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Social Media Rumors in Bangladesh

open access: yesJournal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2020
This study analyzes N=181 social media rumors from Bangladesh to find out the most popular themes, sources, and aims. The result shows that social media rumors have seven popular themes: political, health & education, crime & human rights, religious ...
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman   +5 more
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From Insult to Hate Speech: Mapping Offensive Language in German User Comments on Immigration

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2021
In recent debates on offensive language in participatory online spaces, the term ‘hate speech’ has become especially prominent. Originating from a legal context, the term usually refers to violent threats or expressions of prejudice against particular ...
Sünje Paasch-Colberg   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing an early-warning system for spotting at-risk students by using eBook interaction logs

open access: yesSmart Learning Environments, 2019
Early prediction systems have already been applied successfully in various educational contexts. In this study, we investigated developing an early prediction system in the context of eBook-based teaching-learning and used students’ eBook reading data to
Gökhan Akçapınar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toward an Interwoven Community of Practice: How Do NGOs Work With Chinese Journalists on Reporting Climate Change?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2020
Since climate governance gained political traction in China, NGOs have emerged as an active stakeholder. Media work, one of NGOs’ main activities with significant implications for Chinese climate journalism, remains underexplored.
Yeheng Pan   +2 more
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Personal Power and Agency When Dealing with Interactive Voice Response Systems and Alternative Modalities

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2018
In summer 2015, we conducted an exploratory study of how people in the U.S. use and respond to robot-like systems in order to achieve their needs through mediated customer service interfaces.
Jill Walsh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traumatic pasts, literary afterlives, and transcultural memory : new directions of literary and media memory studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article presents new directions of literary and media memory studies. It distinguishes between (1) the study of "traumatic pasts", i.e. representations of war and violence in literature and other media, (2) diachronic and intermedial approaches to ...
Erll, Astrid
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Changing the focus in multimedia story production: Experiences from high budget and low budget production settings

open access: yesStudies in Communication Sciences, 2022
Complex multimedia stories have initially emerged as prestige projects from high budget newsrooms such as The New York Times or the Washington Post; over time, both the practical experiences with the format as well as the developed technological ...
Rosanna Planer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting “time awareness” in self-regulated learning: How do students allocate time during exam preparation?

open access: yesSmart Learning Environments, 2023
The development of technology enables diverse learning experiences nowadays, which shows the importance of learners’ self-regulated skills at the same time. Particularly, the ability to allocate time properly becomes an issue for learners since time is a
Chia-Yu Hsu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Things Greater than Thou’: Post-Apocalyptic Religion in Games

open access: yesReligions, 2018
In the literature on religion in games, two broad types of religion have been depicted: on the one hand, historical religions—Christian, Muslim and Buddhist narratives, tropes and symbols—and, on the other hand, fiction-based religion ...
Lars de Wildt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching new media composition studies in a lifelong learning context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Governmental proposals for lifelong learning, and the role of Information and Learning Technologies/Information Communication Technologies (ILT/ICT) in this, idealistically proclaim that ILT/ICT empowers learners.
Jameson, Jill, Squires, David
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