In the last few years, electronic media brought a revolution in the traceability of social phenomena. As particles in a bubble chamber, social trajectories leave digital trails that can be analyzed to gain a deeper understanding of collective life. To make sense of these traces a renewed collaboration between social and natural scientists is needed. In this paper, we claim that current research...

The smartphone revolution together with cost-efficient wireless access technologies has lately changed the landscape for smart home environments to a large extent. Moreover, large flat screens, new capturing devices, and large digital media libraries have also changed the way smart home environments are used. We present and evaluate an architecture for multimedia sharing in such environments. E...

The concept of making the results of primary research freely available to anyone with an internet connection caused a great stir in the media and biomedical science community when proposed last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). After some revision to the original proposal, PubMed Central was launched early this year. So where is the promised publishing revolution? As this article...

The public has high hopes for computer technologies in the public schools. An issue to be addressed is how best to utilize this investment. Computer technologies utilizing multiple media and interactivity are beneficial in teaching and learning. The production and sharing of learning objects demands that the educators possess the ability to create them. Numerous studies reveal that most instruc...

The recent demonstrations at Gallaudet University did more to launch deafness and deaf culture onto the national scene than any event since the release of the 1986 film Children of a Lesser God. Media reports of hour-by-hour dramas unfolding on the campus, culminating in a shutdown of the university, evoked in many people's minds the student revolution of the 60s. But in the hearing world, from...

In recent years, characterized by the innovation of technology and the digital revolution, the field of media has become important. The transfer and exchange of multimedia data and duplication have become major concerns of researchers. Consequently, protecting copyrights and ensuring service safety is needed. Cryptography has a specific role, is to protect secret files against unauthorized acce...

As the new industrial revolution advances in the nanotechnology have been followed with interest throughout the world and also in Turkey. Media has an important role in conveying these advances to public, rising public awareness and creating attitudes related to nanotechnology. As well as representing how a subject is treated, media frames determine how public think about this subject. In liter...

Revolutionary developments in communication and information technologies, coupled with the transition from traditional media into new media, create new mediums of the information age which are capable of offering interactive user participation in communication processes. Frontiers of these new mediums are virtual reality technologies which can be considered as the ultimate form of interaction b...

We are currenly living the age of communications. Information revolution implies efficient and reliable means of communication. Most of the communication and information storage media are not error-free, while the requirements on the digital information often do not tolerate any errors in transmission or storage retrieval. To cope with this contrast, efficient errorcorrecting codes and error-de...