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INTERNET USE ADOPTION AMONG ACADEMICIANS: Comparing Innovative Adopters and Other Adopter TypesOnline shopping represents an innovation to be adopted or rejected by online consumersglobally. Previous experiences and knowledge of innovation are the main factors affectingpeopleâs willingness to adopt a new innovation. We explore how Internet use differsbetween academicians who are innovative adopters and other types of adopters.Academicians who are innovative adopters are hypothesized to: have more years of experience on online shopping, have greater frequency of purchase, and pay a higher price for items purchased online.Data were collected from 301 respondents. Results provide new perspective on innovativeadopters among Malaysian academicians; they have less experience than other adopters inshopping for products online, make fewer purchases online and pay small amount ofmoney in shopping for products online than other adopters. Directions for future research are also discussed.
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Faculty Adoption of Teaching and Learning Technologies: Contrasting Earlier Adopters and Mainstream FacultyThe adoption of teaching and learning technologies is an innovation that challenges the structure, culture and practice of modern research universities. This paper documents quantitatively and qualitatively the attitudes, skills and behavior of the faculty related to the use of instruc- tional technology at a large Canadian research university. The data was gathered from a survey (n = 557) of teaching faculty. The data is ana- lyzed with respect to Roger's (1995) categories of adoption of innova- tion differentiating "Earlier Adopters" (EAs) from "Mainstream Faculty" (MF). The paper discusses four factors that have tended to create a "chasm" between these two groups and discusses strategies for reducing the chasm and providing support and incentive for all faculty in the adoption of instructional technologies.
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Adoption and Aspiration: The Uniform Adoption Act, the Deboer-Schmidt Case, and the American Quest for the Ideal FamilyWhen the state must designate a child's legal parentage, should the goal be to protect the biological parents' "opportunity interests" to raise "their" child or to protect the child's established relationships with the individuals who have actually functioned as her parents? What characteristics render an adult an appropriate parent? These questions, long in the background of disputes over adoption, have been raised with new intensity in the early 1990s in two distinctive settings. The first is the debate about these questions waged in the courts and the media. The second is the effort of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) to create a Uniform Adoption Act. The fate of the child called Jessica by her would-be adopters in Michigan and Anna by her birth parents in Iowa was a matter of agitated public debate before, during, and after it was decided by a legal system slow to resolve the conflicting claims of the adoptive and birth parents and even slower to recognize the young child's interest in a quick decision. 1 Similarly, the law's inability to resolve the competing claims of entitlement with respect to other young children--Richard Doe in Illinois, Emily W. in Florida, Michael S. in California--generates yet more media attention to the questions of "where do children belong?" and "to whom do children belong?" 2 As American culture's internal conflicts over the ideal family are projected onto the various individuals, relationships, and households involved in each case, images of the conflicting ...