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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Weblogs"”.
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Personal stories go worldwide: the ritual of storytelling through Weblogs.
… storytelling tradition. Online diaries or weblogs are a growing phenomenon that scholars have ignored until recently. This qualitative project uses narrative and rhetorical analysis to focus on storytelling themes in weblogs, rituals in storytelling and the similarities and differences from …
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Los weblogs en la enseñanza/aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera (FLE)
Los blogs son sitios web donde se publican de forma cronológica artículos de diversa temática. Su facilidad de uso ha hecho que se conviertan en una revolución. Dan voz a todos los que quieren hacerse oír en Internet, sin necesidad de tener conocimientos especiales de informática. Su potencial como …
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Dramatism, Feminine Style and Women's Weblogs: Women Speaking in the E-Public
… on political participation and strategy. Weblogs (blogs) played a pivotal role in the Internet's unprecedented sway. This research combined Burke's (1969) dramatism with Campbell's (1989) feminine style to describe and critique three women's political blogs. The pentad highlighted an …
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The structural determinants of media contagion
… to another via some set of intermediary ties. Weblogs have recently emerged as a part of our media ecology and incidentally engender this process of media contagion; because weblog authors are tied by social networks of readership, contagious media events happen frequently, and in a form that …
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Voices in Cyberspace: Testing the Effectiveness of Blogs as a Tool for Improving Voice in Student Writing
… determine whether or not the implementation of weblogs in first year composition classrooms will help students to begin to see themselves as writers.</p>
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An integrated system for weblog study
Weblogs, personal online journals, are a new medium for expression and communication. Studies to determine their effectiveness of information transmission are interesting, but difficult to perform without access to underlying data. We propose an independent weblog server that records all relevant …
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A imprensa na era Weblog
Os weblogs, páginas pessoais de acesso gratuito para postagem de texto na internet, surgiram em 1999 e chamaram a atenção do público a partir de 2000, ganhando força depois da divulgação, em alguns blogs, dos episódios do 11 de Setembro, nos Estados Unidos. Desde então, só tem crescido a adesão a …
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Online political communication: the impact of the internet on MPs 1994-2005
… the impact of websites, email, e-newsletters and weblogs through content analysis, questionnaires and interviews. The data collated has helped develop a theoretical understanding of how MPs campaign, represent and communicate. First, there is evidence that e-newsletters can be used as effective …
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Blogging in the Writing Classroom: A move Toward Dialogue, Design, and Citizenship
… studies, and others in the classroom. Blogs, or weblogs, provide just that type of space by relying on the user's insightful writing and creativity to retain a dynamic position in the Internet blogging community. Blogs have the ability to better the writing classroom by providing an educational …
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Blogs : open-source diaries
Weblogs, or blogs, are Web sites maintained by one person or a few select people, are usually about one distinct subject, are constantly updated, and attract repeat visitors. This form has become a popular means of self-expression because it empowers both the writer and the audience. Blogs empower …
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Modeling the role of blogging in librarianship
… of librarians who author professionally-focused Weblogs. I constructed a model of librarianship based on Wilson and Buckland. The results show a close fit between librarian bloggers and the ideals of the field as expressed by two primary library and information science philosophers. A Web survey …
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Webbed Footnotes : collaborative annotation on the Web
… it as well, in the form of discussion boards, weblogs, wikis, and other collaborative and conversational media. Despite this, the web remains largely read-only; web designers create sites that are designed to be consumed by the public, much like other, traditional mass media. In this thesis, I …
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The synthetic student : a machine learning model to simulate MOOC data
… used by most state-of-the art ML methods for weblogs, and showed that our model performs better than these methods. After training our model on a 6.002x course on edX, we generated synthetic data and found that a classifier that predicts student dropout is 93% as effective (by AUC) when …
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Social Media Intelligence extractor
… instant messaging programs, discussion forums, weblogs and wikis. Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia are examples of popular social media websites. The information generated is greatly useful to individuals, organizations, institutions and governments globally. But this information tends to be …
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A knowledge services roadmay for online learning
… are effectively tackled by weblog services since weblogs are often open source and need no training for authoring. In addition, favorite blogs act as information filters or "bird dogs" and point at useful information. Feedback incorporated in weblog services makes people react and learn …
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Social Media Intelligence extractor
… instant messaging programs, discussion forums, weblogs and wikis. Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia are examples of popular social media websites. The information generated is greatly useful to individuals, organizations, institutions and governments globally. But this information tends to be …
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Social Media Intelligence extractor
… instant messaging programs, discussion forums, weblogs and wikis. Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia are examples of popular social media websites. The information generated is greatly useful to individuals, organizations, institutions and governments globally. But this information tends to be …
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