UniversityofAthens
Faculty of Communication and Media Studies
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Executivesummary
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Acknowledgements
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University of Athensproject title
Faculty of Communication and Media Studiesstudent name
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Table of contents
List of pictures
List of tables
1.Introduction
2.Section title
2.1Subsection title
3.Section title
3.1Subsection title
4.Conlusions
References
List of abbreviations
Glossary of key terms
Appendix A
Appendix B
List of pictures
Εικόνα 1: Αύξηση του πλήθους ιστοχώρων σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο.
List of tables
Πίνακας 1: Αύξηση των χρηστών διαδικτύου στις χώρες της Ε.Ε.
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1.Introduction
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2.Section title
2.1Subsection title
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3.Section title
3.1Subsection title
Thepicturesandtablesneedtobeformattedand, incasetheyhavenotbeencreatedbyyoubutdrawnfromtheliterature, theyneedtoreferencethecorrespondingsources, asinthefollowingexamples.
The logarithmic rate of increase of the number of websites on the internet is presented in Picture 1.
Picture1:Increase of the number of websites on the internet.
[source: (Zakon 2006)]
The increase rate of internet users in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the population of EU countries during years 2000-2006 is presented in Table 1.
year / internet users / population / percentage2000 / 86,796,800 / 379,634,800 / 22.9 %
2002 / 143,415,551 / 379,634,800 / 37.8 %
2004 / 206,196,749 / 459,938,780 / 44.8 %
2006 / 230,396,996 / 462,371,237 / 49.8 %
Table1: Increase of internet users in EU countries.
[source: (Miniwatts Marketing Group 2006)]
4.Conlusions
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- for a brief recapitulation of what has already been presented in the previous sections
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- for bringing forward important issues that need to be further studied.
Splitting this section into subsections is not recommended but still it is allowed, if you consider that this is required for some reason.
References
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(BournemouthUniversity, UK)
(AngliaRuskinUniversity, UK)
(University of SouthQueensland, Australia).
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Miniwatts Marketing Group 2006, European Union Internet Usage and Population Statistics, Miniwatts Marketing Group,
last accessedon 30.11.2006, <
a collection of statistical data for the penetration of the internet in European Union countries and worldwide
Zacon, R 2006, Hobbes' Internet Timeline v8.2, Robert H. Zakon, Zakon Group LLC, last accessedon 30.11.2006, <
acollectionofstatistical data for the quantitative expansion of the internet as well as former network services (Usenetand others) from 1993 until today
List of abbreviations
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ICT ...... Information and Communication Technologies
IS...... InformationSociety
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Glossary of key terms
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internetAn interconnected system of networks that links computers all over the world using the TCP/IPprotocol stack for data transmission.
world-widewebThe part of the internet that contains text and multimedia documents as well as web sites and applications linked together and accessed through unique reference addresses and graphical user interfaces.
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Appendix A
Appendix title
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Appendix Β
Appendix title
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