Trust is a major issue in Internet transactions. This paper presents a model of trust on the Internet that focuses on three dimensions of trust. It investigates the perceived value a consumer places on these dimensions when set in the context of different product categories, price discounts and immediacy of purchase. It is argued that the more willing an Internet merchant is to heed these three...

This article argues that populism, both in its left-wing and right-wing versions, is a social pathology the sense contemporary critical theorists give to it. As such, it suffers from disconnect between first order political practices reflexive grasp of meaning those practices. due populists’ ideal freedom, which they understand as authentic self-expression ‘the People’, rejecting need for media...

Eight pigeons responded in a concurrent-chains procedure in which terminal-link schedules changed pseudorandomly across sessions. Pairs of terminal-link delays either summed to 15 s or to 45 s. Across sessions, the location of the shorter terminal link changed according to a pseudorandom binary sequence. On some terminal links, food was withheld to obtain start and stop times, measures of tempo...

This study aims to find out factors of media characteristic which are considered to influence flow in learning through virtual worlds. One hundred ninety eight elementary students who are eleven to twelve years old participated in this study. After the exploratory factor analysis, to extract media characteristics of virtual worlds, seventy-eight elementary students who are eleven years old were...

Anger is an emotion consisting of feelings of variable intensity ranging from mild irritation to intense fury. High levels of trait anger are associated with a range of psychiatric, interpersonal, and health problems. The objectives of this study were to explore heterogeneity of anger as measured by the Spielberger Trait Anger Scale (STAS), and to assess the association of the different anger f...

Presence in online classrooms has been linked to immediacy behaviors, instructor-student interaction, and participation. Research shows that presence can be managed and sustained, but little documentation exists about perceptions of the meaning of presence. An interview-based qualitative inquiry of three online instructors was conducted to discover how faculty create, promote, and sustain onlin...

The paper discusses a framework for planning contributions in a spoken dialogue system, and focuses especially on the three I's: Incrementality, Immediacy, and Interactivity. The emphasis is on communicative principles and the notion of NewInfo, or the information focus of the utterance. NewInfo provides a natural way of to conceptualize the planning process and to generate utterances on the le...