Finding audiovisual material for reuse in new programs is an important activity for news producers, documentary makers, and other media professionals. Such professionals are typically served by an audiovisual broadcast archive. We report on a study of the transaction logs of one such archive. The analysis includes an investigation of commercial orders made by the media professionals and a chara...

The students sat quietly, lost in their own thoughts, as the last words of The Barn (Avi, 1994) reverberated through the classroom. Gloria had chosen to read aloud this short chapter book to her intermediate multiage students because of their interest in immigration and the topic "Having a Better Life." Their intent faces showed that this story of three children who build their dying father a b...

The fast progress in information technology brings us to the point where we should analyze the position of a commercially printed paper book in the near future. One may state unequivocally that the printed book created by Gutenberg (1398-1468) has finished its role as a carrier of ideas and now it has no future, just as it was with the wonderfully illuminated fables written by monks in the mona...

Unlike most traditional media, the Internet is both digital and interactive. Here we do not simply refer to interactions between consumers and a Web site or e-mail, but also between the marketer and the firm’s Web site or e-mail. Furthermore, the digital nature of the Internet records every interaction. These two characteristics — interactivity and digitization — facilitate research possibiliti...