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Showing 1 to 20 of 264 for “"Blogs"”.
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Remediation, Genre, and Blogs: A Reexamination of Blogs as Genre
Writing theory.
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Blogs : open-source diaries
Weblogs, or blogs, are Web sites maintained by one person or a few select people, are usually about one distinct subject, are constantly updated, and attract repeat visitors. This form has become a popular means of self-expression because it empowers both the writer and the audience. Blogs empower …
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The Impact of Blogs on State Politics
… research questions: Who are the people creating blogs focused on state politics? What motivates these people to initiate and maintain their blogs? Do these blogs play a discernable role in a given state’s politics, and if so, how? Rooted in the literature of framing; agenda setting; uses and …
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A Theoretical Mapping of Waterboarding Blogs 2007
… are used and understood within the waterboarding blogs included in the case study. Chapter One is designed to provide basic information about the waterboarding issue and elements of this research more generally. The first chapter provides the following: information regarding the background facts …
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Analysis of Chinese travel blogs of New Zealand
… New Zealand were identified by analysing travel blogs written by Chinese tourists. Given that there were 181 million bloggers existing in China by the end of 2009 (CNNIC, 2009), blogs written by Chinese visitors have a significant market value for tourism organisations and marketers. This study …
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Exploring the Connection Between Newspaper Blogs and Sense of Community
… study was to explore the potential of newspaper blogs to foster a sense of community among readers and if so, whether this has an effect on their reading behavior. An online survey was conducted among the readers of the Houston Chronicle news blogs. The participants were asked to respond to …
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Identity, Ethos, and Community: Rhetorical Dimensions of Secular Mommy Blogs
… the rhetorical dimensions of four separate blogs by investigating how each mother builds identity within her personal blog and how her sense of identity enables her to construct individual ethos. Furthermore, I illustrate how the individual ethos of each blogger contributes to a group ethos …
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The Rhetoric of Mom Blogs: A Study of Mothering Made Public
… dissertation examines the phenomenon of mom blogs to determine their handling of conventional motherhood and the rhetorical nature of their discourse. Unlike other prior studies of blogs and specifically of mom blogs, the dissertation examines both the blog entries themselves and the many …
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Leveraging social information systems : using blogs to inform technology strategy decisions
… associated strategies for doing this, focused on blogs as a representative social information system. The algorithms automate the searching of blogs in a specific domain, and collection of time-series statistical data over a multi-year period around the co-occurrence of various terms within the …
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Motherhood, performance, and mommy blogs: the political power of maternal online rhetoric
… act that forms - not reflects - identity. Mommy blogs are autobiographical acts with dual performativity: identity and maternity. With performativity, mommy blogs have the power to, as Anzaldúa writes, "rewrite culture." Yet, collectively, mommy blogs reify the normative motherhood narrative with …
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OBAMA'S PRESIDENTIAL (MIXED) RACE: FRAMING AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BLOGS AND NEWS
… this study examined the ways that newspapers and blogs construct discourses about race, mixed race, and racism. Further, I explored the biological, legal, and social implications as they relate to current constructions of mixed race identity. This dissertation centered the data collection around …
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The Antigone Discourse: Zines and Blogs as Articulations of Young Women's Subjectivites
Zines and blogs written by the young women in this study are an important form of inquiry that, if considered by educators, may push us to critically question discourses of young womanhood, questions of subjectivity, and the way we engage with texts. I use readings of Antigone to shape a reading of …
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The personal is political: articulating women's citizenship through three African feminist blogs
… the extent to which three African feminist blogs realise the democratising potential of the blogosphere as well as the ways in which they articulate the concerns and perspectives of women whose vantage points are often silenced by mainstream discourses of citizenship. As a specifically …
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An exploratory study of the use of classroom blogs to improve student writing
… Frame theory as a platform for creating the microblogs and grading rubric. This qualitative case study examined six microblog work samples from six eighth grade students. The writing was analyzed to determine how the students’ writing changed while using the microblog tool. Additionally, this …
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Examining the credentials of food bloggers and the online environment of food blogs
<p>This study evaluated characteristics of food blogs and food bloggers that potentially affect food choices. It was hypothesized that most food bloggers would not have a nutrition-related degree and food blog environments wouldn’t be supportive of health-conscious food choices. A cross-sectional …
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Blogs de moda como fonte de informação das consumidoras jovens de João Pessoa
The fashion blogs bring as proposed in its publications address issues surrounding the world of fashion, becoming a source of information for the consumer, and having as one of its main public youth. Thus, this study aims to analyze the fashion blogs as a source of information for the consumption …
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An ideological analysis of filter blogs : how Daily Kos and Powerline construct biased news
<p>This thesis analyzes how the news blogs Daily Kos and Power line construct news presented from an ideological viewpoint. Specifically the types of evidence used by the blogs to assert their viewpoints and their intended audiences were analyzed. This thesis utilized theory from Jean Francois …
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