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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Online Conversations"”.
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Online conversations: A study of their toxicity
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Drivers of healthy online conversations about loneliness and depression
… much as 50% in recent years. Many are turning to online forums as a way to connect with others about their feelings of loneliness and to begin to reduce these feelings. However, posts often go unresponded to and online conversations do not take place, perhaps because those conversing did not find …
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Large-Scale Online Conversations About Public Health: Predicting Real-World Outcomes
… health challenges in the United States. Although online communities contain vast amounts of firsthand accounts, personal experiences, and peer-to-peer discussions about drug use, it is still unclear how these conversations can be analyzed to generate insights that support public health research. …
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Communication structures in computer-supported cooperative learning (CSCL) environments for adult learners in distance education
… The study develops a model that characterizes online conversations as instructional communication events, and establishes a framework for the systematic analysis of online conversations in CSCL environments. At the "macro" level of analysis, the participants' discourse in the synchronous …
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Language Contact Phenomena among Algerian University Students
… languages and structures can be used in the same conversations. This research investigates the practice of language contact phenomena within social media using Facebook as the main platform, and also within face-to-face interaction among Algerian Vernacular Arabic (AVA) students. More …
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Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn
… news aggregate website, Reddit, that positions online conversations about race and class as an extension of the racial inequality present in social structures offline. Isolating gentrification, and topics related to gentrification such as new business openings and apartment hunting advice, this …
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Constructions of fatherhood during the 'transition to the empty nest' stage of parenting
… a hundred and sixty four postings of parents’ online conversations about transition to the ‘empty nest’ as well as nineteen semi-structured interviews with fathers whose children have left, or were in the process of leaving home. This range of data was firstly collected in order to explore the …
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Anthropomorphic visualization : depicting participants in online spaces using the human form
… to presenting information about participants in online spaces using the human form as the basis for the visualization. Various data about an individual's online behavior are mapped to different parts of a humanoid yet abstract form. I hypothesized that using a humanoid form to visualize data …
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Word of mouth and marketing : influencing and learning from consumer conversations
… the credibility of word of mouth transmitted online. We develop a game theoretic model where an incumbent and an entrant that are differentiated in quality compete for the same online market segment. The consumers are uncertain about the entrant's quality, whereas the firms know the value of …
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Automatic Detection of Nastiness and Early Signs of Cyberbullying Incidents on Social Media
… of social media users, manual moderation of online content is impractical. Available automatic systems for hate speech and cyberbullying detection fail to make opportune predictions, which makes them ineffective for warning the possible victims of these attacks. In this thesis, we aim at …
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Becoming-Virgin: Re-Virginisation Practices in Turkey
… as well as discourse analysis of online conversations on re-virginisation between women in Turkey and websites advertising relevant goods and services, I argue that re-virginisation is not a moment, but a process. It is not possible to pinpoint a time when a woman feels like a …
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Users' motivation to participate in crowdsourcing: a South African case study
Growth in online communities has generated a new labour pool. Organisations are using Web 2.0 tools to tap into this online labour pool, with one approach being 'crowdsourcing'. People from different geographical destinations can now work for organisations that are thousands of kilometres from …
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Korean immigrants' social practice of heritage language acquisition and maintenance through technology
… maintenance. In particular, the participants’ online conversations were examined to explore language use. This study supports the view that the parental role is important, even paramount, in children’s HL maintenance, but goes beyond this to show how technology can play a positive role in HL …
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Distributed Mentoring: Developing Electronic Conferencing to Support New Teachers
… conferencing, the NTSP provided the support for conversations about teaching and learning among new and experienced teachers in different teaching contexts across the state of Illinois. The primary research questions probed the nature of participation defined as the content, form, and conditions …
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IN PURSUIT OF A BLACK IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA: CULTURE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN WEDDING REALITY TV SHOWS, TV AUDIENCE COMMENTS, AND WEDDING SPEECHES
… examines the TV programs’ audience narratives in online spaces. Analyzing online conversations helps to show how audiences actively engage with and interpret messages disseminated by the TV shows as they talk back to the shows and among themselves. The study also examines wedding speeches to …
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Virus from the Global South: A comparative analysis on Twitter commentary on China x Covid-19, and South Africa x Omicron
… analysis. This thesis explores whether the online conversations reinforce stereotypes surrounding historical perceptions of China and Africa. Furthermore, the thesis explores whether the data sets revealed broader commentary on geopolitical tensions that were potentially heightened during …
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Mā te hangarau te oranga o te reo Māori e tautoko ai? Can technology support the long-term health of the Māori language?
… volume of tweets increased. While creating an online Māori-language community, a range of strategies became necessary to maintain and prolong some conversations. At times, bilingual tweets extended faltering conversations. Sometimes forwarding tweets drew success. Furthermore, a significant …
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The Purple Movement: Social Media and Activism in Berlusconi’s Italy
… of the movement, and content analysis of the online conversations among activists. The findings of this research show how Facebook proved to be an efficient mobilizing structure for the social movement only on a short-term basis. After its initial success, the incompatibility between the …