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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"chat room"”.
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Dancing and ranting in the chat room: synthesizing orality and literacy
… conversation spaces such as Internet relay chat rooms and MOOs are contributing to the development of a new expressive form of language in literate societies. These virtual conversation spaces are textual, yet the text that is produced there is perceived by the interlocutors, the room …
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Synchronous and Asynchronous Conferencing: A Comparison of Two Modes of Online ESL Peer Response and Their Effects on Student Talk and Subsequent Text Revision
… of mediating effects between synchronous (chat room) and asynchronous (web-based bulletin board) communication with the aim of discovering potentials of each technology in facilitating student revision processes. Fourteen students in a college-level ESL academic writing class participated …
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Little Brother is Watching and Recording You: Social Control in a Deviant Group
… designed to allow interaction through a webcam/chat room interface. These screen recordings are then converted into various video formats and used by the community of cappers in numerous ways. The content of these recorded videos is sexual in nature and often times involves females between the …
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A comparison of socially-motivated discussion forum models for learning management systems
… models are non-social discussion forums: the chat room unstructured model and the traditional general threaded discussion. The other two types are social discussion forums, where users can choose who they converse with: the Twitter-style short comment feed and the Facebook-style. The chat room …
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Ground rules in online psychotherapy
… interaction, namely, e-mail therapy and chat room therapy. Chapter 2 reviews the literature dealing with the psychotherapeutic relationship, with regard to the definition of ground rules. In this chapter I identify seven categories of ground rules that are common to all approaches to …
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Marriage and Family Therapist Interns' Experiences of Growth
… discussed, using Internet discussion board and chat room formats, different kinds of personal experiences that influenced their clinical growth (as well as the reverse) and how these growth processes came about. Family systems theory provided the theoretical framework and Constructivism theory …
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Health Educators as a Think Tank: Recommendations to Improve Health Care Reform Proposals and Potential Roles for the Profession
… used to elicit their perceptions. Twelve online, chat room focus groups and two online, chat room interviews were held with CHES and MCHES certified health educators over a three-week period. Three overarching themes emerged from the data: prevention, health literacy, and a focus on larger levels …
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Revealing individual and collective pasts : visualizations of online social archives
… in four different environments: a graphical chat room, a wiki site, Usenet newsgroups, and email. History and the persistent nature of online communication are the common threads connecting these projects. Evaluation of these tools shows that history visualizations can be utilized in a …
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Identities In Motion: Cyberspace And Diasporic Queer Male Bodies In The Context Of Globalization
… interviews, webblog analysis, web page analysis, chat room analysis, Instant Message analysis, and webcam and audio webcam-based chat room analysis, I interacted with diasporic queer bodies in cyberspace-based communities and online environments between May and July 2009. Through this cyber …
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Hostile attribution bias in children and adolescents
… sample of boys and girls. Using a computerised ‘Chat-room’ experimental paradigm, contagion effects were demonstrated across two conditions (hostile and benign) with those exposed to hostile group norms showing greater contagion effects. Four possible moderators on the effects of peer contagion …
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Theory Meets Practice in Teacher Education: A Case Study of a Computer-Mediated Community of Learners
… and communicated electronically through chat rooms and threaded discussion lists. Data sources included transcripts of all chat room and threaded communication, surveys, field notes, observations, and student tasks and reflections, as well as interviews with the pre-service teachers, …
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Child Abuse and Revictimization: Improving Models of Revictimization Risk
… of RV theory. Moreover results from the chat room task suggest that women’s response to risk is more nuanced than simply a deficit in risk detection, which could inform the development of more efficacious interventions.</p>
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The use of a user-centric smart mobile application prototype for supporting safety and security in a city: a design science method
… on enhancing community engagement, through a chat room and user-logged incident reports, as well as a customised safe route planning functionality where users can send emergency signals to comembers with the use of GPS live location tracking. The research shows participants are willing to …
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Agreement and Group Attraction in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Group Discussions
… members, this study utilized the benefit of a chat room in computer-mediated communication (CMC), which allows group members to participate in group discussion anonymously without the fear of being judged. It is argued that groups communicating synchronously via CMC would have a higher …
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Administrative Analysis of Internal Quality Review Processes for On-Line Distance Education
… with each other and the instructor via e-mail/chat room/discussion board, communicating the roles and responsibilities of the students and the faculty at the beginning of each course, and establishing learning outcomes. The least frequently used practices indicated by the vice presidents were …
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The Art of Perl: How a Scripting Language (inter)Activated the World Wide Web
… 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 ubiquitous digital …