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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"LiveJournal"”.
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Exploiting System Diversity in Peer-to-Peer Publish -Subscribe Systems
… the subscription profiles of 1.8 million LiveJournal users over six months. The evaluation presented in this thesis also makes use of the following previously collected traces: Internet topology, end-to-end latency fluctuations between PlanetLab nodes, bandwidth availability between …
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Teenage girls’ first-person narratives about weight perception and dangerous weight loss practices: A study of five blogs from LiveJournal.com
… This thesis examines five blogs on the website LiveJournal that are written by teenage girls who perceive themselves as overweight and who use blogs to talk about their attempts to lose weight. All five of these girls say that they practice at least one extreme method of weight loss and all of …
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Publishing the confidential: an ethnographic study of young Irish bloggers
… of two groups of young Irish bloggers on the LiveJournal platform, which mixes blogging tools with social network facilities. Drawing from Bakhtinian concepts, it proposes a framework to describe and analyse blogs as semiotic artifacts, defined by the presence of a literary space, a social …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
… one group of such writers who are active at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has been collected over a period of four years for the purpose of exploring the concept of an online coterie community. The data is examined by using the Community of Practice …
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Design and applications of a secure and decentralized Distributed Hash Table
… using large-scale social network graphs from LiveJournal, Flickr, YouTube, and DBLP, confirm the analytic prediction that Whanau provides high availability in the face of powerful Sybil attacks. Experimental results using PlanetLab demonstrate that an implementation of the Whanau protocol can …
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Interrogating tweendom online: ‘Fangirl as Pathology’, gender/age, and iCarly fandom
… (2007-2012) fans across three online fan spaces (LiveJournal, Blogspot, and Tumblr) as a case study, it presents an empirical, observational study that aims to further understand the implications of the cultural construction and negative stereotypes of girl fans, and the extent to which they come …
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The evolution of online asexual discourse
… and asexual communities other than AVEN (e.g. a LiveJournal community): these comprise the Asexual-other corpus. Using a multinomial Naive Bayes classifier, I found moderate distinguishability between the AVEN-main and non-asexual corpura at the level of individual posts when only considering …
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Exploiting System Diversity in Peer-to-Peer Publish-Subscribe Systems
… the subscription profiles of 1.8 million LiveJournal users over six months. The evaluation presented in this thesis also makes use of the following previously collected traces: Internet topology, end-to-end latency fluctuations between PlanetLab nodes, bandwidth availability between …