Broadcasting

Jack Lyle's The People Look at Public Television: 1974 (Washington: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1975—$1.00, paper)

Ken Coleman's So You Want to be a Sportscaster (New York: Hawthron Books, 1973—$5.95)

Joseph Fletcher Littell (ed.) Coping with Television (Evanston, Ill.: McDougal, Littell, 1973— cost not given, paper)

Joseph Julian's This Was Radio: A Personal Memoir (New York: Viking, 1975—$8.85)

Dick Cavett and Christopher Porterfield's Cavett (New York: Harcourt, Brace Jevanovich, 1974—$8.95)     

Information Highway's Educator's Update

Abstract

With the news wires literally singing out across all the oceans, the topic of increasing concern has been the advances in the construction of Information Highways. Touted as being the multimedia wave of the future which will soon be integral to homes across the United States and beyond, early ‘versions’ of such technology have been France's Minitel, the CNDP's Éducâble, the use of QUBE‐TV in the North American Midwest, and others. This paper describes current efforts related to the building of the Information Highway systems and some of the present players. An additional scenario describes what one United States firm, Busch Entertainment Corporation, is doing. While not integral to the Information Highway being described, their Shamu TV? series fulfils an interesting link between the available education‐based technology of today and of the future. It is clearly a testament to some of the alternative uses of the ‘highway’ and what will be needed to make it happen. Finally, attention is paid to the impact of the Information Highway on education and how it will be delivered to all grades and ages.     

Intended and unintended consequences of student use of an online questioning environment

While supplementation of face‐to‐face (F2F) teaching with online engagement is increasingly common, the educators' challenge of teaching F2F personalities and facilitating online personalities has not been widely explored. In this paper, we report on a project in which 1st‐year students attended F2F sessions and engaged with an anonymous online questioning environment. The differences between students' F2F and online behaviour led to intended and unintended consequences. The purpose of this paper is to explore these intended and unintended consequences of technology use. The project was undertaken over a 3‐year period, starting in 2004. In 2004, a pilot project was conducted based on a class of 35 students studying a 1st‐year programming course in information systems. The investigation was again conducted in 2005 for the same course, this time with 63 students. In 2006, the project was extended to a class of 610 1st‐year commerce students studying an introductory information systems course. In all cases, students met F2F and when online, engaged with an anonymous Web/SMS collaborative tool. The intended consequence was that a blending of F2F with online interaction extended student engagement beyond the limitation of a classroom and provided a forum for further collaboration and consultation. The intended outcome was achieved. An unintended consequence was that the tool provided the lecturer with diagnostic information that was used to impact on pedagogical designs. This was often a result of students taking on an online personality that would very often be extremely frank and honest about the manner in which the course was conducted, and how learning was taking place. The findings show that students used the tool in ways that exceeded the envisaged intention, and student use of the tool positively impacted on the curriculum, pedagogy and general running of the course. The paper concludes that integration of online engagement with F2F teaching adds value to the teaching and learning experience.     

Disclosure of information by children in social networking—Not just a case of “you show me yours and I’ll show you mine”

This paper reports the results of a study of MySpace use, by Sydney high school children. It examines the reasons why children disclose information on the website and their understanding of some of the privacy issues involved. The study provides a useful beginning for further work in this area. Regression is used to validate a proposed model of the factors influencing information disclosure and cluster analysis provides an indication of characteristics shared by children who disclose sensitive information, such as name, address and telephone number. It also suggests that children who are taught to value privacy are less likely to disclose sensitive information on-line.     

Ownership concentration and innovativeness of corporate ventures

Corporate venture investments are an established means for incumbent firms to access radical innovation. Drawing from a behavioural agency framework, we distinguish two mechanisms that govern the relationship between corporate venture investment and radical innovation, the safety net that corporate sponsors provide and control incentives. While the safety net induces a gap between the radical innovation success of corporate ventures (CVs) and ventures without a corporate sponsor, the superior radical innovation success of CVs decreases with the corporate sponsor’s incentives to control the venture. The impact of the safety net and control incentives further depends on the corporate sponsor’s position vis-à-vis her aspiration level.     

XML:图书馆的战略时机

ＸＭＬ（可扩展标示语言）以它用于数据和文件交换的万能格式而迅速地获得各界的青睐。事实上，ＸＭＬ正在成为信息时代的通用语言。目前由于互联网的飞速发展，“图书馆信息”已处于很不利的状况。为什么？尽管图书馆已经开发了联网目录，进行了特定馆藏的电子扫描工作、数字数据的收藏，以及建立了丰富的网页，但是图书馆信息与网络信息仍然保留着“数字分离”状况。图书馆收藏的数据信息的核心是以一体化图书馆系统所有的形式以及以ＭＡＲＣ格式存贮的。无论是图书馆系统形式，还是ＭＡＲＣ格式，它们的使用主要局限于技术服务部和系统图…