Capping Projects (Communications and Technology)
Students in the MA in Communications and Technology (MACT) are creating a body of applied research with this collection of six-credit capping projects, a required component of the course-based program that integrates the practical and professional aspects of the core areas of study.
Items in this Collection
- 24McMahon, Rob (Supervisor)
- 1Allen, Heather
- 1Banky-Sword, Kaylee
- 1Camarneiro, Ashley
- 1Colin McHattie
- 1Cribb, Lacey C.E.
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Feeding My Family: How are Individuals using Social Media in the context of supporting Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Northern Canada?
Download2020-08-25
In this day and age, digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become an instrumental tool that people around the world can use to share and exchange information faster and more efficiently. There is no doubt that digital ICTs support more efficient and productive...
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Good Intentions: A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the Each One Teach One (EOTO) Program
Download2022-08-02
There has been an increased focus on the importance of financial literacy education (FLE) over the past several decades. FLE is touted as a solution to the financial hardship many people are facing in our society, but even with this increased focus, the chasm between the most affluent and most...
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How Digital Storytelling Can Be Used in Postsecondary Instruction: A case study of ds106, an online course at the University of Mary Washington
Download2023-03-31
Digital storytelling has existed since the early 1990s and has since been adapted for use in various educational settings. With changing technologies and pedagogical techniques, the traditional definition coined by the StoryCenter of a true story as one told using video, voice over, audio, and...
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Internet Governance and Online Identity: Searching for Correlations between User Anonymity and User Behaviour
Download2021-08-13
Anonymity can grant people privacy, safety, and enable rebellion in an oppressive regime. But it can also foster aggression, hate, and undue political upheaval. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from Science and Technology Studies, this research aims to learn how user anonymity granted by...
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Knowledge Mobilization in a College Context: Constructing Meaning in Applied Research Communication
Download2021-03-09
Knowledge mobilization (KMb) is the communication process by which researchers engage with stakeholders to produce, co-produce, and share knowledge. The question of how researchers can better mobilize knowledge at each stage of the research process has become a matter of acute public and academic...
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To Bag the Ban or Ban the Bag: Analysing a shifting discourse in Canadian online news during the pandemic year, 2020
Download2021-06-01
Plastics pollution is an existential threat to the environment, and in particular to the world’s oceans. Pre-pandemic, a global response to this crisis was gaining traction, with news media reporting large scale policy implementation. For example, in Canada, the federal government made an...