this study aimed to gain an insight into whether computer-mediated communication (cmc) in the form of a digital forum can reflect gendered discursive practices. a great deal of research has now established that computer-mediated interactions embody gendered differences in the use of emoticons, but few studies have examined the potential effect of the gender of the emoticon-receiver on the frequ...

In this paper, we describe a video based, text free, online forum called xSL Forum. The aim of this work is to provide a tool for signing deaf people, allowing them to communicate using sign language(s). In contrast to the widely used, real time, video chat system, xSL Forum does not require people to be present at the same moment, facing their webcam, in order to communicate. Beyond a digital ...

The Advanced Practices Council (APC) of SIM commissioned two academic researchers (Gabe Piccoli and Federico Pigni) to help members learn how best to leverage the digital data streams being created every day, both inside and outside their firms, to provide greater value to customers and their firms. Piccoli and Pigni presented their findings at the May 2012 APC meeting. A key element of their p...

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This article discusses the Brazilian Digital Culture Forum, and the platform www.culturadigital.br, created by the Ministry of Culture to bring together managers, researchers, designers and artists in the discussion and formulation of cultural policies for the country. The aim is to present it as "a new way of making public policy" insofar as it proposes a dialogue with society about the new ch...

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We propose a novel data distribution framework for developing a large Web-based course forum system. In the distributed architectural design, each forum server is fully equipped with the ability to support some course forums independently. The forum servers collaborating with each other constitute the whole forum system. Therefore, the workload of the course forums can be shared by a group of t...

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