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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Social technologies"”.
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Geolearners: Informal Learning with Mobile and Social Technologies
This thesis investigates how mobile and social technologies are influencing informal learning in the context of online community membership. The development of mobile technologies that use Global Positioning System (GPS) data to pinpoint geographical location together with the rapidly evolving Web …
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Social Technologies and Informal Knowledge Sharing within and across Organizations
… conceptual contributions relative to the roles social technologies play in informal knowledge sharing practices, both within and across organizations. Social technologies include (a) traditional social technologies (e.g., email, phone and instant messengers), (b) emerging social networking …
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Practising identity : emerging adults, digital social technologies and contexts for self
The emergence of digital social technologies throughout the lives of digital native emerging adults has had significant implications for the identity practices of these individuals, and consequently creates a diverse and emergent space for researching digitally networked practices. The …
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Designing social technologies: the impact of the social proxy in an online community.
… a study that seeks to determine the impact of a social proxy on user participation in an online community. The online community exists within a web-based communication environment developed by the author. Whittaker (1998) shows that online communities are typically driven by a small number of …
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K E E P E R : online conversation support scaffolding modeled after ancient and modern social technologies
… and groups ancient and new have developed technologies (in the sociological sense meaning techniques, processes, and material objects to produce goods, provide services, and connect people) to help groups reach those moments more easily, technologies I define as ancient social technologies …
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Disruptive by design : the promise of the tech-enabled design competition
… This thesis explores the potential of web-based social technologies to improve the urban design competition model so that it better serves all parties. It establishes a current model for urban design competitions before examining some precedents for related processes that have been disrupted by …
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A Importância do uso de cisternas no Assentamento Oziel Pereira – Remigio PB.
… the importance of the interrelationship between social technologies Hydro coexistence in semiarid region, where tanks, control access to water and farming family in the settlement Oziel municipality of Remigio Pereira PB. The semi-arid region characterized by spatio-temporal variability of …
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Towards designing more effective systems by understanding user experiences
This thesis is about social technologies, user experiences and the problems of creative design. It is motivated by a desire to give people who are offline the access to social technologies that is currently provided via the web. There exist technologically oriented approaches to solving this …
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Redefining organizational boundaries : building an aware and agile organization by enabling new social interactions
… uncertainty. Rapid and discontinuous changes in technologies, regulation, competition, and demand are increasingly becoming the rule. Information is rapidly rendered inaccurate or obsolete by new information, and strategic opportunities arise and disappear quickly. The complexity of the external …
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Toward a Smart Civic Engagement: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in E-Government Applications
… public services. Some municipalities are using social technologies to facilitate effective civic engagement and to gather public opinion, but these technologies typically focus on activity rather than assessment. A social technology (the most famous example being Facebook) is an Internet-based …
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Data visualization and optimization techniques for urban planning
… techniques originate from contributions to the Social Computing Group's "You Are Here" project, which publishes maps intended to be viewed as a blend between art and urban planning tools. In particular these maps and this thesis focus on the topics of education and transportation. Eventually we …
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Elusive matter, material bodies: American art in the age of electronic mediation, 1865-1918
… addresses the broader cultural implications of social technologies during the period, still relevant in our current digital age—the porousness of domestic and national boundaries; questions of access and privacy; and the development of global markets and power structures within these seemingly …
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Designing technologies for exposure to diverse opinions
… over information exposure enabled by digital technologies. Such concern has motivated HCI researchers to study a class of diversity-enhancing technologies—information and social technologies that host diverse viewpoints and take increasing users' exposure to information that challenges their …
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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
… the binary genderisation of anthropomorphised social technologies – including intelligent assistants and companion and humanoid robotics – the iterative constitution of sex, gender, sexuality, body and human is explored revealing various apparatuses that material-discursively (de)stabilise …
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A framework for understanding the adoption and impact of socially focused business practices
… influenced the creation of new collaborative technologies that encourage knowledge sharing. Also known as social software, these technologies have been adopted by organizations aiming to better connect with external stakeholders and communicate business practices organization-wide. …
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Semantic technologies:from niche to the mainstream of Web 3? A comprehensive framework for web Information modelling and semantic annotation
Context: Web information technologies developed and applied in the last decade have considerably changed the way web applications operate and have revolutionised information management and knowledge discovery. Social technologies, user-generated classification schemes and formal semantics have a …
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The business and dynamics of free-to-play social-casual game apps
The rapid growth of social media platforms, specifically Facebook, has caused startup firms to develop new business models based on social technologies. By leveraging the Facebook platform, new entertainment companies making free-to-play social-casual games have created a multi-billion dollar …
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Blogging the hyperlocal : the disruption and renegotiation of hegemony in Malta
… and media institutions, advanced take-up of social technologies and a popular culture adjusting to the promise of modernity represented by EU membership. Popular discourse is dominated by political partisanship and advocacy journalism, with Malta being the only European country that permits …
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The Nigerian history machine and the production of Middle Belt historiography
… defined as the interconnected system of social technologies through which the Nigerian state defines the discursive limits of the nation by appropriating, packaging and relaying discrete ethnic histories as Nigerian history in specific national cultural institutions such as archives and …
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Gestão da água no semiárido paraibano: desafio para a gestão pública num contexto de crescente escassez
… education and the development and application of social technologies that enables the coexistence with drought; institutional strengthening to effect better surveillance and monitoring of water resources; as well as improving municipal management, municipal master plans that suit the master plans …
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