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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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IntelWiki - Recommending Reference Materials in Context to Facilitate Editing Wikipedia

Chowdhury, Mohammad Noor Nawaz January 2014 (has links)
Participation in contributing content to online communities remains heavily skewed. Yet little research has focused on lowering the contribution effort. I describe a general approach to facilitating user-generated content within the context of Wikipedia. I also present the IntelWiki prototype, a design and implementation of this approach, which aims to make it easier for users to create or enhance the free-form text in Wikipedia articles. The IntelWiki system i) recommends article-relevant reference materials, ii) draws the users' attention to key aspects of the recommendations, and iii) allows users to consult the recommended materials in context. A laboratory evaluation with 16 novice Wikipedia editors revealed that, in comparison to the default Wikipedia design, IntelWiki's approach has positive impacts on editing quantity and quality. Participants also reported experiencing significantly lower mental workload while editing with IntelWiki and preferred the new design.
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Formalising trust as a computational concept

Marsh, Stephen Paul January 1994 (has links)
Trust is a judgement of unquestionable utility - as humans we use it every day of our lives. However, trust has suffered from an imperfect understanding, a plethora of definitions, and informal use in the literature and in everyday life. It is common to say "I trust you, " but what does that mean? This thesis provides a clarification of trust. We present a formalism for trust which provides us with a tool for precise discussion. The formalism is implementable: it can be embedded in an artificial agent, enabling the agent to make trust-based decisions. Its applicability in the domain of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is raised. The thesis presents a testbed populated by simple trusting agents which substantiates the utility of the formalism. The formalism provides a step in the direction of a proper understanding and definition of human trust. A contribution of the thesis is its detailed exploration of the possibilities of future work in the area.
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Hospitable texts

Brown, James Joseph, January 1900 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (University of Texas Digital Repository, viewed on July 30, 2009). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Det som händer på hotellet, hamnar på TripAdvisor : En kvalitativ studie av hotell i Karlstad / What happens at the hotel, ends up on TripAdvisor : A qualitative study of hotels in Karlstad

Gabrielsson, Elin, Hedlund, Lisa January 2015 (has links)
Den utveckling som internet har genomgått har bidragit till att en rad förändringar har skett. Det innehåll som finns på internet har ändrats och skapas numer av dess användare lika mycket som av företag och organisationer. Det har skett en utökning av plattformar där användarna kan kommunicera och interagera med varandra och dela med sig av personliga åsikter och erfarenheter på ett enkelt sätt. Vi är dessutom mer kritiska till vad som skrivs på internet och reflekterar över vad som är pålitlig information eller inte, samtidigt som vi som turister och konsumenter bryr oss om och påverkas av vad andra tycker och tänker. Inom turismnäringen har TripAdvisor blivit en viktig plattform för denna form av informationsskapande och spridande. TripAdvisor är en arena där resenärer och turismverksamheter möts.   Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga vad som skrivs på TripAdvisor och hur hotellverksamheter påverkas och arbetar med dessa omdömen, detta utifrån en studie av tre hotell i Karlstad. Uppsatsens syfte konkretiseras genom tre frågeställningar: Hur sker ryktesspridning via internet, så kallad e-WoM, inom hotellnäringen?, Hur ser hotellets arbete med omdömena ut? och Vilken påverkan har e-WoM för hotellen?. Detta undersöks genom kvalitativ metod i form av en textanalys av innehållet i TripAdvisor omdömen samt genom intervjuer med representanter från de tre hotellen. Uppsatsens teoretiska utgångspunkter berör user-generated content, elektronisk ryktesspridning, relations- och kommunikationsaspekter.   Studien har kommit fram till att innehållet i omdömena inte skiljer sig åt i någon större utsträckning gällande de tre hotellen. Hotellens arbete med TripAdvisor ser olika ut, två av hotellen arbetar aktivt med omdömena och det tredje saknar helt ett arbetssätt. Omdömenas påverkan är närvarande i hotellens arbete ur både positiv och negativ aspekt, här handlar det om förbättringsmöjligheter samt negativ publicitet. Att TripAdvisor omdömen fungerar som en viktig informationskälla och starkt påverkar potentiella gäster är något som framkommit tydligt under studiens gång.
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Exploring Sassy magazine's role as a pioneer of social media /

Kosela, Irene, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Texas State University--San Marcos, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-74). Also available on microfilm.
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The allure of free : participation strategies for Internet-based businesses /

Hurley, Zenobia. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2009. / Title from PDF file main screen (viewed on Mar. 31, 2010). A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master Arts, [Department of] Humanities Computing, University of Alberta. Includes bibliographical references.
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User-generated content on social media: value from goals

Mishra, Nirajana 16 May 2022 (has links)
There has been a dramatic increase in the digitization of content consumers create and accumulate on their devices or social media platforms. People either create and store content on digital devices or cloud storage services or post content on social media platforms that provide network affordances. Given the sheer volume of user-generated digital content on devices and social media platforms, it is imperative to examine how consumers value it. Across eleven studies, I show that user-generated content on social media is valued less than similar user-generated content stored on digital devices or in the cloud. I propose a goal-theoretic framework to explain this difference in value. Consumers value user-generated content less as its creation and use are motivated more by a sharing goal and less by a memory preservation goal. However, consumers do value their user-generated content on social media when it is perceived to preserve meaningful memories. Lastly, I empirically demonstrate how enhancing the value of social media user-generated content has implications for platform loyalty, revenue model, and digital legacy regulation on these platforms. / 2024-05-16T00:00:00Z
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Internet language in user-generated comments : Linguistic analysis of data from four commenting groups / Internetspråk i användarkommentarer : Lingvistisk analys av material från fyra läsargrupper

Dahlström, Jenny January 2013 (has links)
The present study examines typical features of internet language found in user-generated comments collected from commenting groups from four online magazines aimed at different readerships: (1) adult women (Working Mother and Mothering), (2) adult men (Esquire), (3) young women (Seventeen) and (4) young men (Gameinformer). Approximately 5,000 words from each commenting group were collected, creating a 21,087 word corpus which was analyzed with regard to typographic (emoticons, nonstandard typography of and, personal pronouns you and I) and orthographic features (abbreviations, acronyms) as well as syntactic and stylistic features resembling spoken language (contracted forms, ellipsis of subject and/or verb and commenting tone). The results show that adult men wrote the longest comments, followed by adult women, young men and young women in descending order. Furthermore, as for the typical features regarding typography and orthography, it was found that among the four commenting groups, adult men and adult women used them very sparsely, young men used them occasionally and young women used the features most frequently. The analysis of tone showed that adult men mostly used an aggressive or neutral tone, while adult women, young women and young men mostly used a friendly or neutral tone. Young women used an aggressive tone more often than adult women and young men. Moreover, regarding the syntactic and stylistic features, results revealed that the young men were the most frequent users of ellipsis of subject and/or verb, followed by adult women, young women and adult men. Contracted forms were used extensively in the potential places of contractions, regardless of commenting group. Since young men used the ellipsis of subject and/or verb most frequently of all commenting groups and also used the contracted forms in all potential places of contractions, the conclusion is that the young men used a style that is closer to spoken English than the three other commenting groups. / Den här studien undersöker språkdrag som är typiska för språk på internet. Det material som har undersöks har hämtats från användarkommentarer i nättidningar som är riktade till fyra olika läsargrupper: (1) kvinnor (Working Mother, Mothering), (2) män (Esquire), (3) unga kvinnor (Seventeen) och (4) unga män (Gameinformer). Cirka 5 000 ord hämtades från kommentarsfälten för varje tidning, vilket resulterade i en korpus som omfattade 21 087 ord totalt. Korpusen analyserades med hänsyn till typografiska språkdrag (smileys, ickestandardiserad stavning av personliga pronomen I och you samt and) och ortografiska språkdrag (förkortningar, akronymer) samt syntaktiska och stilistiska språkdrag som påminner om talspråk (sammandragningar, ellips av subjekt och/eller predikatsverb, tonläge). Resultaten visade att män skrev de längsta kommentarerna, följda av kvinnor, unga män och unga kvinnor i fallande ordning. Vad gäller typiska typografiska och ortografiska språkdrag visar resultatet att de återfanns mycket sparsamt i kvinnornas och männens data, att de återfanns då och då i de unga männens data och att de unga kvinnorna var de som använde dessa språkdrag mest frekvent. Analys av tonläge i användarkommentarerna visade att män oftast använde en aggressiv eller neutral ton, medan kvinnor, unga kvinnor och unga män oftast använde en vänskaplig eller neutral ton. Unga kvinnor använde en aggressiv ton oftare än kvinnor och unga män. Utöver detta visade resultatet att ellips av subjekt och/eller predikatsverb var mest frekvent i de unga männens användarkommentarer, följt av kvinnornas, de unga kvinnornas och männens. Sammandragna former användes näst intill undantagslöst i hela korpusen. Eftersom pojkarna uppvisade mest frekvent användning av ellips av subjekt och/eller predikatsverb samt använde sammandragna former i full utsträckning, kan slutsatsen dras att de unga männens syntax är mer påverkad av engelskt talspråk än syntaxen hos de tre andra kommenterande grupperna.
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Information disclosure on Facebook : a content analysis of American and Kenyan user profiles

Thotho, Sarah W. 24 July 2010 (has links)
This study examines information disclosure of Facebook users in America and Kenya. The main aim of this study is to find out the specific type of personal and demographic information that individuals disclose on their profiles. The literature review details the nature of social networking sites highlighting studies that have been carried out in the past on these sites. Self-disclosure is also discussed as described in the social penetration theory. An overview of the practice of public relations profession in Kenya is also given. The research study employs the content analysis methodology, with a total of 500 Facebook profiles being analyzed. Results of this study indicate that users disclose a lot of information on their Facebook profiles such as the use of a self-portrait as the main identifying mark on their profiles, their dates of birth, personal information such as religious and political views and education and work information. There are also major gender differences in information disclosure. There are also differences in information disclosure on Facebook between American users and Kenyan users. / Department of Journalism
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Web 2.0 user-generated content in online communities ; a theoretical and empirical investigation of its determinants

Beck, Timo January 2007 (has links)
Zugl.: Köln, Business School, Bachelorarbeit, 2007

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