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- 11Communications and Technology Graduate Program
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2022
Over the last decade, the increased use of social media has led to an increase in hateful activities in social networks. An international issue that weakens the cohesiveness of civil societies is hate speech on internet social networks. Due to the lack of restrictions set by these sites for its...
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Fall 2021
Humans are known to gain or lose utility by comparing their payoffs with those of their peers. I analyze how such social preferences affect incentive contracts and performance evaluation in principal-agent settings. In my models, agents dislike getting worse off than their peers (I say they have...
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Spring 2019
In late October 2014, accusations of sexual assault levelled against Jian Ghomeshi dominated the Canadian news cycle. This case offers an opportunity to examine the public’s struggle to determine whether to believe Ghomeshi’s alleged victims, to make sense of how that belief matters, and ask what...
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Internet Governance and Online Identity: Searching for Correlations between User Anonymity and User Behaviour
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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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Fall 2016
The thesis traces Internet textual representations of the Maidan, a wide-scale protest movement that took place in 2013-2014 in Ukraine, and their function in identifying the opposing sides during the protests. These texts helped to formulate new narratives, articulate attitudes, and build...