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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"online forum"”.
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Content analysis of cognitive distortions in pedophiles' online forum posts
… exploratory study examined pedophiles' website forum posts to determine if any posters demonstrated cognitive distortions. Four independent raters used content analysis to determine which cognitive distortions were demonstrated by the examined pedophiles. Results suggested that cognitive …
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An exploration of burnout and compassion fatigue in ABA providers in an online forum
… of burnout and compassion fatigue (CF) in an online community” and 2) “How do ABA providers receive feedback and support from these expressions”. Data sources were posts on the social media site Reddit, analyzed using directed content analysis. The findings suggest that providers expressed …
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Discussing writing : peer feedback on writing essays in an online forum for learners of English
… knowledge creation in an asynchronous discussion forum in which learners of English provided peer feedback on short argument essays for the IELTS test, a gatekeeper English exam used for immigration or university entrance. Over eleven months, a small but active group of intermediate and advanced …
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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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Relationship Between Help-seeking Behaviour of CS Undergraduate Students and Academic Performance
… self-regulated learning. This behavior includes online searching, coming to office hours for help from instructional staff, and asking instructors and peers publicly on online forums. Some of these sources of help can be tracked more easily than others. We present efforts to collect and analyze …
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Identifying strategies to inform interventions for the secondary prevention of stroke in UK primary care
… care setting and then from the perspective of an online stroke forum; explored the appropriateness of the online forum as a method of data collection for conducting qualitative research compared with a traditional qualitative interview approach; investigated medication taking among community …
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Things seemed to fall apart when he was in the room: Survivors' representations of violence, agency, power, and resistance in their online posts
… partner violence (IPV) negotiated, in their online narratives, multiple IPV and gendered discourses to represent the context of men’s violence and to construct their subjectivities. I analyzed 26 online forum posts using Coates, Todd, and Wade’s (2003) interactional and discursive view of …
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Coming In and Coming Out: Navigating the Spaces between Cultural and Sexual Identity
… through interviews, journals, a timeline, online forum, and picture. Narrative analysis of their stories consisted of three methods: thematic, structural, and dialogic. These findings provide directions for future research, clinical practitioners, educators, and student affairs personnel …
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Games People Play: Identity and Relationships in an Online Role-Playing Game
The following is a study of online relationships and identity formation in Everquest, a multiplayer online role-playing game. Using a phenomenological and reflexive approach, the study seeks to explicate the attractions of this type of online forum, which draws hundreds of thousands of players who …
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Midlife Suicide: Examination Through an Ecological and Interpersonal Lens
… assistance and support from their peers via an online forum for those with an interest in and/or history of suicidality. Bronfenbrenner’s (1977) bioecological model, Joiner’s (2005) interpersonal theory of suicide, and van Manen’s (1990) phenomenological method provide lenses through which these …
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Iterating with crowd
… using the feedback received from a popular online forum Reddit. The goal was to understand the potential of online forums to serve the need for external feedback during the design process. The thesis also strives to understand the feedback and what motivated iterations. This could …
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Effective Search in Online Knowledge Communities: A Genetic Algorithm Approach
Online Knowledge Communities, also known as online forum, are popular web-based tools that allow members to seek and share knowledge. Documents to answer varieties of questions are associated with the process of knowledge exchange. The social network of members in an Online Knowledge Community is …
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Texas State Agency Websites: A Descriptive Assessment of Attributes that Support Online Citizen Engagement
… of State of Texas agency websites that support online citizen engagement. A review of the literature informs the development of a conceptual framework comprising three descriptive categories: design, transparency, and communication. Descriptive categories identified in the literature informed …
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SMARTGIRLS.TV: DISCOURSES OF ACHIEVING GIRLHOOD IN SCHOOLS, ON SCREEN AND ONLINE
… narratives, participant accounts in school and online forum responses can be examined as instances of a wider discourse of achieving girlhood. The design thus recognizes contemporary conditions of media convergence and also enables a consideration of the importance of context in producing …
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An Evaluation of the Attitudes Teachers Have Towards Adopting Evidence-Based Practices for Students with Autism in Preschool Classrooms
… Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) in an online forum. In addition to the EBPAS, fidelity measures associated with three different models were used to measure the manner in which participants used the three approaches in the preschool classrooms. The participants were part of a larger, …
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The Looping Effects of Grief Classifications: Public Discourses Behind the Screen
… and its implications within discourses of an online forum. In my analysis, I uncovered nine varied discourses regarding how the public discuss the medicalization of grief. These discourses reflect the current academic debates surrounding PGD, in which many were either opposed to or supported …
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Specialized Online Publics and Rhetorical Ecologies: A Study of Civic Engagement in Natural Resource Management
… the public writing and civic engagement of an online community of a sportsmen forum, as the writing and engagement relate to natural resources management. Drawing from theories of public discourse and public rhetoric, this dissertation argues the sportsmen forum represents a specialized online …
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Sending out Your Soul: An Entheogenic Forum Community Explored through Language
… of this thesis is to examine the discourse of an online forum community centered on an entheogenic medicine called ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is an indigenous brew made out of two hallucinogenic plants used by shaman of the upper Amazon regions of South America to send their souls to the supernatural …
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De-influencing: The Role of Social Media Influencers in the Problem and Solution to Shopping Addiction
… over 67,000 user submissions posted on a popular online forum for individuals who struggle with shopping addiction is examined. The query focuses on comments where SMIs are mentioned in order to understand the complex role SMIs play in their experience with shopping addiction. The findings reveal …
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