Many metrics exist to provide heuristics for quality of scientific literature, some of which are determined before publication, such as impact factor of journal, or a liations of authors. Others, like citation count, are not. None of these metrics take into account the amount of scientific discourse generated by an article. I aim to create a classifier that does. In particular, in the wake of t...

Student resilience and emotional wellbeing are essential for both academic and social development. Earlier studies on tracking students’ happiness in academia showed that many of them struggle with mental health issues. For example, a 2015 study at the University of California Berkeley found that 47% of graduate students suffer from depression, following a 2005 study that showed 10% had conside...

Inspired by feminist post-structural thinking and with a discourse analytic approach, this study’s main theme is gendered identity, disability and sport. It consists of four separate, but interrelated, empirical studies and focuses on two research questions. Firstly, how do female and male wheelchair racers construct and perform their identities? Secondly, how are female and male wheelchair rac...

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during the era of bush administration and post-september 11th anti-terrorism discourse, the movie 300 was one of the best exemplar of a close relationship between hollywood pop culture products and the neo-conservatives’ political discourse of nationalism. from my point of view, 300 is not an example of outstanding artistic films, but a film that more than any other film contains an iranophobic...

During the planning of multimedia presentations, at least two distinct processes are required: planning the underlying discourse structure (that is, ordering and interrelating the information to be presented) and allocating the media (that is, delimiting the portions to be displayed by each individual medium). The former process has been the topic of several studies in the area of text planning...

Media discourse exhibits a variety of features which are similar to everyday conversations, on one hand, and more institutional forms of verbal interaction on the other. In investigating media interaction, we can observe how media communication affects the attitudes and opinions of society through the way it presents people and issues. Therefore, there is a need to look at why certain utterance...

Social media can be conceptualized as an emerging frontier where new forms of social relations causing power differences and other forms of unacceptable social practices develop at the intersection of human collective communicative acts and information technology. This emergence has created a need for considering novel approaches for investigating these emerging phenomena in social media. In th...

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