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WIT Press The Internet Society v. 2 Advances in Education Commerce and Governance 2006 Edition by K. Morgan, C. A. Brebbia, J. Michael Spector
The continued growth of Internet-based technologies and the increasing emergence of mobile and wireless high-speed access dramatically affects the ways in which we work, learn, communicate, play and even govern our society. The constant availability of information and communication changes our views of our self and the social rules that govern our world. We no longer have clear demarcations of work and home or of school and recreation. These key issues and their current evolution are reflected within this book which contains contributions from all over the world, covering a whole range of social and human perspectives that are associated with these new and emerging technologies. Bringing together papers from the Second International Conference on Advances in Education, Commerce & Governance, this book will be of value both to newcomers to this area and also to established authorities as a summary of the current state of this important and growing domain. Specifically the book addresses a wide range of topics as diverse as: E-Commerce and E-Governance; data and information privacy; psychology; gender; culture and new learning. Table of Contents : Section 1: New learning Complexity, challenge and creation in curriculum design; An innovative media arts curriculum for lower elementary school (kindergarten through second grade), which integrates technology seamlessly into the classroom curriculum; The impact of Information Technology (IT) use on children's cognitive, social, psychological and moral development; Designing markets for learning: a virtual trading room approach; A practical IP telephony application framework to conduct online surveys among University City students in China; Mobile learning and initial teacher education; Virtual collaboration tools used in project management learning: case study in the Amazon Forest area; On the application of ICT in learning English as a second language: IwiLL; A training model to develop design skills in the virtual design studio Section 2: Psychology Internet addiction: where we are now; Give the girls a chance: should spatial skills training be incorporated into the curriculum?; The world of work beneath the veil; Digital access and human development; A cross-cultural study of icons and images used in North American web design; Understanding internet use and dependency; Cyberbullying: a worldwide trend of misusing technology to harass others; How human is your computer? Measuring ethopoeic perceptions of computers; The guru and the wizard: psychological issues in the development and use of intelligent interfaces Section 3: E-culture Analysis of the digital divide of information literacy for rural-urban in Taiwan; Information and Internet change society: emerging constitution of the social systems; Of virtual groups and their way of communicating; Communities of practice environment; We like... cultural traits in cyberculture Section 4: E-governance E-democracy and citizen's empowerment: a case study of the city of Madrid; Opportunity and overview of SMS-based e-government in developing countries; E-governance in revenue collection and administration; The self-organization of cyberprotest; Contesting Internet governance: global dissent and disparities in the management of cyberspace resources Section 5: E-commerce Persuasive e-commerce website design assistant tool; Analysis of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for the Internet-based business; Towards the generation of mobile device markup from web pages; A framework for e-commerce: its evaluation; The impact of e-commerce on transport; A GIS web-based traffic accident information system; Self-organising web portal with evolutionary links panel; Web: computing tool, business tool - Malaga firms in a case study; Derivation of initial data warehouse structure by mapping operational database on transaction patterns; Online consumer response: key variables affecting consumers' value perceptions Section 6: Data and information privacy A French-Australian comparison of attitudes towards security and privacy in modern information technologies; Schemes for secure management of digitally produced documents; Semantic Web: a personal privacy perspective; Privacy issues of using cashless mediums of exchange over the internet