FOIA Anniversary Display

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from St. Mary\u27s University, Texas.https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/lib-services-govdoc-display-democracy/1013/thumbnail.jp

UCITA: an act of promise or peril? A critique of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act

The paper is a critique of the Uniform Computer Transactions Act, or UCITA. Specifically, the history of the development of UCITA, various provisions of UCITA and its ramifications upon passage are examined. Although UCITA has the potential to impact most businesses and consumers in both public and private arenas, the focus of this paper will be on UCITA's effect on the interaction between businesses and consumers from the library perspective in the dawn of the Information Age

Internet Geography: New Spaces of Information

The objective of great investments in telecommunication networks is to approach economies and put an end to the asymmetries. The most isolated regions could be the beneficiaries of this new technological investments wave disseminating trough the territories. The new economic scenarios created by globalisation make high capacity backbones and coherent information society polity, two instruments that could change regions fate and launch them in to an economic development context. Technology could bring international projection to services or products and could be the differentiating element between a national and an international economic strategy. So, the networks and its fluxes are becoming two of the most important variables to the economies. Measuring and representing this new informational accessibility, mapping new communities, finding new patterns and localisation models, could be today’s challenge. In the physical and real space, location is defined by two or three geographical co-ordinates. In the network virtual space or in cyberspace, geography seems incapable to define location, because it doesn’t have a good model. Trying to solve the problem and based on geographical theories and concepts, new fields of study came to light. The Internet Geography, Cybergeography or Geography of Cyberspace are only three examples. In this paper and using Internet Geography and informational cartography, it was possible to observe and analyse the spacialisation of the Internet phenomenon trough the distribution of the IP addresses in the Portuguese territory. This work shows the great potential and applicability of this indicator to Internet dissemination and regional development studies. The Portuguese territory is seen in a completely new form: the IP address distribution of Country Code Top Level Domains (.pt) could show new regional hierarchies. The spatial concentration or dispersion of top level domains seems to be a good instrument to reflect the info-structural dynamic and economic development of a territory, especially at regional level

[[alternative]]Interactive Marketing on the Internet and Negotiation of Boundary Conditions for Personal Privacy

計畫編號：NSC89-2416-H032-044研究期間：200008~200107研究經費：448,000[[sponsorship]]行政院國家科學委員