Interactivity on Traditional Media Web Sites

This study compares the radio industry's use of interactivity to that of other traditional media on the Web such as newspapers and television stations, along the dimensions of audience-oriented interactivity and source-oriented interactivity. A content analysis of 112 traditional radio station Web sites, 282 traditional newspaper Web sites, and 128 traditional television station Web sites found that traditional radio station Web sites provided more audience-oriented interactivity compared to other traditional media Web sites, and traditional newspaper Web sites offered the most source-oriented interactivity. A general conclusion of this study is that although traditional radio stations were more likely to transmit live and archived sound than other media, all traditional media Web sites have held back from developing interactivity beyond e-mail, and have limited the transmission of streaming media, as well as archived audio and video content.     

Radio stations and the world wide Web

Based on a survey of 419 industry professionals responsible for maintaining radio station Web sites and a content analysis of 900 radio station Web sites, this study provides an overview of the state of Web radio in the late 1990s. This study investigates the extent of Web radio, the range of content offered on radio station Web sites, the benefits realized as a result of having a Web site, and the problems encountered with Web sites, and makes recommendations based on the findings. A general conclusion of this study is that although the Web presents a wealth of exciting possibilities, most radio broadcasters are currently underutilizing the Web and their Web sites.     

Web内容挖掘在数字图书馆中的应用

Web信息是数字图书馆数字资源的重要来源，文章详细阐述了对Web内容中的文本信息的挖掘，包括：文本自动摘要、文本分类和文本聚类。在挖掘过程中基于用户需求和用户特征，针对文本分类，重点分析了分类过程和在数字图书馆中的应用；针对文本聚类，介绍两种基本聚类原理以及与文本分类的不同之处，重点论述其在数字图书馆中如何应用。最后提出内容挖掘与用户挖掘的结合更有助于服务用户。     

Information privacy: a comprehensive analysis of information request and privacy policies of most-visited Web sites

Obtaining consumer data has become an essential practice of Web proprietors. This is because, compared with ‘brick and mortar’ retail stores, it is much more difficult for Web proprietors to build one-on-one or face-to-face relationships with customers. The collection of personal information online boosts customized services for consumers, but at the same time it increases concerns about privacy infringement. Using a content analysis of the most visited Web sites in Korea and the United States, this study compares the amount and breadth of information requested by Web proprietors and examines the relationship between the information requests and privacy policies of Web sites. This study found that Korea-based Web sites present stronger privacy policies than do US-based Web sites. Ironically, they also request a greater amount and variety of information from consumers than do US-based Web sites during registration processes. When narrowing the focus to US sites only, this study also revealed that the stronger the privacy policies presented by US Web sites, the more information the US Web sites request from consumers.     

应用正则式抽取Google网页内容

正确、完整地抽取搜索网页的内容，是对检索到的信息进行处理的基本前提。本文分析了Google网页的结构特征，给出了一组匹配Google网页内容的正则式，并用Visual C# 实现了一个内容抽取器。对多个Google网页的实际应用表明，本文提出的正则式匹配方法可以抽取Google网页的全部主要内容。     

Analysis of characteristics and trends of Web queries submitted to NAVER,a major Korean search engine

This study investigates the information seeking behavior of general Korean Web users. The data from transaction logs of selected dates from August 2006 to August 2007 were used to examine characteristics of Web queries and to analyze click logs that consist of a collection of documents that users clicked and viewed for each query. Changes in search topics are explored for NAVER users from 2003/2004 to 2006/2007. Patterns involving spelling errors and queries in foreign languages are also investigated. Search behaviors of Korean Web users are compared to those of the United States and other countries. The results show that entertainment is the topranked category, followed by shopping, education, games, and computer/Internet. Search topics changed from computer/Internet to entertainment and shopping from 2003/2004 to 2006/2007 in Korea. The ratios of both spelling errors and queries in foreign languages are low. This study reveals differences for search topics among different regions of the world. The results suggest that the analysis of click logs allows for the reduction of unknown or unidentifiable queries by providing actual data on user behaviors and their probable underlying information needs. The implications for system designers and Web content providers are discussed.     

Presence of taiwan on the world wide web in south korea: dynamics of digital and geographical presence on cyberspace

This paper examines the way in which Taiwan is connected to on the World Wide Web in South Korea. The Web may represent a new channel for the communication among a global society's members and a reflection of international relations. Thus, it is necessary to explore the distribution of relations formed and maintained on the Web and the contents of those relations as well. This paper traced South Korean Web pages hyperlinking pages hosted in Taiwan, using a search engine. The context in which Taiwan appears in South Korean pages was also examined. Specifically, the structure of hyperlink connectivity from South Korea and Taiwan was analyzed. It was found that the hyperlink network was very sparsely connected in terms of the number of South Korean Web pages hyperlinking to the pages of the other country. The contents of hyperlink-connected information were categorized and analyzed. The most often occurring content category was ‘Computers & Internet’ in Taiwan. This suggests that South Korean Web users including organizations are more interested in computer-related products in Taiwan than any other things. The implication of this paper is to examine the state and form of international information flow from South Korea to Taiwan based on the patterns of hyperlink relations inscribed on South Korean Web pages and the type and content of information.     

Strategic Planning for Distance Learning Services

Abstract

The Web is often characterized as a universal information space, in the sense that the provision of and access to Web content is open to all. It is well known, however, that the majority of Web content originates from a small group of English-speaking countries, chiefly the United States. This paper examines trends in the internationalization of Web content, and in particular, whether the Web is becoming increasingly globalized as it matures, and to what segment of the world's countries and languages it currently extends. Sample data from 1998 and 1999 suggests that the Web's content is still far from a true global cross-section, but is slowly expanding both in terms of its geographical origins and the languages in which it is made available.     

An introduction to minority health resources on the World Wide Web

Health care professionals and consumers often need information about, or targeted to, non-White or non-English speaking populations. Minority health resources sponsored by a variety of organizations are increasingly being made available on the World Wide Web. This information is easily accessible to providers, patients, and families, and community service agencies. The heterogeneity of sponsors, ranging from federal agencies to consumer advocacy and support groups- and their agendas-results in differences of quality, depth of content, and suitability for different information seekers. Taking a conservative approach, this article presents a collection of starting points whose roots are in established agencies, institutions, and organizations already familiar to most health care information professionals.     

网络数字信息搜寻行为研究内容及进展综述*

首先给出网络数字信息搜寻行为研究的内容框架，然后将计算机/网络信息检索、网络信息搜寻、消费者网络信息搜寻3类研究统一到该内容框架之下，对内容框架进行细化拓展，系统介绍各个部分的具体研究内容及其进展，并指明需进一步研究的问题。     

News Aggregation and Content Differences in Online Cancer News

Gatekeepers usually control news information. However, recent technological advancements might require rethinking previous gatekeeping hierarchies. Aggregation algorithms currently filter and present news information to millions of American Internet users daily. A content analysis demonstrates significant differences between health news content retrieved from Web sites that aggregate their articles from many sources (e.g., Google News), and those that focus on providing news from a limited number of sources (e.g., CNN.com). Explanations for these content differences are discussed, as are implications concerning health information seeking and Internet news consumption.     

Behind the Web site: An inside look at the production of Web-based textual government information

This paper describes an exploratory, multisite case study of the production of textual content for state agency Web sites. The qualitative field study explored internal agency Web staff characterizations of textual Web content and staff perceptions of factors affecting the production of content. Study results suggest that staff characterize content in terms of its format, its style age, its rate of change, its degree of change, its owner, and the degree to which it is sensitive. Staff described nine factors affecting content production including information intensity, public education mission, public inquiry burden, top-down directives, existing maintenance burden, review and approval process, resources, management interest and goals, and support from other program staff. A better understanding of how internal agency staff perceive and treat content is important because staff play a large role in determining what content is produced and what characteristics the content contains. The inclusion or exclusion of certain characteristics in content has important implications for information usability, costs, citizen participation in agency policymaking, government transparency, and public trust in government.     

LibGuides and Web-Based Library Guides in Comparison: Is There a Pedagogical Advantage?

This study investigates whether the platform used to deliver a tutorial matters in online information literacy instruction and assesses the overall quality of an information literacy tutorial assignment given to an undergraduate survey class. The study asks whether there is any pedagogical advantage between information literacy tutorials created in the LibGuides library guide creation software and tutorials created as Web pages. This research question is relevant to current studies of online information literacy tutorials, particularly given the increasingly dominant but under-researched position of LibGuides in the academic library world for delivering guides and tutorials. Two separate groups of students completed LibGuides and Web page versions of the same information literacy tutorial assignment in a university undergraduate communication course. Survey results of these 89 students indicated that both the LibGuides and Web page platforms deliver online instruction content effectively and achieve learning objectives almost equally well. Results also indicated content areas within the assignment that could be strengthened.     

基于万维网信息生态系统的信息构建

信息构建是设计大型网站的蓝图 ,是人们在万维网信息环境中成功地管理和查找信息的基础。本文提出了由业务环境、内容和用户三个要素组成的万维网信息生态模型 ,并基于这一模型介绍了信息构建的基本内容以及信息构建师与信息构建团队     

Communicator in Chief: How Barak Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House

An exploratory content analysis examined 62 World Wide Web sites sponsored by English‐language commercial television stations in the United States. There was no relationship between the characteristics of station sites and either the degree of broadcast competition faced by the station or the extent of web sites operated by competing stations.     

Incorporating web browsing activities into anchor texts for web search

Anchor texts complement Web page content and have been used extensively in commercial Web search engines. Existing methods for anchor text weighting rely on the hyperlink information which is created by page content editors. Since anchor texts are created to help user browse the Web, browsing behavior of Web users may also provide useful or complementary information for anchor text weighting. In this paper, we discuss the possibility and effectiveness of incorporating browsing activities of Web users into anchor texts for Web search. We first make an analysis on the effectiveness of anchor texts with browsing activities. And then we propose two new anchor models which incorporate browsing activities. To deal with the data sparseness problem of user-clicked anchor texts, two features of user’s browsing behavior are explored and analyzed. Based on these features, a smoothing method for the new anchor models is proposed. Experimental results show that by incorporating browsing activities the new anchor models outperform the state-of-art anchor models which use only the hyperlink information. This study demonstrates the benefits of Web browsing activities to affect anchor text weighting.     

Using RSS Feeds to Alert Users to Electronic Resources

SUMMARY

RSS technology is growing in popularity among libraries as a way to distribute, or syndicate, information about new electronic resources and Web content to users. “Really Simple Syndication” is an effective communication tool for libraries because it supplies the user with to up-to-date links and announcements on the library Web site after only one initial setup function. RSS does not require the user to make frequent visits to the library Web site for updated information; rather, it gathers content from any Web sites designated by the user, and delivers news to the users in an aggregated format. The benefits of RSS are that the software to setup the service is often free for downloading and many users are already familiar with the application. The “orange button” now present on so many commercial Web sites ranging from news sites to blogs is gaining a presence on library Web sites.     

Web信息发布的特征与完全信息结构`

按照Web信息发布的特征要求,信息内容与结构的安排是Web信息发布的安全信息结构构建的两大方面。文章探讨了Web信息发布的市场定位准则、内容种类以及Web信息发布的完全信息结构。     

Web 2.0环境中用户生成内容的自组织

从信息内容、生成媒介、用户三方面分析Web 2.0环境中用户生成内容的内涵与特征,认为Web 2.0环境中的用户生成内容符合自组织的条件。在分析目前对社会化标签、维基百科、博客、微博、虚拟社区等几种类型用户生成内容自组织研究现状的基础上,构建Web 2.0环境中用户生成内容自组织模式,阐述用户生成内容自组织的层次、内容与演化机制,并指出进一步研究应注意的问题。