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Where Do We Find Help? Examining Digital Communication Channels and Challenges for Services Supporting Houseless People in Edmonton Alberta
Download2023-08-25
Purpose. When facing a housing crisis, it is crucial to know where to go for help. This Capstone research study examines access to and use of digital communications by individuals seeking houseless support in Edmonton, Alberta. Specifically, through a review of online and social media...
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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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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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2022-05-16
Canada, a nation-state founded on colonialism, “a form of structured dispossession,” (Coulthard, 2014, p. 7) has made efforts to amend for harms caused to First Peoples by its racist policies. Yet conflicts around Indigenous sovereignty continue to play out, often in remote territories where...
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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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2021-06-28
Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) have come under fire in recent years as their value relative to their deficiencies became the topic of arbitration between Ryerson University and Ryerson Faculty Association in 2016. This study looks at these deficiencies as well as asks whether the design...
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2021-06-22
Convocation ceremonies mark the day graduates celebrate the successful completion of their academic studies and become alumni of their post-secondary institutions. These highly traditional and ritualized events mark the culmination of academic achievement. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic abruptly...
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Digital Self-Development: How Mobile Fitness Apps and Tracking Devices Aid in the Development of Physical Skills
Download2021-08-01
As personalized digital technologies have developed over the past decade, so too has the desire among some people to use mobile applications and tracking devices to capture data about their activities for the purposes of personal development. Current research considers The Quantified Self,...
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Exploring the Outcomes of Digital Inclusion for Vulnerable Populations in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Download2021-08-01
The Internet is an essential service for participation in society. Yet, digital divide challenges, specifically access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), limit digital inclusion among vulnerable Canadians. While previous research focuses on identifying, understanding, and...