Browsing Communications by Subject "Web studies"
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Challenges and Adaptations to Technological Change in Online Communities
Management of technological change in organizations is one of the most enduring topics in the literature on computer-supported cooperative work. The successful navigation of technological change is both more challenging ... -
Creativity Readiness in Crisis Communications: How Crisis Communicators’ Ability to be Creative is Impacted at the Individual, Work Team, and Organizational Levels
In recent years, the global environment in which modern organizations operate has been dominated by a 24-hour news cycle, rapid information flows, demanding increased sensitivities to diverse populations, and intense ... -
The Public Imperative: Civic Engagement, News Media, and Digital Politics in the Tea Party Movement
This dissertation explored a dimension of American political culture that is likely to be relevant to individuals and social movements seeking political change. I proposed that we share a familiar, yet mostly implicit, ... -
(Re)negotiating Speech Codes in an Online Language Learning Community
(2012-09-13)This dissertation examines the local, situated speech within the Eloqi community of practice. Eloqi is a pseudonym for an organization that built an online, voice-enabled, interactive learning platform connecting English ... -
Rhetoric and Ethics of Free Speech Discourse on Gab
Gab is a social media platform that brands itself as a champion of free speech. Users engage in a variety of extremist speech, including arguments for free speech absolutism. I argue that if free speech arguments on Gab ... -
Storytelling and Networking on Tibet: Relationships between narratives, framing and networks within and between two oppositional issue networks
This study is centered on issues of storytelling, persuasion, and politics on websites: how stories are made accessible on the web and how these stories are asserted as truths. This study analyzes these issues through ...