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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Internet research"”.
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Balch internet research and analysis tool development case study
The Internet has become increasing popular as a vehicle to deliver surveys. An essential objective of research is to collect accurate data and there has been little work to insure that Internet survey systems are employing best practices as defined by academic and professional research to collect …
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Exploring internet research process and construction tasks as a technological skill development tool
… technological skills through a combination of research process frameworks and a constructionist creation tasks. This framework is designed to remove barriers often seen as inhibiting computer usage. This two-phase study utilizes a mixed-methods methodology through the use of a pre-task survey, …
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Developing Internet research skills among criminology honours students and researchers in the Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town : an evaluation of the methods and materials used for this purpose
In order to assist honours students and researchers in the Criminology Department at theUniversity of Cape Town to fully utilise resources available through the Internet and other online databases, an online electronic research skills tutorial was developed and implemented. The aim of this research …
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From Faking Online Content to Orchestrating Its Creation by Public Workers: Examining Russian Disinformation Production Organisations through Curriculum Vitae Analysis (2013-2024)
… produce disinformation, the transition from the Internet Research Agency to the Patriot Media Group and the emergence of ANO Dialog. It shows how the Internet Research Agency operated as a sophisticated "troll farm" during the early stages of the Russo-Ukrainian war, with activities similar to …
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Semantic-based management of federated infrastructures for future internet experimentation
… of experiments in the context of Future Internet research. Given the scale, complexity and heterogeneity of the Internet, experimental validation is carried out within large-scale, distributed test environments. As a result, several independent testbeds have been established, with …
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Students’ Perceptions for the Use of Computers in Elementary Schools
… very limited access to school computers. The researcher surveyed 152 students from grades 4-6 using measures created by the author and modified according to teacher recommendations. Survey results showed that students had an overall positive perception of computers. Students saw computers as a …
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Car supplier and manufacturer connectivity issues
… it will help analyze and determine how Internet transforms relationships between car parts suppliers and automobile manufacturers. With the help of the Car Internet Research Program (CIRP), 17 semi-structured interviews of executive heads belonging to upstream suppliers in the automotive …
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Empowering Female English Language Learners to Pursue Computer Science Fields: A Practical 4-Hour Workshop for Beginning Teachers in High School
… entering computer science fields. An overview of research within the last ten years is exhibited, which includes the current state of females in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, female attitudes toward computers and computer science, science content instruction strategies …
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Development and evaluation of a scaffolding guide to help lower secondary science students use the Internet to search for, select and organise information for the construction of personal text
… guide to help lower secondary students use the internet to search for and organise information for the construction of personal text. An intact Year 10 science class participated in the study. Data were collected using the scaffolding guide completed by students, work samples, a questionnaire …
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Mitigating foreign social media influence campaigns in U.S. elections
… a shadowy Russian organization known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA) with organizing thousands of fictitious individuals and organizations across virtually every social media platform to manipulate the beliefs of real American voters. The goal of this manipulation was to elect …
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Does Resume Presentation Medium and Reference Group Affect Perceptions about a Job Applicant?
… given a job description that either required internet research experience (technical reference group) or not (non-technical reference group). Then the respondents rated the applicant on seven attributes (intelligence, technical skills, interpersonal skills, leadership ability, motivation, …
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Perceptions of Other Internet Users in Delusional Beliefs: Development and Validation of a New Measure of Online Social Cognition
Since the inception of the internet, research has attempted to describe its effects on a wide variety of psychological constructs, such as personality and psychopathology. Although studies have found associations between internet usage and different psychological disorders, few studies have …
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A Study of Ethics in Crowd Work-Based Research
… setting for conducting and distributing academic research. Crowd work platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) are widely used by academic researchers. Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of ethical issues because they could affect the long-term development and application of …
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Weaving the Home Web: A Canadian Case Study of Internet Domestication
The internet has increasingly become a part of our daily practices, and previous research has pointed to the numerous different ways individuals and groups use and integrate the internet into their lives. Yet, despite the pervasiveness of the internet within the home, few have investigated internet …
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Engineering, Teaching, and Technology: A Nationwide Assessment of Instructional Internet Use by Engineering Faculty
There has been an explosion of internet use among college students over the last decade for at least two important reasons: the proliferation of available resources and the arrival of a digital native generation to university campuses. Not surprisingly, engineering students are entering …
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Networked activists and the movement for democracy in Hong Kong
… interviews, online ethnography, and archival research, this research examines how the digitally-enabled individuals, who operated outside social movement organizations and political interest groups, came to engage in and sustain the Umbrella Movement. In particular, by integrating …
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A Study of Central Iowa High School Seniors' Computer Literacy and Word Processing Skills
… legal and ethical issues in technology, and Internet research and evaluation. Word processing was defined as the ability to create documents using word processing software and incorporate tables and graphs from other applications (TekXam Manual, 2001) Procedures: The study employed 113 …
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The dynamic processes of the adoption and use of cloud computing by small, medium enterprises in South Africa
… can access a pool of ICT resources through the Internet. Research of CC focusing on the SME sector is generally limited, particularly in middle-income countries. The factors driving the evolution and advancement of the adoption of CC by SMEs in SA have not been adequately articulated within the …
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The internet as a resource for research, teaching and learning : a comparative study between the University of Zimbabwe and University of Zululand
The Internet has been described as a collection of sprawling computer networks that link millions of computers used by tens of millions of people all over the world (Leedy 1997:66). From an initial few hundred computers, the Internet has grown exponentially enabling users to communicate with each …
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From the Agora to the Algorithm : Aristotle's rhetoric as a framework for understanding social media persuasion : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
… is, thus, of considerable importance. While research has made considerable gains in understanding how various factors are exploited to effect online persuasion, a gap in our understanding of persuasion in this particular environment remains, particularly as it impacts issues of national …
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