination of communication media choice in an organizational setting. While Watson-Manheim and Bélanger (2007) have focused on describing the existing media repertoires (set of available media and existing us...