The use of social media has gained a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media. However, general concerns exist among the public, community, schools, and administration that online social communication may pose more threats than benefits...

"This book attempts to bring together a selection of the latest results of state-of-the art research in image and video segmentation, one of the most critical tasks of image and video analysis that has the objective of extracting information (represented by data) from an image or a sequence of...

Even though there are various methods of access to the Internet and telephony with speeds and banwidths increasing, many consumers are not adopting the latest technologies. This book develops a conceptual model for examining consumer adoption, usage, and impact of broadband utilizing various...

This book covers issues, developments, and influences in technologies and their impact on modern global socioeconomics, including e-commerce, e-services, outsourcing applications, and consumer resources management.

1. Introduction -- 2. Innovation studies -- 3. Historical background : from manual identification to auto-ID -- 4. Globalization and the changing face of IDentification -- 5. Barcode : the pioneer auto-ID technology -- 6. Magnetic-stripe cards : the consolidating force -- 7. Smart cards : the...

This book combines knowledge management with other subject areas within the management information systems field using contingent approaches to linking knowledge management to other IT management topics and its uses.

1. Online shopping for positive and negative reinforcement products / Patricia Sorce, Victor Perotti, Stanley Widrick -- 2. Online shopping experience / Yi Guo -- 3. An expanded e-commerce process model serving e-commerce entrepreneurs / David Paper, Eric Pedersen -- 4. Internet shopping model...

This book addresses the computer recognition of music notation, its interpretation and use within various application contexts. It includes research in the field of image processing and pen-based computing, representation languages and web-based applications, and consolidates the successes,...

Web mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web mining uses document content, hyperlink structure, and usage statistics to assist users in meeting their needed information. This book provides a...

This book takes and interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers' perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This...