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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Instant Messaging"”.
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Instant Messaging Usage and Academic and Social Integration
… how the current student population uses Instant Messaging to supplement traditional behaviors associated with academic and social engagement. The present study was designed to address these gaps in the present literature on social and academic integration. The purpose of this study was to …
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Analýza a rekonstrukce komunikace typu Instant Messaging (YMSG a ICQ)
… této bakalářské práce je analýza a rekonstrukce instantní komunikace protokoly YMSG a ICQ. Práce obsahuje detailní popis struktury těchto protokolů a přenášených zpráv významných pro rekonstrukci. Dále je popsáno vytvoření experimentálního nástroje pro rekonstrukci YMSG komunikace, kterým je …
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Why Taiwanese students use Instant Messaging: a uses and gratifications approach
… Taiwanese students sought and obtained from Instant Messaging use (IM). This study also examined the relationship among gratifications Taiwanese students obtained, gender, and their frequency of IM use. A 13-motivation with 37 statements scale derived from previous uses and gratifications …
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A formative evaluation of an instant messaging-based HIV and AIDS helpline in South Africa
… a formative evaluation of RedChatZone, a pilot instant messaging-based programme implemented in 2009 to provide an HIV and AIDS helpline via Mxit, an instant messaging platform.
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Communication of Emotion in Mediated and Technology-Mediated Contexts: Face-to-Face, Telephone, and Instant Messaging
… media: face-to-face, telephone, and instant messaging (IM). In one set of couples' experiments, the couples argued for twenty minutes; in the subsequent couples' experiment, couples were encouraged to take as much time as they needed for their arguments. One of the main results from …
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The use of a mobile instant messaging (MIM) application for English interaction in the Korean EFL context
… other and negotiate meanings using the mobile instant messaging applications on their smartphones. This study aimed to explore the feasibility of using the KakaoTalk mobile instant messaging (MIM) application to enhance the English communicative opportunities for Korean undergraduate students …
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Towards understanding mobile messaging ecologies : an exploration of the meanings young people attach to instant messaging channels
… be reconstructed. In youth culture specifically, instant messaging allows young people to achieve limited autonomy, explore peer groups and an evolving sense of self. This dissertation explores a model for understanding how instant messaging facilitates this. Theories of media ecologies provide …
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Seeing the Way They Are in the Way They IM: Case Studies of Instant Messaging in Taiwanese Fifth Graders' Lives
"To capture the nature of the child's IMing experience and how it is related to other aspects in the larger image of the child, I adopted the ""participant as ally---essentialist portraiture approach"" research methodology, which argues that a researcher's task is not just to understand the …
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Seeing the way they are in the way they IM: case studies of instant messaging in Taiwanese fifth graders' lives
Empirical studies suggest instant messaging (IMing) is a dominant Internet activity among teenagers and has been portrayed as an essential element in teenagers’ social lives. How IMing exists in younger aged children, however, receives little investigation. What a person’s IMing usage can tell us …
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A Constructivist Grounded Theory Of Self-Disclosure In Hybrid Pastoral Care
… gap in the literature at the intersection of instant messaging, self-disclosure, and pastoral care. Considering Joinson’s (2001) finding that people self-disclose more through instant messaging platforms than face-to-face, this study will focus on the Seventh-day Adventist Church to explore …
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Instant message communication and its impact upon written language
… slang, use of emoticons, and shorthand) in instant messaging will be analyzed through content analysis and through a series of interviews with high school and college journalism instructors. Does computer-mediated communication, specifically Instant messaging have a positive or negative …
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Extending the dialogue : interactional and multimodal strategies in synchronous mobile mathematics tutoring on MXit
… Math, a mathematics tutoring project that uses instant messaging and the mobile application, MXit. There is currently little computer-mediated communication research available about the uses of mobile instant messaging for mathematics tutoring. This study utilizes the Exchange Structure Analysis …
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Investigating design features of a computer-mediated communication system
… to address social presence were ‘résumés’ and instant messaging. These features were evaluated using questionnaires, with several cohorts of students in an OU course. Students expressed approval of the features, although some features were not widely used. Students preferred branched threading …
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An intelligent home using wireless location networks and real time messaging for patients with heart failure
… handheld computers, and location tracking and instant messaging software. The proposed design and architecture for the intelligent home and the metrics it obtains are evaluated from both a theoretical and empirical standpoint. Based upon the results from this thesis, intelligent homes in …
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Integrated Message Framework : strategy, design and implementation
… of dispersed information. Emailing, Blogging, Instant Messaging... have become customary daily activities for many. While the wealth of media enriches our interaction experiences, it nonetheless constrains our ability to assimilate information from one location (information is stored online, on …
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Database design development : i-LINK, an integrated messaging framework
… a plethora of communication media - emails, instant messages, blogs, etc. Often this has led to clustered desktop displays and ineffective integration between communication media. Software development teams are adversely affected by the lack of integration between applications. When project …
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User generated content for IMS-based IPTV
… Voice over IP (VoIP), presence, social networks, instant messaging (IM) and Internet Protocol television (IPTV) to mention but a few, started to emerge...This thesis proposed a framework that will offer user-generated content on an IMS-Based IPTV and the framework will include a personalised …
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Joint Effects of Communication Mode and Consensus on Virtual Team Decision Quality
… mode environments: i) face-to-face; ii) instant messaging; and iii) videoconferencing. A 2 X 3 between-subjects factorial design was used to examine the research questions. The hypotheses compared several mean decision performance measures for three and four-person teams (n = 105) …
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O skype como ferramenta de interacção e colaboração no ensino e aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras em teletandem
… ensino-aprendizagem. Recorrendo a aplicativos de Instant Messaging (Msn, Skype, ...) e às suas ferramentas de escrita, leitura, áudio e vídeo, procura-se, através de actividades de interacção, fomentar a autonomia e promover o envolvimento do estudante no processo de aprendizagem. A investigação …
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