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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Online Social Media"”.
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The Role Of Online Social Media In The Acculturation Process Of North Korean Refugee Young Adults In South Korea
<p>The purpose of this study is to investigate media's influences on the acculturation of North Korean refugee young adults in South Korea, especially focusing on identifying the role of online social media. The study examined the acculturation and media patterns of the refugee young adults and …
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The impact of social media on young adults of African-American or African descent
… of color. In the twenty-first century, online social networking sites have changed the way people communicate with their peers, employers and the world. Online social media sites have brought demands for further exploration using social media sites. Online social media has influenced …
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Commedia: Rhetoric And Technology In The Media Commons
… analyzes the organization of individuals through online social media applications and other community-building websites, such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Google Maps, and online classrooms, using the Aristotelian rhetorical concept of the commonplaces as well as political, critical, and legal theory. …
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As seen on twitter: African-American rhetorical traditions gone viral
… sequencing used in communication on the online social media network, Twitter. The objective of this study is to provide insight into the culture and community of Twitter. Additionally, the research demonstrates how traditional oral rhetorical traditions survive in the digital world. Over …
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The Kneel for Social Justice: Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and The Black Lives Matter Movement
… the national anthem as well in protest. The media and public reaction towards the athletes was influenced by the racial landscape of the United States in 2016. This thesis is a critical discourse analysis of user generated comments on the social media platform Instagram in response to …
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Data portraits : aesthetics and algorithms
While interacting online, one generates a multitude of personal data trails, both textual and behavioral. The data portrait is a way to collect, condense and represent these information trails, which are often time consuming and tedious to find and grasp when read linearly across web pages or …
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Tweets2Cube: Interactive spatiotemporal knowledge acquisition from massive social media
… people's spatiotemporal activities from massive online social media. Tweets2Cube organizes unstructured social media records into a multi-dimensional data cube along three dimensions: (1) what is the user's activity; (2) where does that activity occur; and (3) when does that activity occur. As …
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MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT: PREDICTING THE INTEGRATION OF ETHNIC/RACIAL IDENTITIES IN MULTIRACIAL ASIAN AMERICANS
… from Asian-White multiracials, recruited from online social media groups, websites, email lists, and personal contacts. Results suggest that culturally based influences, personality influences, and the ethnic/racial composition of peers along with generational status appear to influence how …
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(In)authentic Participation: Contemporary Participatory Performance Practice, Social Media & Neoliberalism
… one’s self in contemporary digitised society. Social media technology is not inauthentic in of itself, however the wider political economy in which social media operates encourages users to participate in a way that promotes the constitution, maintenance and presentation of a consistent, static …
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Template B+ trees: an index scheme for fast data streams with distributed append-only stores
… world, such as user-generated content from online social media and communication records from mobile phones. The new generation of distributed data management systems, such as HBase, Cassandra and Riak, are designed to perform queries and tuple insertions only. Other database operations such …
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Exploring the Use of Social Media and Its Effect on Policy in Community Colleges
The use of online social media websites has grown exponentially in past years. Recent studies show faculty use of social media is also growing. This study examined how faculty are using social media websites with students and if they are aware of issues that violations of the Federal Educational …
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Internal organizational barriers to the adoption of social media marketing in the retailing industry of electronics and home appliances : the case of Egypt
A thorough look towards the use of social media reveals a strong potential to its role as a marketing tool. This study examines the barriers to the adoption of SMM by retailers of electronics and home appliances in Egypt. Despite the long stream of research in this field, research investigating the …
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Generative Chatbot Framework for Cybergrooming Prevention
… the purpose of sexual exploitation or abuse via online social media platforms. Cybergrooming has been recognized as a serious social problem. However, there have been insufficient programs to provide proactive prevention to protect the youth users from cybergrooming. In this thesis, we present a …
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Analyzing Social Network Discussions of Infrastructure Projects- Towards a Bottom-Up Decision Making Environment
… infrastructure discussion networks (IDN) through social media outlets (such as Facebook and Twitter) are increasingly used as means to communicate features of infrastructure projects with communities, educate them regarding the project in different phases, and (ideally) collect their feedback. …
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Discourses of terrorism: The role of Internet technologies (social media and online propaganda) on Islamic radicalisation, extremism and recruitment post 9/11
… Significant parts of this threat are the online discourses of radicalisation perpetuated throughout social media. Literature reviewed included main discursive influences as well as a number of useful theoretical frameworks for later analysis. This thesis used a longitudinal online …
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Race, Rejection Sensitivity, and Identity Centrality Among Young Sexual Minority Women
… 18-25 years old (N = 676) were recruited through online social media platforms, community organizations, and email advertisements. Participants completed an online survey that included measures of three types of rejection sensitivity (interpersonal, race-based, and sexual orientation-based), …
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Mining periodicity and object relationship in spatial and temporal data
… positioning technologies, sensor networks, and online social media, spatiotemporal data is now widely collected from smartphones carried by people, sensor tags attached to animals, GPS tracking systems on cars and airplanes, RFID tags on merchandise, and location-based services offered by social …
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