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21	An Exploratory Study on The Trust of Information in Social Media Chih-Yuan Chou (8630730) 17 April 2020 (has links) This study examined the level of trust of information on social media. Specifically, I investigated the factors of performance expectancy with information-seeking motives that appear to influence the level of trust of information on various social network sites. This study utilized the following theoretical models: elaboration likelihood model (ELM), the uses and gratifications theory (UGT), the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model (UTAUT), the consumption value theory (CVT), and the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) Model to build a conceptual research framework for an exploratory study. The research investigated the extent to which information quality and source credibility influence the level of trust of information by visitors to the social network sites. The inductive content analysis on 189 respondents’ responses carefully addressed the proposed research questions and then further developed a comprehensive framework. The findings of this study contribute to the current research stream on information quality, fake news, and IT adoption as they relate to social media. Information Systems Human Information Behaviour Social and Community Informatics Web Technologies (excl. Web Search) Computer-Human Interaction Information Systems Management Business Information Systems Innovation and Technology Management trust of information information quality performance expectancy Stimulus-Organism-Response Model social network sites social media fake news
22	Insulin Pump Use and Type 1 Diabetes: Connecting Bodies, Identities, and Technologies Stephen K Horrocks (8934626) 16 June 2020 (has links) <p>Since the late 1970s, biomedical researchers have heavily invested in the development of portable insulin pumps that allow people with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) to carry several days-worth of insulin to be injected on an as-needed basis. That means fewer needles and syringes, making regular insulin injections less time consuming and troublesome. As insulin pump use has become more widespread over the past twenty years among people with T1D, the social and cultural effects of using these medical devices on their everyday experiences have become both increasingly apparent for individuals yet consistently absent from social and cultural studies of the disease.</p><p><br></p><p>In this dissertation, I explore the technological, medical, and cultural networks of insulin pump treatment to identify the role(s) these biomedicalized treatment acts play in the structuring of people, their bodies, and the cultural values constructed around various medical technologies. As I will show, insulin pump treatment alters people’s bodies and identities as devices become integrated as co-productive actors within patient-users’ biological and social systems. By analyzing personal interviews and digital media produced by people with T1D alongside archival materials, this study identifies compulsory patterns in the practices, structures, and narratives related to insulin pump use to center chapters around the productive (and sometimes stifling) relationship between people, bodies, technologies, and American culture.</p><p><br></p><p>By analyzing the layered and intersecting sites of insulin pump treatment together, this project reveals how medical technologies, health identities, bodies, and cultures are co-constructed and co-defined in ways that bind them together—mutually constitutive, medically compelled, cultural and social. New bodies and new systems, I argue, come with new (in)visibilities, and while this new technologically-produced legibility of the body provides unprecedented management of the symptoms and side-effects of the disease, it also brings with it unforeseen social consequences that require changes to people’s everyday lives and practices. </p> Disability Studies Medical Devices History and Philosophy of Medicine Diabetes Type 1 diabetes Insulin Pump Therapy Continuous Glucose Monitoring blood glucose meter Bodies material culture studies Science and Technology Studies American Studies Medical Humanities Health Studies Disability Studies medical devices and technologies technoscience sexuality studies Healthcare inequality
23	TEACHER SUPPORTS USING THE FACILITATOR MODEL FOR DUAL CREDIT IN OPEN ENDED DESIGN THINKING COURSEWORK: UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION AND HIGH SCHOOL IMPLEMENTATION Scott Tecumseh Thorne (10730865) 30 April 2021 (has links) The facilitator model for dual credit offers a way for student to earn directly transcripted credit to colleges and universities, overcoming many barriers faced by other dual credit models. Successful implementation of this model requires high degree of involvement from the cooperating institution. This IRB approved qualitative case study explored the needs of five teacher facilitators in both summer professional development and on-going support throughout the school year when implementing a facilitator model for dual credit with open-ended design coursework. Code-recode and axial coding techniques were applied to over 90 hours of transcribed data, artifacts, and observations from a seven month period to find emerging themes and offer recommendations for implementation.<p></p> Higher education Secondary education Education assessment and evaluation Educational counselling Educational technology and computing Other education not elsewhere classified Engineering design Educational psychology Dual Credit Transcribed Credit Direct Credit Facilitator Model Professional Learning Professional Development Barriers to Dual Credit Teacher Facilitator Student Success Coach Teacher Supports Design Design Thinking Engineering Design Technological Design Open-ended Problem Solving Educational Counselling Education Secondary Education Higher Education Education Assessment and Evaluation Educational Psychology Educational Technology and Computing Engineering Design Methods

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