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  • Misgendering, Prejudice, & Attitudes Towards Transgender & Gender Diverse Individuals: The Role of Accents

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    Lewis-Lopez, Azriella N.
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    One way to support the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) community is by calling out microaggressions. Bystander readiness to call out microaggressions may be influenced by a bystander’s perception of harm caused by the microaggression and stereotypes surrounding the identity of the microaggressor. In this study, I focused on the...
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    research suggests that perceived in-person social support from friends is associated with reduced

  • Militant and nonviolent social movements

    Creator:
    Robinson, Blake
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    While much has been written about why people join social movements in general, little has been written about why people specifically join either militant or nonviolent social movements. Using the Black Panther Party as an example of a militant social movement and the mainstream Civil Rights Movement as an example...
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    . Title: Militant and Nonviolent Social Movements. Abstract approved: Alana Jeydel While much

  • Predicting music emotion with social media discourse

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    Beery, Aidan J.
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    Predicting the average affect of a piece of music is a task which has been of recent interest in the field of music information retrieval. We investigate the use of sentiment analysis on online social media conversations to predict a song’s valence and arousal. Using four music emotion datasets -...
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    Social Media Discourse By Aidan Beery A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University Honors College

  • “My Whole World”: Teen Moms Navigating Identity and Social Discourse

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    Tanner, Laura C.
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    Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in significant harm and expense to teenage mothers, their children, and society. Although the discourse of teenage childbearing has been multiple, overlapping, and contested, it has resulted in negative stereotyping and stigmatization of teenage mothers. Much of these stereotypes...
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    Susan Shaw Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in

  • The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Mergers and Acquisitions

    Creator:
    Morgan, Scott M.
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    This study examines the effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on merger and acquisitions (M&A). Using data from Kinder, Lyndeberg, and Domini (KLD) Research Analytics and Thomson’s Securities Data Corporation’s (SDC) Platinum Database, we empirically test if CSR scores effect a firm’s propensity to pursue M&A activity. Specifically, I examine...
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    can be interpreted as a solution to problems associated with social costs. KLD evaluates firms

  • The Effects of Social Media on The Human Psyche

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    Hall, Keenan P.
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    This thesis is a study of the effects of social media and the influence it has over people and their wellbeing. The study within the thesis manipulates the social media habits of Oregon State students, and looks at the changes in their wellbeing. Throughout the background research the evidence supports...
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    comments as a social currency. Parnell explains that we are setting ourselves up for problems because we

  • Aegir Innovations: The Journey Untangling the Web of Social Networking

    Creator:
    Johnson, Brendan
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    Social networking is the concept that personal connections can form a large web of people and institutions that are essential in an individual’s realization of a goal. Social networking plays an important role in almost every business venture. This has proved to be especially true in the story of Aegir...
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    presented on June 1, 2007. Title: Aegir Innovations: The Journey – Untangling the Web of Social Networking

  • Exploring Perceptions of Social Responsibility in Engineering Students

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    Jahr, Amy
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    Incoming and graduating engineering students in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University were surveyed in order to assess awareness and integration of social responsibilities into their emerging professional persona and how those views are informed by program and faculty interactions. Preliminary analysis of responses...
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    environment” (Riley, 2008, p. 4). Although engineering and social justice problems may overlap, engineering

  • Corporate Social Responsibility: An Assessment of Motives and Implications

    Creator:
    Arora, Aarushi
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    Recent years have been marked with increasing rates of corporate scandals, environmental disasters, and unfair labor practices, drawing attention to the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Despite increasing efforts in CSR, past research has shown increased levels of mistrust and skepticism from consumers towards business. Furthermore, the very issues...
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    is to increase profits, and social problems should be left for the government and legislation

  • The Effectiveness of Social Entrepreneurship in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

    Creator:
    Triplett, Hannah L
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    Researchers have studied social entrepreneurship and offered detailed road maps of the process of becoming a successful social entrepreneur. However, these processes are not universal and will not function sustainably in every community. The idea that we do not know if a process will work within a community until tested...
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    . These questions include: “What is the social problem I wish to address?” “What is my solution?” and