This article reviews the body of research on the use and role of instant messaging (IM) in campus life, and how IM is a key part of university students' communication. IM is a synchronous form of communication, and its speed, availability information, and support for multiple conversations have made it appealing for young people. With university students, in particular, showing a heavy reliance on IM, researchers have shown great interest in how university students use IM and how it is integrated in their social and academic life. While studies are emerging in various disciplines, no attempt has been made to integrate the disparate findings and approaches. This article synthesizes key findings, provides a map of the literature, and discusses conceptual problems inherent in the study of IM and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) that will help researchers identify key areas of study and opportunities for future investigation.

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Stalking the stalkers – detecting and deterring stalking behaviours using technology: A review

4 Introduction 5 Problem Statement and Reasoning 6 Research Questions and Hypothesis 6 Significance of the Study 9 Historical Perspectives 10 History of Advertising 10 Beginning of Online Social Networks 13 Advertising and Modern Media 15 Web Advertising 15 Advertising in Online Social Networks 19 Theoretical Perspective: Attitude-toward-the-ad 22 Method 24 Sample 24 Research Variables 26 Procedures 27 Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique 27 Personal In-depth Interviews 27 Results 31 Discussion 33 Reasoning in Relation to research Questions and Hypothesis 33 General Conclusions 37 Conclusion 37 Limitations of the Study 38 Future Implications 39 References 40 Appendix A 46 Appendix B 47 Appendix C 82 Appendix D 84 Appendix E 85 Appendix F 86 Appendix G 90 Appendix H 91 Appendix I 97 Perceptions of Advertising 4 Abstract Advertising in online social networks is a major unexplored advertising area. However, interactivity on the Internet shifts the ways in which users perceive advertising, and whether they perceive it at all. This research study focuses on college students, users of online social networks, as main sources of information that helps advertisers understand the ways in which advertisements are perceived online. Through the personal in-depth interviews, using Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique, it has been revealed that only 20% of online social network users notice advertisements while using online social networks. The content found in online social networks inhibits viewing advertisements. This research study does not offer solutions to that problem, but simply states the users’ views.Advertising in online social networks is a major unexplored advertising area. However, interactivity on the Internet shifts the ways in which users perceive advertising, and whether they perceive it at all. This research study focuses on college students, users of online social networks, as main sources of information that helps advertisers understand the ways in which advertisements are perceived online. Through the personal in-depth interviews, using Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique, it has been revealed that only 20% of online social network users notice advertisements while using online social networks. The content found in online social networks inhibits viewing advertisements. This research study does not offer solutions to that problem, but simply states the users’ views.

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Perceptions of advertising in online social networks: In-depth interviews

for New Material: A Novella and Accompanying Exegesis i © «GreetingLine» Masters of Creative Arts, Research – School of Creative Writing and Journalism, Faculty of Creative Arts, Dr Shady Cosgrove, 2007 Creative Work – New Material Abstract The novella New Material explores the intersections between fictional space, cyber space and mythic space, through three characters’ narratives: Jo, his cousin Mei and Lee Wei Hong. Set in Singapore in 2007, the novella is narrated by each of these characters, whose voices interrupt and layer one another’s stories. Jo is a teen hacker and computer expert who lives fully immersed in a networked world. Mei has come from Australia to stay with Jo’s family, fleeing her parents’ divorce. She is an avid reader and uses fictional space as an escape route from her troubled family. Thirdly, the older Lee Wei Hong, an offset printer, whose narration takes the form of a statement to the police. It is seeing himself as his online avatar through his cousin’s eyes that Jo begins transformation and when Mei insists they need to experience a rainstorm Jo comes into contact with physical reality in a way he has been avoiding. Mei’s journey through Singapore leads her to explore her roots and she and Jo come to know one another better through talking about their shared grandmother’s spiritual heritage. However, Jo’s double-dealing with gamers online leads him to be assaulted in a back alley. Strangely, the alley is full of paper. The night of the hungry ghosts sees Jo and Mei immersed in the novel they salvaged. The narrative entangles the two of them, as they become part of the story. Lee Wei Hong’s confession is the lead-up to his ‘crime’. During the course of his day he reads and falls in love with a book, the physical book that he has been working on. When he discovers that his work will not be available to the public, but that the novel will only be available online he is moved to act. In a state of passion he takes the printed pages of the review copy his company has, and throws them off the tenth storey of the National Library. This is his criminal act. These are the pages that Jo and Mei have found, read and also been inspired to act upon. Through his hacking Jo has unearthed a series of emails that read well as fiction. He and Mei decide to send them on to the author to influence his next book. Abstract for New Material: A Novella and Accompanying Exegesis ii © «GreetingLine» Masters of Creative Arts, Research – School of Creative Writing and Journalism, Faculty of Creative Arts, Dr Shady Cosgrove, 2007for New Material: A Novella and Accompanying Exegesis ii © «GreetingLine» Masters of Creative Arts, Research – School of Creative Writing and Journalism, Faculty of Creative Arts, Dr Shady Cosgrove, 2007 Exegesis – How to Log into the Book: Cyborgs and Fiction Abstract The exegesis situates the novella New Material in the surrounding landscape of literary fiction writing and theoretical posthumanism in two ways. First, it discusses the novel within the framework of two other novels, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake and Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook, both of which deal in very different ways with the cyborg within fiction, as both constructed character and constructed author. Secondly, the exegesis draws on the work of theorists and researchers Elizabeth Grosz’ Space, Time, Perversion the Politics of Bodies, Donna Haraway’s "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminisim in the Late Twentieth Century", N Katherine Hayles’ How We Became Post-Human: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics and Sherry Turkle’s Life on Screen; Identity and the Age of the Internet. These four writers’ works are used as metaphorical global positioning systems to discuss the novella New Material, and map the territories where its concerns overlap with those of the Carey and Winterson novels.

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New material: a novella, and the accompanying exegesis, How to log into the book: cyborgs and fiction

Blogging politics: a case study of the 2004 election

Internet and Personal Computing Fads

* Introduction * Absent Presence * Advertising at School * AMBER Alert * Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Its Impact upon Technology in Schools * Blogging--A Tool for Education and Free Speech * Bride Scams * Camcorders, Surveillance, and Video Voyeurism * Cell Phone Rage * Cell Phones and Driving * Cell Yell * Censorship and Filtering * Cheating at School Using Cell Phone Cameras * Child Online Protection Act and Children's Online Privacy Protection Act * Child Pornography Prevention Act * Children's Internet Protection Act * Computer Addiction * Computer Security * Crackers, Lamers, and Phreaks * Creating an Identity in a Chat Room * Cyberbullying * Cyberchondriacs * Disinformation * Disinhibition * Distance Learning Content Sharing * Distributed Computing * Doctor-Patient Relationships * Domain Hijacking * DRM * eBay and Online Auction Fraud * Elder Care and Technology * E-Mail Addresses and Privacy * Encryption * E-Waste * File Swapping * Firewall * Flame Wars * Flash Mobs * Google Bombing * Google Book Search * Google Stalking * GPS and Privacy * Hackers, Crackers, and Hacking * Hacktivism * Hoaxes * Identity Theft and the Internet * Internet Pornography * Internet User Agreement and the Library * Keystroke Logging * Logging On As an Administrator * Logo Abuse * Marketing to Children * Media and Cognitive Development * Modern Luddites * Monitoring Employees' Internet Use * Movie Duplication * Media Manipulation * Napster * Network Ubiquity * $100 MIT Laptop * Online Gambling * Online Protests * Online Pyramid Schemes * Patriot Act * Phishing * Phreaking * Plagiarism * Podcasting * Privacy and the Internet * Project Guttenberg * RFID * Scare Chains * Script Kiddies * Slander, Libel, and Technology * Social Engineering * Spam * Splogs * Spoofing * Spyware or Adware * Steganography * Surfer's Voice * Sympathy Hoaxes * Technology and Knowledge Management * Technolust * Trojan Horses * Turnitincom * Typosquatting * Virtual Offices * Viruses and Virus Protection * Warchalking * Watching Over Children with High-Tech Tools * Wiki * Wireless Computers and Security * Worm * Index

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