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(2009-06-01)As a way to gain greater insights into the operation of online communities, this dissertation applies automated text mining techniques to text-based communication to identify, describe and evaluate underlying social ...
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(2015-11-17)This case study examines the information practices of Canada’s elected federal representatives who work together within House of Commons standing committees to deliberate environmental issues. We now have new methods to ...
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Disengagement From Intrinsically Transient Social Worlds: The Case of a Distance Learning Community (2002)The first two dimensions affect participants' activities throughout membership in a transient social world. The next ten dimensions represent activities that participants undertake as they disengage from an intrinsically ...
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(2005)The UK 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak constituted the biggest crisis ever to affect the UK farming system; it was one of the worst epidemics of its kind in the world. Farmers and rural communities were disrupted ...
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(2009)Female coterie writing groups have had certain characteristics in common across centuries that can be seen today in fan fiction writing groups online. This dissertation focuses on one group of such writers who are active ...
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(2007)The Internet, in its incarnation as the World Wide Web, is a network of social and cultural sites. Black Americans ("Blacks") lag behind other ethnic groups in their adoption of the Internet. Previous research speculated ...
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(2003)Results indicated that a form-based system can be contextualized to serve multiple purposes and has sufficient flexibility to evolve as the needs of the community emerge and change.
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