Search for dissertations about: "online forums"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words online forums.
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1. Learning text talk online : Collaborative learning in asynchronous text based discussion forums
Abstract : The desire to translate constructivist and sociocultural approaches to learning in specific learning activities is evident in most forms of training at current, not least in online education. Teachers worldwide are struggling with questions of how to create conditions in this fairly new realm of education for learners to contribute to the development of a good quality in their own and others' learning. READ MORE
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2. Legitimacy Work : Managing Sick Leave Legitimacy in Interaction
Abstract : This thesis studies how sick leave legitimacy is managed in interaction and develops an empirically driven conceptualization of ‘legitimacy work’. The thesis applies an ethnomethodological framework that draws on conversation analysis, discursive psychology, and membership categorization analysis. READ MORE
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3. Language and interaction in online asynchronous communication in university level English courses
Abstract : Interaction involves people communicating and reacting to each other. This process is key to the study of discourse, but it is not easy to study systematically how interaction takes place in a specific communicative event, or how it is typically performed over a series of repeated communicative events. READ MORE
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4. Automated Text Analysis of Online Content in Marketing : Dictionray-Based Methods and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract : Far more than products or services, words are the most fundamental element in the exchanges between sellers and buyers. Understanding the words that constitute the text that is created when sellers and buyers interact with each other is therefore critical for marketing decision makers. READ MORE
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5. Word Meaning Negotiation in Online Discussion Forum Communication
Abstract : We all know that lexicons contain definitions of the meanings of words, but when we communicate with other people, these are not the kinds of meaning we use in interaction. In conversation, we coordinate with each other in a meaning-making process where we make use of a more flexible semantic quality associated with words, called meaning potential. READ MORE