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The Impact of Fostering Parasocial Relationship Between Influencing Entrepreneurs and Social Media Followers on the Brand Image and the Purchase Intentions of Start-Up Companies
Purpose: this research tends to study the parasocial relationship between influencers on social media and their followers, and how it impacts the...
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Effect of the Instructor’s Eye Gaze on Student Learning from Video Lectures: Evidence from Two Three-Level Meta-Analyses
The instructor’s eye gaze can serve as an important social cue in video lectures. The current study used two sets of three-level meta-analyses to...
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Combining Danmaku and Discussion Boards: Toward A Scalable and Sociable Environment for Mass Collaboration in MOOCs
In online learning at scale, wherein instructional videos play a central role, interactive tools are often integrated to counteract passive...
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Me, My Product and I: Selling Out on #Sustainability
Instagram is a digital platform where subjects grow communities consisting of followers who receive daily updates on everyday practices communicated...
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Barbie, I Can(’t) be a Computer Engineer: the Impact of Barbie Text and Images on Girls’ Computing Performance
This study was designed to test how well a commercial intervention with a highly feminized role model (Barbie) worked to improve pre-adolescent...
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Teaching Processes Concerning the Production of TV with Portuguese Elderly – From the Gratifications Obtained by Consumption to the Expectancies of the Production Process
When we think about aging today, it is lived in multiple ways. It is a broad and complex concept that has changed over time. In today’s society,...
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The Cognitive-Affective-Social Theory of Learning in digital Environments (CASTLE)
For a long time, research on individuals learning in digital environments was primarily based on cognitive-oriented theories. This paper aims at...
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Online Identity Construction in Younger Generations via Identification with Influencers: Potential Areas of Vulnerability
The largest consumers and prosumers of social media are young people, who have found a space to express themselves through social networks with the...
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Student Perceptions of AI-Generated Avatars in Teaching Business Ethics: We Might not be Impressed
In our postdigital world, unseen algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) underpin most business and educational technologies and systems. Also,...
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International Perspectives on the Transformation of Teaching in the New Normal
The chapter presents short case studies of how universities and countries have adapted teaching and learning to deal with the Covid-19 era and how...
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Rural Adolescent Gifted Girls: Exploring the Impact of Popular Culture on Their Talent Development
Adolescents experience an abundance of popular culture in their lives that provides them with information, role models, and advice about career...
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Problems of portrayal: Hidden Figures in the development of science educators
The framing of characters by mainstream films can affect viewers’ perceptions of social groups, their histories, and their contributions. Using...
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Anthropomorphizing malware, bots, and servers with human-like images and dialogues: the emotional design effects in a multimedia learning environment
Emotional design refers to imbuing a multimedia learning environment with design attributes that promote learners’ positive affect and motivation to...
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Technology Support for Adults and Children Reading Together: Questions Answered and Questions Raised
This chapter examines the possibility of building technology supports to scaffold effective adult interaction strategies during joint reading with...
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Technical Appendix
As this book was intended for a broader audience than just specialists, I tried to spare readers technical paragraphs in the main text that are...
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Academic metrics and the community engagement of tertiary education institutions: emerging issues in gaming, manipulation, and trust
Community engagement has played central roles in tertiary education, expanding the potentials for academic as well as civic enhancement. Such efforts...
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Rural Adolescent Gifted Girls: Exploring the Impact of Popular Culture on Their Talent Development
Adolescents experience an abundance of popular culture in their lives that provides them with information, role models and advice about career...
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The Stories Are Written by the Victors: Theoretical Considerations
In this chapter, Demeter introduces the main theoretical frameworks of the book, namely the Bourdieusian frame theory and the Wallersteinian...
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Open Sharing: Launching, Outreach, Publicity, Usage Monitoring, and Post-Launch Care
Once an open-shared learning object or learning sequence has been designed to standards and polished and refined, it is published to the world, to...
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How American Students Perceive Social Networking Sites: An Application of Uses and Gratifications Theory
A survey of 467 U.S. college students provided insight into the positive and negative gratifications of using social networking sites. Results...