Search for dissertations about: "gossip"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the word gossip.
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1. Antecedents & Consequences of Gossip : A Social Network Approach
Abstract : Gossip constitutes a form of human communication consisting of the transmission of evaluative information about absent others. Previous research has associated the usage of gossip with outcomes at both the individual and the group levels. READ MORE
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2. On Certificate Transparency Verification and Unlinkability of Websites Visited by Tor Users
Abstract : Certificate Transparency is an ecosystem of logs, monitors, and auditors that hold certificate authorities accountable while issuing certificates. We show how the amount of trust that TLS clients and domain owners need to place in Certificate Transparency can be reduced, both in the context of existing gradual deployments and the largely unexplored area of Tor. READ MORE
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3. Veils of irony : The development of narrative technique in women's novels of the 1790s
Abstract : This thesis situates the innovations of three English novels from the 1790s by three relatively unknown women writers, Jane West, Charlotte Smith, and Anna Maria Bennett, against the background of a literary climate characterised by highly conventional forms of fiction in either sentimental or satiric modes. Their innovations consisted in the fashioning of parodic forms that would balance emotionality with irony. READ MORE
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4. Doing morality in school : Teasing, gossip and subteaching as collaborative action
Abstract : The present thesis investigates socializing practices that take place among pupils during group-work sessions in Swedish junior high schools. The pupils, who were video recorded during such sessions, were supposed to work on common assignments, but quite often digressed into so-called off-task talk Most of the present analyses focus on such digressions. READ MORE
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5. Gossip-based Algorithms for Information Dissemination and Graph Clustering
Abstract : Decentralized algorithms are becoming ever more prevalent in almost all real-world applications that are either data intensive, computation intensive or both. This thesis presents a few decentralized solutions for large-scale (i) data dissemination, (ii) graph partitioning, and (iii) data disambiguation. READ MORE