Certification has become a popular adjunct to traditional means of acquiring information technology skills and employers increasingly specify a preference for those holding certifications. This article reports on a study designed to investigate student perceptions of both the benefits and risks of certification and its importance in obtaining employment. Certification was perceived as an import…
This qualitative study explored graduate students' use of blogs to support the achievement of teaching and learning goals. Blog postings and comments were analyzed and coded with the aid of HyperRESEARCH qualitative data analysis software. Once the blogs were coded, themes emerged from the data. The blogs were found to function in an integrated manner as a forum for students to engage other lea…
Development of the cochlear implant, discussed in this article, depended vitally on deaf people being persuaded to undergo implantation. Media "reconstruction" of the device as the "bionic ear" was typically encouraged by implant pioneers. Unexpectedly, however, a "counter-rhetoric" based on a very different understanding of deafness emerged With it, deaf people are slowly succeeding in gaining…
Background Nowadays, a number of mechanisms and tools are being used by health care organizations and physicians to electronically exchange the personal health information of patients. The main objectives of different methods of health information exchange (HIE) are to reduce health care costs, minimize medical errors, and improve the coordination of interorganizational information exchange …
South Korean television shows are so prominent on Netflix that "K-dramas" is a default search keyword. K-drama is considered a "genre" alongside action, anime, comedy, and romance. Analyzing two Netflix K-dramas, Memories of the Alhambra and My Holo Love, this article theorizes how K-dramas adopt new media and technology both as subject and narrative devices, incorporating the pertinent charact…
Six technology (i.e., Internet/Email) assignments were designed for and used as a supplemental technology mode of learning (TMOL) to an introductory social psychology course. Each assignment elaborated on a specific class topic, while abetting the participant to use and value technology by drawing connections between the topics and the assignments. Compared to students not enrolled in the TMOL,…
This article examines the premises and processes involved in disseminating knowledge, transferring new technology, or innovating programs in the personal social services. In addition, this article reviews the literature on knowledge diffusion and provides examples from two successful technology transfer projects in Pennsylvania that continue to thrive well past the initial stages of transfer. T…
The main goal of this article is to offer a current analysis of the research about the design of virtual environments of learning from a constructivist approach. The great proliferation of virtual environments for learning in different levels and educational areas has contributed to an increase of research about the most appropriate instructional design. Constructivism is currently a common lab…
Media technology permeates our social, leisure, and work life, and the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic has proven that interactive and mobile technologies are not only deeply absorbed in, but also increasingly indispensable to everyday life. Although these technologies are promoted and widely adopted as means to connect people, support everyday activities, mitigate specific problems, or merely…
Although computers and information technology (IT) have penetrated the field of social work, little research has systematically studied how users respond to this infusion. Information systems researchers have accumulated significant insights into IT acceptance in business organizations after decades of efforts. In this study, users in the social services were assessed for their acceptance of IT…