Theodor kolovos

Data sources for measuring online activity

I have updated the list with general data sources for measuring the internet, excluding ISTs and qualitative resources continued...

Schema for institutional ecology

PHYSICAL LAYER (transport), Broadband treated by FCC as information service, DMCA ISP liability, Municipal broadband barred by states, Open wireless networks, Municipal broadband initiativess continued...

Locus of Control in Online Environments

In traditional media environments, the main type of control available to consumers is to alter their own opinions and judgments or to approach or avoid the mass media message. Most research in the consumer behavior literature studying control (Greene, Hoch and Loewenstein, Gould, Hui and Bateson, Siddarth and Chattopadhyay) has focused on what is called secondary control. Secondary control happens when consumers do not have any control over the media environment because it is a fixed one, so they exert control internally by changing their perception and preferences continued...

Adamic and Glance

In 2004, Adamic and Glance measured the degree of interaction between liberal and conservative blogs and made a significant attempt to uncover the differences in the structure of the two communities. Specifically, they analyzed 40 “a-list” blogs for 2 months preceding the U.S. elections. They studied the frequency of reference exchange among the two communities and quantified their own and other communities topic overlap (single-day snapshots of blogrolls of more than 1000 political blogs) continued...

Predictability and Prediction for a Media-Experimental Cultural Market

(Final Paper Proposal) Internet users are often influenced by the behavior of others, often because they want to acquire the benefits of coordinated actions or infer otherwise inacessible information. In these cases this influence decreases the ex ante predictability of the ensuing social dynamics. continued...

Network readiness index and web index

NETWORK READINESS INDEX, policy environment, readiness of the individuals, business and government, actual use of ICTs, impact of ICTs continued...

Criteria for the measurement of the impact of the internet in society

I have updated my list with general data sources for measuring the internet. Of course the list is not complete but it portrays resources as used both from coproporate and non-profit organizations (excluding ISTs) continued...

Communication platform design characteristics (public sphere)

Universal Intake, Accreditation vs relevance, NGO’s pre-organizing opinion, Academic discourse continued...

Criteria for the measurement of the impact of the internet in society

Measurement of physical and functional access to digital infrastructure, Speed, Advertised speeds (OECD, FCC), Content delivery networks and web services, Download Speeds, Distributed client-side hardware: download and upload speed Crowdsourcing) continued...

Shift on internet studies

I have updated my list with general data sources for measuring the internet. Of course the list is not complete but it portrays resources as used both from coproporate and non-profit organizations (excluding ISTs) continued...

Direct measures of the internet (ISP/ICT)

Search data, Visits, Clicks, Purchases, Accounts and subscriptions, Downloads, Uploads continued...

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