A course in robotics is being piloted this semester at Purchase College/State University of New York. It was designed for its particular audience: upper-level students in the mathematics/computer science major and in the new media major as well as any other student who have satisfied the programming pre-requisite, possibly through general education courses. However, the general ideas motivating...

In recent years, the growth in technology and new media has created a communications revolution that allows people instant and equal access to previously unavailable or difficult-to-find information. Despite this proliferation,, however, there remains a gap, a "Digital Divide", between Americans who have access to technology and those who do not. According to the most recent report from the Dep...

This special issue poses questions concerning death, afterlife and immortality in the age of the Internet. It extends previous work by examining current and emerging practices of grieving and memorializing supported by new media. It suggests that people’s lives today are extended, prolonged, and ultimately transformed through the new circulations, repetitions, and recontextualizations on the In...

Collaboration is increasingly distributed and influenced by the technologies involved in the workspace. 3D Virtual Worlds (VWs) are rich and promising collaboration tools that provide highly interactive environments. Several researchers and practitioners are particularly interested in the potential of these new media to support collaborative practices. However, the literature does not provide y...

This paper explains why, despite a marked increase in available political information on cable television and the Internet, citizens’ levels of political knowledge have, at best, remained stagnant (Delli Carpini & Keeter, 1996). Since the availability of entertainment content has increased too, the effect of new media on knowledge and vote likelihood should be determined by people’s relative pr...

The purpose of this article is to empirically analyze how different forms of proximity influence interactive learning and ease of knowledge transfer among entrepreneurs, in order to advance the knowledge-based theory of clusters. Making use of ego-network data, gathered among entrepreneurs from the Amsterdam IT and new media-cluster and analyzed using structural equation modeling, the data lead...

It is discussed that many researches relevant to the media communication issue user's anonymity widely. However it tends to be unremarked that the physical interaction by the participants who have uncertain attribute symbolized anonymity. This paper focuses the indirect interaction by participants. And we examine that participants recognize existence of the others through the indirect interacti...

This study examines the ‘‘medium-centric’’ and ‘‘user-centric’’ approaches in investigating the displacement effects of the Internet. Results from a random sample survey support the ‘‘medium-centric’’ approach in displacement effect. The use of the Internet does displace traditional media use of television, newspapers, and radio. The Internet performs a substitutive rather than supplementary fu...

Since 1998, we have been developing and researching CoWeb, a version of Ward Cunningham’s WikiWikiWeb designed to support collaborative learning. In this article, we summarize our results of situating CoWeb across the academic landscape of Georgia Tech. In architecture, CoWeb enabled faculty to serve more students in a design-based course. In English composition, a comparison study demonstrated...