Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Foreword . .........................................................................................................................................xviii
Preface . ................................................................................................................................................ xx
Section 1
Users and Technologies in the Information Society
Chapter 1
e-Society and Children’s Participation: Risk, Opportunities, and Barriers............................................. 1
Brian O’Neill, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Chapter 2
Old Age, the Internet, and Advancing Technology . ............................................................................. 17
John S. Murnane, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Chapter 3
A Guide to Online Applications for User Involvement in Living Lab Innovation ............................... 34
Asbjørn Følstad, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Amela Karahasanović, SINTEF ICT, Norway & University of Oslo, Norway
Chapter 4
Interpretive Strategies for Analyzing Digital Texts .............................................................................. 53
Sheila Petty, University of Regina, Canada
Luigi Benedicenti, University of Regina, Canada
Chapter 5
Creating and Analysing a Social Network Built from Clips of Online News ...................................... 67
Álvaro Figueira, CRACS & INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
José Devezas, CRACS & INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Nuno Cravino, CRACS & INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Luis-Francisco Revilla, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Section 2
Learning in the Information Society
Chapter 6
Academic Community in Transition: Critical Liberatory Praxis in the Network Society..................... 88
Petar Jandrić, Polytechnic of Zagreb, Croatia
Chapter 7
An Innovative “Cybernetic” Organization Improvement Plan through Participatory Action Research
in Persistent “Open Source” Virtual Worlds ....................................................................................... 107
Nikolaos Pellas, University of the Aegean, Greece
Chapter 8
The Practice and Evaluation of Applying PBL to e-Learning via Screencasting: Implications .
for Computing Courses........................................................................................................................ 130
Ye Diana Wang, George Mason University, USA
Chapter 9
Teaching Basic Software Engineering to Senior High School Students ............................................ 149
Barbara Köhler, Technische Universität München, Germany
Michaela Gluchow, Technische Universität München, Germany
Bernd Brügge, Technische Universität München, Germany
Section 3
e-Business and e-Commerce
Chapter 10
Continuous Improvement in e-Teams for Collaborative Marketing Planning ................................... 167
Tania von der Heidt, Southern Cross University, Australia
Chapter 11
What are the Characteristics of the Firms that are Most Prone to Mobile Selling? ........................... 192
Sonia San-Martín, Universidad de Burgos, Spain
Section 4
e-Governance
Chapter 12
An Investigation of the Critical Factors for Evaluating the Public Value of e-Government: A Thematic
Analysis............................................................................................................................................... 213
Kanishka Karunasena, RMIT University, Australia
Hepu Deng, RMIT University, Australia
Kushanthi Sajeewani Harasgama, Monash University, Australia
Chapter 13
An Analysis of the Effect of e-Government Readiness on Business Climate, Corruption Perception,
and the Rate of New Entrepreneurs .................................................................................................... 234
Deborah Moraes Zouain, EBAPE/FGV – Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Gustavo De Oliveira Almeida, EBAPE/FGV – Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Emilia Mathilde Moraes Zouain Sato, UNIBAN/Unidade Marte, Brazil
Chapter 14
Electronic and Mobile G2C Services: Municipalities Provision and Citizens’ Reaction.................... 254
Maria Exarchou, University of Macedonia, Greece
Paraskevi Karatzika, University of Macedonia, Greece
Theodora Zarmpou, University of Macedonia, Greece
Maro Vlachopoulou, University of Macedonia, Greece
Section 5
e-Health
Chapter 15
Creating Educational Resources for Medical Education in the Web2.0/Web3.0 Era ......................... 275
Ştefănuţ Teodor, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dorian Gorgan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Eleni Kaldoudi, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Nikolas Dovrolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Stefan Dietze, L3S Research Center, Germany & The Open University, UK
Chapter 16
Conducting Performance Evaluation of an e-Health Platform ........................................................... 295
Owen Lo, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Lu Fan, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
William J Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Christoph Thuemmler, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Chapter 17
Effects of a Home-Based Monitoring Device on Innovation in Healthcare Delivery: A Pilot
Study.................................................................................................................................................... 316
Faustina Acheampong, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden
Vivian Vimarlund, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden
Chapter 18
Effective Use of RFID in Medicine and General Healthcare ............................................................. 335
Eisuke Hanada, Shimane University Hospital, Japan
Compilation of References ............................................................................................................... 353
About the Contributors .................................................................................................................... 393
Index . ................................................................................................................................................. 403