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Showing 1 to 20 of 409 for “"Digital media"”.
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Diversifying digital media research
… majority of the world’s populations and social media users living in the Global South, is our existing research on emergent technologies addressing questions that are accurately representing diverse populations and advancing scientific knowledge? Using a mixed-methodological and meta-scientific …
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Essays on spillover effects in digital media
In this thesis, I address spillover effects in digital media across 3 different essays. In Chapter 1, I focus on estimating social spillovers in the consumption of online news. Exploiting regional rainfall as a natural experiment, I find strong statistical evidence of positive social spillovers in …
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Purposing digital media for education: critically exploring values and expectations in applying digital media for children’s learning and development.
… across three research settings. To begin, in Mediating Family Play I investigate the perceived impact of digital technology on parents’ presumed role in cultivating developmentally appropriate forms of play. In Game Makers I discuss the production of digital games for social change as a …
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Citizen engagement: Politics and digital media in Namibia
SUMMARY: In recent years, several studies indicated that there is a downward trend in youth participation in politics and civic activities, in both the global South and the global North. Most of these studies were conducted in the West – only a few in the global South; and not all their authors are …
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Ageing Futures: Towards Cognitively Inclusive Digital Media Products
… in an increasing disconnection from novel digital media in old age, inclusive design is apparently trapped in a discourse in which digital media products and interfaces are designed as a response to a deterministic decline in abilities. The thesis proceeds from this context to ask what …
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Understanding innovation in digital media artistic production in Ireland
… aims to understand processes of innovation in digital media production. Traditional discourses on digital media have tended to foreground the role of technology, its effects and its influences. This thesis argues that a more rounded understanding of digital media can be obtained through …
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Utilisation of digital media in improving children's reading habits
Although digital media has been exploited to improve digital libraries, social networking sites, and book promotion for adult and child stakeholders, but encouraging children who have the choice to either read from a book or on a screen remains limited worldwide, including Jordan. This interest has …
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Quantifying Agenda Setting Effects on Twitter and Digital Media
Agenda setting theory describes how the media influences which issues enter the public agenda. New technologies have disrupted media institutions and long-established agenda setting dynamics. This thesis studies agenda setting effects in two different ``new media'' environments: Twitter and digital …
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Digital Media Use and Adolescent Christian Formation: A Correlation Study
… the effects of both the frequency and form of digital media use among adolescents and provide practical implications for Christian educators and families alike. Chapter 1 details the problem evident within American culture that has seen the use (and subsequent overuse) of digital …
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Supporting early childhood educators integrating digital media into their practice
This study explored the integration of digital media into early learning environments in Ontario, focusing on educators’ practices, supports, barriers, and professional learning needs. Findings show that early childhood educators (ECEs) primarily use digital media for lesson planning, …
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The oblique effect as a measure of digital media overuse
… al., 2010). Preliminary data demonstrates that digital media use may exacerbate the oblique effect, but further investigation is needed to understand the perceptual, physiological, and ontological parameters of this effect (Hipp et al, 2020). The purpose of this study is to develop a toolbox …
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DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE KOREAN DIASPORA: A JOURNEY OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
This dissertation explores how developed digital media technology influences individuals’ daily lives and their everyday practices. Furthermore, it examines how digital media usage has impacted diasporic members’ identity construction process. With the example of the Korean diaspora in the United …
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Haptic cinema: an art practice on the interactive digital media tabletop
… rich experience for viewers. The interactive digital media tabletop is identified as one platform on which to develop haptic cinema. This platform supports a subgenre of haptic cinema called tabletop cinema. Expanded cinema practices are analyzed for their contributions to haptic cinema. Based …
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Distributed Cinema: Interactive, Networked Spectatorship In The Age Of Digital Media
<p>Digital media has changed much of how people watch, consume and interact with digital media. The loss of indexicality, or the potential infidelity between an image and its source, contributes to a distrust of images. The ubiquity of interactive media changes aesthetics of images, as viewers …
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Digital Media and Campaign Practices in Nigeria: Ekiti State Governorship Election
This is a study of the digital campaign practices of a winning opposition candidate in a governorship election in Ekiti state, Nigeria. The study was conducted through i) qualitative content analysis of news reports and digital artifacts, and ii) interviews with campaign staffers of a winning …
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Cluster techniques and prediction models for a digital media learning environment
… applies well-known data mining techniques in a digital learning media environment in order to identify groups of students based on their pro le. We generate identi able clusters where some interesting patterns and rules are observed. We generate a neural network predictive model intended to …
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Creative differences : the performativity of gender in the digital media sector
The digital media sector is a site for competing claims about women’s equality in employment. On the one hand, commentators have claimed that the digital media sector is exemplary as an open and egalitarian domain for all workers, including women. On the other hand, feminist researchers have …
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Bridging digital media literacy with the Thai context of ‘Sati’ (mindfulness).
… between the three keywords and how the digital media literacy concept can be bridged to the concept of ‘Sati’ (mindfulness) in a Thai context. The purpose of this research study is intentionally to articulate five contributing points from action research combined with the capabilities …
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Political knowledge and social media use in the digital media system
My dissertation explores how social media exposure affects political knowledge among the American public. Political knowledge is central to any understanding of citizen competence, yet key questions remain about how to best increase citizens’ information levels. My dissertation project assesses to …
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Digital media to inspire and sustain sport participation in urban areas
This research looks to understand the role digital media plays to inspire and sustain sports participation and how digital media could be used as a socially inclusive tool. The study explores if strategically packaged digital media could be used in a socially inclusive way to increase or sustain …
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