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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Social spaces"”.
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Quantifying and visualizing deliberative dialogue quality in online social spaces
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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"It's just part of what we do": Adolescent interactions with multimodal texts across social spaces
… are interacting with text across shifting social spaces, and how they learn to be literate across a range of social, academic, print, and digital contexts. The intent of the study is to help articulate the boundedness and fluidity of multiple discourses, and to better clarify how teens …
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Moving Social Spaces: Public Transportation, Material Differences, and the Power of Mobile Communities in Chicago
… and unintentional physical arrangements and social conventions limit and enable particular kinds of stratification processes and interactions. This prior research primarily focuses on static places such as plazas, restaurants, sidewalks and train stations and does not give adequate attention …
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Ma(i)cro visions : utilizing social network service data for a transformational process of urban social spaces
… with the city. The thesis explores reading social space with social network service data and develops a manual for a new way of reading the city that integrates this new layer of information with traditional methods. The research collects Instagram location data which is stored when people …
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Understanding Outdoor Social Spaces: Use of Collaborative-Sketching to Capture Users' Imagination as a Rich Source of Needs and Desires
… environmental designers design neighborhood spaces has a role to play in the quality of outdoor spaces that shapes and directs daily outdoor social activities as well as creates a bridge between individuals and the local community. The high quality design of outdoor spaces is fundamental in …
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How do sexual violence survivors who must share common social spaces and mutual social relationships with their perpetrators represent their navigation of a secondary victimisation?
… secondary victimisation when they have to share social spaces with their perpetrator(s). Existing literature on secondary victimisation primarily focuses on court processes and psychological impacts, highlighting the ways survivors of sexual violence face re- traumatisation in institutional …
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From My Living Room to Yours: A Grounded Theory Typology of Racial Discussions on YouTube
… media such as YouTube have become prevalent in social life, it is pertinent to understand the shape of online social spaces. This study proposes a typology of how users talk about race in the most popular social spaces on YouTube. The ways which people discuss race online are described using …
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The Concept of Community and the Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication of the Internet
… In particular, with the creation of new social spaces by computer technologies such as the Internet, the potential exists for community to occur in many new ways. This paper looks at the types of community that can exist in the various social spaces created by the Internet. These spaces …
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Skycourts and skygardens: towards a vertical urban theory
The public realm has given birth to alternative social spaces that have been created as a means of replenishing the loss of open space within the modern city. The creation of more hybrid building forms and typologies that balance open space within high density development is a phenomenon …
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Ethnography of 'Herero Mall' (Windhoek) as a post-apartheid social space
… space as a mixture of complex interrelations and social interactions provides a prism through which a society in transition is illuminated. This transition is captured in social spaces. Yet, there is a dearth of studies focusing on locating the meaning of social spaces in post-apartheid urban …
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Living in virtual communities : an ethnography of life online
… together on the Internet to inhabit new kinds of social spaces or virtual communities. People 'live in' and 'construct' these new spaces in such a way as to suggest that the Internet is not a placeless cyberspace that is distinct and separate from the real world. Building on the work of other …
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Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940
… Dorothy Parker---who dramatize movement across social spaces, this dissertation characterizes mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century female movement into the public sphere as unconfident, arguing that we can position their retreats as progressive through reading resistance to capitalism as …
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Spaces for engagement in the city of Mumbai : rethinking parks and public spaces in congested cities
… are impossible. Mumbai has few planned public spaces in the form of parks, waterfronts, maidans and plazas but many more unplanned public spaces that exist all over the city. Almost three times as many people use the unplanned public spaces as compared to those using planned public spaces. Yet …
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Locality, Identity, and Geography: Translocal Practices of Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China
… of people, this dissertation brings out the social spaces created between local places, and sheds light on the dynamic processes by which the understanding of locality, the formation of place-related identities, the modes of geographical imagination, as well as the state's administration of …
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Educating 'Gangsters': Social space, informal learning and becoming 'Gang' involved
… particular, this thesis outlines the role that social space plays in such educative processes. This focus enables both a new contribution to knowledge in the field of ‘gang’ studies and understandings of the way social space is used, understood and perceived by those involved in ‘gangs’. Much …
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The Art of Perl: How a Scripting Language (inter)Activated the World Wide Web
… authored everything from database scripts to social spaces like chatrooms and bulletin boards. Perl, while largely ignored today, played a fundamental role in facilitating those social spaces and interactions of Web 1.0, or what I refer to as a Perl-net. Thus, Perl informed today’s more …
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Developing Inclusive Community Gathering Places Through Socially Driven Design Strategies
… this thesis identifies ways in which urban park spaces can promote social interaction between different cultural groups and how these methods can then be used to develop a community gathering place that is welcoming to all. This thesis has developed a unique Social Space Organizational Model …
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Teaching strategies in motivating global English learners
… more complex, and identities, emotions and social spaces have been dramatically affected and re-negotiated by globalisation. This thesis, based on my seven articles published, addresses the need to consider global English learners, along with their specific and often unique circumstances, …
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Baylor in black and white : a study of desegregation at a Texas University as it played out through the student newspaper.
As social spaces began to desegregate, media organizations across the nation covered the process. This reporting left behind what we now use as the first draft of history. At Baylor University, the messy process of desegregating the campus was covered by the student newspaper, the Baylor Lariat. …
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