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Informatics, Volume 9, Issue 3

2022 September - 22 articles

Cover Story: Measuring online civic engagement activities (often called ‘digital citizenship’) is an important enterprise in fields as diverse as political science, informatics, and education. Over the past decade, a variety of survey instruments for measuring these activities have been proposed. This study investigates the psychometric properties of one such measure, the Digital Citizenship Scale (DCS), and is the first to include both students and non-students (n=1820) across national boundaries. The results suggest refining the 26-item five-factor tool into an abbreviated 19-item four-factor instrument. This article outlines the process of creating the revised instrument (DCS-R) and discusses the predictive properties of the four factors (political activism, technical skills, critical perspectives, and networking agency). View this paper
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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
13,026 Views
19 Pages

While the digitalization of products and services in the entertainment industry has gained momentum in the last decades, online theater streaming is a relatively new phenomenon boosted by the COVID-19 restrictions, which created new market opportunit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,765 Views
17 Pages

Home delivery (B2C) experienced rapid growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially food delivery. Nonrepudiation is a problem in security and affects delivery. Blockchain technology is a new technology that addresses this issue. This paper propose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,438 Views
15 Pages

Objectives: The digital transformation of the healthcare sector involves the procurement and implementation of new health technologies, which will likely be a challenge to healthcare providers who are not part of large organizations. In response to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,425 Views
29 Pages

IT Managers’ Framing of IT Governance Roles and Responsibilities in Ibero-American Higher Education Institutions

  • Carlos Juiz,
  • Francois Duhamel,
  • Isis Gutiérrez-Martínez and
  • Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes

Present standards guiding the corporate governance of information technology (IT) provide useful frameworks for organizations’ governing bodies to direct the effective use of information technology (IT) within their organizations. However, exis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,836 Views
19 Pages

This study aims to assess the impact of public value on e-government ambidexterity. Furthermore, current technology variables, public value variables, and e-government ambidexterity are incorporated into a framework for measuring e-government service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,506 Views
20 Pages

Protecting Private Information for Two Classes of Aggregated Database Queries

  • Xuechao Yang,
  • Xun Yi,
  • Andrei Kelarev,
  • Leanne Rylands,
  • Yuqing Lin and
  • Joe Ryan

An important direction of informatics is devoted to the protection of privacy of confidential information while providing answers to aggregated queries that can be used for analysis of data. Protecting privacy is especially important when aggregated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,661 Views
16 Pages

Factors That Affect the Usage Intention of Virtual Learning Objects by College Students

  • Diana Gaviria,
  • Juan Arango,
  • Alejandro Valencia-Arias,
  • Lucia Palacios-Moya,
  • Rosa Velez Holguin and
  • Ada Lucia Gallegos Ruiz

In recent years, the introduction of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) into several aspects of daily life has become more relevant, particularly in higher education. This phenomenon has resulted in a digital integration that involves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,336 Views
23 Pages

Despite the many benefits of blockchain technology in higher education, this technology is not widely adopted by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Therefore, instead of providing additional motives for adopting blockchain technology, this researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,918 Views
16 Pages

Proposal of a Method for the Analysis of Sentiments in Social Networks with the Use of R

  • William Villegas-Ch.,
  • Sofía Molina,
  • Víctor De Janón,
  • Estevan Montalvo and
  • Aracely Mera-Navarrete

Decision making is vital for the management of all organizations. For this reason, data analysis has become one of the fastest-growing technologies when it comes to generating information and knowledge about data generated by organizations. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
2,740 Views
9 Pages

Modeling of the Natural Objects’ Temperature Field Distribution Using a Supercomputer

  • Alexander Vitalievich Martirosyan and
  • Yury Valeryevich Ilyushin

There are some regions where the unique type of mineral water mining is compounded by the complex structure conditions of the field. Due to the high emergency risks, the automation of this type of mineral water fields’ exploitation process is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,974 Views
13 Pages

Measuring citizen activities in online environments is an important enterprise in fields as diverse as political science, informatics, and education. Over the past decade, a variety of scholars have proposed survey instruments for measuring digital c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,920 Views
19 Pages

Stylometry has gained great popularity in digital humanities and social sciences. Many works on stylometry have recently been reported. However, there is a research gap regarding review studies in this field from a bibliometric and evolutionary persp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,539 Views
9 Pages

Informal caregivers play a fundamental role in caring for people that need assistance and provide an effective service in managing their loved ones’ health. Because of this, they have little time to attend to themselves and perform self-care pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,393 Views
16 Pages

The development of ontology is one important research area in the digital humanities. This study aims at creating a semantic search system for traditions common culture in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) to solve problems in semantic gaps. This pa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,170 Views
17 Pages

Over the last few years, a rich amount of research has been conducted on remote vital sign monitoring of the human body. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a camera-based, unobtrusive technology that allows continuous monitoring of changes in vita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
7,676 Views
13 Pages

It is undeniable that mobile devices have become an inseparable part of human’s daily routines due to the persistent growth of high-quality sensor devices, powerful computational resources and massive storage capacity nowadays. Similarly, the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,271 Views
42 Pages

This paper aims to assist novice gardeners in identifying plant diseases to circumvent misdiagnosing their plants and to increase general horticultural knowledge for better plant growth. In this paper, we develop a mobile plant care support system (&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,642 Views
19 Pages

Harnessing Soft Logic to Represent the Privacy Paradox

  • Ron S. Hirschprung,
  • Moshe Klein and
  • Oded Maimon

The digital era introduces a significant issue concerning the preservation of individuals’ privacy. Each individual has two autonomous traits, privacy concern which indicates how anxious that person is about preserving privacy, and privacy beha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,000 Views
22 Pages

C19MOOC: A Remote Learning Reference Framework for Science and Technology Education

  • Shahnawaz Saikat,
  • Jaspaljeet Singh Dhillon,
  • Rosima Alias and
  • Mariam Aisha Fatima

With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, education and learning have been compelled to go entirely online rather than using conventional offline media. As a result, remote learning adoption has exploded, neither planned nor anticipated....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,566 Views
26 Pages

This study aimed to understand the perceptions of young computing science students about women and older people with regard to their computer literacy and how this may affect the design of computer-based systems. Based on photos, participants were as...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,619 Views
17 Pages

With concepts such as immersion and presence, known as hedonistic qualities of importance in the virtual reality (VR) experience, the question arises whether the more pragmatic heuristics are effective in the evaluation of an artifact. However, despi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,062 Views
11 Pages

A Review of Social Media Website Users’ Interaction Paths with Governmental Accounts during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Amal Mohammed Nabil Abdul Azim Badr,
  • Tarek Ismail Mohamed,
  • Nassereldin Abdel Qadir Osman and
  • Alexey Mikhaylov

This study aims to describe and analyze the paths of social media website users’ interaction with the content of government accounts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The objectives of the study are to describe the roles of government accounts as a...

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Informatics - ISSN 2227-9709