Phone Hacking and the Murdoch Empire

The Beacon: Journal for Studying Ideologies and Mental Dimensions, 2021

COVID-19 pandemic is possibly the most serious challenge to the humanity since the end of World War II. Surprisingly, this threat did not unite countries of different ideological blocks. The ideological division of the world only exaggerated in the COVID-19 times. Not even common programmes of mutual healthcare assistance were elaborated. Instead, Russia, the East (mainly China) and the West deepened their discrepancies in international relations and strengthened their hostile rhetoric against each other (with exception of Russo-Chinese relations). The paper studies possibilities of overcoming ideological barriers that prevent the world now to create effectual administrative, political, social and legal techniques of counteracting such outstanding a threat as the Great Pandemic.

Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2013

Mobile learning involves the use of mobile technologies such as PDAs, Smartphones, and Wireless networks to tailor learning to a student's cognitive ability, circumstances, and task requirements. Therefore, this study examined the influence of perceived relevance on mobile learning, and assessed whether it affected the acceptance of any particular mobile learning technology. A research study was deployed using 125 male students from a senior high school in central Taiwan. The study adopted the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and incorporated the factors of perceived curiosity and convenience. The results of the study revealed that perceived curiosity had a positive impact on continuous intention to use, and perceived convenience had positive effect on perceived usefulness, and continue intention to use.

Learning and Assessment for Digital Citizenship, 2020

This publication is a report summarizing findings from the first wave of the Learning and Assessment for Digital Citizenship (e-Citizenship) project, funded by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, under its Theme-based Research Scheme [Project No. T44-707/16-. It was jointly conducted by researchers from The University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM), 2020

Tsao, Hung-ping (2020). The Color Purple of Taiwan Politics. In: Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) , Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping (editors). Volume 2, Number 10, October 2020; 285 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Newtonville, NY, 12128-0405, USA. No. STEAM-VOL2-NUM10-OCT2020; ISBN 978-0-9890870-3-2; http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/s16r-c655 . ..........ABSTRACT: This collection of one thousand articles sidetracks the democratic progression in Taiwan for the period between 1996 and 2013. Most of the articles were published in The World Journal and each reflected spontaneously the complexity of the political, economical and cultural facades of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. ...........KEYWORDS: Taiwan, Politics, Thousand articles, World Journal, Political, economical and cultural facades, Hong Kong, China

Internet and e-business strategy enables a firm to integrate with customers, suppliers and partners like an integrated firm. Facing the driving force of e-business, firms ought to adapt business strategy and take electronic integration strategy. This paper uses strategic management and transaction costs perspective to study the effects of uncertainty, technology system, business strategy and experience on e-business integration strategy. This research selects Taiwanese semiconductor and information firms to conduct case study. This paper finds that the information intensity, e-business experiences, integration intentions and strategy types have significant influence on electronic integration. And the effects of demand uncertainty, technology complexity and business scope on electronic

Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences, 2020

With popularizing the Internet, more and more resources and services have emerged along with social networking sites. The Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation's online support group on Facebook was set up for patients with burn and scald injuries. It provides a platform for patients to possibly restart a new life via support groups. The purpose of this study is to explore the participants' mental model of Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation Support Group on Facebook, and to understand the underlying thoughts and needs of patients of burn and scald injuries by using the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET). This study recruited 8 patients as research participants and collected a total of 72 pictures. The ZMET was applied to understand each participant's thoughts, while metaphor analysis was used to investigate the results and core values, which were then drawn into consensus map for further analysis. In conclusion, three main findings are as follows: (1) The mental ...

興大人文學報, 2013

With the increasing number of the elderly in households who are enjoying learning different applications of computers, not enough reports have been documented whether the learning is associated with younger generations at home, and the roles of family interaction in the learning process still appears to be unclear to us. The purpose of this paper is to survey the motivation of the the elderlyin the household who seek to learn how to use computers, and which are the most useful applications for them. It also aims to explore whether assistance from the younger generation at home contributes to the learning of the use of computers for the older generation. It has been discovered through a survey that good family interaction is positively related to the positive learning attitude for the elderly in the household The capability of the the elderly in the household in using computers, however, is not related to family interaction. Based on the findings of the survey it is recommended that ...

Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences, 2019

The studies of research productivity and authorship of theses published apply the method of bibliometrics. Through the method, the studies utilize the results of quantitative analysis to discuss and explore the results and trends of research activities and the direction of manpower development in academic communities. Through the exploration and analysis of the authors' productivity and the distribution of manpower structure, the potential of research and development of a particular field or subject and the current situation of research talents of the field or subject can be revealed. In this study, LISA and EBSCOhost- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts databases were selected and we got a total of 219 English articles in the field of library and information science published from 1961 to 2016. With the content analysis and bibliometric approach, this study investigates the results include published years, research methods, research designs and samplings, subjec...

教育資料與圖書館學, 2019

The studies of research productivity and authorship of theses published apply the method of bibliometrics. Through the method, the studies utilize the results of quantitative analysis to discuss and explore the results and trends of research activities and the direction of manpower development in academic communities. Through the exploration and analysis of the authors' productivity and the distribution of manpower structure, the potential of research and development of a particular field or subject and the current situation of research talents of the field or subject can be revealed. In this study, LISA and EBSCOhost-Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts databases were selected and we got a total of 219 English articles in the field of library and information science published from 1961 to 2016. With the content analysis and bibliometric approach, this study investigates the results include published years, research methods, research designs and samplings, subjects of literatures, content items of research and analysis. Moreover, this study conclude authors' patterns, institutional affiliations, degree of collaboration between institution and countries and core authors.

Manuscripta Mathematica, 2007