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Christopher Weare - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the effects of internet use on political participation evidence from an agency online Discussion Forum
Administration & Society, 2004Co-Authors: Woody J Stanley, Christopher WeareAbstract:We seek to clarify the relationship between Internet use and political participation. Although early theorists touted the potential mobilizing effects of the Internet, existing empirical studies have failed to find support for such a relationship. We challenge these findings through the analysis of an experimental use of an online Discussion Forum in anagency strategic planning exercise. The Web-based Discussion run in parallel to the traditional docket attracted new individuals to participate in the decision-making process and influenced the range of topics discussed. These results suggest that extending opportunities for participation can attract new voices, thereby changing decision makers’information environment.
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the effects of internet use on political participation evidence from an agency online Discussion Forum
International Conference on Digital Government Research, 2003Co-Authors: Woody J Stanley, Christopher WeareAbstract:This paper seeks to clarify the relationship between Internet use and political participation. While early theorists touted the potential mobilizing effects of the Internet, empirical studies, to date, have failed to offer compelling evidence of such a relationship. This paper challenges these findings through the analysis of an experimental use of an online Discussion Forum during an agency strategic planning exercise. The web-based Discussion run in parallel to the traditional docket attracted new individuals to participate in the decision-making process and influenced the range of topics discussed. These results suggest that extending opportunities for participation can attract new voices, thereby changing decision-makers' information environment.
GalvÃo, Alessandro Nobre - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Forms nominal anaphoric gender Discussion Forum orkut
2008Co-Authors: GalvÃo, Alessandro NobreAbstract:Neste trabalho, investigamos, no gênero Fórum de discussão do Orkut, a contribuição de estratégias de referenciação anafóricas com núcleos nominais, para a orientação argumentativa do texto. Para tanto, traçamos um percurso teórico em que discutimos conceitos como o de comunidade virtual, o de gêneros discursivos e o de referenciação. Com respeito à primeira categoria, convocamos os postulados da Sociologia, da Teoria Social da Aprendizagem e da Neste trabalho, investigamos, no gênero Fórum de discussão do Orkut, a contribuição de estratégias de referenciação anafóricas com núcleos nominais, para a orientação argumentativa do texto. Para tanto, traçamos um percurso teórico em que discutimos conceitos como o de comunidade virtual, o de gêneros discursivos e o de referenciação. Com respeito à primeira categoria, convocamos os postulados da Sociologia, da Teoria Social da Aprendizagem e da Lingüística Aplicada, tendo em vista a construção de um conceito de comunidade virtual, aplicável ao caso das associações virtuais do Orkut. No que concerne à segunda categoria, baseamo-nos nos postulados teóricos bakhtinianos que concebem o gênero sob uma perspectiva sócio-histórica. Com relação à última, valemo-nos de autores da Lingüística de Texto que discutem o fenômeno da referenciação e seus desdobramentos. Adotamos a proposta taxionômica e analítica de Koch (2004; 2005; 2006) quando do tratamento das estratégias supramencionadas. Tais estratégias são compostas por descrições nominais, encapsuladores anafóricos e rotuladores metadiscursivos. A análise desses processos, em nosso corpus, foi balizada tanto pelas considerações sobre a referenciação, inscritas na Lingüística de texto, quanto pelas considerações sobre o estatuto dialógico dos gêneros, inscritas na Lingüística da Enunciação.ABSTRACT: In this work, we propose an analysis of some types of referenciation strategies that contribute for the argumentative orientation in the genre Forum of Discussion at Orkut. In doing so, we trace a theoretical route in which we discuss concepts as virtual community, genre and referenciation phenomenon. Concerning the first category, we take into account the theoretical postulates of Sociology, Social Learning Theory, and Applied Linguistics in order to propose a concept of virtual community that fits the virtual associations verified in the Orkut website. Concerning the second category, we based our observations, in the genre focused, on the theoretical postulates of Bakhtin (1999; 2003), Rojo (2005), and Rodrigues (2005). These authors define genre under a social and historic perspective. Regarding the last category, we consider authors from Textual Linguistics that discuss the referenciation phenomenon and its theoretical implications. We adopted Kochs (2004; 2005; 2006) taxonomic and analytical propose of the anaphoric strategies with noun heads. These strategies are noun descriptions, anaphoric encapsulations and metadiscoursive labels. The analysis of such process in our corpus was based on both the postulates of referenciation, inscribed in the Textual Linguistics field, and on the considerations of the dialogic nature of genres, inscribed in the Linguistics of Enunciation field
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Forms nominal anaphoric gender Discussion Forum orkut
'Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Letras Vernaculas - PPGLEV', 2008Co-Authors: GalvÃo, Alessandro NobreAbstract:In this work, we propose an analysis of some types of referenciation strategies that contribute for the argumentative orientation in the genre Forum of Discussion at Orkut. In doing so, we trace a theoretical route in which we discuss concepts as virtual community, genre and referenciation phenomenon. Concerning the first category, we take into account the theoretical postulates of Sociology, Social Learning Theory, and Applied Linguistics in order to propose a concept of virtual community that fits the virtual associations verified in the Orkut website. Concerning the second category, we based our observations, in the genre focused, on the theoretical postulates of Bakhtin (1999; 2003), Rojo (2005), and Rodrigues (2005). These authors define genre under a social and historic perspective. Regarding the last category, we consider authors from Textual Linguistics that discuss the referenciation phenomenon and its theoretical implications. We adopted Kochs (2004; 2005; 2006) taxonomic and analytical propose of the anaphoric strategies with noun heads. These strategies are noun descriptions, anaphoric encapsulations and metadiscoursive labels. The analysis of such process in our corpus was based on both the postulates of referenciation, inscribed in the Textual Linguistics field, and on the considerations of the dialogic nature of genres, inscribed in the Linguistics of Enunciation field.CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorNeste trabalho, investigamos, no gênero Fórum de discussão do Orkut, a contribuição de estratégias de referenciação anafóricas com núcleos nominais, para a orientação argumentativa do texto. Para tanto, traçamos um percurso teórico em que discutimos conceitos como o de comunidade virtual, o de gêneros discursivos e o de referenciação. Com respeito à primeira categoria, convocamos os postulados da Sociologia, da Teoria Social da Aprendizagem e da Neste trabalho, investigamos, no gênero Fórum de discussão do Orkut, a contribuição de estratégias de referenciação anafóricas com núcleos nominais, para a orientação argumentativa do texto. Para tanto, traçamos um percurso teórico em que discutimos conceitos como o de comunidade virtual, o de gêneros discursivos e o de referenciação. Com respeito à primeira categoria, convocamos os postulados da Sociologia, da Teoria Social da Aprendizagem e da Lingüística Aplicada, tendo em vista a construção de um conceito de comunidade virtual, aplicável ao caso das associações virtuais do Orkut. No que concerne à segunda categoria, baseamo-nos nos postulados teóricos bakhtinianos que concebem o gênero sob uma perspectiva sócio-histórica. Com relação à última, valemo-nos de autores da Lingüística de Texto que discutem o fenômeno da referenciação e seus desdobramentos. Adotamos a proposta taxionômica e analítica de Koch (2004; 2005; 2006) quando do tratamento das estratégias supramencionadas. Tais estratégias são compostas por descrições nominais, encapsuladores anafóricos e rotuladores metadiscursivos. A análise desses processos, em nosso corpus, foi balizada tanto pelas considerações sobre a referenciação, inscritas na Lingüística de texto, quanto pelas considerações sobre o estatuto dialógico dos gêneros, inscritas na Lingüística da Enunciação
Syed Sibte Raza Abidi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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applying social network analysis to understand the knowledge sharing behaviour of practitioners in a clinical online Discussion Forum
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2012Co-Authors: Samuel A Stewart, Syed Sibte Raza AbidiAbstract:Background: Knowledge Translation (KT) plays a vital role in the modern health care community, facilitating the incorporation of new evidence into practice. Web 2.0 tools provide a useful mechanism for establishing an online KT environment in which health practitioners share their practice-related knowledge and experiences with an online community of practice. We have implemented a Web 2.0 based KT environment—an online Discussion Forum—for pediatric pain practitioners across seven different hospitals in Thailand. The online Discussion Forum enabled the pediatric pain practitioners to share and translate their experiential knowledge to help improve the management of pediatric pain in hospitals. Objective: The goal of this research is to investigate the knowledge sharing dynamics of a community of practice through an online Discussion Forum. We evaluated the communication patterns of the community members using statistical and social network analysis methods in order to better understand how the online community engages to share experiential knowledge. Methods: Statistical analyses and visualizations provide a broad overview of the communication patterns within the Discussion Forum. Social network analysis provides the tools to delve deeper into the social network, identifying the most active members of the community, reporting the overall health of the social network, isolating the potential core members of the social network, and exploring the inter-group relationships that exist across institutions and professions. Results: The statistical analyses revealed a network dominated by a single institution and a single profession, and found a varied relationship between reading and posting content to the Discussion Forum. The social network analysis discovered a healthy network with strong communication patterns, while identifying which users are at the center of the community in terms of facilitating communication. The group-level analysis suggests that there is strong interprofessional and interregional communication, but a dearth of non-nurse participants has been identified as a shortcoming. Conclusions: The results of the analysis suggest that the Discussion Forum is active and healthy, and that, though few, the interprofessional and interinstitutional ties are strong. [J Med Internet Res 2012;14(6):e170]
Bernard J Jansen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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analyzing mooc Discussion Forum messages to identify cognitive learning information exchanges
Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015Co-Authors: Jiansyuan Wong, Bart Pursel, Anna Divinsky, Bernard J JansenAbstract:While Discussion Forums in online courses have been studied in the past, no one has proposed a model linking messages in Discussion Forums to a learning taxonomy, even though Forums are widely used as educational tools in online courses. In this research, we view Forums as information seeking events and use a keyword taxonomy approach to analyze a large amount of MOOC Forum data to identify the types of learning interactions taking place in Forum conversations. Using 51,761 Forum messages from 8,169 Forum threads from a MOOC with a 50,000+ enrollment, messages are analyzed based on levels of Bloom's Taxonomy to categorize the scholarly discourse. The results of this research show that interactions within MOOC Discussion Forums are a learning process with unique characteristics specific to particular cognitive learning levels. Results also imply that different types of Forum interactions have characteristics relevant to particular learning levels, and the volume of higher levels of cognitive learning incidents increase as the course progresses.
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an analysis of mooc Discussion Forum interactions from the most active users
International Conference on Social Computing, 2015Co-Authors: Jiansyuan Wong, Bart Pursel, Anna Divinsky, Bernard J JansenAbstract:Many massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer mainly video-based lectures, which limits the opportunity for interactions and communications among students and instructors. Thus, the Discussion Forums of MOOC become indispensable in providing a platform for facilitating interactions and communications. In this research, Discussion Forum users who continually and actively participate in the Forum Discussions throughout the course are identified. We then employ different measures for evaluating whether those active users have more influence on overall Forum activities. We further analyze Forum votes, both positive and negative, on posts and comments to verify if active users make positive contributions to the course conversations. Based the result of analysis, users who constantly participate in Forum Discussions are identified as statistically more influential users, and these users also produce a positive effect on the Discussions. Implications for MOOC student engagement and retention are discussed.
Woody J Stanley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the effects of internet use on political participation evidence from an agency online Discussion Forum
Administration & Society, 2004Co-Authors: Woody J Stanley, Christopher WeareAbstract:We seek to clarify the relationship between Internet use and political participation. Although early theorists touted the potential mobilizing effects of the Internet, existing empirical studies have failed to find support for such a relationship. We challenge these findings through the analysis of an experimental use of an online Discussion Forum in anagency strategic planning exercise. The Web-based Discussion run in parallel to the traditional docket attracted new individuals to participate in the decision-making process and influenced the range of topics discussed. These results suggest that extending opportunities for participation can attract new voices, thereby changing decision makers’information environment.
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the effects of internet use on political participation evidence from an agency online Discussion Forum
International Conference on Digital Government Research, 2003Co-Authors: Woody J Stanley, Christopher WeareAbstract:This paper seeks to clarify the relationship between Internet use and political participation. While early theorists touted the potential mobilizing effects of the Internet, empirical studies, to date, have failed to offer compelling evidence of such a relationship. This paper challenges these findings through the analysis of an experimental use of an online Discussion Forum during an agency strategic planning exercise. The web-based Discussion run in parallel to the traditional docket attracted new individuals to participate in the decision-making process and influenced the range of topics discussed. These results suggest that extending opportunities for participation can attract new voices, thereby changing decision-makers' information environment.
