ONLINE AND OFFLINE PARTICIPATION AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

Weaving Between Online & Offline Community Participation

Much effort has been expended in creating online spaces for people to meet, network, share and organize. However, there is relatively little work, in comparison, that has addressed creating awareness of online community activities for those gathered together physically. We describe our efforts to advertise the online community spaces of CHIplace and CSCWplace using large screen, interactive bul...

Digital prefigurative participation: The entwinement of online communication and offline participation in protest events

This article reviews the main findings of a three year empirical study that examined the possible contribution of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to participation in offline social movement protest events. Participation was examined as manifest in mobilisation, identity-building and organisational transformation. Digital prefigurative participation is a tentative construct that attempts t...

Do personality traits predict civic engagement and political participation? Understanding offline and online engagement and participation

the underlying structure of language proficiency and the proficiency level

هدف از انجام این تخقیق بررسی رابطه احتمالی بین سطح مهارت زبان خارجی (foreign language proficiency) و ساختار مهارت زبان خارجی بود. تعداد 314 زبان آموز مونث و مذکر که عمدتا دانشجویان رشته های زبان انگلیسی در سطوح کارشناسی و کارشناسی ارشد بودند در این تحقیق شرکت کردند. از لحاظ سطح مهارت زبان خارجی شرکت کنندگان بسیار با هم متفاوت بودند، (75 نفر سطح پیشرفته، 113 نفر سطح متوسط، 126 سطح مقدماتی). کلا ...

Characteristics of the Online Learner: Experiences, Participation Level, and Achievement

This study was conducted to analyze the characteristics of online learners enrolled in three different semesters of the same course. A survey was administered to 51 undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory Educational Psychology distance education course. In addition to the survey, the students’ level of participation and grades within the course were examined. While some of the findi...