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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Online Activity"”.
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The health-related uses and gratifications of YouTube: Motive, cognitive involvement, online activity, and sense of empowerment
… health information on YouTube, post-exposure online activity, and sense of empowerment regarding health and health care. As a result of the analysis of data from 263 participants, social utility, convenient information-seeking, habit-passing time, and exciting entertainment motives were …
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Problematic Internet Use in Residence Halls
… addiction test (IAT) which measures levels of online activity. The results of this study were inconclusive. There was a low correlation between online activity and academic performance as measured by academic probation. The weak relationship indicates that PIU may be an issue for college …
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Student Outcomes and Design Elements in Blended Learning Courses
… with different types of course delivery, i.e. online, blended, or in-person. Second, this study investigated if there is a difference in the students' successful completion rate depending on the frequency at which a blended learning course design element occurs within blended learning …
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Self-Injury Knowledge and Peer Perceptions among Members of Internet Self-Injury Groups
… friends’ perceptions of SI, and the impact of online activity on SI. This study proposes that people who have belonged to these online SI groups for longer periods have higher levels of SI knowledge than those group members who have recently joined. In addition, the study proposes that …
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Engaged or just "friends": using social media for membership engagement or identity management through group affiliations
… in groups both on and offline. In-person and online participation levels were examined, and motives for online activity on groups' social media pages were investigated to understand how profile identity formation played a role in emerging-aged adults' associations. Information acquired through …
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Exploring the effect of perceived relevance and privacy concerns on consumer responses to online behavioral advertising
Online behavioral advertising (OBA) is a new form of online advertising based on consumer online activity history. Despite the growing attention and use of this form of advertising, research on OBA is still in its early stages. This study presents preliminary investigation of consumer responses to …
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Measuring Learning on the Job
… on-the-job learning at IT firms. Using detailed online activity data of 144,000 employees matched with 25,000 firms across the globe, I measure the intensity and the direction of technology acquisition, a key input to innovation. A standardized measure shows that employee-entrepreneurs who join …
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An investigation into how Online business has been boosted by the changing of customer behaviour during the Pandemic
… was essential and swapping checkout lines for online shopping (JP Morgan, 2020). The research will focus on the end consumer's point of view towards adopting online business, which includes not only e-commerce but, in a broader sense, also other areas such as smart working, e-learning, food …
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Cyberbullying and students with learning disabilities
… survey was administered to parents through an online website called Survey Monkey. The questions were designed to answer five main research questions about cyberbullying. The questions were asked to parents who have a classified child, and then asked again to those parents whose children are …
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The Influence of Technology on Adolescent Development: An Eco-Cultural Analysis of Cybersocial Activity
… such sites and many of them maintain blogs, or online chronicles that are available for public viewing and comment, along with their profile pages and friend networks. This qualitative study examined what exactly adolescents write about in their blogs, and how that content reflects the …
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Foreign policy as fake news? Bolsonaro’s electoral fearmongering campaign in Brazil (2018)
… deriving from Bolsonaro’s and his supporters’ online activity on Twitter and Facebook from 2017 through October 2018.
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Effect of cooperative structure of small-group online activities on student satisfaction, benefits and use in distance education and an exploration of online strategies
… is to improve the design of small-group online activities in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) distance education (DE) environments. Participants were volunteers drawn from an undergraduate education course, $n=38.$ Drawing on cooperative learning techniques, students in …
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Standing at the End of a Road: Death and the Construction of Cyborg Relationships
"Although my work on these online sites of illness, death, and mourning has often been emotionally difficult, I believe these types of web spaces are particularly valuable because they encourage us to consider the real-world context of online interactions. Studies of online communities have …
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An investigation into how Algerian women living in the United Kingdom, negotiate social activities and cultural practices within virtual Third Spaces
… to the United Kingdom. The research captures the online activities and cultural practices of this group of women in the context of migration. The research participants are 12 Algerian women from the first generation of migration. This enabled me to see how their merged identities – relating to …
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The Paranoid Style of Tea Party Politics
… media and the algorithms applied to individual online activity has grave impacts with regards to predicting political behavior and factors that contribute to the formation of an individual's political beliefs. Concluding theoretical assumptions depict the new forms of mass media as one key …
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REACTIONS REGARDING ONLINE DISCRIMINATION AND AD PROFILES
… and amount of information obtained by online companies has grown over the past decade. This growth has led to the ability of companies to target a desired population to show certain content, products and other services. The two studies conducted for this thesis examine different aspects …
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Creating Church Online: An Ethnographic Study of Five Internet-Based Christian Communities
“Online churches” are Internet-based Christian communities, seeking to pursue worship, discussion, friendship, teaching, support, proselytisation and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. These online churches are one example of “online religion”, a new kind of digital …
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Authenticity, Commodification of the Self, and Micro-Influencers: An in-depth analysis into the online identity construction of South African micro-influencers within the Western Cape
… within the Western Cape construct their online identities on Instagram. Theories of critical political economy of the media, self-branding, and the commodification of the self were applied to the context of micro-influencer identity construction as a means of understanding the mediated …
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Offline mediators online: writing activity in two middle school classes
… & Nardi, 2006). Framed by cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) (Leont’ev, 1981; Vygotsky, 1978), this dissertation broadens the study of students’ literacy learning in educational settings by considering offline mediators as constitutive of students’ online literate activity. …
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