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"Tomorrow I Will be Better": A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Diet Communities on Reddit
Download2020-02-07
As the advancement of the Internet has led to rapid growth in online communities, diet forums have been no exception. However, there has been minimal comparative and discursive research conducted on the relationship between user identity and information behaviours between forums. The objective of...
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Evolving Professional Identity: Exploring How Pharmacists Make Sense of their Prescribing Role
DownloadSpring 2018
Dramatic changes in the pharmacy profession have occurred in the past century. Many of these occurred as the primary focus of the pharmacist transitioned from drug products to providing patient care services. Prescribing by pharmacists gained momentum when it was implemented in the United Kingdom...
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Fall 2014
The objective of this study was to explore information and its function in fiction reading for leisure through the perceptions and experiences of adult readers. I used a phenomenographic approach to look for qualitative differences in experiences and understandings in order describe the...
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Information hippies, Google-fu masters, and other volunteer tourists in Thailand: information behaviour in the liminoid
DownloadSpring 2010
Using social positioning theory and the concept of the liminoid, the objectives of this qualitative research project were three-fold: 1) investigate how social positioning affects the information behaviour of volunteer tourists; 2) determine what effects cultural confusion (aka “culture shock”),...
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Spring 2013
Communicating risk information to promote adoption of protective behaviours was challenging during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. Focus group research in Alberta, Canada involving 65 seniors aged 65 and older suggests this population had difficulty comprehending risk information due to...
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2022-05-16
This capstone project will navigate around the problem of the Digital Divide and its associated solution in Canada’s Northern communities and explore potential solutions to minimize the Digital Divide. The term Digital Divide refers to the lack of opportunities to access Information and...
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Spring 2011
While evidence-based practice and knowledge translation (or transfer) has garnered much attention, research has not focused on health information as provisional and emergent, and on knowledge translation (KT) as a process of social construction. The challenge of evolving information is magnified...
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Motivation and the information behaviours of online learning students: the case of a professionally-oriented, graduate program
DownloadFall 2010
Online learning is a wonderful opportunity for students who cannot attend classes at conventional times and places to further their education. However, to some extent, accessing and sharing information is often quite different and potentially more difficult for this particular group (e.g., they...
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Navigating the Jungle: An Investigation of Older Adults’ Quests for Governmental Information
DownloadFall 2016
Government information interactions are inevitable at many points in our lives; life events and milestones often intersect with the need for governmental programs and services information that will help or facilitate the resulting life transitions. This qualitative research study takes a...
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2009
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a union of 11 countries that used to be Soviet republics within the USSR. After a long period of transition, these independent states are now catching up with Western countries in the use of the Internet and the application of high technology. The...