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Purpose: This research is looking at the variables influencing students' insights of online purchasing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The city's lockdown and commercial centre closures during COVID-19 impacted daily life, business, and activities. Today, online business is a powerful method to reduce physical business activities. In this pandemic, many people choose to use online shopping to buying their goods. E-commerce is slowly changing every one of us, and online shopping has gradually become a mass consumption model, permeating all social strata. Hence, it is of practical implication to analyse the determining factors of online shopping behaviour. This study on perceived ease of used, perceived usefulness, reduced time, convenient, security and privacy, are the main factors in affecting students' perception of online shopping during Covid-19 pandemic. The theoretical underpinnings of this study are the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Based on the literature, a self-administered questionnaire was created. Additionally, 200 respondents from Malaysian institutions of higher learning participated in the study's conclusion. According to this study, the information gathered is extremely valuable and beneficial to students, academics, researchers, educational institutions, commercial companies, and the public sector. Design/methodology/approach: A cross sectional study was used performing the research over the course of six months. 200 respondents were surveyed online for data, which was then evaluated using SPSS. Findings: The outcome of this study proves that students' perceptions of online buying during the COVID-19 epidemic are influenced by convenience, time savings, security, and privacy. However, throughout the COVID-19 epidemic, students' perceptions of perceived utility and perceived ease of use are unaffected. Originality/value: Aims to recognise and test the components that influence students' opinions of internet buying during the Covid-19 epidemic. Convenience, perceived simplicity of use, perceived usefulness, saved time, security, and privacy are among the variables. Students who are doing their tertiary education in Malaysia participated in the survey as repondents. Keywords: Online shopping, perception, Covid-19, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, reduced time, convenience, security and privacy, Introduction Nowadays most of the nations around the world are suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic. Covid-19 is affecting many countries globally (WHO, 2020). Covid-19 is a virus that may transmit [...]

The other day while my boyfriend and I were talking about the latest internet meme to go viral, I noted that the meme went viral so quickly I had to [...]

The phrase 'fake news' has officially entered the national dialogue. Despite its current high profile, however, the principles behind the lack of skills in evaluating the information we consume has [...]

Social media practices and technologies are often part of how ethnographic research participants navigate their wider social, material and technological worlds, and are equally part of ethnographic practice. This creates the need to consider how emergent forms of social media-driven ethnographic practice might be understood theoretically and methodologically. In this article, we respond critically to existing literatures concerning the nature of the internet as an ethnographic site by suggesting how concepts of routine, movement and sociality enable us to understand the making of social media ethnography knowledge and places., In 2010 we moved to Barcelona for twelve months to do research about social media and activism. Our research posed a set of questions concerning how activists and social movements [...]

During the Winter Olympic Games in February 2010, the actor Michael C. Hall narrated a television commercial: President's Day commemorates the day George Washington bought his first car. He was [...]

Brigham Young political science professor Richard Davis noted in 1999 that 'anyone can put anything on the Internet and seemingly does. Often, one cannot be sure of the reliability of [...]

The Internet has increasingly become a medium of human rights abuses. Details on slander/defamation cases, anonymity issues, and education on freedom of speech and human rights in Japan are discussed.

Young people online may look as though they write without rules. They don't OMG, the kids and the internet are ruining the English language, amirite? The sentiment is so common [...]

The impact of commercial Internet on Chinese society is discussed. Rules imposed by the government on Internet content are detailed.

It's customary for anyone writing to the uninitiated about blogs to define them. This is a journalism trade publication and you are no ordinary reader, so I'll spare you the [...]

This paper uses a detailed case study in order to exemplify some key trends and characteristics of activist uses of the internet. It focuses on the We Are All Boat People campaign in support of asylum seekers, discussing this in relation to three main areas. First, it considers the campaign's media strategies in the context of what Scalmer has called 'the dilemmas of the activist' (2002: 41). It then discusses the campaign in the context of tactical media and its key methodology of detournement. Finally, the project is discussed as an example of what Tim Berners-Lee has termed 'intercreativity' (1999: 182-83).

The article analyses the role of the internet in informing and shaping indigenous knowledge and offers a critical examination of the uses of internet by Mapuche indigenous activists in Chile. It describes the ways in which the internet has been appropriated as an efficient political tool to rearticulate a renewed Mapuche cultural imaginary, constructed in the realm of the virtual but grounded in the materiality of the everyday struggle for cultural survival and ethnic recognition. Through a critical reading of several Mapuche websites hosted in Chile and Europe, the paper analyses how and why new media have been embraced as a fertile field of symbolic and political struggle. It is argued that the internet has been constructed, promoted and used as an incipient counter public sphere to the state, the national imaginary and corporate interests becoming an important mediator for the articulation of a Mapuche 'activist imaginary'. It is demonstrated how the World Wide Web has been a key tactic in the Mapuche responses to the mainstream media's distorted construction of a Mapuche conflict to refer to the current Mapuche uprising started on December 1997.

The late 1990s saw the global rebirth of an independent media movement of a magnitude and strength not seen since the 1970s. Both the escalation of anti-corporate-globalisation sentiment and the establishment of the IndyMedia online network can be seen as strong catalysts for a media activism that is characterised by the desire to encourage widespread participation in the media-making process. `Participatory media' is based in the democratic philosophy that anybody has the right to tell their own story, and aims to encourage media diversity by breaking down the information stronghold held by a small number of large and powerful media corporations. This essay examines the way in which the internet has contributed to the facilitation of a greater diversity of views, news, opinions and voices into the public domain.

The adoption of the internet in Japan and the United States was examined in order to understand potential underlying factors influencing the diffusion process and to provide insight into the [...]

This study examined the role of gender in the third-person effect in the context of Internet pornography. The results indicate that most respondents believe Internet pornography has a greater negative influence on others than on themselves. Female respondents tend to perceive greater negative effects of Internet pornography on other males than on other females, and they are readier to support restrictions of Internet pornography. Finally, the magnitude of perceptual bias appears an unreliable predictor of support for media restriction, which may help explain the mixed results in previous studies. This novel gender-differential approach strengthens the growing literature on the third-person effect., The rapid, worldwide growth of the Internet leads to unprecedented opportunities in applications in business, communication, education, and entertainment (Hagel & Armstrong, 1997; Johnson, 1997; Schawrtz, 1997; Tapscott, Lowy, & [...]

Introduction The advent of the Internet and its other components may be changing the definition, meaning, understanding and practice of PR because cyberspace is not physical, geometric or geographic. Time [...]

This paper surveys the representation of The X-Files Internet fandom in order to show how the structural positioning of television fans is altered by Internet technology and culture. Additionally, the representation of fans in promotional materials and the series itself, when considered in light of the conflicts between fans and Fox, highlights the difficulties Fox has had in translating its promotional strategies to the Internet.

Issues discussed concern labor trends in Internet technology, focusing on how cyberwork will impact the decisions of managers and human resource departments by 2025. Topics addressed include the work and challenges of Internet-related professionals, as well as the changes the Internet will bring to the labor market.

Traditional patterns of working are being significantly affected by the internet, information technology and e-commerce. There are wide-reaching implications for human resources management, leadership, staff loyalty and recruitment.

David Shenk warns people about the possible problems regarding the Internet and information technology. He claims that there are things people give up when they take advantage of the benefits of the Internet. He points out to Amazon.com as an example which has the potential of putting the bookstore out of business. He also warns of the tendency of people to focus on e-mail as a means of communication while neglecting physical face-to-face communication.

As we glide and stumble into the New Millennium, the Internet glides and stumbles along with us, more and more every day. We all know that the Internet will be [...]

'The 21st century will not be a dark age. Neither will it deliver to most people the bounties promised by the most extraordinary technological revolution in history. Rather, it may [...]

Artists working with technology struggle to stay current IN 1968 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London held an exhibition called 'Cybernetic Serendipity', Britain's first show exploring connections between art [...]

The Internet has fuelled the demand for readily available information in electronic form. Workflow and imaging systems have grown since certain requirements, electronic storage, and routing of information. Workflow and imaging vendors hope to change the way organizations manage documentation and information.