Browsing by Subject "social media"
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(2022-07-22)#BlackLivesMatter protests exemplify the militarization of policing and the antagonistic relationship between police departments and the communities they are meant to serve. This study bridges systemic racism literature, ...
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(2022-04-19)The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how Black women university-level faculty develop and use informal digital social networks to facilitate social capital. Black cyberfeminism and social capital theory were two ...
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(2013-08-01)Crowdsourcing systems - like Ushahidi (for crisis mapping), Foldit (for protein folding) and Duolingo (for foreign language learning and translation) - have shown the effectiveness of intelligently organizing large numbers ...
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(2019-07-31)The use of social media to share information, enhance learning, and connect with an online community has grown rapidly over the past 10 years. As social media becomes a more common tool in both formal and informal education, ...
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Throughout human history, society has regarded certain physical characteristics and traits as “beautiful.” Individuals have gone to extreme measures to live up to these standards, and cosmetic surgery is today’s solution ...
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(2018-04-19)Cultural heritage describes our way of life. It comes from previous generational traditions and incorporates our current constructed and natural environments, and tangible artifacts. The purpose of this study was to explore ...
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(2020-04-15)This research presents three essays on the effects of different institutions, technologies, and policies on informational outcomes, political support, and consumer welfare using experimental and structural research designs. ...
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(2022-04-11)The broadening of scope in Operations Management (OM) has facilitated new opportunities to study resource utilization and planning in service organizations for higher operational efficiency. In this dissertation, I investigate ...
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(2021-09-20)Social media business practices are evaluated using duty ethics, utilitarian ethics, and virtue ethics to reveal ethical issues related to the motivation behind its creation, its consequences for users in terms of both ...
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(2021-11-23)Social media (SM) is greatly impacting ways of life by reshaping how people obtain information, collaborate, and interact with each other. With the increasing popularity and prevalence of this communication technology, ...
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Social media has grown to become a fundamental part of our lives over the past two decades and with its growth, the misuse of the platform for extremist purposes has become common. The wide reach of social media has allowed ...
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(2012-10-19)Despite the recent growth of social media, rhetorical theory which addresses authorship in this realm has been slow to develop. Static terms such as "reader," "writer," and "author" are often used to refer to the roles ...
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(2019-04-02)Among geolocation related information, in particular, the geo-sensitive word is one of the most critical components. A geo-sensitive word can be a word or phrase for a landmark in the city or county name, abbreviation ...
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(The Henry James Review, 2015)This essay draws parallels between the intellectual labor of the Jamesian narrator and that of social media user, both of whom use similar techniques to arrange and interpret data streams (consciousness, expression, dialogue, ...
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(2016-05-05)In recent years, identifying experts has gained significant attention in the research area. The main motivation behind it is to facilitate the process of locating the correct individual capable of answering our queries. ...
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(2013-04-29)We propose a novel network-based approach for location estimation in social media that integrates evidence of the social tie strength between users for improved location estimation. Concretely, we propose a location estimator ...
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(Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021-03-30)The ubiquity of digital and social media has led to considerable academic debate regarding their role in the lives of children and adolescents. The Global North, especially United States and Europe, has largely led this ...
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(2015-10-01)In recent years, there has been an increasing use of social media in disseminating emergency messages to the public by various governmental and non-governmental emergency management organizations and agencies. These messages, ...
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(2019-04-11)Limited research exists on practicing secondary teachers use of professional learning networks (PLN) and their role in teachers professional learning continuum. The purpose of this research was to identify California ...
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(2017-12-11)Despite political advances, LGBT+ experiences on social media are affected by a history of marginalization. LGBT+ people adjust the presentation of their gender and sexual identities in response to social pressures, but ...