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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Internet forums"”.
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Online Self-Injury Forums, Social Support, And Psychological Distress
… among clinicians and the general population. Internet forums where people who engage in the behavior may discuss topics related to NSSI have become widespread. The effects of those websites on people who engage in the behavior have not been researched. This study used structural equation …
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Usage of Evidence Based Medicine Resources in Clinically Practicing Athletic Trainers
… and non-evidence based sources (colleagues, internet forums, and anecdotal evidence) when looking for information to assist clinical decision making. Patients and Other Participants: A total of 155 (15.5% returned) clinically practicing ATs participated in the study. Participants were …
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Promoting Civility in Online Discussions: A Study of the Intelligent Conversation Forum
<p>Discussions on Internet forums show a higher tendency towards incivility than those conducted in person. This is partially caused by the anonymity of the web; therefore, some have suggested that the solution is requiring website commenters to provide their real names. There are many benefits to …
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Igbo caste practices: persistence and public attitudes in the media
… the media, from newspapers to films and even in internet forums. Using oral sources and commentaries in the media, this thesis argues that Igbo socio-political life has continued to sustain this practice even as it pretends to reject it. The general attitude to discrimination against the caste …
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Mapping Supremacist Ideologies: A Computational and Qualitative Examination of Ideological Cross-Pollination between Extreme Misogynistic and Alt-Right Ecosystems on the Internet
… between different ideological groups on the internet. Therefore, this thesis presents the first large-scale, data-driven understanding of the transference and mixing of beliefs between different online extremist spaces. It examines and compares extreme misogynistic and alt-right discourses …
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Crossing the lexicon: Anglicisms in the German hip hop community
… corpus of hip hop discussions from the Internet forums at MZEE.com which includes 11 years of computer-mediated discourse. I supplement these data with an English-language hip hop discussion corpus and a set of ethnographic interviews conducted with hip hop fans and artists in Hamburg in …
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Territorial Violence and Design, 1950-2010: A Human-Computer Study of Personal Space and Chatbot Interaction
… relevant to research involving chatrooms and internet forums, automated systems and processes, as well as human and machine agencies; because all of these spaces, methods and agencies involve the personal sphere. The thesis is an ethical tale of cruel techno-science that is performed through …