Author:Butgereit, L; Botha, RADate:Mar 2013Micro-volunteering is the phenomenon of volunteering one's time and energy for extremely short periods of time. It is often considered a subset of Virtual Volunteering where one can volunteer one's time and energy via the Internet. There are ...Read more
Author:Marivate, Vukosi N; Moiloa, PDate:Nov 2016The increasing prevalence of Social Media platform use has brought with it an explosion of new user generated public data. This data is centered around many, diverse topics. One theme of interest is how one can tap into the public safety and ...Read more
Author:Bellagarda, J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2022As of 2022, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, the smart contract powered tokens that represent ownership in a specific digital asset, have become a popular investment vehicle. In 2021, NFT trading reached USD 17.6 billion and entered mainstream ...Read more
Author:Bidwell, NJ; Winschiers-Theophilus, HDate:Jun 2012Dilemmas arise in designing digital systems that enable rural dwellers to create, store and share digital content about their connections with their land because the design and use if technologies manifests the priorities and assumptions of ...Read more
Author:Marivate, Vukosi NDate:Nov 2015The use of social media data to gain insights into public phenomena is a potentially powerful tool. We present the use of social media data analysis, connected with crime and public safety incidents, to better understand reoccurring topics ...Read more
Author:Featherstone, CoralDate:Nov 2013Could social media, and in particular, microblogs such as Twitter, play a part in helping to track criminal movement? The aim of this paper is to narrow the focus of this broader problem of using social media to crowdsource information to ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, LL; Van Rooyen, BDate:Sep 2011The “Internet of Things” is the new paradigm where “things” are becoming more widely connected to the Internet. More and more inanimate objects (such as cars, bridges, cell phones, digital cameras, and telescopes) are equiped with digital ...Read more
Author:Mtsweni, Jabu S; Ndlovu, Lungisani; Mthethwa, Sthembile N; Mkuzangwe, Nenekazi NPDate:Nov 2023Misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and/or fake news have gained attention for good and bad in South Africa, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. The research-based and non-research-based interventions to tackle misinformation ...Read more
Author:Veerasamy, Namosha; Labuschagne, William ADate:Dec 2017We now live in a digital, interconnected world. Social media has emerged as a pervasive component of this digital age in which having an online presence dominates. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all provide modern forms of engagement for ...Read more
Author:Bidwell, NJ; Siya, MJDate:Sep 2013Designing for oral users in economically poor places has intensified efforts to develop platforms for asynchronous voice. Often these aim to assist users in rural areas where literacy is lowest, but there are few empirical studies and design ...Read more
Author:Featherstone, CoralDate:Aug 2019World wide, there is a concerning use of social media to sway public opinion through the use of disinformation campaigns. Elections, political decisions such as the Brexit referendum and topics such as vaccination have all been targets of ...Read more
Author:Jansen van Vuuren, A; Jansen van Vuuren, J; Venter, SDate:Jul 2012Many theorists refer to the "digital revolution" when they refer to social media and new media technologies. Internet use can also aid journalists in the mainstream media to improve their traditional reporting in terms of speed and feedback. ...Read more
Author:Modise, M; Dlamini, Z; Simelane, S; Malinga, Andries L; Mnisi, T; Ngobeni, Sipho JDate:Mar 2013With the escalating number of incidents of service delivery, labour related protests and the increasingly violent nature of protests; crowd control is one of the major challenges facing South Africa today. Often these protests are characterized ...Read more
Author:Van der Vyver, AG; Williams, B; Marais, Mario ADate:Dec 2015This paper contains a qualitative analysis of selected excerpts from the managerial communication records of the Cofimvaba e-textbook project. This project is conducted in the Eastern Cape, a province of South Africa. The component managers ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, QuintinDate:Dec 2015Transport- and urban planning often involves the use of large-scale simulation modelling with data sources that include, among others, the national census, the National Household and Travel Survey (NHTS) as well as trip diaries. Many of these ...Read more