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Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 1-172, February 2014


1. IFC - Advertising/Publication Info and Editorial Board

Pages IFC



2. On Impact Factors and Research Assessment. At the Start of Volume 31 
of Telematics and Informatics

Pages 1-2
Jan Servaes


3. Determinants of player acceptance of mobile social network games: An 
application of extended technology acceptance model Original Research 
Article

Pages 3-15
Eunil Park, Seoin Baek, Jay Ohm, Hyun Joon Chang


4. Usage of video sharing websites: Drivers and barriers Original 
Research Article

Pages 16-26
Jiyoung Cha
Highlights

• Investigates what factors promote or hinder the use of video sharing 
websites. • Theoretically, examines the integration of TAM and U&G. • 
Experiential motive for Internet use increases use of video sharing 
sites. • Utilitarian motive for Internet use lessens use of video 
sharing sites. • Substitutability, content variety, and gender predict 
use of video sharing sites.


5. Internet applications use and personality Original Research Article

Pages 27-38
Wee-Kheng Tan, Cheng-Yi Yang


6. Sociological insights on the comparison of writing/reading on paper 
with writing/reading digitally Original Research Article

Pages 39-51
Leopoldina Fortunati, Jane Vincent
Highlights

? Reading/writing competencies are changing with the use of digital 
technologies. ? People are now writers more than readers changing 
century’s old tradition. ? Students are more productive textually with 
writing than with reading. ? Writing on paper is more multi-sensorial 
and meta-communicative than on screen. ? Chirographic and electronic 
writing are complementary rather than mutually exclusive.


7. Relative and absolute components of leapfrogging in mobile phones by 
developing countries Original Research Article

Pages 52-61
Jeffrey James


8. Mobile-banking adoption by Iranian bank clients Original Research Article

Pages 62-78
Payam Hanafizadeh, Mehdi Behboudi, Amir Abedini Koshksaray, Marziyeh 
Jalilvand Shirkhani Tabar
Highlights

• Building a comprehensive theoretical model of mobile-banking. • How 
bank clients can adopt mobile-banking technology. • Identifying the 
eight antecedents of mobile-banking adoption. • SEM used to test 
variables for first time by utilizing AMOS Software. • Validating a new 
valid measurement of MB adoption with higher content validity.


9. Stochastic total cost of ownership optimization for video streaming 
services Original Research Article

Pages 79-90
Pejman Goudarzi
Highlights

• TCO optimization is formulated as a stochastic optimization problem. • 
The method can cope with the cost modeling uncertainties of TCO. • It 
can track the dynamism in the TCO and lead to a time-varying optimal 
solution. • Numerical analysis results verify the developed method.


10. The use of Facebook for political commentary in South Africa 
Original Research Article

Pages 91-97
Marika Steenkamp, Nathalie Hyde-Clarke
Highlights

• It is proposed that Facebook may be used by political parties to 
engage the youth in South Africa. • Political debate on the sites should 
have increased during the World Cup 2010 and Youth Day. • Political 
commentary increased amongst the public. • The political parties did not 
interact with the public at all. • Political parties prefer to use 
Facebook for monitoring purposes only.


11. Information and Telecommunications Project for a Digital City: A 
Brazilian case study Review Article

Pages 98-114
Denis Alcides Rezende, Gilberto dos Santos Madeira, Leonardo de Souza 
Mendes, Gean Davis Breda, Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão, Frederico de Carvalho 
Figueiredo


12. How to successfully promote ICT usage: A comparative analysis of 
Denmark and Japan Original Research Article

Pages 115-125
Noriko Igari
Highlights

• This paper compares Denmark, a leader in ICT usage, and Japan, a 
laggard. • Japan’s advanced infrastructure does not translate in 
advanced ICT usage. • Institutional, technological, services and social 
backgrounds are reviewed. • Key factors include strong governmental 
leadership and user-oriented services. • Common technological 
infrastructure such as personal ID is the key to efficiency.


13. Digital television adoption: Comparing the adoption of digital 
terrestrial television with the adoption of digital cable in Taiwan 
Original Research Article

Pages 126-136
Shu-Chu Sarrina Li
Highlights

? The respondents regarded digital cable to be the technology of the 
future. ? Digital cable and digital terrestrial television are competing 
technologies in Taiwan. ? The diffusion process of digital cable was 
congruent with Rogers’ model. ? The diffusion of digital terrestrial 
television was not congruent with Rogers’ model. ? Awareness played an 
important role in the adoption of digital television.


14. A low overhead scaled equalized harmonic-based voice authentication 
system Original Research Article

Pages 137-152
Sasan Adibi
Highlights

? This paper covers the details of a novel harmonic-based voice 
authentication system. ? The authentication system utilizes a low 
overhead equalized companding scheme. ? This system was tested using 
LabView real-traffic simulation tool.


15. Social acceptance of location-based mobile government services for 
emergency management Original Research Article

Pages 153-171
Anas Aloudat, Katina Michael, Xi Chen, Mutaz M. Al-Debei
Highlights

? We investigate the public offerings of location-based services in the 
domain of emergency management. ? We examine the social acceptance or 
rejection of the services and identify the determinants of this 
acceptance or rejection. ? Attitude has a significant role in 
influencing behavioural intention towards using the services for 
emergency management. ? Trust is the most influential determinant of 
individual perception of the usefulness of the services.


16. For your Information

Pages I-II



17. Reviewer Acknowledgement

Pages III-IV




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Jan Servaes
Editor-in-Chief, Telematics and Informatics
c/o Department of Media and Communication
City University of Hong Kong
5/F, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Tel: + (852) 3442 8677
Fax: + (852) 3442 0228
(telematicsandinformatics /at/ gmail.com)
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