Browsing by Subject "Facebook"
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"Boredom Is Always Counter-revolutionary": Affective Political Activism in Participatory Online Communities
(2015-05-01)My thesis examines how fan communities on Facebook can become centres of political activism, operating through members’ affective ties to the cause and community, and networked communication. I conduct an ethnographic study ... -
Facebook as a Facilitator of Organizational Identification in Colleges and Universities: Exploring Relationships Among Educational Institutions, Student Tenure, and Interaction with Multiple Organizational Targets
(2013-05-01)Potential uses for Facebook are frequently studied in scholarly literature. To date, much of this research focuses on varied social uses available to Facebook members. More recently, scholars have turned to potential ... -
Feminist Collections, v.32, no.1 (winter 2011)
(2011)Subtitle: A Quarterly of Women?s Studies Resources. ISSN 0742-7441, 46p. -
Naming Biases: Gender and Race Biases in Reference to Politicians
(2025)Implicit biases continue to promote gender and racial inequality in many professions. Our research investigated a particular variable, terms of reference, that may play a role in voter opinions of politicians and in ... -
Relationship between Facebook and body esteem comparing college women
(University of Wisconsin--Stout. Research Services, 2014-04)As of March 2013, Facebook recorded having 1.11 billion active members worldwide (Associated Press, 2013). Research reveals a staggering amount of college students are users of Facebook. Considering Facebook’s prevalence ... -
Social Network Analysis on Wisconsin Archival Facebook Community
(2017-08-01)The purpose of this study was to understand how Wisconsin archives are using Facebook (Wisconson archives Facebook community, WAFC). Few archive studies use quantitative measurements to draw conclusions from social media ... -
Understanding Wisconsin Legislators' Use of Social Media
(2013-12-01)This thesis used quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the use of social media by legislative offices of the Wisconsin State Assembly. A survey of legislators and their staff documented the extent to which each ...