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Algorithmic Awareness Among Computing Science Students: Exploring Perspectives on Responsible Design and Use of Social Media
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Computational literacy and awareness have emerged as significant public and academic concerns. Implementing robust algorithm systems on social communication platforms may have positive and negative consequences on all age groups in society, particularly on the most frequent users, young adults....
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Alternative Social Media as an Emerging Social Network: Exploring Alternative Social Media Awareness in Nigeria
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Commercial Social Media (CSM) platforms like Facebook and Twitter have facilitated online communities and user-generated content, but their dominance has resulted in unethical practices. These include surveillance capitalist business models that exploit user data and "black-box" algorithms that...
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How did news media (commercial and independent) portray the Peruvian political crisis of December 2022?
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Paredes Ortigas, Gabriel Eduardo
This thesis examines the role of media reporting and narrative leading up to and during the Peruvian political crisis in 2022. Through a comprehensive analysis of media coverage from two outlets, El Comercio and Ojo Publico, this study investigates the framing and agenda-setting techniques...
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Impact of Informational Capabilities on Market Access of Smallholder Farmers during COVID-19: A Study in Bangladesh
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Market accessibility, as an essential livelihood criterion in today’s commoditized world, needs a group of buyers and sellers to transact values among themselves through negotiation. Communication – an exchange of information for mutual understanding – plays a vital role in this negotiation....
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Knowledge Mobilization in a College Context: Constructing Meaning in Applied Research Communication
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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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The Role of Community and Campus-Based Radio in Filling the Gaps of Latin American Programming in Canada
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Canada is a multicultural country, and different commissions, acts and policies have been created to protect its multiculturalism. Nevertheless, scholarship has demonstrated a disconnection between what is stated in the multicultural acts and policies and what is being reflected in the media,...
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Fall 2023
The COVID-19 epidemic forced schools all around the globe to switch quickly to online learning. Teachers had to swiftly find, modify, adopt, and adapt digital educational approaches that suited students' demands. It has presented unforeseen difficulties for EFL (English as a Foreign Language)...
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Spring 2022
The mainstream history of the Internet, digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) shows a clear shift to a centralized digital landscape that is predominantly controlled by corporations. However, diverse individuals, communities and Nations around the world have created...