...Jonathan Sykes Homework 1: The components of sociological research and the empirical research report. Article: Zhao, Shanyang, Sherri Grasmuck and Jason Martin. 2008. “Identity Construction on Facebook: Digital Empowerment in Anchored Relationships.” Computers in Human Behavior 24: 1816-1836. The main objective of this assignment is to familiarize you with the format of scholarly, empirical research papers. The format that the authors’ followed in this article is a guide for the research paper that you will write for this seminar. The questions included in this assignment ask you to identify and discuss the key components of the paper and to assess the quality of the authors’ arguments, data, methods, analysis and conclusions. In your responses, use your own language as much as possible. If you quote directly, you must use proper citation format. I will deduct points if you do not use correct citation format. Type your answers below each numbered item. Be sure that you save your work often so you do not lose anything. I recommend that you save an unaltered version of the assignment and refer to this on occasion to make sure that if you accidentally delete questions as you type your answers, you can re-include the question along with your answer on your final document. Make sure that you answer all of the questions. Some numbered items include more than one question. Remember to look up all words that are unfamiliar to you. This is very easy to do using...
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...@02670425 Envy on Facebook There is a tremendous amount of material shared on social networks each day. Facebook is the largest of all the social networks with a whopping 30 billion pieces of information uploaded ach month. Social networks have been linked to many negative feelings including, but not limited to: depression, jealousy, social tension, and social overload. Krasnova et al conducted research to attempt to explain the relationship between passive following on social networks and life satisfaction. Two different studies were conducted. The first studied the scale, scope, and nature of envious emotions related to Facebook use. The second study observed the role of envy and how it affects passive following on FB and life satisfaction. 584 Facebook users took online surveys, answering questions regarding emotions experienced while on and after using Facebook. Researchers asked open and closed-ended questions. The first question asked participants how they felt after they used Facebook. Researchers found that 46% of the sample reported positive feelings and the majority of negative emotions (36.9%) were boredom, anger, frustration. Envy was at the bottom of the list with only 1.2% of users admitting to it. The experimenters believed that people were reluctant to admit to being envious as it is socially unacceptable to envy others. The second question was asked as a general question rather than a direct question; what causes others to feel frustration on Facebook? Envy was the...
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...Wolters Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-11:00 & 2:00-3:20 or by appointment. The day preceeding each exam the professor will be in the BIF Atrium answering questions, time TBA. Course Website and Social Media Sites: www.woltersworld.com follow the “Business Courses” link for BADM 320 Principles of Marketing for class slides, summary videos and course information. Additionally, course topic blogs will be posted here. www.youtube.com/woltersworld location of summary videos for class topics. Please subscribe in order to receive new class videos. www.twitter.com/woltersworld for weekly class topics, course updates, in class discussion facilitation, please follow in order to keep up with class room discussions. “Like” Wolters World on Facebook: Class videos will be posted as well as discussion topics and Frequently Asked Questions. The course has a Compass 2G page for slides, documentation and quizes. Lecture Times: Tuesday and Thursday 8:00-9:20. Teaching Assistants’ Information: Hyewon Cho: Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-5:00, Survey Building 202 Yaxian Xie: Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30-3:00pm, Survey Building Room 202 Email for BADM 320 Questions: badm320UIUC@gmail.com The TAs should be your first avenue of query when you have any problems with the course materials or are looking to review for the exam. The TAs will have extra office hours before each exam to accommodate increased student visits. The TAs are here to help you by answering your questions and giving...
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...The first article that I began to consider was Blame the Echo Chamber on Facebook. But Blame Yourself, too by Kartik Hosanagar. Within the evidence section of this paper the author established his authority to be speaking on this paper by his reference to research studies that he participated in regarding this algorithmically personalized content. By referencing these research studies Mr. Hosanagar is attempting to appeal to his audience’s ethos by proving he is a credible source to be speaking on this topic. Once he begins discussing the topic of the paper he makes a point to distinguish the difference between how an iTunes algorithm for generating personalized content is different from what Facebook does to appeal to our political curiosity. I believe this deliberate point to distinguish the difference between these...
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...Siwen Liu Professor Cottrell UCWR 110 15 September 2015 (Type of paper: Optional) Final Summary Essays Sentence: The essay Stephen Marche wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” is talking about with the technology what the society looks like now, and social media like Facebook and twitter have made us more densely network than ever. Paragraph: In Stephen Marche’s article, Facebook is a reason people are becoming move lonely and standard. The relationship between technology and loneliness is strong. According to the article people who spend their time on devices and social network sights are finding themselves lacking in the ability to communicate in person. One effect that is brought up throughout the article is loneliness, in which is made the more often one drowns themselves in social media. Facebook in particular, is the target of this article, with its enormous audience, Facebook is the go-to website to see latest gossip, get in touch with everyone, and be in touch with everyone. The research put into the Lonely topic consists of psychologist’s opinions and real events. Unfortunately, technology gives one access to the internet, allowing one to be deeply drowned within the internet’s vast ocean of information. What's more, in the article, the author shows us many other researches and examples from professional study about technology including Facebook made people lonely to support his idea like Moria Burke, John Cacioppo...
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...Phenomenon of Facebook One of the most significant current discussions in facebook is a part of social network that connects millions of people around the world. The controversy about facebook is that it joins people from different cultures and different religions. Facebook users share knowledge, pictures, videos, audio and opinions with each other worldwide. The purpose for this research is almost everyone has accounts on facebook even teenager. However, there are advantage and disadvantage to have a facebook accounts. This paper has been divided in to three parts. The first section will provide the definition of social networks and background. The second part begins with the origins of facebook and the designer Mark Zuckerberg who's created the idea. The final part deals with the effect facebook has on people. Following the work of Boyd and Ellison, which demonstrates that the social network is a specific system that allows people to establish public, personal information and shows a list of others registered who share a relation in that web (Boyd & Ellison, 2007). Facebook, the largest social network in the world, has 250 million users (Epstein, 2009). People can benefit from facebook professional as Epstein 's point is that facebook has many groups that allow users to keep in touch with others professional benefits and participating with them. For example there are parts that include; hot news about subjects gives attention to people, inserts links that...
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...BUSN300-1301B-02 Dr. Tom Wamalwa 04/14/13 Abstract Social networking sites are growing at a very fast rate. This paper discusses three possible marketing opportunities and risks associated with each opportunity of the three leading social networking sites: Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn. This paper will also assesses the public relations effect on the company, and the financial improvement that is due to each of the marketing opportunity’s. Based on the assessment, one marketing opportunity is recommended for each of the three companies. Facebook Facebook, the most well known social networking site, was started in 2004. Today, Facebook has over 800 million clients. (Eldon, 2008) The First Marketing Opportunity : Sell advertisement space. This advertising chance is classified as low hanging fruit. The No. of clients on Facebook surpassed the 1 billion mark by August 2012. (Bradley, 2012) Facebook can show advertisement to correlated clients dependent upon their demographics and engages. Promoting on Facebook is more successful as associations can achieve their target clients. Risk: Many users may consider this as violation of privacy. Second Marketing Opportunity : Introduce paid membership This marketing opportunity is single. Facebook has this elevated no. of clients in light of the fact that Facebook offers unlimited aids. Association can limit access to certain offers (like film imparting, review others photograph and what not)...
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...Related Literature Facebook as a tool to Enhance Team Based Learning Sami M. Alhomod King Saud University, Riyadh - 11321, Saudi Arabia Mohd Mudasir Shafi King Saud University, Riyadh - 11321, Saudi Arabia Abstract - A growing number of educators are using social networking sites (SNS) to communicate with their students. Facebook is one such example which is widely used by students and educators. Facebook has been recently used by many educational institutions but most of these have been related to provide the information to the general audience. There has not been much study done to propose Facebook as an educational tool in a classroom scenario. The aim of this paper is to propose the idea of using Facebook in team based learni ng (TBL) scenario. The paper demonstrates the use of Facebook at each level of TBL The paper shows how Facebook can be used by students and teacher to communicate with each other in a TBL system. The paper also explains teacher – team and teacher – student communication via Facebook. Keyw ords - Social Networking; Facebook; Team Based Learning; Communication . I. I NTRODUCTION Team based learning (TBL) is based on the use of small groups in order to transform them into high performance teams to accomplish comple x tasks. According to Fink [2], “ Team based learning is a particular instructional strategy that is designed to (a) Support the development of high performance learning...
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...this first page and everything that appears in red) Please review the Scenario Rubric to see how your paper will be scored. This scenario is your opportunity to demonstrate your grasp of the marketing material that you’ve learned to date and apply it to a real world scenario. Be sure to follow the APA guidelines in writing your paper and in formatting your reference page. If you have questions on the APA Format: • Visit the Purdue OWL website - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/ • Seek help from the SNHU Writing Lab. (Go to MYSNHU > Academics > Tutoring (Evening and Online) > SmartThinking Online Tutoring.) Notes on APA in a Formal Assignment • Set margins to 1 inch all around. • Use 12-point Times New Roman font • Double space your text • Paragraphs should be at least three to four sentences. • Do not include the headings “Introduction” and “Conclusion.” These are included below to help you lay out your paper. APA format assumes the introduction begins the paper, the body continues the paper, and the conclusion wraps up the paper, so those headings are not needed. • Indent the first line of every paragraph five spaces (or one “tab”). • Do not use personal pronouns such as “I.” Be sure to replace all the text in in red on this template with your own writing. Please delete this first page after you review the suggestions. The paper should begin with the title page that follows. Scenario MKT 113 - SECTION: Mall of America ...
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...April Calderon Professor Julie Moore-Felux ENGL 1302 15 August 2013 Final Exam: Question No.: 1 & 3 Question #1: “With friends like these ...” Tom Hodgkinson article question(s): In the article written by Tom Hodgkinson, his clear intention was to convince the viewer/reader to deny, reject, negate social media specifically, Facebook. The writer focuses on the aspect that social media, specifically, Facebook, destroys people’s ability to connect with one another. He further states that the essence of social media is controlled by a select few whose sole motive is control and profit and their own agendas. (Hodgkinson 327, 328) It is obvious from the beginning of the article Hodgkinson, is opposed to social media. The writer attempts to narrow his thesis into specific principles or burdens, which is difficult. He supports his thesis and supporting arguments with the criterion or value premise of a moralistic or ethical intent of social media. The writer attempts to prove this in three ways. One, he demoralizes social media by stating it erodes the interaction of intrapersonal skills. Meaning social media takes away the person to person interaction. This results in antisocial behavior and desolation of verbal speech. He then moves on to disclose the unique background of the primary investors in the largest social media corporation, Facebook. The representation of the primary investors is very disturbing. He presents data that is very disturbing about the three...
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...Nichols College | Sport Seminar Final Research Paper | Professor Hendrick | | Sean Fleming | 4/29/2014 | | Abstract This is my final research paper in conclusion to my studies in the Sports Management program at Nichols College. This is a research study on the use of professional athletes from American sports leagues in the Olympic Games. Table of Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….page 1 Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………………………………………………page 2 List of Tables and Figures………………………………………………………………………………………………….page 3 Chapter I: Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………page 4 Chapter II: Review of Literature Chapter III: Research Methodology Chapter IV: Results Chapter V: Discussion and Conclusions References Appendices Tables and Figures Chapter I: Introduction This purpose of this study will pertain to whether the use of professional athletes from American sports leagues in the Olympic Games is a good or bad idea. Currently, players from the National Hockey League (NHL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Soccer (MLS), Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the Professional Golfers Association (PGA TOUR) are allowed to participate in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games by their respective leagues. There are many problems that have arisen from the allowance of professionals in the Olympics. They range from injuries to star players, financial impacts on the leagues, shutdown of schedules...
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...Hello!! Just fooled you…:P Bye now taatata Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin,Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[8][9][10] The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old was allowed to become a registered user of the website, though the age requirement may be higher depending on applicable local laws.[11] Its name comes from the face book directories often given to American university students.[12] After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos, use various apps and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". Also users can complain or block unpleasant people. Facebook had over 1.18 billion monthly active users as of August 2015.[7]Because of the large volume...
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...GM 591 Final Paper Communication and Collaboration In Today’s Air Force: The 561st Network Operations Squadron A Case Study 1. Introduction The 561st Network Operating Squadron, with about 200 personnel divided between military, government civilians, and contract personnel, operates one of the two primary network nodes for the Air Force data network. The dynamic of the organization is defined by the relationship between the military, nominally in charge but highly transient with constant rotations and deployments, and the Operations and Maintenance (O & M) contractors, who have the knowledge base and the continuity but are on edge due to contract issues and tenuous job security. Added to that tumultuous mix is my small contract of twelve people who are implementing a methodology of best practices for managing a complex Information Technology (IT) organization. This methodology, known as IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), provides a framework of processes that give shape and order to an IT operation. These three teams, the military, the O & M contractors, and the ITIL improvement team work together to provide network services for the greater Air Force, striving to maintain network availability while keeping the data secure from intrusion or compromise. 2. Problem Statement In the last four or five years collaborative computing and social networking have rapidly increased both in the business environment and in people’s personal lives....
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...Saving the Blob fish Documentation The spreadsheet model- Saving the Blob fish has been constructed for the use by employees of FoGAFiDE and Mr. Angus Dei. Created on September 30, 2012 by Neha Bedi Blob fishes are currently facing extinction due to deep sea fishing and the motive of FoGAFiDE is to support a bill to restrict deep sea fishing. Thus, to get this message circulated through public, mass media approach was considered. The purpose of this spreadsheet model is to allocate funds of $158000 to different advertising alternatives in a way that will maximise the impact achieved. This particular model can be used for determining how much funds should be allocated, considering the constraints, to each advertising medium in order to optimise average impact. It also helps in finding out the total and individual costs of advertisements. Layout of model (in blocks): 1) Requirements- minimum and maximum amount of ads required can be entered in this block for each advertising medium. The Cost per unit of each medium is also entered in the requirements area. 2) Resources available- This is the funds available section and would act as a constraint so the advertisements price doesn’t increase the funds available. 3) Calculation area- when solver is run this part of spreadsheet shows the number unit of advertisements that should be bought and their total cost price 4) Report area that tells the impact of each advertisement and the average impact. Instructions: ...
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...11 Position Papers I f you like to argue, you will enjoy writing position papers and argument essays. The purpose of a position paper or argument essay is to explain both sides of a controversy and then argue for one side over the other. This two-sided approach is what makes position papers and argument essays different from commentaries (Chapter 10). A commentary usually only expresses the author’s personal opinion about a current issue or event. A position paper or argument essay explains both sides and discusses why one is stronger or better than the other. Your goal is to fairly explain your side and your opponents’ side of the issue, while highlighting the differences between these opposing views. You need to use solid reasoning and factual evidence to persuade your readers that your view is more valid or advantageous than your opponents’ view. In college, your professors will ask you to write position papers and argument essays to show that you understand both sides of an issue and can support one side or the other. In the workplace, corporate position papers are used to argue for or against business strategies or alternatives. The ability to argue effectively is a useful skill that will help you throughout your life. 221 CHAPTER AT–A–GLANCE Position Papers This diagram shows two basic organizations for a position paper, but other arrangements of these sections will work too. In the pattern on the left, the opponents’ position is described up front with its...
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