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Handbook of Research on Strategies for Local E-Government Adoption and Implementation: Comparative Studies
Refers to form of communication between two or more parties in a real time mode using text.
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The Level and Impact of Web Based E-Government Adoption: The Case of Jogjakarta's Local Governments
Samiaji Sarosa (Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University, Indonesia) and Jenjang Sri Lestari (Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University, Indonesia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-282-4.ch042
Abstract
This chapter examined the state of Jogjakarta’s local governments Web sites (i.e, Bantul, Sleman, Kulon Progo, City of Jogjakarta and The Special Province of Jogjakarta provincial government). There are few tools available to assess e-government Web sites. We used the framework developed by Stanton, UNPAN, Indonesian Government, and CIPSODA proposed by Heeks. Stanton’s frameworks emphasized the use of ICT by local government for better interaction with the citizen. This framework is inline with the UN framework that aimed at building a people-centred and inclusive information society. Stanton identified 4 e-government sub spaces (i.e. publish, interact, transact, and transform). Indonesian government rules were leaning toward Web-based e-government. We used those tools to evaluate and observe the impact of e-government and also observed the state of ICT infrastructure in Indonesia that might be hindering the adoption of Web-based e-government and suggested an alternative.
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Task Constraints as Determinants of E-Collaboration Technology Usefulness
E-collaboration technology that supports synchronous communication in a chat-like manner, with a much higher level of interactivity than e-mail.
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Instant Messaging as a Hypermedium in the Making
A communications medium born of text-only roots that has slowly become a hypermedium.
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Web 2.0 Technology and Educational Leadership Communication
The exchange of text messages through a software application in real-time
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Using Wikis in Educational Research: A Case Study in Legal Education
IM, a type of online communication, or chat, which offers the synchronous, real-time transmission of text over the internet.
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Net Generation Features that Enhance Mobile Learning
A form of real-time communication, between two or more people, using some technology media as text forms.
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Healthcare 2.0: The Use of Web 2.0 in Healthcare
Instant messaging (IM) applications are server-based services which enable to communicate in real-time with other members via client-software.
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Instant Messaging and Texting
A form of CMC that uses a mobile application or computer program to send messages between one or more individuals. All conversational partners must be logged in to the same application or program.
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Cyberbullying Issues
Software allowing users to chat online in “real time” from their computers or via wireless devices.
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Engaging Graduate Students During a Pandemic: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, and Collaboration in Emergency Remote Learning
An instant message, also abbreviated as “IM” is used to communicate with other individuals in real time. Messages are sent immediately and the sender and receiver are simultaneously speaking to one another. Most social media platforms and others have this as a feature to connect with other individuals using their technology.
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IM Support for Informal Synchronous E-Collaboration
Communication medium that can be used to spontaneously interact with others that are online through various types of synchronous media.
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Faculty Use and Perceptions of Web 2.0 in Higher Education
A web-enabled text-based form of synchronous communication between two or more people. Popular Instant Messaging applications include Windows Live Messenger, Tencent QQ, Jabber, and AOL Instant Messenger.
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Using IM to Improve E-Collaboration in Organizations
An Internet-based application that provides semi-synchronous communication between participants.
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Student and Faculty Use and Perceptions of Web 2.0 Technologies in Higher Education
A web-enabled text-based form of synchronous communication between two or more people. Popular Instant Messaging applications include Windows Live Messenger, Tencent QQ, Jabber, and AOL Instant Messenger
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The Role of Social Media in Shaping Tourists' Travel Decisions: Multi-Functional and Multi-Level Effects of Wechat Among Individual Chinese Outbound Tourists
A real-time, text-based communication similar to chat that uses a shared software client between or among two or more people using personal computers, phones or other communicating devices.
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Social Presence: Communications in Distance Dissertation Courses
A way of distance communications in which users conduct an online chat through real-time text transmission over the Internet.
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Instant Messaging as a Hypermedium in the Making
A communications medium born of text-only roots that has slowly become a hypermedium.
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Virtual Community and Online Game Players
A form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet.
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Andragogy and Technology
The act of instantly communicating between two or more people over a network such as the Internet (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging).
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Instant Messaging as an E-Collaboration Tool
An Internet-based application that provides semi-synchronous communication between participants.
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Social Networking Site: Opportunities and Security Challenges
Instant messaging is the ability to exchange messages in real time with others over the Internet. Typically, it requires one to be connected to the Internet and with access to instant messaging software.
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