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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Gossip"”.
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GOSSIP AS SOCIAL EXCHANGE IN NETWORKS
This thesis is about gossip. This concept is understood as a conversation between two or more individuals about absent third parties (i.e., behind their backs). Gossip has not been free of controversy. In fact, it has been condemned and considered an undesirable activity by various groups and …
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Gossip as an interpersonal communication phenomenon
… for the purpose of validating Foster's (2004) Gossip Functions Questionnaire (GFQ) which measures the reasons why people gossip (i.e., the functions of gossip). The GFQ originally consisted of four subscales that measured the functions of gossip: information, entertainment, friendship, and …
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The Purpose and Types of Organizational Gossip
Gossip, one of the core human activities, enforces cooperation, and influences reputation. It is safe to assume that it is a more complex phenomenon than just having a cooperation-building function. Gossip can be linked to a wide variety of mechanisms that are relevant in small groups such as …
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Negotiating Gossip in the Spanish Realist Novel
This dissertation focuses on ‘chisme’ or ‘gossip’ as theme, plot device and narrative dynamic in four canonical realist novels of the Spanish Restoration of the 1880s by Emilia Pardo Bazán (Chapter 1), Benito Pérez Galdós (Chapter 2) and Leopoldo Alas (‘Clarín’) (Chapter 3). An Introduction …
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Communities of Gossip in Late Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Gossip has long been a subject of critical attention in Jane Austen's novels, particularly regarding individual characters, such as the ladies Jennings, Gardiner, Bates and Norris, who are known for their chatter. Less recognized in eighteenth-century studies of gossip have been Eliza Haywood's …
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The Narrator as Gossip of Byron's Don Juan
… of this dissertation is to study the narrator as gossip in Bon Juan. In a short first chapter, I present the composite character of the narrator giving appropriate illustrations. I prepare for the second chapter by pointing up the importance of the narrator as gossip and by showing the …
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Gossip and the Group: A Self-Categorization Perspective
<p>Gossip is a little studied topic and even fewer studies have examined gossip from the perspective of social identity and self categorization theories. However, many of the functions of gossip have significant implications for group processes, including bonding, norm transmission and …
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Anonymity properties of two network coded gossip protocols
… baseline anonymity provided by a network coded gossip protocol not optimized for anonymity. We compare CHAP to NCGAB and show that CHAP is at least as anonymous as NCGAB and also exhibits interesting hierarchical separability that allows multiple anonymity protocols to operate simultaneously in …
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Being Talked About: Gossip and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… dissertation explores the connections between gossip and the development of the British novel over the course of the nineteenth century. Drawing on reevaluations of gossip by sociologists, as well as queer and feminist literary critics, I argue that nineteenth-century novelists rely on gossip …
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Perceptions of office gossip amongst diverse groups in the workplace
… racial groups and genders, regarding office gossip. Design– This paper followed a qualitative interpretivist research design, and content analysis was used to analyse the transcribed data. Findings– The findings indicate that the perceptions of office gossip are not gender specific, whereas …
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The Public Sharing And Private Consumption Of Celebrity Gossip Through The Motherhood Role
<p>Research has demonstrated that gossip meets many social and individual needs and serves several functions, often conflicting in the literature. The current study focused on examining the experiences of mothers as they publicly share and privately consume celebrity gossip to better understand …
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The evolutionary psychology of information management: gossip, secrecy, and shame in evolutionary perspective
… human information management behavior, including gossip, secrecy, and the emotional processes guiding the communication and concealment of personal information. An evolutionary psychological perspective proposes that human cognition was shaped by natural selection to solve adaptive problems …
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Age of information in gossip networks with selective node subscription and threshold reconstruction
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Gossip pop: A performative investigation of the role of pop in contemporary art practice
… demonstrate the development of the series of Gossip Pop performances and exhibitions, together with a written exegesis. The practical component of this research will consist of writing, producing, performing and exhibiting a series of interdisciplinary visual artworks in a range of gallery …
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A study of gossip algorithms for internet-scale cardinality estimation of distributed XML data
… component of query optimization. Decentralized gossip-based protocols are very popular in networking, and in particular, in sensor networks. The simplicity and scalability of gossip protocols render them perfect for quickly computing accurate estimates of aggregates (sums, averages, etc.) in …
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The effects of message direction and sex differences on the interpretation of workplace gossip
Gossip occurs in the organization and individuals exposed to these gossip messages must decide how to interpret the gossip. This dissertation explains the definitions and research for gossip, message direction, sex differences, message interpretation, politicalism, and believability. Applying …
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Gossip, performance, and regulation: an examination of social communities in Tom Wolfe‘s I Am Charlotte Simmons
… information spread about them. This is because gossip frequently occurs when one publicly presents themselves in a manner that is contrary to the social expectations of their community. In other words, the mere potential for gossip is enough to make the primary characters present themselves in …
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The Conversations of Female Friends at Three Ages: The Importance of Fantasy, Gossip, and Self-Disclosure
… of the conversational content. Fantasy, gossip, and self-disclosure were hypothesized to be important content areas for 6 to 7 year-old friends, 11 to 12 year-old friends, and 16 to 17 year-old friends, respectively.
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"Longing in vain to climb into the ducal bed": gossip and rumor in Orderic Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History
… work in the talk studies field that analyzes gossip and rumor, Chapter 2 discussed Orderic Vitalis' background, the historical approach of his sources and his own historical approach, Chapter 3 applied theoretical work on talk to the EH, Chapter 4 analyzed the performance of information …
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Secure gossiping techniques and components
Gossip protocols have proved to be a viable solution to set-up and manage largescale P2P services or applications in a fully decentralised scenario. The gossip or epidemic communication scheme is heavily based on stochastic behaviors and it is the fundamental idea behind many large-scale P2P …
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