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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Online forums"”.
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A Multidisciplinary Study Of Antecedents To Voluntary Knowledge Contribution Within Online Forums
One challenge faced by online forums is the provision of a sustainable supply of contributions of knowledge (Wasco et al., 2009). Previous studies have identified online trust and perceived critical mass as antecedents of online knowledge contributions. However, the dynamic aspects of antecedents …
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The impact of online forums in the basic english teaching-learning process during semester I 2012 at the Foreign Language Department of the University of El Salvador.
… applications such as blogs, web pages and online forums have played a significant role in education. Classes at the Foreign Language Department (FLD) have been traditional; however, in semester I-2012, it was created the “Basic English Forum” which proves that this kind of technology …
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A framework for finding and summarizing product defects, and ranking helpful threads from online customer forums through machine learning
… As important and popular Web-based applications, online discussion forums provide interactive platforms for users to exchange information and report problems. With the rapid growth of social networks and an ever increasing number of Internet users, online forums have accumulated a huge amount of …
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Iterating with crowd
… using the feedback received from a popular online forum Reddit. The goal was to understand the potential of online forums to serve the need for external feedback during the design process. The thesis also strives to understand the feedback and what motivated iterations. This could …
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Flexible Acculturation: On Taiwanese Relocations to China
… media, social movement organizations, and online forums for the public. The date of these documents ranged from the early 1980s to 2007.
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Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women
… lesser attention paid to its occurrence within online and digital contexts. Of particular interest is the networked misogyny and sexism of the online group that self-identifies as “involuntary celibates”, or “incels”. Drawing on data collected from online forums and chat rooms, the language and …
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Developing Deep Learning Models for Depression Detection in Texts
… symptoms indicators present in texts posted in online forums and the distribution of these indicators with respect to depressed and non-depressed social media users. Also, we computed weights, using the TFIDF method, based on the extracted depression symptoms’ indicators present in users' posts. …
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Predicting text features of social temporal point process
… the time sequence of multivariate discussions in online forums with features like text and user profile, and the coordinate sequence of human joint position in movement with features like relationship with other joints. Events in a temporal point process are usually marked by text features, thus …
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Does working together work? a study of collaboration between classroom teachers and school library media specialists
… media specialists' survey were posted using two online forums whose members are media specialists. The participating media specialists were invited to recruit teachers to participate in the teachers' survey.</p> <p>The overall results indicated that collaboration did occur between the school …
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Derogatory, Racist, and Discriminatory Speech (DRDS) in Video Gaming
… were administered to 150 individuals from online forums and social media groups. Descriptive and inferential analyses were used to gauge which factors affected DRDS rates. Sex, intergroup and fast-paced game types, time played with others, and identity portrayal showed positive correlations …
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Midlife Suicide: Examination Through an Ecological and Interpersonal Lens
… assistance and support from their peers via an online forum for those with an interest in and/or history of suicidality. Bronfenbrenner’s (1977) bioecological model, Joiner’s (2005) interpersonal theory of suicide, and van Manen’s (1990) phenomenological method provide lenses through which these …
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Diffusion of New Psychoactive Substances: understanding population motives, harms and intervention needs
… The first interview study was conducted with NPS online retailers based in the UK. The second interview study involved interviews with NPS professionals including law enforcement professionals, drug policy organisations and NPS early warning system representatives from the UK, wider Europe, …
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More than communities: organizing in online interaction spaces
"This dissertation examined four online forums for evidence of organizing in order to evaluate the accuracy of the term ""online community"" for describing all online interaction spaces. The Four Flows Model (McPhee & Zaug, 2000) was used as a guiding theoretical framework during a content analysis …
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Topic mining and categorization in online discussion forums
Online Forums provide a useful way to engage in discussions about a wide variety of topics, as well as gather custom information for which an exact source may not be available, using a combination of knowledge and human interpretation. Usually forums have categories which cater to a particular …
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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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Psychological variables involved in chronic pain outcomes : the role of pain catastrophizing and self-compassion
… support groups, social media websites and online forums (N = 210). This research suggested that, while some aspects of self-compassion were significantly correlated with pain intensity and pain-related disability, together they could not explain a unique amount of variance in either outcome …
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Crowdsourcing health discoveries : from anecdotes to aggregated self-experiments
… health information found on blogs, forums and social media; many say they use this information to influence everyday health decisions. Topics of discussion in online forums are often poorly-addressed by existing, clinical research, so a patient's reported experiences are the only …
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Internalizing symptoms, medication adherence, and perceived social support in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease
… Patients were recruited for this study from online forums consisting of Facebook support groups, Twitter followers, and email. This study investigated sociodemographic and disease-related predictors of disease severity for individuals with IBD, as well as whether or not perceived social …
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CARING FOR A FAMILY MEMBER WITH DEMENTIA: COLLECTIVISM AND INDIVIDUALISM AS PREDICTORS OF CAREGIVER BURDEN
… and a demographic survey to 102 individuals from online forums and social media groups. Though most cultural orientation subscales showed no significant correlations with caregiver burden, vertical individualism emerged as a predictor of caregiver burden after controlling for dementia severity. …
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Living with infertility: an exploratory study of men’s experience
… in a written format and the availability of online forums are also discussed as possible ways of supporting men with an infertility diagnosis.
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