The tourism industry was one of the world's greatest markets; until the world met a pandemic in the 21st century, COVID-19. This study aims to present the reactions of travelers during the pandemic trends outlined by adopting text mining techniques. Between December 30, 2019–March 15, 2020, approximately 75,000 comments are retrieved from the TripAdvisor forums, and 23,515 cases from the US, Europe, and Asia forums are employed for analyses. The results reveal that the tourism sector is easily affected by global crises. It is almost the same day that travelers decide to cancel or delay their trips, with the spread of the news. More in-depth analyses uncovered several topics consisted of comments on benefiting from travel insurance and refund due to the travel cancellations. Travel insurance has become a hot topic, which may be a way of reanimating the industry by offering travel packages, including travel insurance services.

With the expansion of the technology, people -especially the students-have a vast array of e-communication tools at their fingertips and feel as appertained to them. Current researches have estimated that 100% of university students have their own mobile phones and all of them bring their devices to the courses. Minority of the students use their smartphones to enhance learning, such as to look up pertaining information about the lesson, take pictures of information on the blackboard; however majority of them use smartphones for personal affairs during courses. Keeping in touch during lesson hinders students' learning experience and, it also occurs during examinations, although it is illegal. The purpose of this study is to explore some of the challenges associated with mobile phones in college classrooms. A sample of students from different departments was surveyed to assess the extent to which the technology is considered a serious source of distraction in the classroom and also during the exams. We examined and enlightened several social aspects of this multi-faceted larger societal theoretical concept of technological connectivity; namely phubbing, cheating during courses and students' opinions towards cell phone regulations and instructor behaviors. According to the results, the pattern of percentages within genders reveals the intention of students. Male students seem calmer, whereas female participants appear more sensitive about disturbing their classmates. The size of the classroom also has a big impact. As the class becomes larger, students behave more uninhibited and phub without being noticed. Majority of the students are distracted by their classmates and also confess that they can cheat with the help of their phones.

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Technology has changed the way people live, from use of the Internet to the way they communicate with text messages and e-mails. This change is also evident in the education system. This study traced how principals' leadership roles have changed in the school setting because digital natives and society, in general, have become technologically savvy. The findings for this study were generated from interviews and observations of high school principals. This qualitative research study revealed that administrators are apprehensive about social media in the classroom and that they need to become more familiar with it to better implement technology effectively in the classroom. To ease their apprehension, principals need to change their ways of thinking about social media's use. Professional development in technology skills needs to be more available and flexible for principals to become a more visionary technology leader in the 21 st digital educational environment.

The increasing use of digital technology by young people has become a major concern in the 21st century. This access to technology has led to hot-button arguments surrounding the place of these technologies in our lives and the implications that they have for the future. The incorporation of multimodal and digital technologies in courses has been increasing, with documentaries, social media posts, and blogs host significant spaces for learning and coursework. These forms of knowledge and communication have started to become legitimized in the classroom setting, in addition to the traditional educational technologies such as lectures and textbooks. This paper explores the assumptions by instructors and students concerning why and how multimodal and digital technologies are incorporated into undergraduate classes by qualitative approach. Also, the actual experiences that students and instructors have in using these forms of media in an educational context are investigated via participant observation, in-depth review and open-ended questionnaire techniques along the research

There are more than six billion users of cell phones worldwide. The need for people to connect with others frequently is apparent in our society. People use mobile phones everywhere and every time, to call and text friends, surf the web, visit social sites and attach themselves to their communication devices at all times. As the use of mobile phones has proliferated in academic settings in recent years, new challenges are faced by institutions of higher education and their faculties. Research indicates that increasing use of mobile phones by the students in the classroom causes a big distraction, although all of the college students have their own mobile phones and all of them regularly bring their devices to courses. The prevalence and inconvenient usage of mobile phones in colleges has prompted college administrators to create policies to manage mobile phone use during the school day. Also there is a lot of support for mobile phones to be banned from colleges, but such rules are not accepted or enforced in universities. Actually, college students must have the ability to consider the advantages and disadvantages of their behaviors. This study enlightens the situation about use and abuse of cell phones during courses. This paper presents the result of a study conducted on 300 college students from faculty of business administration at Sakarya University to gain a better understanding of the frequency and manner of cell phone use in college classrooms. Focusing on the use of text messaging during courses, students reported on their own and others' use of cell phones. The current research reveals that minority of the students use their smartphones during class time to enhance learning, such as using their smartphones as computers to look up relevant information pertaining to the lesson, as cameras to take pictures of information on the blackboard or screen, as calculators, and so forth. However, majority of the students use their smartphones during class time for personal use not related to learning. One of the most striking result of this study shows that majority of the students distract their classmates and they will continue to behave this way, unless the administrators take precautions. ÖzetDünya çapında 6 milyonu aşkın cep telefonu kullanıcısı bulunmaktadır. İnsanların sıkça birbirleriyle iletişim kurma ihtiyacı duyduğu gözlenmektedir. İnsanlar her zaman ve her yerde, arama yapmak, mesajlaşmak, internette dolaşmak, sosyal paylaşım sitelerini takip etmek amacıyla cep telefonu kullanmakta ve iletişim cihazları ile bütünleşik halde yaşamaktadır. Son yıllarda cep telefonlarının eğitim ortamlarında hızla çoğalmasıyla beraber yükseköğrenim kurumlarını ve fakülteleri zorlu bir durumla karşı karşıya bırakmıştır. Bu araştırmada, üniversite öğrencilerin sınıflarda cep telefonu kullanmasının dikkati büyük oranda dağıttığının, buna rağmen öğrencilerin tamamının cep telefonuna sahip olduğunun ve hepsinin cihazlarını ders esnasında da yanlarında taşıdığının altı çizilmektedir. Cep telefonlarının yaygın ve uyguns...

Research on the adoption and diffusion of new technology has long been of interest to IS researchers. As business globalization has increased, interest in IT adoption in cultures has increased. What aspects of adoption and diffusion are important to understand and acknowledge when considering IT adoption in countries that are culturally different? This paper provides a review of academic articles that have investigated adoption and diffusion around the world. A framework summarizing the main topics on cultural values as they relate to systems use, adoption, and development is presented. The paper concludes with findings that can enhance future research.

Since 1970s, the development and changes in technology have influenced social structures, and the information and communication technologies have become indispensable to society. When the socio-psychological factors behind the adoption of these tools are emerged, one will be able to develop favorable technological inventions, in a form which will be accepted rapidly by community. In this context, determining the reasons behind the rapid penetration of information and communication technologies in society is an important research area for scientists as well as practitioners. This study examines the diffusion paradigm in the case of mobile applications, which has a major share in change of today's societies' lives and communication habits, through the research data obtained from 1654 college students. In the research, variables from Technology Acceptance Model, Uses and Gratifications Theory and Theory of Planned Behavior are included in Mobile Application Acceptance Model. Consequently, a reliable and valid mobile application acceptance scale, which is based on the Mobile Application Acceptance Model, is developed.