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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"message boards"”.
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Exploring the virtual communities of college football fans : the uses and gratifications of online message boards
… examined how college football fans use online message boards, what their motivations are for using online message boards, and whether online message boards are complementing or displacing traditional media for them. A survey posted to four different subscription-based online message boards …
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Japanese and U. S. mothers' concerns and experts' advice : content analyses of mothers' questions on online message boards and experts' advice in parenting magazines
A total of 241 messages posted in 2007 by mothers of 0- to 2-year-olds on two U.S. and two Japanese parenting magazine websites were content analyzed. All messages pertained to one or more of six domains of childrearing: feeding/eating, toilet-training, sleep, development, discipline, and …
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Investment decisions: Influence of an Internet stock message board.
… One source of information is Internet stock message boards such as those at Yahoo! Finance. This source allows for anonymous postings and information exchange. Despite the possibility of the information being incorrect many individuals visit these message boards. The purpose of this study is …
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Trolling Aesthetics: The Lulz as Creative Practice
… pranks, to the peculiar discourse of anonymous message boards, to a shadowy and subversive ideology. By the end of the decade, the canon of images and icons associated with the LULZ entered into artistic practice and along with it a certain dark understanding of the “digital condition” of online …
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Examining Relationships between Online Financial Message Board Interactions and Trading Activity of Securities Listed on the AIM Submarket of the London Stock Exchange
Contribution to online communities, such as stock message boards, may be considered as “paradoxical” (Rafaeli and LaRose, 1993), in that a “free-riding tendency” (Olson 1985) by rational participants would result in a lack of original content. However, online financial message boards continue to …
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Breaking the multi colored box: a study of CAPTCHA
… the world. With such an infrastructure of public message boards, chat rooms and instant messaging systems, there is also a large potential for abuse by people wishing to capitalize on such open services by posting unsolicited advertisements. An entire industry has been constructed around the …
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Cross-cultural collaboration via message board for cultural understanding and language learning
… in Taiwan and college students in the US via a message board. Through five weeks of online discussions, students in both groups changed their perspectives of the target culture. Some students also gained better insights and understanding of their own culture. Even though the EFL students didn't …
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Knock-offs, fakes, replicas, and reals : a cultural supply chain of counterfeit fashion
… common sites of exchange, street markets, online message boards, and purse parties, and how the culture of exchange at each site produces a value specific to that site. The final chapter, Ownerships, explores how owners and observers make meaning from branded luxury goods, real and fake, and how, …
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Experiences of Stigma During Sexual Healthcare Visits: A Qualitative Study of Non-Monogamous Women
… were contacted through online support groups, message boards, and snowball sampling. In-depth interviews about their sexual health care experiences were conducted. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed for themes related to the intersection of non-monogamy and health care …
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Ludological Storytelling and Unique Narrative Experiences in Silent Hill Downpour
… narrative elements online through internet message boards and social media, allowing a more focused analysis of how individual player experiences affect an audience’s perception of narrative structure and what this might tell us about reader-response theory, participatory fandom, and …
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High-interactivity radio : using the Internet to enhance community among radio listeners
… online to discuss radio programming in blogs, message boards and discussion forums provided by those programs. The three programs of focus are Air America Radio's The Majority Report, ABC Radio Networks' Sean Hannity Show, and National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation. The shows are analyzed …
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Under one big sky : elementary pre-service teachers use inquiry to learn about the moon, construct knowledge, and teach elementary students around the world via the Internet.
… inquiry learning, and use of the Internet message boards as a teaching tool as a part of their science teaching methods course. The MOON Project (More Observations On Nature), an exploration of inquiry teaching via e-learning, matched the pre-service elementary teacher participants with …
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The Impact Of Vicarious Racial Discrimination On African Americans Via Social Media
… email, social media platforms, listservs, message boards and text messaging. Participants completed the Perceived Online Racism Scale (PORS), the Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale (TSDS), the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI), and the Cultural Mistrust Inventory …
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Daydreams
… websites such as Facebook, twitter and countless message boards give us an opportunity to reinvent ourselves into something else more idealistic on a massive scale. Being a product of the internet and technological phenomena, I have an interest in the influence social media has affected mine and …
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Geocasting-based Traffic Management Message Delivery Using C-V2X
… is emerging as one of the major standards for message transmission in automotive scenarios. The project aims to study the feasibility of C-V2X-based message transmission by building a prototype system, named RampCast, for transmitting traffic information from roadside message boards to …
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Anti-Video Girl: Empowering Parents and Adolescent Females to Defy the Misogynistic Images of African American Women in Hip-Hop
… interviews, links, strategies, spotlights, message boards and forums to engage teens, parents, and advocates in productive dialogues. In addition, the Anti-Video Girl website seeks to promote girl-serving organizations that are already established in communities, but lack exposure. The …
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Context and complexity : counselling psychology, deliberate self-harm and substance misuse
… 18 and 26 years old recruited from self-harm message boards online and a newspaper advertisement. Transcripts of the interviews were subjected to an interpretative phenomenological analysis which revealed four superordinate themes reflecting a journey from negative self-evaluation to …
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Making local connections : the development of social capital through place-based virtual groups
… using various CMC tools, such as email lists, message boards, and social network sites, to form these virtual groups in order to connect with their neighbors and learn about their neighborhoods. While our society's relationship with the idea of neighborhood has become more complicated as our …
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Myspace Or Ourspace: A Media System Dependency View Of Myspace
… that are predominantly social, such as email, message boards, and online chat. This study found that through a "technology cluster" MySpace members use these other social innovations more frequently than non-members. However, members also used significantly more non-social innovations, which …