Since launching as a website for everyday video-sharing in 2005, YouTube has become
one of the world's most powerful digital media platforms. Originally published in 2009 when …

Beneficial to scholars and students in the fields of media and communication, politics and
technology, this book outlines the significant role of search engines in general and Google …

This article studies the cross-cultural barriers that prevent much of the world's population
from enjoying the benefits of digitization and the 'Wired World'. The implications and …

This article provides an alternative perspective on the relationship between media and
nation by theorizing the significance of media institutions, representations, and practices in …

Research in the fields of complex problem solving (CPS) and dynamic decision making
using microworlds has been mainly conducted in Western industrialized countries. This …

The increasing popularity of the Internet is often seen as eroding the national functions of
mass media. In critically evaluating this assumption, this article examines online media …

In this article, the authors analyze the popular search queries used in Google and Yahoo!
over a 24-month period, January 2004–December 2005. They develop and employ a new …

Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national
identity and nation building. This book examines the relationship between media and …

Building on the ideas of Stirling (JR Soc Interface, 4 (15), 707–719,) and Rafols and Meyer
(Scientometrics, 82 (2), 263–287,), we borrow models of genetic distance based on gene …

Why do authoritarian governments develop e-Government web presence? Most models of e-
Government assume a goal of government-to-citizen services and increased transparency …