No-fault statutes changed divorce from an adversarial system pitting victims against victimizers, with the state acting as enforcer of marital norms, to a private decision between unhappily married but legally blameless partners. Divorce reform following no-fault primarily focused on making divorce more fair for the parties involved. Over the last several decades, divorce reform has transitione...

Acknowledging that narratives are an important resource in human communication and cognition, the focus of this article is on the cognitive aspects of involvement with visual and auditory non-verbal narratives, particularly in relation to the newest immersive media and digital interactive representational technologies. We consider three relevant trends in narrative studies that have emerged in ...

With each successive generation of new educational technologies the dawn of a revolution in teaching and learning is heralded. There have been many such dawns in the last 30 years, during which the desktop computer and the Internet have been developed; but there have been similar dawns throughout the century film, radio, records, broadcast television, audio-tape, videotape, programmed learning ...

O social media such as blogs are transforming how consumers make consumption decisions, and the music industry is at the forefront of this revolution. Based on data from a leading music blog aggregator, we analyze the relationship between music blogging and full-track sampling, drawing on theories of online social interaction. Our results suggest that intensity of music sampling is positively a...

After the establishment of written language, the most revolutionary development in human communication was the invention of the printing press in the 15 th century (1). Before then, books were handwritten, rare, and expensive. Medieval monasteries supported the transcription of new manuscripts from existing ones, and errors were common because of spelling, handwriting, and abbreviation idiosync...

New media technologies are seen to be changing the production, delivery and consumption of professional sports and creating a new dynamic between sports fans, athletes, clubs, governing bodies and the mainstream media. However, as Bellamy and McChesney (2011) have pointed out, advances in digital technologies are taking place within social, political, and economic contexts that are strongly con...

Social media is helping to revolutionize revolution. Innovation has always been a salient ingredient in any people-driven movement for political change. In this day of Internet domination however, technological developments are reframing the way people think about their public personas and their responsibility to their community as well as to the world. The difference between the existence and ...

Part of the Web 2.0 revolution of the Internet in the past few years has been the explosion of user comments on articles, blogs, media, and other uploaded content on various websites (e.g. Slashdot, Digg). Many of these comments are positive, facilitating discussion and adding humor to the webpage; however, there are also a multitude of comments – including spam/advertisements, blatantly offens...

Not long ago m-commerce was proclaimed as the next technological revolution and opportunity for companies to provide a new distribution channel for customers. But, first examples of m-commerce applications show that only those applications are accepted by customers that provide clear added value compared to the onand off-line channel. But how can the suitability for m-commerce be assessed by co...