The purpose of this article is to discuss the media effects approach broadly, to point out limitations the traditional approach imposes on the field, and to discuss a mix of attributes approach with a focus on the study of new technologies for the…
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We have used Papanek's 1985 revised edition rather than the original one of 1972 because he made a number of changes from one edition to another, and we wanted to draw on his most current thinking. For a discussion of Papanek's concept of socially…
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This is a sequel to my paper, Searching for a (Post)Foundational Approach to Philosophy of Science, which appeared in an earlier issue of this Journal Ginev 2001, Journal for General Philosophy of science 32, 2737. In the present paper I continue to…
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Mass media campaigns have long been a tool for promoting public health. How effective are such campaigns in changing health-related attitudes and behaviors, however, and how has the literature in this area progressed over the past decade? The…
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The purpose of the study was to investigate the relative importance of child and adolescent social and academic pathways to well-being in adulthood (32-years) indicated by a sense of meaning, social engagement, positive coping and prosocial values.…
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Freqüentemente encontramos nos estudos de migração, embora de maneira pouco clara e consistente, referências às chamadas redes sociais (Massey et alli, 1987; Boyd, 1989; Kritz e Zlotnik, 1992; Portes, 1995; Tilly, 1990; Martes, 1999). Algumas vezes…
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A central mystery in the function of site-specific DNA-binding proteins is the detailed mechanism for rapid location and binding of target sites in DNA. Human oxoguanine DNA glycosylase 1 (hOgg1), for example, must search out rare 8-oxoguanine…
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This paper describes a Bayesian approximation method to obtain online ranking algorithms for games with multiple teams and multiple players. Recently for Internet games large online ranking systems are much needed. We consider game models in which a…
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This paper attempts to shed light on the following research questions: When a firm introduces a new product (or service) how can it effectively use the different information sources available to generate reliable new product performance forecasts?…
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Understanding the video game-playing experience of children and adults has received little attention. This is an important area of study because, to be successful, media literacy education programs for video games must be able to address both the…
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Many psychological studies of categorization and reasoning use undergraduates to make claims about human conceptualization. Generalizability of findings to other populations is often assumed but rarely tested. Even when comparative studies are…
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While blogging is piquing the interest of mainstream media, youth, academic researchers, and entrepreneurial Silicon Valley, only a fraction of Internet users read blogs and many do not even know what the term means. Reports on how many people read…
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This article analyses motion picture box-office gross revenue using a cross- section of films from 1997 to 2001. The dependent variable is total domestic box-office revenue. The independent variables investigated include: production budget; peak…
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This commentary surveys some of the work currently in train in France that reflects on science - its history, its intellectual foundations and its impact. It attempts to impart some coherence to its map of this field, and to correct several…
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It is common to think of statistical graphics and data visualization as relatively modern developments in statistics. In fact, the graphic representation of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into the histories of the…
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Research in human-computer interac-tion (HCI) has been spectacularly suc-cessful and has fundamentally changed computing. One example is the ubiqui-tous graphical interface used by Microsoft Windows 95, which is based on the Macintosh, which is…
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Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.Its spread has depended upon…
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Distributed Cognition is a hybrid approach to studying all aspects of cognition, from a cognitive, social and organisational perspective. The most well known level of analysis is to account for complex socially distributed cognitive activities, of…
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The enormous amount of information stored in unstructured texts cannot sim- ply be used for further processing by computers, which typically handle text as simple sequences of character strings. Therefore, specific (pre-)processing meth- ods and…
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We present a qualitative study of 35 United States households whose occupants have made significant accommodations to their homes and behaviors in order to be more environmentally responsible. Our goal is to inform the design of future sustainable…
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