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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"blog posts"”.
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Exploring the impact of comments on the blog posts search
An important aspect which distinguishes blogs from other web pages is the ability of blog readers to respond to blog posts directly by posting comments. In this study, we focus on the comments information in the blogs. In particular, we explore the use of comments in two blog posts search tasks. …
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Can connecting and collaborating with industry professionals and community partners through a project-based initiative create a meaningful learning and leadership experience for college students?
… as practitioner-researcher. Students’ public blog posts and students’ public tweets were also be used throughout this study. Through reviewing the data the author discovered that the four themes of the Map 4 Awesomeness— Passion, Purpose, Promise, and Pursuit— are prevalent. UTC students …
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The impact of blogging on the facilitation of critical literacy in adolescent students
… purpose of this study was to explore how using blogging with adolescent students could foster critical literacy. During the study, students researched an alternative perspective from World War II and completed six blog posts on a variety of topics over the course of four weeks. At the completion …
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TreeHugging users: Engagement in an online green community
The study of blogs up to this point has primarily, though not exclusively, covered "A-list" and political or campaign blogs. Large filter blogs have not yet been the focus of communication research and offer an exciting new area of scholarship in online communication. This study examined if and how …
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Fashion Bloggers as Human Brands: Exploring Brand Personality within the Blogosphere
… fashion industry increasingly implements fashion bloggers into its marketing and branding strategies, the degree to which bloggers influence consumer engagement is questioned. Thus, this study drew on Aaker’s five brand personality framework (human-like attributes of a brand) to analyze fashion …
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Uncovering the Unrealistic Domestic Goddess: A Modified Grounded Theory Approach to Gender Stereotypes in Parenting Blogs
… approach was used to analyze 200 parenting blog posts for instances of conforming to or deviating from gender stereotypes. A plethora of research recognizes the negative effects of perpetuating stereotypes on such aspects of life and culture as self-concepts, concepts of others, …
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Up from the Ground: Blogging the Farm and Farming the Blog
Up from the Ground: Blogging the Farm and Farming the Blog was written in the form of blog posts from May 2009 until March 2010. The blog chronicled successes and failures in the transition from city life to organic agriculture, as well as explored the nature of the blog form. The thesis reads in …
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Describing Trail Cultures through Studying Trail Stakeholders and Analyzing their Tweets
… trail behaviors to those of corresponding blog posts in order to see how tweets reflected cultures in comparison with blog posts. To harness metadata beyond the text of the tweets, we experimented with visualization techniques. We combined those efforts with ethnographic studies of hikers …
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Y'all eat: Foodways, performative regional identity, and the South in the twenty-first century
… visits to the respective places of origin, blog posts, and oral histories.</p>
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Inclusion in fandom : how Harry Potter fans rhetorically create representation.
… of fanfiction, fan art, and meta narrative blog posts to provide greater depth to the Harry Potter fan community and rhetorically invent greater representation and inclusion. The diversity that fans rhetorically construct of established characters becomes commonly understood within fan …
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Data portraits : aesthetics and algorithms
… text and publishing timestamps of Twitter micro-blog posts, as well as aggregate RSS feeds from FriendFeed. The strategies for depicting people's online personas explored in this thesis focus on the compression, mapping and visual representation components of the visualization pipeline. The …
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Designing for remixing : supporting an Online community of amateur creators
… this dissertation remixes several articles and blog posts written by myself or in collaboration with others. Wherever possible, the sources of the material are noted.
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Reconstructing social futures: digital voices in first-year writing
… I completed an analysis of 17 students' assigned blog posts and surveys, and selected six students to construct richly descriptive portraits (RDPs). The RDPs are chronological narratives that invite students to act as discussion partners by integrating their voices, and shed light on their …
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The rhetoric of the patent wars: how technology becomes "Common Sense"
… texts come in the form of press releases, blog posts, and tweets; 2) public rhetoric involving a patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola Mobility involving the former's accusation that the latter is not honoring its patent licensing commitments--these texts are drawn from press …
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Blogging in response to literature: reading, writing, and thinking through the digital medium
… students participate in an online classroom blog in response to literature assigned for their English class. The study was conducted in an eighth grade classroom and involved 37 students. The qualitative research paradigm was followed and data collected included student surveys, blog writing …
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Effective Knowledge Graph Aggregation for Malware-Related Cybersecurity Text
… Having to manually read through articles and blog posts on the internet is time consuming and usually involves sifting through much repeated information. Knowledge graphs, a structured representation of relationship information, are an effective way to visually condense information presented …
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Setting The Nutritional Agenda: An Analysis of Nutrition Blog Sourcing
… research study analyzed the sources of nutrition blog information as measured by frequency and type of sources used by nutrition bloggers. Since the use of online resources for finding health information has become more prevalent, it is important to further research the topic for the purpose of …
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The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
… the agenda-setting role of prominent political bloggers in relation to the mainstream news media and the candidates. An online survey of newspaper and wire service reporters who covered the campaign (N = 80) found that reporters who wrote about the campaign on a regular basis and who contributed …
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Creating Church Online: An Ethnographic Study of Five Internet-Based Christian Communities
… media reports, participant accounts and online blog posts. My research suggested seven important themes present in each group: mass appeal, the formation of community, spiritual experience, the replication of familiar elements of architecture, liturgy and organisation, the prevalence of local …
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The personal is political: articulating women's citizenship through three African feminist blogs
… the extent to which three African feminist blogs realise the democratising potential of the blogosphere as well as the ways in which they articulate the concerns and perspectives of women whose vantage points are often silenced by mainstream discourses of citizenship. As a specifically …
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