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Standing In a Crowded Room Shouting At No One: How The Government of Alberta Uses Twitter to Engage Albertans
Download2019-08-01
Purpose – This paper explores Government of Alberta attempts to engage citizens using Twitter in 2018, and how successful any attempts at engagement were. Design/methodology/approach – Mixed-methods content analysis using @YourAlberta as a case study; quantitative analysis of 1,339 tweets guided...
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Text Mining Applications to Support Health Library Practice: A Case Study on Marijuana Legalization Twitter Analytics
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Kung, Janice Y, Shiri, Ali, Ly, Kynan
Background: Twitter is rich in data for text and data analytics research, with the ability to capture trends. Objectives: This study examines Canadian tweets on marijuana legalization and terminology use. Presented as a case study, Twitter analytics will demonstrate the varied applications of how...
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The design of an international social media event: A day in the life of the digital humanities
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Organisciak, Peter, Meredith-Lobay, Megan, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Ruecker, Stan, Nyhan, Julianne, Ranaweera, Kamal
A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a community documentation project that brings together digital humanists from around the world to document what they do on one day, typically March 18. The goal of the project, which has been run three times since 2009, is to bring...
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2009
Drawing on social productive function and social capital theory, we examine the differential importance of personal and environmental resources to the satisfaction with time use, health, finances, and main activities. Data pertaining to Canadians aged 60 and above (n=5,986) participating in the...
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THE EXPERIENCE OF CAREGIVERS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN A PROJECT THAT USED SMS AS A TOOL TO IMPROVE INFORMATION ACCESS AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN AN UNDER-RESOURCED COLOMBIAN COMMUNITY
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The community of El Codito, an under-resourced Bogota community, has a high population density with the majority living under the poverty line. People with disabilities (PWD) and their caregivers in El Codito experience a lack of access to health information and are socially isolated. This...
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The impact of social context on conservation auctions: social capital, leadership and crowding out
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Conservation auctions are a policy tool that can be used to cost-effectively achieve environmental goals, by providing incentives for landowners to adopt environmentally friendly beneficial management practices (BMPs) on their land. Using a competitive bidding process, the party interested in...
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Spring 2021
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how exercise bloggers represent themselves and exercise information online, how young adult women perceive the believability of an exercise blog message, and whether believability predicted exercise-related intentions, and finally, to explore which...