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Using Marketing Exchange Theory to Conceptualize Is Quality and Re-conceptualize the Is Success Model

In this research-in-progress paper, we investigate the theoretical inter-relationships among three important IS quality components: information quality, system quality, and service quality as well as their possible impacts. DeLone and McLean formulated information quality and system quality in their 1992 IS Success Model. Later, they (2003) added service quality to form a triumvirate. Unfortuna...

Online Community and Democracy

The debate over the contribution of the Internet to democracy is farfrom settled. Some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the US to argue thatthe Internet will restore the public sphere. Others claim that the Internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. This paper argues f...

online community and democracy

the debate over the contribution of the internet to democracy is farfrom settled. some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the us to argue thatthe internet will restore the public sphere. others claim that the internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. this paper argues f...

Using Standardized Observation to Conceptualize, Measure, and Improve Classroom Processes

Many children spend more of their waking hours in classrooms than they do at home; within these settings they are exposed to experiences that for better or worse, intended and unintended, shape their development—they may learn to read, write, and think critically; they make friends and have to face the inevitable challenges of peer relationships; and they are oriented increasingly to become pro...

CommunityNetSimulator: Using Simulations to Study Online Community Networks 1 CommunityNetSimulator: Using Simulations to Study Online Community Networks