Thesis (D. Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 279-285).

Internet search has changed significantly since its beginning and it has also changed the way of information retrieval. Firstly, network search tools were created. However, greater development of internet search tools came after the creation of the Web. One of the first internet search tools were the web directories, such as Yahoo! or content directory Open Directory Project. Nowadays, web search engines are the most commonly used. Apart from general web search engines, there are also specialized or web search engines for particular aim or function, such as DuckDuckGo aimed at privacy, Yandex or Seznam.cz aimed at specific region or computational search engine WolframAlpha. Multimedia search and search adapted for mobile devices is technology trend in the field of internet search. Personalization, localization and social search belong among the contemporary trends. Semantic search is another long-lasting trend.

The first part is an introduction to the history of the internet and its connection to the information society. The next part is a theoretical introduction of the information behavior and online information behavior. The following chapter is then about Czech internet user surveys with emphasis on kids' online behavior. The last part presents the specifics of online surveys.

Cette recherché a pour objectif d’analyser le rôle d’internet au Pakistan et plus particulièrement son rôle dans l’émergence de la société civile pakistanaise. L’émergence de cette société civile peut-être vue comme un des facteurs de la politisation et de la démocratisation de la société. La société pakistanaise a besoin d’être éduquée, guidée afin que les principes démocratiques soient mieux connus, plus réels et que le pays s’engage plus fermement dans la voie démocratique. L’intelligentsia est engagée dans ce travail depuis longtemps, utilisant les moyens traditionnels de la communication de masse la presse, la radio et la télévision mais la société civile ne peut se réduire aux élites et notamment aux intellectuels, les autres catégories sociales doivent participer au processus, notamment la classe moyenne. Une des conditions de la démocratisation de la société nous semble devoir passer par un élargissement de la société civile, afin de combler l’écart entre les élites et les catégories les plus modestes de la population. Il faut garder à l’esprit que le Pakistan est gouverné depuis sa création d’une manière oligarchique par les militaires même si quelques gouvernement civils animés par des partis politiques ont aussi existé. Mais peu d’études ont été consacrées à la société civile pakistanaise, les études existantes se sont souvent focalisées sur les questions économiques ou sur la chronologie mouvementée de l’histoire politique du Pakistan. Le rôle des médias au sein de la société civile n’a pas non plus donné lieu à des études. C’est pourquoi nous nous sommes intéressés dans cette thèse à l’émergence de la société civile, à ses liens avec la vie politique et le rôle joué par internet dans la politisation de la société pakistanaise. La situation du Pakistan est sensiblement différente de celles des pays arabes qui viennent juste de connaître le « printemps arabe ». Le Pakistan est un de ces nouveaux pays nés de l’effondrement de l’empire colonial britannique, né après un long combat mené par les leaders politiques pakistanais. Sa première constitution a été élaborée 9 ans après l’indépendance et les premières élections démocratiques ont leu lieu. Il a alors connu 4 coups d’Etat dont le dernier a pris fin en 2008 avec les élections de février et l’abdication du régime militaire en août. En dépit de ces obstacles dans le processus démocratique, le pays s’est toujours mobilisé contre les dictateurs, même si les dictateurs ont cherché à légitimer leur pouvoir en s’appuyant sur des référendums et en cherchant le soutien de la Cour suprême. Depuis sa création, le Pakistan a néanmoins des valeurs et une culture démocratiques à la différence de certains pays du printemps arabes qui n’avaient pas de constitution démocratique, qui ont été gouvernés pas des dictatures ou des régimes monarchiques sans interruption. Au Pakistan, la lutte en faveur de la démocratie n’est pas nouvelle, la société a été familiarisée avec une constitution démocratique, ce qui rend la notion de société civile différente de celles de bon nombre de pays arabes. / In this thesis, the first study of its kind, the role of internet specially that of social networking shared devices on web 2.0 is analyzed in the process of emergence of Public Sphere – the notion introduced by Habermas, and ultimately in the process of democratization of civil society in Pakistan. Lawyers’ Movement (March 2007 – March 2009) of Pakistan is selected to analyze this role as this successful movement for the rule of law in the country is solely responsible for a fundamental democratic change in the democratic culture and socio-political set up of Pakistan by bringing a vibrant and active civil society in the lime light of country’s political and social life.The content in Pakistani press and social communication content in blogs on blog sites during the course of and related to Lawyers’ Movement are analyzed using the technique of content analysis as defined by Lasswell Harold, focusing mainly on the content of communication (said what?) for a qualitative as well as quantitative analysis.The fundamental questions of the emergence of Public Sphere with the help of internet found to be true as it enhances the circle and forum of national public debate to the ones who had not been able to take part in it at the same level via the traditional means of mass communication, confirming the concept of Enhanced Public Sphere with the advent of internet presented by Cardon and also the concept of more participative democracy by Oberdorff by providing a platform to the educated middle class for voicing their opinion and ultimately filling the gap between the common people and intelligentsia of the society and taking active part in democratization of the society. The subsequent findings of the study reveal that there exists a freedom of expression not only on the internet but in the Pakistani press as well, that there is a link between the discussion in the press and in blogs and this discussion is concurrent, that internet has not yet presented itself as an alternate and better source for the flow of information confirming the criticism of Breton on the cult of internet and that the internet is instead behaving as complementary to the traditional media.

Univ., Diss.--Saarbrücken, 2003. / Literatuverz. S. 223 - 227.

Public participation in forests recently is very important, because it is one of the aims in politics and its implementation in Lithuanian forestry. Public participation related to forestry may increase public awareness of forests and forestry among the public through active collaborative learning, mutual recognition and constructive co – operation among forest related actors. Object: Lithuanian forest enterprises, web sites, newspapers “Lietuvos rytas” “Respublika” 2004, public. Methods: questioning, document analysis. Results: The purpose of this study is to research action of public participation in forest enterprises and to research image of foresters in media and public. It was estimated that chiefly work of public participation in forest enterprises do vice – forester of forestry (13 forest enterprises), engineers (12), proficient of public participation (10) and other (5). After public opinion poll was estimated that proceeding of foresters assess positively 44%, right enough – 36%, negative – 15%, 5% suppose that forests grow successfully without foresters.

Submitted by Clebson Anjos (clebson.leandro54@gmail.com) on 2016-02-18T17:02:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3613505 bytes, checksum: 3b9882964a96d1291d0978413111cdfa (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-18T17:02:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3613505 bytes, checksum: 3b9882964a96d1291d0978413111cdfa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In this essay we analyze the journalistic blogs from the particularities of the interactions between author/reader of blogs, identifying how the information is built, what are the new routines of production in the device blog. We contextualize our empirical object in the dimension of journalism as a historical partner experience, which has great importance in the context of civilization, and also in the processes of formation of sociability and citizenship. We start from some theoretical assumptions that involve the role of technology; the reconfiguration of journalism from the social computerization enhanced by the internet and social networks. The "Viomundo" Blog and "Luis Nassif" blog On-line are empirical objects of this research. Our investigations aim to assess how the device blog operates in the construction of information, from the author/reader interaction, showing that this relationship sets up a new journalistic reality, whose trademark lies in the commitment to the democratization of information and social communication. / Nesta dissertação buscamos analisar os blogs jornalísticos a partir das especificidades das interações entre autor/leitor dos blogs, identificando de que modo as informações são construídas e quais as novas rotinas de produção dessas informações no dispositivo blog. Contextualizamos o nosso objeto empírico na dimensão do jornalismo como uma experiência sócio-histórica, que possui grande importância no âmbito da civilização, e também nos processos de formação da sociabilidade e da cidadania. Partimos de alguns pressupostos teóricos que envolvem o papel da tecnologia; a reconfiguração do jornalismo a partir da informatização social potencializada pela internet e pelas redes sociais. O Blog Viomundo e o Blog Luis Nassi On-line são os objetos empíricos desta pesquisa. Nossas investigações pretendem apreciar como o dispositivo blog atua na construção da informação, a partir da interação autor/leitor, mostrando que essa relação se configura numa nova realidade jornalística, cuja marca registrada reside no empenho da democratização da informação e da comunicação social.

Das Internet ist das Medium des 21. Jahrhunderts. Doch wie nehmen Medienrezepienten diese auf? Sind Bilder kulturell geprägt und welchen Konventionen unterliegen sie? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigten sich die 6. Studentischen Medientage Chemnitz 2010. Von besonderer Bedeutung in der Medienentwicklung ist die Herausbildung von mobiler Kommunikation, Computergaming und dem Web 2.0 – Formen, die die bisherigen Grenzen von Medienbildern durchbrechen und neue Darstellungsmöglichkeiten mit sich bringen. Die Relevanz einer guten Visualisierung wird hierbei besonders im Game Design und Webseitenlayout deutlich. Dass die wachsende Macht der heutzutage stark realitätsnahen Visualisierungen in den Medien nicht unterschätzt wird, zeigt sich in den Diskussionen über die Duldung von gewalttätigen Video- und Computerspielen oder an der moralbezogenen Kritik an Sex-sells-Konzepten in der Fernsehwelt und Werbebranche. Weiterhin lässt sich, anlehnend an heutige Betrachtungsweisen, feststellen, dass Online- sowie Offlinemedien nicht mehr nur die Meinungsbildung bestimmen und kontrollieren, sondern auch die Rolle des Zeitzeugen einnehmen und einen markanten Beitrag zum kollektiven Gedächtnis leisten. Schließlich steht fest: Das menschliche Gedächtnis vergisst – die medialen Darstellungen erinnern. Vollständigkeitshalber haben wir in diesem Tagungsband fünf weitere Vorträge der 5. Studentischen Medientage 2009 aufgeführt, welche sich mit dem Thema „Ich surfe, also bin ich!“ befassten.

Thesis aims to present the current situation of social plugins growth. It examines social plugins from users and website owner point of view. At the beginning, the work reminds of web present emergence and comes after with emergence of social plugins. Work examines also the terminology of term "social plugin". Social plugins (as is Facebook Like button) are described in chapter Type of social plugins, after this comes chapter about practical usage of social plugins. Parts of this chapter are case studies and evaluations of advantages and disadvantages. Last chapter follow social plugins from the user's point of view. The subjects of examination are motivation to share information online and present results of studies and research, which has been prepared by author of this thesis. In enclosure can be found complete list of the most exploited social plugins including their functions and possibilities of usage.

The subject matter of this project is accessibility of web pages and possibilities of its automated validation. This thesis defines what web accessibility really is and identifies what disabilities can users of the Internet suffer from. The main goal is to analyse and to compare current web accessibility rules valid in the USA, in the European Union and in the Czech Republic and to research existing validators as well. The tools are divided into the following categories: Online tools, toolbars and desktop applications. The output of this project is in form of specification and implementation of a new validation tool.