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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Message Board"”.
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Investment decisions: Influence of an Internet stock message board.
… One source of information is Internet stock message boards such as those at Yahoo! Finance. This source allows for anonymous postings and information exchange. Despite the possibility of the information being incorrect many individuals visit these message boards. The purpose of this study is …
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The effects of message board information dissemination on stock activity
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Cross-cultural collaboration via message board for cultural understanding and language learning
… in Taiwan and college students in the US via a message board. Through five weeks of online discussions, students in both groups changed their perspectives of the target culture. Some students also gained better insights and understanding of their own culture. Even though the EFL students didn't …
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Examining Relationships between Online Financial Message Board Interactions and Trading Activity of Securities Listed on the AIM Submarket of the London Stock Exchange
Contribution to online communities, such as stock message boards, may be considered as “paradoxical” (Rafaeli and LaRose, 1993), in that a “free-riding tendency” (Olson 1985) by rational participants would result in a lack of original content. However, online financial message boards continue to …
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Exploring the virtual communities of college football fans : the uses and gratifications of online message boards
… examined how college football fans use online message boards, what their motivations are for using online message boards, and whether online message boards are complementing or displacing traditional media for them. A survey posted to four different subscription-based online message boards …
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The management of identity and accountability in online weight loss discourse
… analysis examines 2219 individual posts in 422 message threads over a 24 hour period on a message board on the Weight Watchers website. The site explicitly promotes itself as a space in which members can obtain advice and emotional support from fellow dieters in an encouraging and egalitarian …
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Making Connections: Adolescent Girls' Use of the Internet
… of six girls were analyzed, and postings on a message board for young girls interested in online activities were reviewed. Patterns and themes that emerged from the data indicated that Internet technology was an effective match for the informants' developmental tasks. Specific inferences …
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Little Brother is Watching and Recording You: Social Control in a Deviant Group
… postings and documents related to a capping message board. From my research I was able to determine an extensive network of social control present among this deviant group. Additionally, this was the first time the capping phenomenon has been researched and light was shined upon this …
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Texas State Agency Websites: A Descriptive Assessment of Attributes that Support Online Citizen Engagement
… networking and none host an online forum or message board. Public administrators charged with designing, developing, and implementing agency websites should consider incorporating the website attributes described in this applied research project to support online citizen engagement.
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Trolling Aesthetics: The Lulz as Creative Practice
… pranks, to the peculiar discourse of anonymous message boards, to a shadowy and subversive ideology. By the end of the decade, the canon of images and icons associated with the LULZ entered into artistic practice and along with it a certain dark understanding of the “digital condition” of online …
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Fandom and beyond: online community, culture and Kevin Smith fandom
… producer. Since 1995, the View Askew Message Board has provided a dialogical, communicative platform for fans of Kevin Smith to define themselves as a collective group – or more frequently – a community. Through autoethnographic discussion, as well as qualitative research conducted …
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Legendary Days – a novel, and the Aspects of Geek Culture in Fiction
… Man, which began life as a collective online message board thread, challenges common tenants of fiction, especially that of authorship and form. The novels, in the order in which they are discussed, move from the traditional to the innovative. They pose questions about the way in which geek …
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From Surviving to Metaviving: A New Rhetorical Formation in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient Discourse
… rhetorical analysis of a popular breast cancer message board for patients with metastatic disease, I coded 589 posts to see how women use language to discuss living with MBC, and Condit's concept of rhetorical formations allows me to argue more specifically for the changes I see in patient …
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An Investigation into Extended Intermittent Infusions Rather Than Standard Practice of Antibiotic Administration in Critically Ill Patients with Sepsis
… the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association message board. Along side this a systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to up date the evidence base. Results 17 of the 22 antibiotics surveyed have a single method of administration used on more than 50% of the responding UK CCUs. …
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The evolution of online asexual discourse
… Education Network [AVEN]) and a similar sized message board on a different topic as a control (Non-asexual corpus). I subdivided the AVEN data into two sub-corpora, based on the sub-forum topics. Most subforums are in the AVEN-core corpus. Some (e.g. ""Just For Fun"" or ""Off-A"") are mostly …