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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"online community"”.
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Online community : knowledge management
Introduction. Motivation: The Information Age has replaced the Industrial Age. Today, companies measure their wealth by a new type of asset -- knowledge. It is more valuable to have the best information and the best knowledge in the industry rather than physical or even natural resources. More and …
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Online Community Response to YouTube Abuse
… and relationships between member role in the community and their frames/the reception of those frames. I also draw on feminist, non-feminist, and postfeminist literature to understand how YouTubers incorporate feminism into their claims about why YouTube abuse is wrong. Here feminism refers to …
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Computational approaches for democratizing online community governance
… From Usenet newsgroups to Reddit subreddits, online communities are managed by volunteer moderators who have sole authority to create and enforce community rules. While rules are vital to community health (preventing trolling, keeping communities on-topic, etc), community members have little …
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Logging off: attrition in online community college courses
… investigate factors for student attrition from online community college courses. The demand for online and distance education opportunities is growing on a national level. The increase in online courses is a direct result of the type of individuals who select to learn virtually. Previous …
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Examining 'Enunciative Space' in an online community of practice
… constructivism. I examined the ways in which an online course can permit teachers to engage with current research in relation to both their personal contexts and each other in ways that lead many to transformational changes to their practice (Palloff & Pratt, 1999; Skolnick, 2000). I examined the …
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Classification of computer programs in the Scratch online community
… and realize their ideas. Although the Scratch online community is filled with a variety of diverse projects, many of these projects also share similarities. For example, they tend to fall into certain categories, including games, animations, stories, and more. Throughout this thesis, I describe …
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How do practitioners engage in an online community of practice?
… how practitioners engage in anonymous Online Communities of Practice. Design/methodology/approach: Interactions taking place in a month on the marketing subreddit is analysed using Social Network Analysis. The degree centrality of each participant, along with the knowledge contribution …
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Fandom and beyond: online community, culture and Kevin Smith fandom
… Kevin Smith, investigating the ways in which community members negotiate and categorise their fandom and relationships with both each other and a communicative, media-literate producer. Since 1995, the View Askew Message Board has provided a dialogical, communicative platform for fans of Kevin …
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Participants' Motivations to Contribute Geographic Information in an Online Community
… have implications for the development of other online communities, local and regional planning, and governance and citizen participation. People's desire to contribute local knowledge should not be understood in limited terms of the geometric primitives of point, line, and polygon; rather, it …
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Participants' motivations to contribute geographic information in an online community
… in which users contribute geographic information online and collaboratively create maps. By examining the case of www.openstreetmap.org, I clarify why people contribute geographic information to an online community and offer a framework for researching different aspects of the phenomenon. I also …
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Designing for remixing : supporting an Online community of amateur creators
… a framework for the design and study of an online community of amateur creators. I focus on remixing as the lens to understand the contexts and processes of creative expression as it is fostered within social media environments. I am motivated by three broad questions: 1) Process: how do …
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Design and implementation of search for the Scratch Online Community
The Scratch Online Community has been experiencing rapid growth and has around 9.5 million users and 12.5 million shared projects today. This exponential growth introduces a need for a new Search infrastructure that will enable users to find and discover more relevant projects, while allowing the …
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Building an online community of creators through MIT App Inventor
An online community whose primary activity involves sharing personal creations is called an Online Community of Creators (OCOC). These communities provide a space where one user's work can serve as inspiration for others and where users can offer feedback to each other, thus fostering creativity …
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Participation in the Digital Public: New Media Art as Online Community
… in The Digital Public: New Media Art as Online Community examines community online art projects— works of art produced and orchestrated by artists who employ the interconnected and participatory nature of the Internet. Garland contends, in part through a reevaluation of a statement made …
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Authoring of Help by End-users in an Online Community Network
One of the key features of an online community network is that there is no central management authority; the community members themselves manage it. At the same time, for any application to be complete it must have a useful help system. So, for a community network to be completely run by the …
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Investigating an Online Community of Self-Directed Language Learners at The Mixxer
… as a typical informal online community of self-directed language learners with a focus on how learners interact with each other. Learners’ perception was also studied regarding how their language learning was impacted by their participation in the community. An …
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Designing social technologies: the impact of the social proxy in an online community.
… of a social proxy on user participation in an online community. The online community exists within a web-based communication environment developed by the author. Whittaker (1998) shows that online communities are typically driven by a small number of highly active users. He suggests that the …
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Practice As Pedagogy: Learning Through Participation In The Caribexams Online Community Of Practice
<p>The purpose of this study was to develop community redesign strategies to support community members' participation in the CaribExams online Community of Practice and to investigate the impact of these strategies on members' participation levels and trajectories.</p> <p>CaribExams online …
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Supporting Novice Early Childhood Teachers' Classroom Practices Through An Online Community Of Practice
… they found most helpful. Participation in an online community of practice was examined for its value as an induction and mentoring activity for novice early childhood teachers. The results indicated that all participants had taught or were currently teaching young children with challenging …
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