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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Virtual community"”.
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Virtual Community Orientation Project
… connected to other members of the university community. There has been a significant body of research done on the use of social networks to encourage social integration in a university setting. This project proposes the creation of a synchronous virtual community / social network to not only …
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Understanding multiracial college student virtual community
… college students as they build and maintain community. A phenomenological approach enabled answering the research question: How do Multiracial students use social media to build and maintain community? Informed by critical multiracial theory and virtual kinship frameworks, the study included …
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Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition
… United States, and the fat acceptance grassroots community and fat activist resistance, as they exist on the social media site Tumblr. Blending feminist ethnographic fieldwork with post-structuralist and intersectional theoretical analysis, I interrogate fat positive identity formation, Tumblr as …
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A virtual community of practice approach to teacher professional development and learning
… presented within a situated learning and community of practice framework is likely to be more effective than the more traditional forms of in-service professional development and learning. Further, recent technological developments since the mid 1990s have created increasingly …
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Writing ethnicity on the Internet : communicative practices of the Ukrainian virtual community
… fostered the emergence of an ethnically-based virtual community within which participants were able to negotiate and inscribe their ethnic identities both individually and collectively.
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Cancel culture: posthuman hauntologies in digital rhetoric and the latent values of virtual community networks
… how modern epideictic practices enact latent community values by analyzing modern call-out culture, a form of public shaming that aims to hold individuals responsible for perceived politically incorrect behavior via social media, and cancel culture, a boycott of such behavior and a variant of …
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The real-world implications of an imaginary world: A netnography of a Harry Potter based virtual community (Hogwarts Running Club)
… interaction is communities formed online or virtual communities (Ridings, Gefen, & Arinze, 2002). Virtual communities have been in existence for over thirty years (Ridings, Gefen, and Arinze, 2002) and existing studies of these communities have yielded powerful insights into learning, …
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The professional life of the school science technician: the daily reality lived in schools and the virtual community of their professional websites
… of school science technicians belonging to three virtual professional websites. Such artefacts, in the form of questions asked by technicians and the comments received from technicians were collected over a period of two years with the full knowledge and consent of technicians. Content analysis …
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Diskurz sociální sítě se zaměřením na virtuální komunitu Facebook
Social Network Discourse - Facebook, the Virtual Community - Abstract Rigorous thesis "Social Network Discourse - Facebook, the Virtual Community" endeavours to study the social network discourse on its contextual level. When using various perspectives, the concrete analysis of such disourse …
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Exploring the interactional theory: a theoretical exploration of the dark web’s impact on delinquent behaviour
… of technology and the development of the virtual world. Despite the possibility for this connection, research has exclusively concentrated on the disruption of product flow. This study looks to explore the development and significance of delinquent behaviour within the dark web. Using …
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Intelligent Support for Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities
Virtual communities where people with common interests and goals communicate, share resources, and construct knowledge, are currently one of the fastest growing web environments. A common misconception is to believe that a virtual community will be effective when people and technology are present. …
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The Awareness of Computer-Mediated Communication's Social Presence for Virtual High School Students
… perception of social presence that students in a virtual high school have of using computer-mediated communication (CMC): email, discussion board, tutoring sessions, and asynchronous classroom activities. The research analyzed data for social presence based on gender, years of experience in a …
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Constructing Guidelines for Building Communities of Practice for Supporting Faculty Professional Development in Electronic Environments
… by faculty who teach online courses. Through a community of practice faculty may offer support to each and share online instructional best practices. Using a developmental study, research-based practices were operationalized using the ADDIE model to form guidelines for building and maintaining a …
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Rural Community Perspectives and Actions Taken to Build Consensus on the Opioid Crisis in Southern Virginia: A Community-Based Participatory Multiphase Mixed Methods Study
… on OUD and substance use disorder (SUD) in their community in order to implement efforts. A community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach addresses the need for a systematic participatory solutions, and reduces community opposition and promotes sustainable, culturally appropriate …
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An Analysis of Women’s Perception of Biblical Community Within the Environment of Facebook: A Mixed Method Study
… of this study was to explore the biblical community behaviors of women when engaging with Facebook as well as perceived best practices for connecting women in the church. An explanatory sequential mixed methods design was used, involving the collection of both quantitative and qualitative …
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The relevant and reliable language theory : developing a language measure of trust for online groups
… and language in online dyadic, online group, and virtual community interactions. The first two empirical studies revealed that positive emotion is reliably linked to trust, that is to say that dyads and groups that produce more positive emotion words show greater trust. In addition, by priming …
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Authentic bodies : subcultural reactions to the mainstreaming of body modification
… modification through a qualitative analysis of a virtual community designed for those with an interest in these practices. By researching how and why the body techniques of the subculture's members have changed following the mainstreaming of body modification, I hope to further the understanding …
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Latent networks: Ties, structures, and effects within an anonymous community
… network latency. Carrying out the research in a virtual community known as 4chan, a survey approach was first undertaken (N = 768) and then followed up with semi-structured interviews (N = 29). The sense of community index, version 2 (SCI-2), measured social capital exchange while cultural and …
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