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Understanding the Changes in Positive and Negative Sentiments in the Discourse of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alberta
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by the SARS coronavirus was declared a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organisation. Alberta as other provinces and countries had to face the challenge of fighting this syndrome that caused what is commonly known as the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Fall 2020
In the months leading up to the 2016 election in the United States, YouTube’s recommendation algorithm decidedly favored pro-Trump videos, fake news and conspiracy theories. In this thesis, I question whether such bias is present in the context of the 2019 federal election in Canada. To do so, I...
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Using Machine Learning to Understand the National Security Agency’s Data Surveillance Trends
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For over six decades, the public has remained ignorant about the National Security Agency (NSA) and its activities and has been shielded from the agency’s invasive and unlawful projects. While the NSA’s activities have proven valuable to the United States and its allies, it sometimes undertakes...
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Fall 2020
Online video games and their affinity spaces and subspaces are defined as virtual locations where groups of people gather to share common interests, and a place where learning happens (Gee, 2003). Recent studies have demonstrated the impact that affinity spaces and video games have on the...
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We Were Here: a waypoint for library workers in a changing climate circa 2023 CE & 1.47 ± 0.09 °C above the preindustrial average
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The contemporary practice of librarianship and the discipline of Library and Information Studies (LIS) have both begun to reckon with the threat that a changing climate poses to vocational and cultural continuity. The vocation’s subjects, culture and information, have already been transformed in...
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Fall 2021
Established in 2007 by the Organization for Transformative Works, the Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a fan fiction archive that hosts over three million fan works, consisting mostly of fan fiction. It has become an active hub of fan activity, making it an ideal object of study as a current...