Website Operators Research Articles

The Effect of Stressful Life Events on Online Privacy Protective Behavior of Israeli Students

ABSTRACTThis exploratory study investigates the influence of stressful life events on privacy‐protective behavior. We examine the effects of the ongoing state of war in Israel on the rate of deliberate falsification of personal details during website registration, in a user study of 107 students at Israeli universities. The students were queried using a quantitative method in online closed‐ended questionnaires. This research builds on our previous work (Weinberger & Bouhnik, 2021) examining the effects of other stressful life events, specifically the COVID‐19 pandemic, on the privacy‐protective behavior of Israeli students. We found that distrust of website operators and the desire to remain anonymous are the most common reasons for identity falsification. In addition, our analysis showed that the greater the concern over privacy, the more likely identity falsification was to occur. The Israel‐Hamas War in Israel seems to have exacerbated privacy concerns among online users, in turn increasing the tendency of users to exhibit privacy‐protective behavior.

Digital information repackaging: best practices from university library website managers

Purpose This paper aims to explore the digital information repackaging process from the perspective of library website operators. The digital info repackaging process consists of analysis, synthesis, editing and presenting. Design/methodology/approach Interviews with 17 library website operators regarding their experience in information repackaging. The library website observation also conducted to gather the data on information repackaging. Findings Librarians who manage library websites repackage digital information using a process of user analysis, content analysis, editing and transforming and translating. Librarians who are in charge of repackaging usually collect, check, group and present information based on the raw data and information. Librarians rarely did criticize or argue the information. They just deliver it in the pact and attractive format. In the future, librarians can add critical comments on their digital information content, such as give recommendation, provide point of view, add some suggestion or make comparison. Practical implications This paper can provide an overview of the process of repackaging digital information carried out by university libraries which can be provided by libraries via websites. Apart from that, it is hoped that the presence of this research can help librarians in carrying out the process of repackaging digital information. Originality/value This paper can add to the scientific development of information science and library studies related to the field of information repackaging, especially in the repackaging of digital information in creating website content to efficiently meet the information needs of university library users.

Directed Mining of the Dark Web Using Hell9: Advanced Techniques for Exploring and Analyzing Anonymous Networks

In the World Wide Web the dark net is still theoretically part of the Internet. But its access software or configuration and permission is different from the other sites. The dark web is not indexed by the public web search engines, such as Google and Bing. If you type in any keyword there will be pages of millions returned as a result. For example, trying to quantify the vastness of the Internet. If one were to think about how many sites are representative for just one hundred keywords, and how many since “n” different number combinations are equally valid on search engine queries? When we browse the Internet using the web browsers to visit sites our eyes really just see what is called the Surface Web. Which is a part of the Internet you can visit from different hypertext information displayed as webpages simply. Still, without the help of search engines, you can use the manifold resources from Internet that the Surface Web cannot present to you. The deep web where Tor is used is a place hard for hackers, spies, and even government agencies to watch over users. However when they are monitoring the site they cannot tell how website operators are processing with their data files on them all of a sudden. This paper describes the Businessman, Scientist, Students & Any Person safely and Anonymously Getting onto the DarkNet 100% with HeLL9 Project.

Consumer Click Responses to Paid Ad Set Strategies of Search Platforms

Search platforms are contemporary digital services that create value on multi-sided markets through providing services to each side of their platforms—indexing contents for all website operators on the internet, placing pages and tracking performance for paid advertisers or sellers, and searching market offerings to match inquiries for web users. Search platforms are interested in developing strategies at the sponsored ad set level to optimize consumer clicks. Drawing literature supports from hospitality, search engine advertising, and product assortment areas, our study examines the relationships between search platforms’ paid ad strategies (in paid ad set size and set attractiveness) and consumer’s single or multiple clicks on the sponsored ad section. We empirically test the relationships in a multinomial logit modeling approach using a large-scale disaggregated, hotel-search dataset collected from a leading Chinese search engine. Our results suggest a positive but diminishing impact of paid ad set size on a consumer’s set selection and multiple click-through behavior. Our study also spotlights the distinct and often divergent moderating effects of two types of ad attractiveness, preference-based and social-based, on the relationship between paid ad set size and consumer responses. We discuss the theoretical and managerial implications of this research to search platforms and advertisers in hospitality alike.

Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution

Thinking about organised crime as an ecosystem is not only novel but also offers much potential to add to the theoretical and policy-based literature in this area. While organised crime is often analysed as relationships between criminal groups and consumers of illicit goods/services, little work has analysed specific forms of organised crime activities as ecosystems where different constituent parts are dependent upon each other for the crime activity to occur. This paper analyses the organisation of sexual exploitation by entrepreneurial organised crime groups selling sex in the United Kingdom. Based upon 30 interviews with 23 law enforcement forces in England and Wales and five interviews with Adult Service Website Operators; it identifies how an ecosystem is built that ensures (a) profit generation and (b) avoidance of legal prosecution. Our analysis not only illustrates how a market ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ ecosystem is generated through mutually convenient ‘organiser’, ‘marketer’ and ‘buyer’ relationships, but also how the roles of these actors ensure sexual exploitation continues.

Welcome to the University of life, can I take your order? Investigating Life Experience Degree Offerings in Diploma mills

In this study, we posit a new category of products provided by diploma mills, which we term Life Experience Degree Offerings (LEDOs). LEDOs uniquely capitalise on the misuse of the principle of Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) by granting higher education qualifications based on a resume or CV alone. Through a comparative analysis with contract cheating websites, we highlight the key features and persuasive strategies employed by 10 diploma mill websites which provide LEDOs to attract and convince potential clients. We then use corpus linguistics methods by analysing a large corpus of text quantitatively to explore the keywords these websites use to describe their products using a pre-packaged corpus analysis tool (Sketch Engine). Our findings indicate that on providers’ websites, the LEDOs are framed as a tool to achieve greater socioeconomic opportunities, and the quality and appearance of the physical diploma and accompanying documents play a key role in the LEDOs’ value proposition, while references to the acquisition of knowledge and process of learning are absent. Furthermore, LEDOs are typified by the promise of accreditation and verification services, which are the two most common keywords used in the description of LEDOs on diploma mills’ websites. Future research directions are suggested, including examining this phenomenon in non-Western cultural contexts, understanding the users and operators of LEDO websites, and assessing the prevalence of fraudulent credentials obtained from these sites.

Bing Chat: The Future of Search Engines?

ABSTRACTIntroduced by Microsoft in February 2023, Bing Chat is a feature of the Bing search engine that integrates an OpenAI large language model (LLM) customised for search (Mehdi, 2023a). This poster compares the outputs of Bing Chat and a standard existing search engine (DuckDuckGo) in response to identical keyword queries and corresponding natural language (NL) questions. Specifically, we examined: (1) the length of Bing Chat's responses and DuckDuckGo's first page of search results, by number of website links; and, (2) the length of Bing Chat's textual summaries, by number of website links. We found that, on average, significantly fewer websites were linked to in Bing Chat's responses compared to DuckDuckGo's search results. Our findings have important implications for website operators, who may receive less traffic and ad revenue if LLM‐enabled search engines are widely adopted in the future. Human‐Computer Interaction (HCI) will inevitably face the need for more research on human information behaviours adaptations in response to the changing search paradigm.

The Effect of Information Quality and Service Quality on User Satisfaction of the Government of Kabupaten Malang

Currently, the government has implemented performance digitization through information systems that are published through official channels owned by the government, one of which is the government of Kabupaten Malang. The objective of this research was to assess or gauge the measurement and test variables and indicators that affect the quality of the Kabupaten Malang government website with the link www.malangkab.go.id/mlg The problem is, not many governments have launched applications paying attention to the factors that influence user satisfaction so that the government has not been able to prioritize repairs and optimize website performance to meet constituent needs that continue to grow in the digital era. This research employs a survey to identify the causal elements that impact the factors contributing to user satisfaction on the website. The causal factors include website service quality, information quality, and usability quality in user satisfaction. Respondents used in this study were website operators for regional apparatus in Kabupaten Malang, consisting of 81 respondents who met the requirements. In obtaining valid and reliable data, multiple linear regression and hypothesis testing were carried out. There are 4 multiple linear regressions that are carried out, namely, multicollinearity test, autocorrelation test, heteroscedasticity test, and normality test. The results of the influence of service quality, and information quality on user satisfaction through usability quality are 5 models that have a significant influence, that is Service Quality to Usability Quality, Information Quality to Usability Quality, Service Quality to User Satisfaction, Information Quality to User Satisfaction, and Usability Quality to User Satisfaction.

Non-consensual sharing of images: Commercial content creators, sexual content creation platforms and the lack of protection

In this article, we explore the experiences of commercial content creators who have their content (videos, photos, and images) misused. This article reports from a mixed-methods study consisting of 16 interviews with content creators; nine interviews with practitioners who support sex workers and interviews with seven adult service website (ASW) operators. These qualitative data are supported by 221 responses to a survey from the content creators’ community. We describe how content creators experience blackmail, threats of exposure and recording without knowledge, stalking, harassment, doxing, ‘deepfakes’ and impersonation. We conclude that the online sex work environment may not be as safe as previous research has demonstrated, and that commercial content creators are often ignored by governance and platforms following sex workers’ complaints regarding their content being misused. We reflect on the forthcoming UK Online Safety Bill as compared to the US Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act/Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA) law which have seen implications across the globe for digital sex workers. We offer solutions for ASWs to act more responsibly.

Pelatihan Pengelolaan Website Desa

Panggungrejo is a village in the Sukoharjo District, Pringsewu Regency, Lampung Province, Indonesia. This village has an area of 450 hectares. The majority of the livelihoods of Pekon Panggung Rejo residents are farmers, chicken breeders, red cattle breeders and traders. Apart from that, there are also residents who work as civil servants, the TNI and masons, other residents work as laborers managing oil palm and rubber. Panggung Rejo Village has the potential to become a tourist village because of its natural beauty. Based on interviews conducted with the head of Pekon Panggung Rejo, it was found that the problem being faced by partners was that the village website operator changed assignments and domiciles, so that the management of the village website stopped, because there were no village officials who could operate the website. Therefore, the PKM team from the Indonesian Technocrat University provided training on creating and managing Village websites, including Facebook and IG, as well as training on basic computer knowledge such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel for Village officials, so as to make it easier for the community to find information and services. Village. The expected outputs from this PKM activity are scientific articles published in community service journals, and news published in newspapers. The activity was carried out for 6 months, starting in early July and ending in December 2021.

Village’s Website Development Model As Information Media In Pesawaran District

Lampung Province adopts rural development with the smart village concept as a leading development program based on information and communication technology. In this concept the website has a strategic position in village development. Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages and Government Regulation Number 34 of 2014 mandates village governments to provide the best possible public services and information to the community. Pesawaran District is an area where the village website is developing well. In 2018 there were 58 villages that had the desa.id domain and in 2020 there were 133 of the 148 villages. There are 30 villages that already have an active village website using the domain name desa.id. This is the result of implementing the village website development model carried out. The development model is the various efforts and policies as well as the synergy of various parties in managing the village website. Based on the results of interviews, observation and documentation search, it is known that the village website development model in Pesawaran District involves several parties, namely the Pesawaran Office of Communication and Information, village website operators, villagers and external parties. The Office of Kominfo Pesawaran as an external agent of change becomes the center of the relationship pattern in the model and is involved in the entire series of village website development processes, starting from the socialization process, licensing, management, monitoring and evaluation of village websites. There is an active role of ASN of the Ministry of Communication and Information which uses various media as a means of socialization and consultation. Other external agents have not been heavily involved. Internal agents of change, namely the village head, operators, and residents, greatly determine the sustainability of the website, but it is not optimal. There are still obstacles in developing village websites as part of smart village development.

Online flight booking: digital nudging to decrease aviation-related carbon emissions

PurposeOnline flight booking websites compare airfares, convenience and other consumer relevant attributes. Environmental concerns are typically not addressed, even though aviation is the most emission-intensive mode of transportation. This article demonstrates the potential for digital nudges to facilitate more environmentally friendly decision-making on online flight booking websites.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used the digital nudging design process to implement two nudging interventions in an experimental setting on a fictitious flight booking website. The two nudging interventions are (1) an informational nudge, presented as an emission label, and (2) an understanding mapping nudge, presented as an emission converter.FindingsThis article finds that both digital nudges are useful interventions in online choice environments; however, emission labels more effectively encourage sustainable booking behavior.Originality/valueThe contributions of this article are twofold. In contribution to research, this article builds on existing research in sustainability contexts and successfully evaluates the effectiveness of anchoring and understanding mapping heuristics to influence sustainable decision-making in virtual environments. Furthermore, in contribution to practice, this article contributes knowledge to nudge design and provides hands on examples for designers or website operators on how to put nudge designs to practice in virtual choice environments. Additionally, this article contributes relevant considerations in a high-impact research field with growing importance given the global climate crisis.

Analisis Information Quality Terhadap User Satisfaction Dengan Pengaruh Service Quality Untuk Ketahanan Kualitas Website Pemerintah Kabupaten Malang

The implementation of e-government in the government of Kabupaten Malang can be supported by utilizing internet media in every government activity. This study aims to measure and test the variables and indicators that affect the quality of the website www.malangkab.go.id, which the government of Kabupaten Malang owns. The research model adopts the research model of DeLone and Mclean. This study uses a questionnaire that was compiled to determine the cause and effect of the factors between Service Quality, Information Quality, and Website Quality on User Satisfaction. Respondents used in this study were 81 respondents who have qualifications as local device website operators in Kabupaten Malang. Validity tests and reliability tests were conducted to obtain valid and reliable data. The results showed that the quality of the website has a significant effect on user satisfaction. The quality of information has a significant influence on user satisfaction, service quality has a significant influence on user satisfaction, and user satisfaction has a significant influence on the performance of the government of Kabupaten Malang. Keywords: Delone and Mclean model, the government of Kabupaten Malang website, User Satisfaction, government performance.

Pelatihan Dan Pendampingan Evaluasi Website Menggunakan Sortsite 5.3.5 Pada Website “Mal Pelayanan Publik” Dinas Penanaman Modal Dan Pelayanan Terpadu Satu Pintu Kota Samarinda

The use of the website as a means to bring public services closer to the community is indeed a must for the government in the digital era. The website plays an important role as a medium for the government to disseminate public information. Therefore, government websites that are built and funded through public funds must be able to reach all levels of society and have good performance. Based on that, this Community Service Program seeks to make a small contribution to the Samarinda City Government, especially the Samarinda City DPMPTSP related to training and assistance in evaluating the Public Service Mall website using SortSite 5.3.5. The implementation of the Community Service Program starts from the stages of problem identification, verification, provision of materials, implementation of training and mentoring and evaluation of activities. Based on the observation, it can be said that the training and mentoring program has successfully increase the skill and knowledge of DPMPTSP website operator.
 
 Keywords: Training, Mentoring, Website Evaluation, Samarinda City DPMPTS

Social Public Opinion Communication and Network Legal Management Based on Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Wireless Network

Public opinion supervision is an important part of the national security supervision system. In the Internet era, especially with the rapid development of mobile social media, the position of online public opinion supervision in public opinion supervision is becoming more and more prominent. Internet public opinion supervision has a wide range of subjects, diverse objects, multiple channels, instant and efficient communication speed, and two-way interaction and has its distinctive features, but at the same time there are phenomena such as online rumors, invasion of others' privacy, and venting private anger. The existence of these problems requires strengthening the legal system of public opinion supervision, enhancing the network literacy of Internet users, government management departments, website operators, and other subjects of online public opinion supervision, continuously improving the technical level of online public opinion monitoring, and public opinion guidance ability of network supervision departments, and strengthening the regulation of online public opinion supervision through the improvement and improvement of legal system and coordinated promotion of cyberspace governance. Meanwhile, mobile Internet is the soil for social opinion dissemination. With the development of technology, cognitive wireless network is becoming an important infrastructure in the mobile Internet. Therefore, this paper studies social opinion dissemination and cyber law management in cognitive wireless networks and proposes a cognitive engine model based on artificial intelligence algorithms for cognitive wireless networks for enhancing opinion dissemination and law management. The extended experiments demonstrate the advanced performance and effectiveness of the proposed method in this paper and provide a new technical approach for enhancing public opinion dissemination and legal management.

Reclaiming Control: Extended Mindreading and the Tracking of Digital Footprints

ABSTRACT It is well known that on the Internet, computer algorithms track our website browsing, clicks, and search history to infer our preferences, interests, and goals. The nature of this algorithmic tracking remains unclear, however. Does it involve what many cognitive scientists and philosophers call ‘mindreading’, (i.e., an epistemic capacity to attribute mental states to people to predict, explain, or influence their actions)? Here I argue that it does. This is because humans are in a particular way embedded in the process of algorithmic tracking. Specifically, if we endorse common conditions for extended cognition, then human mindreading (by website operators and users) is often literally extended into, that is, partly realized by, not merely causally coupled to, computer systems performing algorithmic tracking. The view that human mindreading extends outside the body into computers in this way has significant ethical advantages. It points to new conceptual ways to reclaim our autonomy and privacy in the face of increasing risks of computational control and online manipulation. These benefits speak in favor of endorsing the notion of extended mindreading.

Research on User Behavior of Social E-Commerce

Under the influence of Web 2.0 and social media, the popularity of social e-commerce is increasing and its importance is rising, but the scope of social e-commerce and the actual consumption behavior it can drive are still under continuous observation. This study uses engagement and browsing attitudes to examine the recommendation, word-of-mouth, and purchase intention behavior of users after using e-commerce. Furthermore, the study cites five antecedents that influence users’ use of social e-commerce: fashion, word-of-mouth, interactivity, entertainment, and customization, which are used to study users’ browsing and engagement attitudes and influence users’ intention to use social e-commerce platforms. The results of this study show that engagement and browsing attitudes have a positive effect on purchase intention, recommendation intention, and continued use intention. The results of the study can provide a reference direction for website operators to make decisions.

This Website Uses Nudging: MTurk Workers' Behaviour on Cookie Consent Notices

Data protection regulatory policies, such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), force website operators to request users' consent before collecting any personal information revealed through their web browsing. Website operators, motivated by the potential value of the collected personal data, employ various methods when designing consent notices (e.g., dark patterns) in order to convince users to allow the collection of as much of their personal data as possible. In this paper, we design and conduct a user study where 1100 MTurk workers interact with eight different designs of cookie consent notices. We show that the nudging designs used in the different cookie consent notices have a large effect on the choices user make. Our results show that color-based nudging bars can significantly impact the participants' decisions to change the default cookie settings, despite using dark patterns. Also, in contrast to previous works, we report that users who do not use ad-blocking software are less likely to modify default cookie settings. Our findings demonstrate the importance of nudged interfaces and the effects orthogonal nudging techniques can have on users' choices.

Study on the Usability of Online Test Websites

Online test websites can provide a more convenient and efficient dynamic learning approach and personalized learning services, which is one of the important approaches to digital learning. However, the usability of online test websites affects users’ learning efficacy. This study explored the impact of the usability of online test websites on users, and the results can help website operators seeking to improve the websites’ usability. Based on the relevant literature, this study synthesized three major metrics of the usability of online test websites and summarized typical work priorities of such websites to design usability test items. The study considered one online test website: A Remedial Education Institution for Learners to Take Civil Service Examination. The results show that, with respect to usability, the website still has quite a few deficiencies that affect users’ effectiveness and efficiency when using the website and cause users to be less satisfied with the website. Based on these results, this study offered four specific recommendations for improving effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in terms of the usability of the online test website: enhancing interaction and instructions, following the inertia of interface use, simplifying information organization, and diversifying information content.

User Behavior Identification and Personalized Recommendation Based on Web Data Mining

A good understanding of user behavior and consumption preferences can provide support for website operators to improve their service quality. However, the existing personalized recommendation systems generally have problems such as low Web data mining efficiency, low degree of automated recommendation, and low durability. Targeting at these unsolved issues, this paper mainly carries out the following works: Firstly, the authors established a user behavior identification and personalized recommendation model based on Web data mining, it gave the user behavior analysis process based on Web data mining, improved the traditional k-means algorithm, and gave the detailed execution steps of the improved algorithm; moreover, it also elaborated on the K nearest neighbor model based on user scoring information, the score matrix decomposition method, and the personalized recommendation method for network users. At last, experimental results verified the effectiveness of the constructed model.