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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"online discourse"”.
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Dynamic measuring tools for online discourse
… workload. Due to the fact that active online discussion is a key factor in the success of an ALN, this research demonstrates that dynamic measuring tools for online participation can help ensure a positive outcome within an online learning environment.
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Online discourse in a primary school setting
… learning environment. Although the use of online learning is now common place within many higher education establishments, the uptake of such technology within schools is arguably poor, more so in the primary sector. Much research has been done in relation to the effects of online …
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Las Hijas de Violencia: Performance, the Street, and Online Discourse
… global media interest which led to viral online sharing. Widespread sharing of their performance led to the creation of public discursive space, through comments sections, which was utilized to measure attitudes toward street harassment and feminist direct action protest. Contextualized in …
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Everything is awful : snark as ritualized social practice in online discourse
… occupies social media conversations, online comment sections, and Internet writing far and wide: for lack of a better word, snark. Though akin to the similarly maligned practices of irony and sarcasm, snark is more unwieldy and less refined. To accuse others of snark is to question …
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A proposed typology for paedophilia: a grounded theory analysis of online discourse
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a human rights issue of interest to both science and society. Many CSA offenders are paedophiles. It follows that a thorough understanding of paedophilia is apposite. Unfortunately, there is disagreement in the literature about paedophilia. This may be because the group …
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New media is a joke : tracing irony, satire, and remediation in online discourse
… irony and satire, plays in informing public discourse and civic participation in the contemporary Internet age. This age is often characterized a highly mediated one with the proliferation of increasingly powerful, and increasingly mobile, media an ongoing concern of communication scholars. …
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Distilling arguments: A study of human and LLM persuasion in the online discourse
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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A vállalati társadalmi felelősségvállalás online vállalati diskurzusa. Avagy mit és hogyan kommunikálnak a hazai közép- és nagyvállalatok honlapjaikon a társadalmi szerepükről és felelősségükről = The online discourse of corporate social responsibility - what and how Hungarian medium-sized and large companies communicate about their corporate social role and responsibility
A vállalati társadalmi felelősségvállalás, avagy angol nevének rövidítéséből a CSR (corporate social responsibility) nem ismeretlen jelenség a magyar gazdasági szereplők körében, témája érzékelhetően jelen van a hazai gazdasági életben. Éppen ezért érdekes és fontos kérdés, hogy mennyire általános …
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Understanding Online Trolling Exposure's Impact on Purchase Intention: The Case of the Xbox Tax
Online discourse about video game platforms has become more polarized, with accusations of bias and favoritism – often called the “Xbox Tax” – influencing consumer perceptions before purchasing. Although similar patterns of incivility have been widely studied in politics, there is limited research …
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The Impact of Offspring Hashtags on Semantic Polarization in Online Social Movements: Evidence from the Indian Farmer's Protest
… hashtags on the semantic polarization of online discourse between the protest and counter-protest communities over time through the lens of the 2021 farmers' protest in India. Offspring hashtags are those that first appear alongside their more widely known "parent" hashtag (e.g., …
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Good for Her: Catharsis and Empowerment in Contemporary Literature
A recent trend in readership within online discourse communities is the emergence of the genre called “Good for Her,” which contains themes of transgression beyond traditional expectations of socially acceptable feminine behavior by situating revenge arcs to celebrate actions that otherwise would …
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Cognitive Processing Language in Communities of Inquiry: An Examination of Cognitive Presence, Instruction Modality, and Academic Performance of Online Learners
… feature of the knowledge construction process in online settings. In this study, we analyzed 1852 thematic units of college students’ online discussion posts using both manual coding of cognitive presence and automated linguistic analysis of cognitive processing language. Following these …
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Discourse Analysis of Ethnonyms for Black Italians on YouTube
… ethnic group, are assigned to Black Italians in online discourse on YouTube. In this research, comments were analyzed from two YouTube videos that comprise of Black Italians who discuss their identity and the ethnonyms they prefer. ZERO is the first Netflix Italian series that centers the Black …
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Automated Vocabulary Building for Characterizing and Forecasting Elections using Social Media Analytics
… Twitter drastically differs from other forms of online discourse, such as news articles and blogs. It constantly evolves over time as users adopt popular hashtags to express their opinions. Thus, the vocabulary used by forecasting algorithms needs to be dynamic in nature and should capture …
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‘It’s all a cover up!’: An Examination of Epistemic Vices and Conspiracy Theories in the Internet Age
… and fake news can be found in both off and online discourse. With COVID-19 still mutating, the same can be said for disinformation. At the beginning there were conspiracies that COVID- 19 was engineered to prevent global population growth, and now on vaccine hesitancy, with some conspiracies …
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Systems for collective human curation of online discussion
… this vision has not been fully realized--instead online discourse seems to be getting worse, as people are increasingly drowning in discussion, with much of it unwanted or unpleasant. In this thesis, I present new systems that empower discussion participants to work collectively to bring order to …
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In Search of Home: How Kenyans Domiciled in the USA Negotiate Transnational Identities Online.
… to mainstream media, they are visible in online diasporic media. However, there has been very little research done on this group. In addition, scholars and policy makers are concerned that that diasporic media may erode people's sense of nationalism and their level of integration into the …
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Forms and Fragments: Enactment of Cultural Identification in an Online Community of Chinese Living Overseas
… living overseas who participate in a virtual online community known as Wenxuecity.com. The study draws on intercultural communication theories of identity proposed by Carbaugh, Collier, and Hecht, as well as on my own integrative framework for the analysis of cultural identity, to explore the …
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Language, power, and representation: developing a framework for digital best practices in autism discourse
… inclusivity, accessibility, and credibility of online discourse. In this study, the websites of 14 Canadian autism advocacy organizations were critically analyzed to evaluate their alignment with these principles. Informed by Habermas’s Communicative Action Theory, a qualitative approach …
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