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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"social agents"”.
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Understanding the behaviour and influence of automated social agents
Online social networks (OSNs) have seen a remarkable rise in the presence of automated social agents, or social bots. Social bots are the new computing viral, that are surreptitious and clever. What facilitates the creation of social agents is the massive human user-base and business-supportive …
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The Influence of Social Agents on Learning, Developing, and Growing Through Athletic Participation: A Theory of Athlete Development
… the lives of those who play them. Psychosocial outcomes such as values, skills, self-esteem, and goal setting are some of the referenced benefits associated with playing sports and are the result of athletes being exposed to situations in an environment that is favorable to learning. Due …
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Robots as Social Catalysts: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Designing Embodied Social Agents that Foster Long-term Human Collaboration and Connection
… to study the responsible design of embodied agents as social catalysts to purposefully enhance human-human interactions. It aims to shed light on the following three overarching research questions. Can we become more socially connected and collaborative with one another through the …
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The Effects of Strong Ties on Socialization
<p>Organizations that successfully socialize newcomers benefit from effective workforces comprised of employees who experience higher job performance, satisfaction, and commitment. Organizational insiders, known as social agents, play an integral role in facilitating the socialization of newcomers, …
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Shifting Technologies: Neoliberalization of the Welfare State in South Korea, 1997--2001
… South Korean emergency was managed by various social agents or ""crisis knowledge brokers."" These social agents include governmental managers, experts from academic and research institutions, social activists and social workers, journalists, and Public Works Program workers. The thesis …
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The Transition of Methods of Execution in North Carolina: A Descriptive Social History of Two Time Periods, 1935 and 1983
… to violent crime, or its use as a mode of formal social control. Although execution methods have changed frequently over time in the United States, there is a paucity of research examining this phenomenon through a sociological lens. The extant literature identifies changing societal ideologies …
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Literature circles : Latina/o students' daily experiences as part of the classroom curriculum
… curriculum. Although scholars, educators, and social movements have challenged such inequalities, they still persist. Students became objects of the educational process. New theories and educational practices, such as critical pedagogy, have helped empowered students to become aware of their …
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Capitalist Pigs: Large-Scale Swine Facilities and the Mutual Construction of Nature and Society
… that involved the active participation of many social agents (such as farmers, consumers, laws, neighbors, land grant universities, capital investments, government agencies, agricultural companies, and grassroots organizations) and physical agents (such as swine, bacteria, building materials, …
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The Morally Contaminating (and Motivating) Influence of Hate Groups in the U.S.
… find that people perceive hate groups as immoral social agents, and people express moral outrage against them. We also find that people who were morally contaminated by hate groups (i.e., by being led to believe that they share compatible ideological beliefs with hate groups) perceived more racism …
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A proposed model of perceived motivationally-relevant social agent influence during athlete development.
… limitations in research to date exploring social agent motivationally-relevant influences. The thesis employed a mixed-methods methodology, whereby the findings from all studies contributed to answering the thesis’ aims. Study 1 retrospectively explored perceptions of coach, parent and peer …
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Buried before the flood? A regional study of Romano-British tableware
… vessels as functional objects and active social agents. The thesis also seeks to demonstrate the important role which regional museum collections continue to play in archaeological research, and draws upon a survey of over 100 Romano-British pewter vessels from the modern ceremonial …
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Buried before the flood? A regional study of Romano-British tableware
… vessels as functional objects and active social agents. The thesis also seeks to demonstrate the important role which regional museum collections continue to play in archaeological research, and draws upon a survey of over 100 Romano-British pewter vessels from the modern ceremonial …
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Voices from the other side: communication technology, media, and migration
… at the same time some of them are also acting as social agents trying to transform their lives. The cases analyzed suggest that a historical and transnational approach offer a space to hear Latin American voices contesting mainstream discourses. The political and cultural ‘Other’ is created out of …
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Parenting a disabled child in South Korea : rewriting disability, parenthood and citizenship
… issue, and aims to purposes to enhance the social recognition of the rights of disabled children and their families. This thesis is also about the development of disability-parenthood. It explores the ways in which parents construct and reconstruct their notions of parenthood and disability …
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Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university
… all communication is oriented to ‘the other’; b) social semiotics (Kress and van Leeuwen) with its emphasis on participants’ ‘interest’ – what social agents do, and how they make do, with available resources for meaning that include image, gaze and gesture, as well as spoken and written language; …
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Divisor de águas no Rio do Peixe: ambientalização dos conflitos sociais e racismo ambiental vivenciados pelos comunitários do Quati - Ba
… of this dissertation is the intersection between social conflicts and racial relations in the Quati Community, in the municipality of Pedro Alexandre, Bahia. The aim is to understand the conflicts and environmental racism experienced by the members of the Quati community before, during, and after …
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A critical discourse analysis of strategies for change in New Jersey’s teacher evaluations: How principals make meaning of the Danielson Framework for Teaching
… study also explored how principals functioned as social agents in enacting the discourse of change. The findings suggest that the Danielson Group’s website represented the elements of technologisation, providing a strategy for change that supported and positively appraised neoliberal values such …
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Shiftings of the self : towards a deterritorialized view of identity and belonging : the case of East and Central African-Asians in Canada
… refused to provide citizenship. The ability of social agents to forge a sense of belonging despite resistance at the local level speaks to the value of spiritual and cultural spaces in which the construction of identity goes beyond specific localities in the effort to shape shared meanings and …
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El problema del sobreendeudamiento de la persona física en España
… jurídicos, que por su situación económica, social o cultural pueden guardar cierta relación con España y pueden servir de ayuda a la hora de proponer un cambio legislativo en el sistema español. Asimismo, en este trabajo se realizará un estudio relativo a las soluciones que los agentes …
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Power, inequality and social justice
… these methods to explore the role of power and social justice within the context of children and young people’s lives. It will evidence the development of my research skills over the last ten years, the production of new knowledge and the contribution of this research to a greater understanding …
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