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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"online spaces"”.
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Influenced: Performing Gender and Femininity in Mormon and Evangelical Online Spaces
… of a digital self is fully performative; online identities are simultaneously highly curated, edited, and uniquely personal. These spaces allow users to become producers of identity and religious narrative. In this dissertation I examine the online communities which are a dynamic and …
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Anthropomorphic visualization : depicting participants in online spaces using the human form
… to presenting information about participants in online spaces using the human form as the basis for the visualization. Various data about an individual's online behavior are mapped to different parts of a humanoid yet abstract form. I hypothesized that using a humanoid form to visualize data …
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Becoming Anti-Oppressive Educators in Open, Online Spaces: Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions of Digital Identity and Social Justice
… of higher education experiment with blended and online learning models, how will these new learning spaces support or hinder the work of anti-oppressive education? The study traces a series of critical conversations with seven students enrolled in a four-year teacher education program at a …
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Between pages, between spaces: queer(ing) community in online book clubs
When exploring online learning or online communities, literature describing the experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, expansive) individuals are often different than cis-heterosexual individuals and that the differential could be based …
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Standing at the End of a Road: Death and the Construction of Cyborg Relationships
"Although my work on these online sites of illness, death, and mourning has often been emotionally difficult, I believe these types of web spaces are particularly valuable because they encourage us to consider the real-world context of online interactions. Studies of online communities have …
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Towards a better inclusivity : online comments and community at news organizations
… models that are emerging in participatory news spaces. This thesis situates the most visible form of online news participation - the comments section - within a broader and evolving debate over how news organizations create relationships with audiences. It draws upon existing literature and …
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Amplified? : uncovering how internet usage impacts religious people's views of women.
… proliferated in some religious traditions and online spaces. However, it remains unclear how the socializing institutions of religion and the internet interact and impact the construction of restrictive gender roles and norms in U.S. society. Using Glick and Fiske’s (1996) framework of …
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Las curanderas de la herida abierta: how online communities of women of color are challenging coloniality
… community healing. In this thesis, I show that online communities of women of color constitute a decolonial feminist virtual space that serves as a site of knowledge production. I argue that these online communities can be conceptualized as a decolonial project existing and expanding from online …
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The Vast Unsaid: Lesbian Erasure and Celebration
… and identity of lesbians. There are some online spaces that claim to promote lesbian interests but instead serve the broader LGBTQ+ community at the expense of lesbian visibility. The intention of The Vast Unsaid is to create a space specifically for self-identified lesbians (without …
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One size does not fit all: exploring online-language-learning challenges and benefits for advanced English Language Learners
… explores how to implement multimodality within online spaces, utilizing social media platforms as instructional spaces for English Language Learners. The research presented shows that employing these platforms may supplement in-class work to give students opportunities and space to utilize …
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Facebook's ‘white genocide' problem: a sociotechnical exploration of problematic information, shareability, and social correction in a South African context
… have found support and corroboration in various online spaces, but especially within ‘alternative news' Facebook pages. This case study is used as an opportunity to apply a sociotechnical model of media effects to a very real disinformation problem that continues to inflame race relations in …
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The technology of hope : twitter and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign
… of the girls. The movement quickly infiltrated online spaces, and splashed throughout social media where celebrities like First Lady Michelle Obama and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres held up signs with the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. Using semantic network analysis in following the …
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Examining Chinese International Secondary School Students in Transnational Spaces: Becoming Flexible Citizens?
… in and connecting across the home and host spaces of China and Canada. As the overarching frame, the study employs Ong’s (1999) notion of ‘flexible citizenship,’ examining the cultural logics mediating students’ lives and how they flexibly and not-so-flexibly engage in their learning and …
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High-interactivity radio : using the Internet to enhance community among radio listeners
… listeners to three radio programs, who gather 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 …
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Socio-Technical Journeys: Utilizing Digital Narratives for Management and Community Support
… major life transitions, within supportive online spaces, position these journeys as inevitably socio-technical. Emotional well-being is vital for individuals navigating these emotional rollercoasters, as it helps them maintain resilience and informs their decision-making. This dissertation …
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Cashing in on Student Data: Standardized Testing and Predatory College Marketing in the United States
… data collection, distribution, and analysis in online spaces, this discourse has not fully extended into education. I extend the discourse surrounding consumer data privacy to educational spaces in order to investigate how standardized testing organizations such as the College Board violate …
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Positioning of Homeless Adolescents Towards Literacy and Life: An ethnographic narrative inquiry
… include indicators linked to new literacies and online spaces that helped participants position themselves as active, engaged citizens.
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Toxicity Within the Women's Sport Social Media Discourse
… sought to uncover how toxicity manifested in online networks as well as the influence of this activity on the fan experience and their behaviours. Two theoretical frameworks were adopted to understand toxicity from multiple lenses, including network theory and (digital) imagined communities as …
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Outside gaymers: queerness, and race in online gaming culture in South Africa
… South African queer youth make use of virtual spaces to explore their identities and gender expressions. I ask what experimentation and expression look like in online worlds with their assumed endless potentiality. I examine how gender is expressed and experimented within virtual gaming spaces …
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Not just a joke : rape culture in Internet memes about #MeToo
… on discourse, affect, humour, rape culture and online misogyny in order to provide a contribution to the field of feminist digital media studies.;I employ a case study approach to my data set of 866 Internet memes collected from three social media platforms, 9gag, Reddit and Imgur, between …
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