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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"Online communities"”.
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Online Communities and Health
People are increasingly turning to online communities for entertainment, information, and social support, among other uses and gratifications. Online communities include traditional online social networks (OSNs) such as Facebook but also specialized online health communities (OHCs) where people go …
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Collaborative reputation mechanisms for online communities
The members of electronic communities are often unrelated to each other, they may have never met and have no information on each other's reputation. This kind of information is vital in Electronic Commerce interactions, where the potential counterpart's reputation can be a significant factor in the …
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Architecture and implementation of online communities
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Understanding Teacher Participation in Online Communities: Why Do Teachers Want to Participate in Online Communities of Teachers?
… reasons for teacher participation in three online communities of K-12 teachers with an aim of investigating methods to improve teacher professional development. To achieve the goal of this study, multiple data were gathered from four sources: (a) interviews with 31 members from the three …
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Algorithmically supported moderation in children's online communities
The moderation of harassment and cyberbullying on online platforms has become a heavily publicized issue in the past few years. Popular websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube employ human moderators to moderate user-generated con- tent. In this thesis, we propose an automated approach to …
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Three Essays on Dynamics of Online Communities
Essay #1: Reconstructing Online Behavior through Effort Minimization Data from online interactions increasingly informs our understanding of fundamental patterns of human behavior as well as commercial and social enterprises. However, this data is often limited to traces of users' interactions with …
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Gender and race, online communities, and composition classrooms
… and minorities fighting against discrimination online to explore the power structures inherent to networks and how these might affect classroom practice. I will show how our ordinary assumptions in rhetoric and composition as well as computers and writing about the necessity of safe spaces in …
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A context-based rating system for online communities
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Consuming online communities : computer operating systems, identity and resistance
… of modern-day branding, with individuals forming communities in which members signify their allegiance with these products. This thesis presents these individuals as User-Fans – those who develop an affinity with the mundane products of modern culture. Adapted from the fan models forwarded by …
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Collection, evaluation, and diffusion of information in online communities
In this thesis, I study a number of online information communities to understand how open practices are currently used in supporting community functions. By examining how communities operate, I hope to provide individuals and corporations interested in creating such communities with a good starting …
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Online learning webs : designing support structures for online communities
This thesis explores how we can design online learning communities to better support connections to the people and resources beginners need when learning to program. I describe and analyze the design and implementation of the Scripts Workshop, a learning environment that supports members of the …
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Citizen Inquiry: Engaging Citizens in Online Communities of Scientific Inquiries
… science learning experiences within distributed communities of interest. A central challenge for Citizen Inquiry is to involve citizens in planning and implementing their own investigations, supported and guided by online systems and tools within an inquiry environment, while collaborating with …
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A Critical Analysis of Rural Teachers' Usage of Online Communities
… analyze data related to rural teachers' use of online communities. Rural teachers are often isolated in their practice and sometimes have difficulty connecting with other teachers with their same assignments or needs due to their professional setting. As Internet availability increases and …
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Visible relations in online communities : modeling and using social networks
… with each other across time and space, and online communities have existed long before the Internet's solidification in everyday living. There are two inherent challenges that online communities continue to contend with: motivating participation and organizing information. An online …
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Older Adolescent Perspectives on the Use of Research within Online Communities
… and incorporates a QualtricsXM survey and online focus groups (FGs). The findings reveal that participants have reservations toward passive, hidden observational researchers. Despite their concerns, participants support researchers using their findings to support individuals within pro-NSSI …
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Change in Educational Policy and Practice Through Online Communities of Practice
… paper explores how education could benefit from online solutions. The history of public education in the U.S. is fractured at best, based on a system reliant on state and local control. As new legislation came into place to meet the needs of civil rights laws, and equal rights protection, the …
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Visual intelligence for online communities : commonsense image retrieval by query expansion
… integrated with the Treehouse Global Studio online community - an online environment with a suite of media design tools and database storage of media files and metadata.
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The Efficacy of Knowledge Sharing: Centralized Vs. Self-Organizing Online Communities
This study investigates the impact of an online community's control structure on the knowledge sharing process in that community. Using a framework comprised of legitimate peripheral participation theory and the weak-ties phenomenon, the study focuses on a comparative analysis of self-organizing …
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