Cyberbullying, as a serious kind of repeated, intentional, and harmful aggressive behavior, cannot be ignored. In light of the limited studies and inconsistent findings on the matter, this study explores cyberbullying’s frequency and other factors (gender, academic achievement, types of technologies used, and anonymity) relevant to both the issue itself and the East Asian context. The interrela...

As our society continues to become increasingly connected through technologies, we have also witnessed a concomitant rise in overall value through the resulting openness. Therefore, research has begun to focus on how to further increase the openness of technologies and their respective structures. Some research has already been directed toward this goal, however much of this research ignores th...

Providing students with continuous and personalized feedback on their performance is an important part of encouraging self regulated learning. As part of our higher education platform, we built a set of data visualizations to provide feedback to students on their assignment performance. These visualizations give students information about how they are doing compared to the rest of the class, an...

The rise of social networking has revolutionised how people communicate on a daily basis. In a world where more people are connecting to the internet, social networking services create an immediate communication link between users. Social networking sites provide multiple services which include emailing, instant messaging, uploading files, gaming and finding friends. Just as social networking h...

On January 10, 2000, Steve Case, CEO of AOL, and Gerald Levin, CEO of Time Warner, announced the acquisition of Time Warner by AOL. This merger is unique in many respects; it is the largest (to this date) merger ever proposed and consummated, valued at the time at $183 billion; it also was the first merger of “old” and “new” media, and by far the most significant Internet-related merger to date...

Informational masking ~IM! has a long history and is currently receiving considerable attention. Nevertheless, there is no clear and generally accepted picture of how IM should be defined, and once defined, explained. In this letter, consideration is given to the problems of defining IM and specifying research that is needed to better understand and model IM. © 2003 Acoustical Society of Americ...

Information Technology (IT) becomes more and more part of our lives both at home and at work. However, theory-based research concerning the question how information technology can be designed to facilitate employees’ work-life-balance is scarce. We fill in this gap building upon boundary theory to identify design-relevant constructs in the context of work-life-balance. As boundary theory sugges...

Today’s young people are surrounded by communication technologies that have a central place in their daily lives, such as the internet and mobile phones. Text messaging (short message service, SMS), for example, became a fully established phenomenon by the late 1990s. And teens were especially quick to adopt it. Today, SMS is the second most used mobile phone service (after voice) in Europe and...

This document defines extensions to core features of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) that provide basic instant messaging (IM) and presence functionality in conformance with the requirements in RFC 2779. This document obsoletes RFC 3921.

Instant messaging is one of the fastest growing internet-based collaborative technologies and is being widely used for work collaboration. In this paper, we modified the model of goal-directed behaviour by adding the social influence processes to investigate the we-intention to use instant messaging for ecollaboration. An online survey was conducted and data collected from 163 respondents were ...