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Prognoses for diagnoses: Medical search online and “Cyberchondria by proxy”
(2011)
The Internet is a source of valuable medical information, however the Web has the potential to increase anxiety when employed as a diagnostic procedure. This study seeks to identify motivation behind health related search ...
A cross-cultural analysis of personality traits in Irish and American online dating profiles
(2011)
This research used language analysis to determine personality traits from written text, in the profiles of Irish and American online daters. The free text element of 150 Irish and 150 American Caucasian, male, online daters’ ...
Evaluation of cognitive improvements using technological and text-based skills training tools
(2011)
Recent research has indicated that use of cognitive skills training tools can produce positive benefits with older adults. However, little has been done to date comparing the efficacy of technologically based interventions ...
The effect of web-based videos on help seeking intentions and stigma
(2011)
Intentions to seek help are strongly influenced by stigma (Rickwood, Deane, Wilson, & Ciarrochi, 2005). If self-stigma or public-stigma are high, help seeking intentions become inhibited (Rickwood et al., 2005). A Health ...
Digital ethics: Photojournalism and the public sphere in the age of citizen journalism and the camera phone
(2011)
Conventionally the media industries have a long history of being one-way transmitters of information, chief arbiters of public sphere discourse - closed fortresses regarding input from the public. An inevitable aspect to ...
Counter sites: On site-specific performance and the re-historicizing of space
(2011)
The aim of this research is to examine how government funding, through the creation of a cultural policy framework, can facilitate and support site-specific performance and highlight its value, particularly at sites of ...
The detritus of reason: Surrealism, photography and the everyday
(2011)
Surrealism is one of the most widely practiced and reviewed art movements of the twentieth century. This thesis will consider the ways in which Surrealism is understood historically and examine Surrealism's connection to ...
Exploring social networking sites: Thinking through the interaction
(2011)
This study examined the role of the user within the context of technology and society through the close inspection of social networking practices of a sample of young Irish users. A relatively new research method known as ...