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Cracking the Code: Towards a Semiotic Understanding of Twitter and Its Use by Media Fans
(2013-07-09)
Since Twitter joined the social media club in 2006, its use has increased steadily, particularly since 2009 (Deller 2011). Although it has received a lot of attention in the traditional media because of its use in relation ...
Cooperative Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Missing Link
(2013-07-09)
This study examines organizational culture as a strategic determinant of cooperative buyer–supplier relationships. While historically, organizations sought lowest-bid solutions by having suppliers compete against one ...
2,4-D and Glyphosate affect aquatic biofilm accrual, gross primary production, and community respiration
(2013-07-09)
2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and glyphosate are widely used agricultural herbicides commonly found in surface waters near cultivated land. Field experiments were conducted to determine the effects of 2,4-D and ...
Creating an Inter-Organizational Electronic Health Record in Kibera – Challenges and Solutions
(2013-07-09)
Electronic health records (EHR) are widely seen to hold great potential for improving health outcomes in the Global South. This research-in-progress paper looks at the creation of an inter-organization EHR in Kibera, the ...
A Pastoral or Academic approach to wrath in Thomas of Ireland’s dictionary of quotations, the Manipulus florum (1306)?
(2013-07-09)
This paper compares the discussion of anger in Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum (1306) with that found in important reference works for preachers from about the same period. Richard and Mary Rouse’s major study of the ...
Exploring the Usability of Online Courses: The Student Experience
(2013-07-09)
Online education is becoming a more feasible option for students as an increasing number of courses are being offered by distance through the Internet. Today, students and teachers often interact entirely in virtual learning ...
World and Nation in Humanitarian Writing
(2013-07-09)
In spite of the imperialist spectre that continues to haunt the environment of cosmopolitanism, the desire to locate a “genuine” strand of human interconnection beyond neo-liberal defenses of globalization and official ...
Listening with mobile devices: An ecological approach to context-embedded learning
(2013-07-09)
This presentation discusses a design-based research (DBR) study into effective design for teaching listening in the real world using mobile devices. An emergent theory of learning, ecological constructivism (EC), was chosen ...
Philosophical Critique and Perceived Practical Irrelevance
(2013-07-09)
In a fascinating paper, “Ask the Philosopher,” Dimitrios Dentsoras shows how philosophers were once integrally engaged in society as agents of practical advice on how to govern and indeed on how to live. Over the centuries, ...
Sharpest Knives in the Drawer: Culture at the Intersection of Oil and State
(2013-07-09)
The infusion of the petroleum industry into the social and cultural imaginary goes deep in Alberta, where the oil economy and provincial governments have together shaped discourses of prosperity, identity and citizenship ...