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University at Albany, State University of New York

2019

Social media

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Identity And Sense-Making Through Narrative Processes On Social Media Platforms, Brenda Mandel May 2019

Identity And Sense-Making Through Narrative Processes On Social Media Platforms, Brenda Mandel

Anthropology

This paper provides an overview of existing research into narrative processes, sense-and identity-making, and digital social medias for the purpose of analyzing how social media platforms facilitate individual production of self under the framework of narrative. General aspects of narrative and how individual producers consciously and unconsciously adhere to those frameworks when representing themselves on virtual spaces are a central focus. This discussion further examines specifically how virtual and non-virtual spaces relate in terms of how social media platforms enforce and reinforce existing social structures in positive and negative ways. I also aim to stimulate further discussion on the implications …


The Dynamics Of E-Petitioning Behavior In We The People : An Exploration Of Online Mobilized Collective Action, Catherine Dumas Jan 2019

The Dynamics Of E-Petitioning Behavior In We The People : An Exploration Of Online Mobilized Collective Action, Catherine Dumas

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The purpose of this research is to gain a better understanding of the impact of e-petitioning as a collective mobilized action taken to express policy preferences and the way that signing behavior takes place. Previous studies have analyzed e-petition signature data to track and understand the relationship between signing activity, time, and success of a petition (Hale et al., 2013; Yasseri et al., 2014). By using data mining techniques, namely market basket analysis and social network analysis, this research will explore three case studies that consist of three sets of similar petitions that were initiated on the US e-petitioning platform, …