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The Four Hundred Twenty-Sixth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #426, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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Curricular Report No. 2003-2004-5a From The Graduate Council To The Faculty Senate, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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Consumer Subjectivity In The Age Of Internet: The Radical Concept Of Marketing Control Through Customer Relationship Management, Detlev Zwick, Nikhilesh Dholakia

College of Business Faculty Publications

In this paper, we present a poststructuralist analysis of customer database technology. This approach allows us to regard customer databases as configurations of language that produce new and significant discursive effects. In particular, we focus on the role of databases and related technologies such as customer relationship management (CRM) in the discursive construction of both customers and customer relationships. First, we argue that organizations become the authors of customer identities, using the language of the database to configure customer representation. From this perspective, we can see the radical innovation that the customer database brings to the organizational construction of its …

The Four Hundred Twenty-Fifth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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The Four Hundred Twenty-Fourth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #425, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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Curricular Report No. 2003-2004-6 From The Graduate Council To The Faculty Senate, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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The Four Hundred Twenty-Third Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #424, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #423, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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Graduate Council Report No. 2003-2004-6, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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Graduate Council Report No. 2003-2004-5a, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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Online Qualitative Research In The Age Of E-Commerce: Data Sources And Approaches, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Dong Zhang

College of Business Faculty Publications

With the boom in E-commerce, practitioners and researchers are increasingly generating marketing and strategic insights by employing the Internet as an effective new tool for conducting well-established forms of qualitative research (TISCHLER 2004). The potential of Internet as a rich data source and an attractive arena for qualitative research in e-commerce settings—in other words cyberspace as a "field," in the ethnographic sense—has not received adequate attention. This paper explores qualitative research prospects in e-commerce arenas.

URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0402299

Online Investing: Derealization And The Experience Of Risk, Detlev Zwick, Nikhilesh Dholakia

College of Business Faculty Publications

In this paper we set out to show that the Internet causes a disruption in traditional patterns of online investors’ perception, resulting in, what Lyng (1990) calls, edgework: a desire to experience risk as an end in itself. The perceptual disruption caused by the Internet is a function of two distinct yet interrelated processes: virtualization and derealization (Virilio, 2000). Virtualization denotes the process of substituting reality with virtual representations, including money, the practice of trading, companies, and even the Self. Because of this progressive virtualization of its key components, the entire investing experience seems increasingly unreal (derealization). It is only …

Community Impacts Of Coastal Tourism In The Dominican Republic, Yolanda M. Leon

Open Access Dissertations

The present work presents the results of survey research conducted in 23 coastal communities of the Dominican Republic to evaluate the impacts of tourism and also the evaluation of a particular co-management system of a tourism-related activity (whale watching in Samaná Bay). Major findings include that tourism is having a positive impact on rural livelihoods as measured by increased household income, and higher levels of job satisfaction (and in the case of female-headed households, also improved material well-being). We also evidenced strong local support for the tourism industry caused by wide agreement on perceived tourism benefits; however, residents are also …

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2004-2005, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

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Spatial Diffusion Model For Simulation Of Urban Land Cover Change, Yuming Wen

Open Access Dissertations

Spatial diffusion is a stochastic spatio-temporal process. Spatial diffusion phenomena occur because of the existence of a concentration gradient of information or material flow. At a regional level, most human-induced land-use and land-cover change, including urban land-cover change, can be considered as a spatial diffusion process. In this research, a spatial diffusion (SDIF) model has been developed to simulate urban land cover change at a regional level. This research aims to establish a theoretical framework for spatial diffusion modeling and build a spatial diffusion modeling system for simulation of urban land-cover change. The Chicago metropolitan region was selected as the …

Renaissance 2004, University Of Rhode Island

URI Yearbooks

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island yearbook.

Sea Changes Ashore: The Ocean And Iceland's Herring Capital, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Steingrímur Jónsson, Helga Ögmundardóttir, Igor M. Belkin

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

The story of Siglufjörður (Siglufjordur), a north Iceland village that became the "Herring Capital of the World," provides a case study of complex interactions between physical, biological, and social systems. Siglufjörður's natural capital - a good harbor and proximity to prime herring grounds - contributed to its development as a major fishing center during the first half of the 20th century. This herring fishery was initiated by Norwegians, but subsequently expanded by Icelanders to such an extent that the fishery, and Siglufjörður in particular, became engines helping to pull the whole Icelandic economy. During the golden years of this "herring …

University College And General Education Committee Report #2003-2004-1, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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University College And General Education Committee Report #2003-04-1, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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The Four Hundred Fifteenth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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Curricular Affairs Committee Report #415, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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University College And General Education Committee Report #2002-03-2, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

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University College And General Education Committee Report #2002-03-2, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

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Renaissance 2003, University Of Rhode Island

URI Yearbooks

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island yearbook.

“Ferment,” An Ethic Of Caring, And The Corrective Power Of Dialogue, William J. Starosta, Guo-Ming Chen

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This dialogue focuses on the justification of the claim that a critical turn or the fifth moment is happening in the study of intercultural communication.

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2003-2004, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island course catalog.

Archaeological Oceanography Of Inundated Coastal Prehistoric Sites, Dwight F. Coleman

Open Access Dissertations

The field of shallow underwater archaeology has grown significantly during the last century, especially since the development of advanced technologies such as the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA). Other advanced technologies, such as high-resolution geophysical surveying systems and robotic undersea vehicles, which have been used extensively in the oceanographic sciences during the last several decades, are now being used in the archaeological sciences to investigate underwater sites representing human history. These technologies, in addition to the oceanographic and geophysical methodologies for exploration, prospecting, and site surveying, now form the technological basis of the nascent discipline of "Archaeological Oceanography ." This …