virtual colonialism (ameli, 2011) is reflecting a new trend of colonialismin the virtual space parallel to the physical space. according to ameli(2007), withthe “dual spacization” of life,the imperial powers like the united states of americatake the advantage of the synchronization and translocality of the virtual space toexpand their realm of imperial power through the “attraction” and “persua...

Virtual Colonialism (Ameli, 2011) is reflecting a new trend of colonialismin the virtual space parallel to the physical space. According to Ameli(2007), withthe “Dual Spacization” of life,the imperial powers like the United States of Americatake the advantage of the synchronization and translocality of the virtual space toexpand their realm of imperial power through the “attraction” and “persua...

With this paper, we hope to foster debate about the place of open access (OA) in scholarly publishing. After providing a background to OA’s development and current state, we examine some of the accusations leveled against it: that OA publishers are predatory, that OA is too expensive, and that self-depositing papers in OA repositories will bring about the end of scholarly publishing. After cont...

Das Zipfsche Gesetz ist nach dem Linguisten George Kingsley Zipf, (1902-1950) benannt und bezeichnet die wohl bekannteste und empirisch am besten validierte Aussage über sprachliche Quantitäten. Das Zipfsche Gesetz wird häufig als Referenz bemüht, wenn auf die Tatsache, dass viele Wörter selten und wenige Wörter häufig vorkommen, Bezug genommen wird. Das Zipfsche Gesetz kann in zwei verschieden...

This study aimed at investigating the effect of instructional YouTube videos on Iranian male and female EFL learners' listening comprehension. It was conducted with 60 male and female intermediate male and female EFL learners. The Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was used to measure the participants’ language proficiency to make sure about homogeneity of the participants. The participants wer...

*This research was originally sponsored by Mercer Investment Consulting. The study has benefited from the supercomputing infrastructure provided by SIRCA. We have also received helpful comments and suggestions from the following individuals; Garrie Lette (Mercer IC), Greg Liddell (QIC), Simone Brands (Probatis Partners), Carole Comerton-Forde (University of Sydney), Kingsley Fong (UNSW), Teddy ...

Video sharing has become a growing social practice, with YouTube being the predominant online video sharing site. Most of the research concerning YouTube’s social impact has been focused on quantitative evaluation of the social interaction facilitated by the tools embedded in the site. This study aims to explore the growth of the YouTube online community through the eyes of YouTube users who au...

Background YouTube, the online video creation and sharing site, supports both video content viewing and content creation activities. For a minority of people, the time spent engaging with YouTube can be excessive and potentially problematic. Method This study analyzed the relationship between content viewing, content creation, and YouTube addiction in a survey of 410 Indian-student YouTube user...

As the world largest video content sharing website, YouTube constantly attracts more and more attention from networking research community. Different aspects of YouTube, such as video characteristics, user behaviors, and its back-end infrastructure have been well studied. Most of these studies consider YouTube as a whole without taking the YouTube category into the consideration. However, it is...

We make the first attempt to study the evolution dynamics of YouTube, from the perspectives of uploaded videos and uploaders. Using unbiasedly estimated video statistics, we study how YouTube grows over time, from the inception of YouTube in 2005 up until now. We show that the growth of YouTube videos undergoes several phases: i) an initial growth phase best fitted by a quadratic curve, ii) an ...