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Blogs: A study into current uses and perceptions in Irish society
(2009)
The aim of this research was to investigate attitudes, perceptions and behaviour of Irish internet users towards blogs. A survey was conducted online and participants (n = 422) placed into two groups - Bloggers (n = 244), ...
An investigation of primary school teachers' and principals' attitudes towards online teacher training
(2009)
This study examined the attitudes of primary school teachers and principals towards online learning. 82 primary school principals and teachers completed an online questionnaire examining attitudes towards online learning. ...
The impact of gender, language and writing style on perceptions of participants in online political discussion forums
(2009)
The aim of this research was to study the differences between male and female use of language in an online discussion forum. A discussion forum on the topic of politics was created and participants invited to use it over ...
How loot-horny are you? Personality, self-esteem and rewards in World of Warcraft
(2009)
In order to study some of the effects of intrinsic rewards within MMORPGs, a correlation design study was performed to determine the relationship between introversion/ extroversion and loot-horniness, self-esteem and ...
Arts programming on Irish public service television: Ideas, conflicts, and contradictions
(2009)
This study explores the historical relationship between public service television and the arts in Ireland and considers how this relationship has influenced the current range and quality of arts programmes on Irish public ...
"Giving" in online recommendation systems: the roles played by narcissism and altruism
(2009-03)
Online communities are created and used for different reasons e.g. information exchange, friendship, support and leisure. As distinct from commercial ventures online, many people actually give away digital information of ...
Establishing an online counselling service for substance use issues in the Republic of Ireland: An exploratory study
(Institute of Art, Design and Technology, 2009)
This research sought to determine if the establishment of an online counselling service for substance use issues in Ireland is currently feasible. A mixed design approach was used. Potential clients' and counsellors' ...
Online identity theft - An investigation of the differences between victims and non victims with regard to anxiety, precautions and uses of the internet
(2009)
Online identity theft is a relatively new phenomenon and as a result the research is scarce and additional research is needed (Anderson, 2006). The main problem with online identity theft today is that people do not ...
Cyberbullying: A new dimension to an old problem
(2009)
Shariff and Gouin (2005) describe cyberbullying as psychological bullying, enacted using electronic communication tools such as; mobile phones, blogs, websites, and chat rooms. The aim of this research was to examine the ...
The image after tomorrow - Digital culture & the family archive
(2008)
Analogue photography has a rich history of putting into order the chaos of familial histories. Traditionally, the family album was dependent on object materiality for its existence. In its manifestation as book, memory-time ...