ARPANET and its boundary devices: modems, IMPs, and the inter-structuralism of infrastructures

McKelvey, Fenwick; Driscoll, Kevin

doi:10.1080/24701475.2018.1548138

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“…ICN initiated a networking platform where computer users in different locations globally were interconnected to programme and data from any location without physical presence where the information is broadcast. This idea later transformed into ARPANET in the late 1960s, and finally, in the 1970s, it became known as the Internet (McKelvey and Driscoll, 2019). The era of cloud computing began in earnest as individuals, researchers, and organisations gained access to information with ease.…”

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Investigating the Use of Cloud Computing Services among Postgraduate Students at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Ogunsola,

Fadoju

2023

AIMS Research Publication

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Cloud computing services (CCS) offer many benefits which have improved their acceptance in the educational sector, especially, tertiary education. While it is true that the benefits of CCS include less worries about data loss, ease of accessibility and the ability to interact with data in real-time, there is no known study on how awareness of cloud computing services, perceived ease of use, computer self-efficacy, and intention to use CCS influence its actual use among postgraduate students in Nigeria. This study provides answers to four research questions and tests two research hypotheses. It adopts a descriptive survey design using a multistage sampling technique for data collection. Convenience sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 360 postgraduate students from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Descriptive statistics, Friedman mean rank, Spearman rank correlation and Multiple linear regression were used for analyses. The findings revealed that awareness of cloud computing services, perceived ease of use, and computer self-efficacy had significant relationships with the intention to use cloud computing services, and the intention to use cloud computing services had a significant influence on the actual use of cloud computing services among postgraduate students. The study recommends that university authorities should encourage courses that train students on the use of CCS, as well as course curricula to improve students’ computer self-efficacy and their use of cloud computing services. Keywords: Awareness, Cloud Computing, Self-Efficacy, Intention to Use, Perceived Ease of Use, Postgraduate students, Cloud Computing Services, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

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Section: Literature Review 21 a Brief Overview Of The Origin And Deve...mentioning

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Investigating the Use of Cloud Computing Services among Postgraduate Students at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Ogunsola,

Fadoju

2023

AIMS Research Publication

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“…But this change was also obtained with a wider consideration of convergence, and particularly that occurring between computing and telecommunications. This is visible in the study of McKelvey and Driscoll (2019), where the use of IMPs as boundary objects enables a new perspective on the role of the telecommunications sector in a history that had previously focused on computing. Beyond these approaches, which seek to renew interest in some actors whose importance had initially been underestimated, studies like Stephanie Dicks' observation of the Macsyma (Mac Symbolic Manipulator) community at MIT invite us to think about how communities used ARPANET (PALOQUE-BERGES; SCHAFER, 2019).…”

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Global technologies, glocal approach: a false paradox

Schäfer

2020

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This article seeks to identify the factors that have led researchers to root their historical approach in a national or regional context, rather than a global one. This may seem paradoxical when the Internet is thought to be global, and digital content and cultures at least partially cross-borders. These approaches are determined by reactions to a history of the Internet that has been far too focused on the United States from the outset, by a desire to consider this history in a given context, and by the historical sources. However, the use of national and regional approaches does not preclude the stimulating comparative or transnational perspectives that may renew this history in terms of infrastructure, missing narratives and user participation, as well as technical and human networks. We even suggest that studying the history of the places, people and communities that remain outside networks (whether by choice or by necessity) could tell us a lot about the global and asymmetric reality of the Internet.

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