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Title: Communities of Purpose
Author: Stukes, Felesia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Communities of Purpose are commonly known to enact their purposes through social movements, grassroots efforts, semi-formal groups, and through organizations in the voluntary sector. They carry out charitable missions and goals and are often commi...

Title: Crowd Control: Organizing the Crowd at Yelp
Author: Askay, David
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, World Wide Web--Study and teaching
Description: This dissertation investigates how businesses are able to align the collective actions of a disconnected crowd with the strategic goals of the organization. I examined this questions within the context of the business review website Yelp through a...

Title: High-Status Job Characteristics, Gender, and Overwork: The Buffering Effect of Free Time
Author: Speights, Sabrina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The social ordering of time within a changing workplace is a serious concern for scholars, employers, and employees alike. This study contends that the use and evaluation of free time will reduce feelings of overwork brought on by the characterist...

Title: Moral Judgments on Health Motivated Transgressions: The Interplay of Moral Foundations, Empathy, and Political Identity.
Author: Fulton, Marviene
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific guidelines were rejected by many conservatives in the U.S. This polarization could have contributed to conservative counties’ higher mortality rates. Given the potential for political ideology to influence ...

Title: Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...

Title: The effect of coworking spaces on work-life and work-family boundaries
Author: Dickson, Ashleigh
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Psychology
Description: Coworking spaces have recently grown in popularity as a third workspace with benefits of both working from home and traditional office spaces. The goal of the current study was to examine how employees working in coworking spaces construct and nav...

Title: UNDERSTANDING AND DESIGNING FOR INTERACTIONAL PRIVACY NEEDS WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
Author: Wisniewski, Pamela
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, Social sciences--Research
Description: "Interpersonal boundary regulation" is a way to optimize social interactions when sharing and connecting through Social Networking Sites (SNSs). The theoretical foundation of much of my research comes from Altman's work on privacy management in th...

Title: USER PARTICIPATION INTENTION AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE IN VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
Author: Zheng, YiMing
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Social sciences
Description: A virtual community ("VC") is a group of people who interact primarily via IT, rather than face-to-face, for informational, social, professional, educational or other purposes. Given the growing popularity and special features of VCs (user-generat...

Title: Understanding deliberate self-harm among college women: Applying feminist theory to the affect regulation model
Author: Hypes, Annada
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: This study examined potential contributors to self-harm behavior (DSH) among college women aged 18-25 years (N = 447). A model explaining DSH lifetime history among young women was tested, bridging feminist thought with the affect regulation model...

Title: Utilization of a Teaching Video to Improve Outcomes for Post MI and Stent Patients
Author: Winiger, Amy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Amy Winiger ACNP-BC, AACC. Utilization of a Teaching Video to Improve Outcomes for Post MI and Stent Patients. (Under the direction of Dr. Katie Shue-McGuffin) The Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) for Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute (SHVI), ...