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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Online Identity"”.
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Me, Myself, & Identity Online: Identity Salience on Facebook vs Non-Virtual Identity
… Social Networking Sites create a location for identity formation and projection that is similar, yet distinct, from face-to-face interactions. Facebook offers a unique avenue for people to control their presentation of self, while maintaining reflexive features. This study this study explores …
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The online identity development of Indo-Caribbean women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
… conducts an assets-based exploration of the identity development of six Indo-Caribbean women in STEM through the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and equity, and phenomenological, narrative, and participatory research methodologies. Findings suggest that online communities provide …
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Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) and User Empowerment: An Analysis of Online Identity Ownership, Data Privacy, and Comparative Assessment with Other Decentralized Protocols
This thesis dives into the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) and its integration within the Polkadot ecosystem, particularly through the Frequency Blockchain. It investigates the transformative potential and challenges of implementing DSNP as a means to enhance user control, privacy, …
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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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Tagging and identity in the age of social media : a cultural critique
This thesis explores online identity through a cultural critique of tagging on social media. In particular, I discuss social media tagging in relation to historically and socially grounded labelling practices. While labelling has often been theorised as a social tool to oppress and marginalise, the …
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Simple, Secure, Selective Delegation in Online Identify Systems
… privileges to others is so important to users of online identity systems that users create ad hoc delegation systems by sharing authentication credentials if no other easy delegation mechanism is available. With the rise of internet-scale relationship-based single sign-on protocols like OpenID, …
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Dream Machine
… grappling with themes of American paranoia, online identity formation, and bodily alienation. Stories such as "Offerings" and "Pareidolia" explore the digital commodification of the body, following characters who—through Instagram-sourced sugar daddies and nude art modeling, …
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Fursonas : furries, community, and identity online
The furry fandom is a loose-knit online subculture of fans devoted to anthropomorphic animal characters. Furries are not necessarily fans of specific media properties, but instead often create their own media, including the "fursona," an anthropomorphic animal character to represent oneself in the …
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Football fandom, glocalisation and the ‘Man United in Pidgin’ Twitter community: a study of the glocal village created through the social media practices of a Twitter account dedicated to West African Manchester United Football Club’s fans
… of a postcolonial West African masculine online identity or fandom. MUIP is an unofficial MUFC’s social media fan account created by a Nigerian fan of MUFC that provides readers with the team’s news updates in Pidgin English, a lingua franca spoken in many West African countries. In this …
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Race, the Internet, and the Hurricane: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Black Identity Online During the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
… examines how cultural resources, such as racial identity, are constructed on the Web to order to expand research into Black Web use. This dissertation employs Goffman's (1959) dramaturgical theory of identity to frame the way websites produce an online identity. When Hurricane Katrina flooded New …
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Networked public spaces: an investigation into virtual embodiment
… each is conceptually connected to the idea of online identity and virtual embodiment, and each required extensive research to inform and inspire the creative practice. The projects are presented within three main sections, each of which attempts to link personal experience and history to a …
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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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A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of School Administrators’ Participation in Personal Learning Networks and Privacy Issues
… with PLN colleagues, they must construct an online identity and develop and cultivate relationships. Additionally, to engage in a PLN one must decide how much information to disclose on the internet as well as determine methods to regulate online privacy. The potential impact of disclosing …
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Data quality measures for identity resolution
The explosion in popularity of online social networks has led to increased interest in identity resolution from security practitioners. Being able to connect together the multiple online accounts of a user can be of use in verifying identity attributes and in tracking the activity of malicious …
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Digital Organisational Storytellers: Online Marketing as Identity Work
The thesis examines the effects of online marketing practices on the identity construction of individual marketers, referred to as the Digital Organisational Storyteller (DOS), across five business-to-business (B2B) organisations. I focus on illuminating their marketing processes and …
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Identity Work of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on Reddit: Traversals of Deliberation, Moderation, and Decolonization
… their identities for a variety of reasons, and online spaces afford them the opportunity to make sense of and revise their intersectional identities. One such group is Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs), who are at the receiving end of stereotypes that often manifest in inaccurate …
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Online Psychosocial Support for Oncology Patients: A Group Facilitation Manual
… support groups. While research has shown that online therapy is effective, the quality and efficacy of therapy is often unknown and/or sub-optimal and essential psychological care cancer patients deserve is compromised. The purpose of this project was to provide therapists and other mental …
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Socially (de)constructing deepfakes: understanding socio-technical interests and concerns in deepfake media
… and realism of false video information online. While there have been some positive uses of deepfakes in translation and entertainment, the technology is often defined by two negative use cases: political misinformation and non-consensual sexual imagery. A further harm comes from the lack …
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Empirical Investigation of the Role of Privacy and Data Protection in the Implementation of Electronic Government in Ghana
… potential risks to users. The potential for online identity theft and fraud raises privacy concerns. From a theoretical foundation, fieldwork in Ghana, through interviews and focus groups, is used to investigate the issue of privacy and data protection in e-government implementation in an …
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"Don't Try and Play Me Out!": The Performances and Possibilities of Digital Black Womanhood
… the practices and possibilities of Black women’s identity performances on social media. Despite claims that the United States is now “post-racial,” in recent years there have been several examples of negative perceptions and hostile receptions to Black women’s discourse and literacy practices on- …
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