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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"focus group research"”.
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The Ottawa Senators Twitter Activity and the Effect on Their Followers
… format, which is comprised of two papers. The research took a case study approach analyzing the Twitter activity of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League, and their followers’. The first paper, using content analysis, analyzed the Senators’ tweets and resulting follower activity …
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Examining the Instrumentality of Attitudes: The Interactive Effect of Social Context, Medium and Product Type on Product Thoughts and Evaluations
… has suggested that social situations such as group discussion foster social-expressive concerns, thereby increasing the saliency of a product's social attributes. The present research suggests, however, that the impact of group discussion on product thoughts and evaluations may involve a more …
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The communication of emotion across languages and cultures: an exploration of display rules in foreign language learning
… cultures in dynamic communicative acts. It uses focus group methodology to examine how South Korean English teachers and North American English teachers living in Korea interpreted video excerpts from a South Korean comedy released in 2003. Research questions include: How well did out-group …
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Políticas de benefícios sociais em empresas do setor metal-mecânico do Rio Grande do Sul
… e, com os trabalhadores, através da técnica de focus-group-research. A análise dos dados foi realizada através da técnica de análise de conteúdo. Os resultados mostram que o propósito das empresas consiste em atração e manutenção de trabalhadores produtivos através de investimentos em uma melhor …
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Public relations and peace negotiation in the Niger Delta
… explores the Niger Delta conflict through a focus on public relations (PR). It provides new insights into the nature of PR practices of government and oil companies in the region and their consequences for efforts to secure effective conflict resolution. The research draws its explanatory …
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'Cohesion' in the context of welfare and citizenship: discourse, policy and common sense
… the methods of Critical Discourse Analysis and focus groups are used. Critical Discourse Analysis is used to analyse cohesion and welfare documents from between 2001 and 2010, whilst focus group research investigates the plausibility of the disjuncture between language and aims, as well as the …
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Tourist understanding of and engagement with the climate change impacts of holidays.
… change has been the subject of considerable research and debate, with the UNWTO estimating the tourism industry generates 5% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Research shows air travel dominates the overall greenhouse gas emissions from the international tourism industry. The rapid growth …
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Access to educational and health care services for school-age children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
… access to these services. This dissertation research used a legal method to investigate access to educational services surrounding this change. In addition, parents were interviewed in focus groups in order to learn about their perspectives on access to both educational and health care …