In authoritarian-ruled Arab societies, new media, exemplified by the Internet, are perceived as the harbinger of democracy. In interviews conducted in Egypt in 2009, I asked bloggers, human rights activists and journalists about their motivations for blogging, the nature of the relationship between blogging and traditional media practitioners and the challenges that hinder the efficacy of blogg…
Egypt is going through a dramatic transition in its media sector. The proliferation of satellite and Internet technology combined with pressure to free the media and the government's relative acceptance of media openness have created an environment that has attracted many agencies, associations and foundations to invest in training programmes intended to develop the journalism profession. Thi…
Background In China, a form of online health service called the internet hospital became a prominent means of patient care when face-to-face visits were not possible during the COVID-19 pandemic to minimize transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Patients’ internet hospital experiences largely depend on online physician-patient interaction. Yet, little is known about how physicians can impro…
SSM has been used as an interpretive approach to achieve the primary aim of this study, which is to extract the real world complexity and evolve the use of social networks and thereby to realize the main target of improving the use of social networks in accordance with the original problematical situation. Seven academic libraries were involved in this study: Sultan Qaboos University main libra…
The study aims to measure the effect of using academic scientific materials on the World Wide Web in education , through the Availability educational materials , and displayed an electronically using software (NOURI- NET ) to evaluate the web-based course in terms of its of use and the acceptance which are used by students the level of benefit, and the study surveyed (70) students in all discip…
After many decades of heavily relying on local newspapers and controlled radio and TV, many Kuwaitis switched to the Internet to obtain information, news and political analysis. The political dispute of power after the death of Kuwaiti Emir Sheik Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on 15 January 2006, followed by parliament's demands to change the electoral constituencies voting system of the National Asse…
MoJo refers to the emerging framework of covering news reporting workflows using smart mobile devices with dedicated software or hardware. However, a fully integrated and dedicated computing environment that can address the individual needs of both professional and citizen journalists is still missing. We introduce MoJo--MATE, (Mobile Journalism Machine AssisTEd reporting) a platform that integ…
It is assumed that most of the King Faisal University (KFU) faculty members as well as graduate students are aware of the availability of the web based research databases in the university library but few of them are using it despite its contribution to the enrichment of the scientific research, the increase of the publication rate and quality of papers published by KFU researchers. Currently, …