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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"platform studies"”.
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The Study of Negative Space
… The work draws on diverse fields, including platform studies, theories of mediation, media archaeology, legal and corporate governance scholarship, and religious studies. These have informed a series of publications including journal articles, book chapters, and the monograph Governable …
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‘HOW CAN ONE BE THIS WICKED TO HIS OWN BROTHER?’ : AN APPRAISAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TIKTOK AND FACEBOOK PARTICIPANTS' COMMENTS ON A REAL-LIFE VIDEO NARRATIVE
… It investigates the uniqueness of both platforms' participatory culture by comparing the similarities and differences in the patterns of commenters’ evaluative attitudes across both social media platforms. The study adopts a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADA) approach to study …
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I Am Error
I Am Error is a platform study of the Nintendo Family Computer (or Famicom), a videogame console first released in Japan in July 1983 and later exported to the rest of the world as the Nintendo Entertainment System (or NES). The book investigates the underlying computational architecture of the …
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System Override: A Critical Virtual Ethnography of Women of Color's Digital Praxis in Horizon Worlds
… architectures of social virtual reality platforms, with a primary focus on Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Employing a critical virtual ethnography grounded in Black feminist and decolonized methodologies, the study draws on immersive observation and thirty in-depth interviews with women of color …
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Inference from binary gene expression data
… the quality of inferences drawn from microarray studies. With binary representation, we propose a solution to reduce the effect of algorithmic choice in the pre-processing stages.<br/>First we compare the information loss if researchers made the inferences from quantized transcriptome data rather …
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EXTENSIVE GREEN ROOF SUBSTRATE COMPOSITION: EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES ON MATRIC POTENTIAL, HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY, PLANT GROWTH, AND STORMWATER RETENTION IN THE MID-ATLANTIC.
… water column cavitation near -30kPa. Further studies with the same experimental substrates and OM ratios included both growth chamber studies to rigorously quantify the effects on plant growth and evapotranspiration and outdoor platform experiments to determine effects of OM content on …
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Extremely Online: Cultural Borrowing, Mixing, and Transformation in Internet Music
… It also explores how the dynamics of the online platforms through which these scenes manifest (including, but not limited to their tendency toward anonymity, low barrier to entry for producers, and blurred lines between producers/consumers) shape these scenes, including how the algorithm-driven …
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Discourse, platforms, and racialization: Danish Muslims navigating hegemonic Danishness on social media
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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The Rise of Platform Game Work in China
… organization, and social implications of platform-based video game work in China. Platform game work examined here goes far beyond the paid work of game developers and the unpaid labor of gamers, encapsulating a burgeoning intermediate space where workers earn a living through gameplay and …
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PRACTICAL DIGITAL LITERACY: YOUTHS¿ PRACTICAL MASTERY OF PLATFORM EXPERIENCES
… experienced by young people on social media platforms. Despite a wealth of research on digital literacy, existing frameworks tend to adopt either top-down, skill-based approaches tied to economic and civic imperatives or bottom-up perspectives grounded in lived cultural practices. This …
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Vibration as a method for muscular stimulation
… to the patient body by the use of oscillating platforms. Vibrations are then transferred from the platform to a specific muscle group through the subject body. To customize WBV treatments, surface electromyography (SEMG) signals are often used to reveal the best stimulation frequency for each …