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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"internet studies"”.
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Street media : ambient messages in an urban space
… television, radio, major newspapers, and the Internet. Studies of media in everyday life typically address these mass media, passing over ambient street media for any detailed examination. By examining both the explicit and implicit facets of street communications, this study elevates their …
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Through the Social Web: Citizen-led Participation in Ontario Policy-making
… and inclusion. In this dissertation I draw upon studies of the policy-making process and media design, to examine the implications of citizen-led production of infrastructures for public participation in policy-making through the social web and within the context of open government discourse. My …
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Interpersonal functioning and depression: Reassurance seeking, negative self-verification, and the integration of sociotropic and autonomous personality styles.
… Finally, this thesis supports the use of internet studies for couples research. Evidence was provided to suggest that the Internet is a viable medium for conducting psychological research.
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Formation of the Cloud: History, Metaphor, and Materiality
In this dissertation, I look at the history of cloud computing to demonstrate the entanglement of history, metaphor, and materiality. In telling this story, I argue that metaphors play a powerful role in how we imagine, construct, and maintain our technological futures. The cloud, as a metaphor in …
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The impact of social network applications on societies of the MENA region (Egypt as a case study)
… of promoting socially responsible citizenship in Internet age with the global massive spread of IT consumption, there is a paucity of research for scrutinizing the impact of ICT tools such as Social Networking Sites on citizens of the Middle East and North Africa region and/or investigating their …
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Faceless things: South Korean gay men, internet, and sexual citizenship
… of the two very different pathways that the Internet was offering Korean gay men, primarily in their 30s and 40s, in terms of exercising their sexual freedom and being gay at a moment of neoliberal reforms in South Korea when an increased emphasis on individual productivity and efficiency, …
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"""Partially connected, partially protected"": New media and Japanese-Brazilian return migrants in Japan"
This dissertation explores the use of the internet, mobile phones and other types of new and old media by Japanese-Brazilian return migrants in Japan, who are Brazilian nationals of Japanese ancestry that migrate transnationally from Brazil to Japan to work. The study first discusses the history of …
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Internet, escola i comunitat en el trànsit cap a la societat xarxa. La incorporació d’internet al sistema educatiu de Catalunya per al desenvolupament comunitari
… incorporación de las TIC, y particularmente de internet, en la organización de la actividad cotidiana y el funcionamiento de las aulas y escuelas, teniendo en cuenta las relaciones entre los estudiantes y los profesores, las formas de colaboración del profesorado, la participación de los …
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Learning to write in (networked) public: children and the delivery of writing online
This investigation explored how three children (together with parents) developed networked publics that were diverse, well-connected, and powerful in the world. It was framed in response to calls in the field to better understand the new literacies young writers develop online and outside of …